Struggling with finding that perfect gift for your favorite soon-to-be UVM grad? Well - Demeter Fragrances has released a new zombie inspired line of fragrances: Zombie for Him, and Zombie for Her. Could be perfect! Plus the bottles are suuuper pretty...
Demeter Fragrances describes Zombie for Him as "a combination of dried leaves, mushrooms, mildew, moss and earth." And Zombie for Her as basically the same thing but with "dregs from the bottom of the wine barrel for a feminine touch." This Huffington Post article is less enthusiastic about how these zombie fragrances could possibly smell nice. The men's version "smells a lot like the volcano exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science." (Definitely just New Mexico's museum and not any other.) And the women's "smells like grass, but not fresh smelling grass. It's more like the lawn clippings that have been sitting in trash bags for weeks because nobody wants to lug those things to the curb to be picked up." But with wine, because women smell like wine, right?
So, I know that the zombie craze is gaining speed and popularity, and it's definitely a market to cash in on, so I don't fault Demeter for coming up with something like this... but really? I'm so curious about how well this product is going to do. And I honestly want to know - would you buy this? Would you buy it because it's a zombie perfume, and it's kind of funny, and we're all in a zombie class? Would you buy it because you think it could come in handy when the zombie breakout begins and we can all try out The Walking Dead method of disguising our human scent? (Provided it doesn't rain.)
Is this zombie craze just going to turn into the next teeny-bopper fad like that Twilight thing? I hope not, but possibly. That's where all the money is, right?
Interesting! I'm sure that there are zombie fans that would purchase this. As for me, I'd probably only purchase it as a novelty item -- not to use it. I don't find the idea of smelling like old grass appealing. Great point about it coming in handy during a zombie apocalypse though!
My first reaction to this is that its a little nuts and no one would actually buy it. However, if they could sell a fragrance with Michael Jordan's sweat in it they can probably sell a fragrance based on zombies. I also like the added "bottom of a wine bottle smell" for a feminine touch. It makes me think it would smell like old people...and rotting lawn clippings.