Perfume made from human scent

Lots of us secretly love our partner’s body odor — yep, especially after sex. Something about human nature is drawn to the scent of sweat and normal body smells. But in our increasingly digital world, in long distance relationships — we smell one another less. Artist Ani Liu decided to capture the custom smells of the people she loves and bottles them in the most personalized perfumes possible. Through her project, Liu wants to highlight what we lose when we communicate through screens. Ani's MIT science background informs all of her work, which explores what it means to be human in a technologically mediated age. Learn more at https://www.ani-liu.com. SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/kdDpXu Quartz is a digitally native news outlet dedicated to telling stories at the intersection of the important and the interesting. Visit us at https://qz.com/ to read more.