Smell Like Your Favorite Dead Celebrity

Filed Under: Wacky, Tacky & True R.I.P. Fragranz!

This is kind of, for lack of a better word, creepy.

Fragrance company MY DNA Fragrance started out manufacturing a personalized scent based on your genetic make-up, which is gathered by a swab of your cheek. Now the same company is launching the Antiquity line.

And by antique they mean dead.

The company has a list of over 50 deceased celebrities ranging from actors, presidents and other historical figures.

So you're probably wondering since those people are hanging out 6 feet under, how do they get their genetic code? My DNA is getting help from celebrity hair collector John Reznikoff.

The only way the creation would hypothetically work is if the hair contains the actual follicle, not just a random lock of hair that has been chopped off. And after seeing this video it looks like all John has is a bunch of random hair.
Unless he can prove otherwise, we're going to assume this whole thing is just another attempt to profit off the dead.

No surprise there.

[Image via AP Images.]

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 6:30 pm