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Can This Really Make You Smell 10 Years Younger?
Is it that time in your life you wished you looked 10 years younger? Or weighed 10 lbs less? Or smelled 10 years younger? Well, according to a report in Daily Mirror, a new perfume can fulfill that last wish in literally a whiff.
Researchers say that the new Ageless Fantasy perfume can lead people around you into thinking you’re at least eight years younger than your real age.
“From the point of arriving at the fragrance we had to negate the body odor that comes with age, it is not enough to simply mask the smell of aging,” said Kumar Ramani, president of Harvey Prince. “Our goal was to find a fragrance that men and women would associate with youth.”
Harvey Prince, the perfume maker, attributed ‘natural biochemistry’ to the scent’s effect. The firm said the perfume’s tropical-based top notes of pineapple, mango, apple and leafy greens prompt happy childhood memories in anyone who smells it, though for a short period of time.
However, its middle notes — cherry blossom and pink jasmine — start telling withing 20 minutes after application, and the real blast comes with the heavier notes — musk and vanilla — which allegedly have a lasting effect. What they really do is disguise the unpleasant fatty odor that comes off Nonenal pheromones in women aged above 40 years.
Dubbed ‘the world’s first and only anti-age perfume‘, Ageless Fantasy is £59 (US$108) for a 100ml bottle, expected to be available at Harvey Nichols next month.
This is great. Hopefully soon the researchers will come up with something that can make you smell 20 years younger.
Wonder if they have checked out Johnson’s Baby Powder yet.
World’s First Double Arm Transplant
Surgeons at the Munich University Clinic spent 15 hours grafting arms on a 54-year-old German farmer who lost both arms in a horrifying threshing accident six years ago.
Doctors said that the greatest challenge was establishing blood flow between the farmer’s body and the muscles in the new arms.
The muscle and the nerves to be connected were exposed first while the blood vessels were filled with chilled blood. The farmer’s and the donor’s arms were then removed exactly at the point matching the patient’s arm stumps. First the bones were joined, then arteries and veins to ensure a speedy blood circulation.
“The arms quickly resumed their rosy color,” a clinic spokeswoman said.
Doctors are optimistic that his nerves will expand at a pace of about 1mm per day, in which case he should be able to use his hands in about two years.
Medial specialists see psychological counselling as extremely crucial for the true success of the operation. In 1992, Australian Clint Hallam had lost a hand in an accident with a circular saw. He was successfully fitted with a new arm, he could never get rid of the nagging thought that his hand belonged to somebody else. It was removed at his request three years after the operation.