<p>Gembloux, Belgium: A Belgian research scientist is working with the federal police to create a scent that mimics the smell of dried human bones to help sniffer dogs find long lost remains.</p><p>Clement Martin has already isolated the smell of decomposing human flesh and that is now used to train Belgium's cadaver dogs.</p><p>But once the soft tissue has disappeared, the scent molecules of the remaining bones become significantly fewer, scientific researcher Martin told <em>Reuters</em>.</p><p>"Bones smell different over the years too. A 3-year-old bone will smell different to a 10-year-old one and even 20 years," he said.</p><p>Skeletal remains are porous too and absorb smells from the surrounding environment, from the soil to pine trees.</p><p>"In the situation of cold cases, there was a gap. Our dogs were not able to find dried bones," Kris Cardoen, head of federal police dog training, told <em>Reuters</em>.</p>.Cleaning blood, dissolving bones: Chinese influencer's content raises concern about crime.<p>At a police training centre outside Brussels, inspector Kristof Van Langenhove and his springer spaniel Bones demonstrated part of the training with Martin's corpse scent.</p><p>Cardoen hid some tissues between cinder blocks and only contaminated a few. The dog then barked when he found the smell.</p><p>"The scent of death is one of the three tools we use during the basic training of our human remains dog," Cardoen said.</p><p>Cadaver dogs require 1,000 hours of training and the country only ever has four at any one time.</p><p>Martin is using different samples of dried bones to develop the smell, including those of an unidentified man found in a suitcase, which are kept in a glass cylinder to allow the molecules to permeate an enclosed space ready for extraction.</p><p>"It's a bit like a perfumer developing his perfume, he's going to mix different aromas," Martin said.</p>
<p>Gembloux, Belgium: A Belgian research scientist is working with the federal police to create a scent that mimics the smell of dried human bones to help sniffer dogs find long lost remains.</p><p>Clement Martin has already isolated the smell of decomposing human flesh and that is now used to train Belgium's cadaver dogs.</p><p>But once the soft tissue has disappeared, the scent molecules of the remaining bones become significantly fewer, scientific researcher Martin told <em>Reuters</em>.</p><p>"Bones smell different over the years too. A 3-year-old bone will smell different to a 10-year-old one and even 20 years," he said.</p><p>Skeletal remains are porous too and absorb smells from the surrounding environment, from the soil to pine trees.</p><p>"In the situation of cold cases, there was a gap. Our dogs were not able to find dried bones," Kris Cardoen, head of federal police dog training, told <em>Reuters</em>.</p>.Cleaning blood, dissolving bones: Chinese influencer's content raises concern about crime.<p>At a police training centre outside Brussels, inspector Kristof Van Langenhove and his springer spaniel Bones demonstrated part of the training with Martin's corpse scent.</p><p>Cardoen hid some tissues between cinder blocks and only contaminated a few. The dog then barked when he found the smell.</p><p>"The scent of death is one of the three tools we use during the basic training of our human remains dog," Cardoen said.</p><p>Cadaver dogs require 1,000 hours of training and the country only ever has four at any one time.</p><p>Martin is using different samples of dried bones to develop the smell, including those of an unidentified man found in a suitcase, which are kept in a glass cylinder to allow the molecules to permeate an enclosed space ready for extraction.</p><p>"It's a bit like a perfumer developing his perfume, he's going to mix different aromas," Martin said.</p>