Technology has accomplished a lot.

In the last century alone, we've seen the invention of computers and the internet,

countless vaccines, even putting a man on the moon.

But there's one territory science has yet to conquer.

That is, when you die, you stay dead.

Now, we can talk about revenants and zombies all we want, but at the end of the day, real

necromancy just isn't a thing.

No matter how much we might wish it,

we simply can't bring our loved ones back once they've crossed to the other side.

But according to one company, there may be a part of them we can resurrect. They're scent.

In 2015, French startup Kalain claimed it could bottle the scent of your dead loved ones.

First, you mail them an item that smells like your deceased person of choice,

their favorite old flannel, a pillowcase, maybe a scarf they wore often.

Then the company uses a specialized process to extract the chemical scent from that object,

allowing them to recreate it as a

bespoke fragrance. Now, sure, one perfume expert deemed the product as, and I quote,

cheap and unbalanced, as well as smelling nothing like the garment they had supplied. But

nonetheless, the idea of bringing a lost scent back to life is a fascinating one.

And Kalain's founders aren't the only ones who have made such claims.

Another brand called Future Society has designed a fragrance line called

Scent Surrection, which has supposedly restored the scent of six extinct flowers from

around the globe using DNA sequencing as a guide.

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