To create this fatalistic fragrance, the pair went through the Book of Revelation, plucking out every mention of a scented element: thunder, blood, rocks of the mountains, incense, wormwood, rod of iron, creatures of the sea, hail and fire, animal horns, flesh burned with fire, brimstone and, of course, a grievous sore. They then passed this somewhat unlikely shopping list on to Edinburgh-based perfumer Euan McCall to turn the 1611 King James Bible’s vision of annihilation into a “wearable scent”. That’s right, a limited-edition bottle of liquid doom can be yours for just £300 plus VAT.
— You can smell Apocalypse, a fragrance by artists Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead, at the exhibit Party Booby Trap at Carroll/Fletcher in London through 25 May. Read more at I sniffed the end of the world, and it smells like bile and dread at The Guardian.
ewww..
I’d love to smell it though!
I can’t think of a better way to spend £300 than to end up smelling of bile and dread. Truly, if I didn’t live down here in this out-of-the-way little green backwater, I’d be off laying down my credit card right this very minute.
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I think I already smelled this and it was called Secretions Magnifique.
Ha, surely that was another part of the Bible 😉
OK Robin, you snuck in one of the Prix eau Faux early…. 😉
Ack…and the voting is coming soon! Hopefully early next week.