Let’s just get right to it: Andy Cohen turned Lady Gaga's pee into perfume. Seriously. The Watch What Happens Live
host admitted to Howard Stern that when Mother Monster couldn’t make it to the restroom during his show nearly a year ago
,
she went number one in a garbage can and his PA saved it as a “pop
culture artifact.” When it started to turn toxic (as it does!), his PA
found a recipe on how to turn the urine into a fragrance, and—we hate to
break it to you—but that’s not
actually as weird as you may think.
Tons of fake perfumes have already been seized
for selling illegal urine-filled scents to the public (yuck), but the
origin of that musk smell we’re all super familiar with actually comes
from a secretion from beavers' castor sacs
which is released via—*drumrollllllllll*—their urine. Some of your
favorite fragrances—like Chanel Antaeus and Givenchy III—are even filled
with the stinky stuff. YUM!
But when it comes to humans, is it possible to create a scent from our
own
urine? Apparently, so! Andy’s PA’s pee-fume concoction is actually
totally doable. Conceptual artist Cherry Tree turns her urine into
perfume quite often, and told The Huffington Post
that she applies the same fermenting technique used to distill vodka to her own, um, secretions.
While we don’t know Cherry’s exact pee-fume making process,
distilling vodka is basically broken down into three major components, according to WikiHow
:
• You’ll need to heat the liquid (in this case, urine) to “a
temperature that is greater than the boiling point of alcohol, yet less
than the boiling point of water” (around 173° F) inside a still (there are a few options for those
, too).
• Then, the vaporized alcohol will travel up into the column or tube of the still.
• When cold water is applied to the column or tubing, the external
cooling will cause the vaporized alcohol to cool and condense back into
liquid, thus making your perfume.
After the entire process is done, it’s totally sterile
and
smells good. “I was fascinated by how the smell changes depending on
what you eat,” she said. “For instance, it smells really good after you
eat a lot of honey and it smells terrible after eating chicken.” Annnd
we’ll leave it at that.
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