Elvira's Zombie

The listed notes are incorrect. As stated on Demeter's site: "Ylang Ylang and Red Poppies, grounded with Tobacco Leaves and Black Vanilla Bean, while taking flights of fancy with a frosty Methadone accord and powdery Coca Petals" So no cannabis, and while I guess I can understand the substitution of cherry for "Methadone accord" for simplicity's sake... well, it's misleading. Coca leaves smell like tea...-ish, nothing too strange there. This smells really nice! While it's a tobacco scent, the tobacco doesn't overpower. It doesn't just smell like flavored pipe tobacco, which is a problem I find in many tobacco-containing scents, it's a true blend. Instead of being a dark oriental scent, it's actually quite sweet while still being restrained. The vanilla is a deep bourbon one, which pairs well with the rich tobacco note. I think the coca leaves might be in there, keeping the composition from feeling too syrupy. The poppy note is light and floral, not earthy as I thought it would be, considering the name. The ylang-ylang dominates the florals in this one, but it's not so strong that it takes Zombie out of unisex territory. Finally, tying everything together is that faux-cherry methadone accord. Strange, but it works! It doesn't smell *just* like methadone, but it smells closer to it than any normal cherry notes. It blends well with the tobacco, vanilla, and even the florals, and sweetens the whole things up. It's honestly pretty sexy and easy to wear. The longevity isn't too great, typical of Demeter (they ARE eau de colognes), but come on. It's Elvira! For a scent this unique, I'm totally willing to reapply more often!

This isn't a typical Demeter fragrance. Most Demeters are light and disappear fast so you can spray pretty heavy and not offend anyone. I bought a 4oz bottle of Zombie and when I spray it on, it leaves my skin slightly oily. It lasts longer than any other Demeter than I have tried (which might not be saying much). The scent itself is thick and syrupy and sexy. I smell the sweet cherries, vanilla, and rich tobacco, which spices this up nicely. There are light florals there too. Other reviewers have mentioned this is dark and gothic. I get that. It may be the power of suggestion at work though, with this being an Elvira fragrance, but it doesn't matter. This is good stuff, especially for nighttime...a night at the movies, a night out at the cemetery, a nighttime seance...you get the idea.

I recently purchased as part of a Demeter Elvira set (included Vamp and Black Roses), and this is my favorite of the three. This is a sweet, heavy, cherry tobacco scent with a hint of vanilla. On my skin the fragrance doesn't change in composition over time- it pretty much stays the same from the initial spray. It leans masculine, and reminds me of what an elderly gentleman would wear- an old school tobacco scent. I'm a female, and I love it! If you like tobacco scents, give this one a try. The sillage is moderate, but I can smell this on me ALL day, and if it hits your clothes it will stay there for days.

Lovely cherry tobacco scent. Not sickening like those icky flavored cigars but sweet and narcotic with a little vanilla. I find it dark and gothic and a pleasant departure from the sugar sweet candy fruit fumes of today. Zombie is my favorite from the Demeter Elvira set. I'm used to vintage fragrances so I detect plenty of synthetics here and also absolutely no cannabis. But I love it, I really do!

Not enough reviews on this one! I know some of you have it! don't be embarrassed. Zombie is nice and would work for young or old and everyone in between! It's unisex and quite nice. Come on people, you have to try Elvira's scents! It's that time of year again! How can you not?! They'er really good for the price and Elvira is so cool! I hope l look that good when I'm 64!

Cherry vanilla pipe tobacco fresh from the jar. Sweet, damp, and aromatic. But the scent also contains something dark and mysterious beyond the tobacco note that reminds me of tea leaves. The perfect unisex scent to wear while entertaining your friends, both in the mortal realm and on the other side.

I bought this as a set with all 3 Elvira's from Demeter. This one in particular was my favorite and really stood out to me. It's farely gothy and darkly. I like to wear this when I go on my ghost hunts. If I can't attract a living being, hopefully this will help my attract a dead one, lol.

I got a light but tart, realistic cherry note in a mostly dry, powdery background. Compared to most of the other Demeter scents I’ve tried so far, it’s pretty long-lasting (~8 hours) and has a moderate sillage. I genuinely loved this and wouldn’t mind trying it again.

makes me wanna touch my nipples. sorry. very very sexy perfume

To me this is a light cologne skin scent and the main note is musk. It is first musky. Then it is light tobacco flower. Then a little hint of cherry. Like a diluted cherry tobacco floral with white musk slathered on. The smell of cherry tobacco left in fabric or in the air after someone exhaled and it drifted on the musky wind. Pretty. Light. Safe. I expected more from Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Nothing really dark about this other than its musky quality. Kind of like cat musk when they rub their cheeks against a wall or furniture.

It leans slightly to feminine scents. It's all abouy cherry/vanilla/ylang and mild tobacco. Moderate performance.

i think this is my favorite of the elvira demeter scents. the opening is pipe tobacco with hints of vanilla and cherry. shortly thereafter i get the ylang ylang, which makes the scent even better, but it's a bit strong, which is amazing for a demeter cologne. it definitely smells vintage-y. this one worked the best for me out of all the elvira perfumes.

Too heavy and vintage smelling to my nose. I smell lipstick and dusty theater, but nothing dark or gothic here. I think it's ylang that gives it that vintage/burlesque vibe. It's very unusual for Demeter - super strong and longlasting, and I think they actually used a lot more ingredients than what the list of notes would suggest.

You are in a cheap motel room with tobacco-stained walls. You are sucking on a cherry-menthol throat lozenge. In a corner of the room, an old man sprays some cologne.

Well if zombies smell like this fragrance I wouldn't mind being attacked or bitten by a zombie! This is a delicious gorgeous rich fragrance that doesn't even smell like a typical Demeter. I'm reminded that it is a Demeter because it has a painfully short life but it did last long enough for others to smell it on me during a party. This is absolutely perfect to wear to a Halloween party preferably right before you walk into the party so that the scent is fresh. And good thing the bottles are small enough to fit into my handbag. And then you can always reapply and spritz it on again after the scent is gone. This is a great addition to the Elvira Mistress of the Dark collection. She also has Black Roses which sells through the Demeter fragrance line and that is a very nice rose scent. This one is also a floral but it's very different from Black Roses. Whereas Black Roses could still smell pretty sweet and girly this one is stronger, more masculine/unisex, spicier and aromatic. The tobacco note and the cannabis are the strongest accords. They really do stand out and are making this fragrance work. It's smoky, but I mean the kind of smoke you inhale from marijuana (cannabis) and or the kind of smoke you get from smoking cigarettes. In a fragrance it's not very realistic to the actual thing and it's just a little bit like incense but it's definitely a powerful tobacco scent. I feel that it give this fragrance enough power to make it a winner. People smelled it on me and thought it was incense. The red poppy and yellow ylang-ylang are there to provide it with a light floral touch and the cherry and vanilla with some sweetness. But in the end this is smoky tobacco and green herbal weed-like cannabis. I don't see how it evokes a zombie but I guess you can use your imagination. It smells like Night of the Living Dead or the Michael Jackson MTV video Thriller LOL .

Halloween Party Perfume Elvira Mistress Of The Dark Review For Zombie Zombie is composed of: Ylang-ylang, red poppy, tobacco leaf, vanilla bean, cannabis and cherry. This is good stuff! Floral, incense, tobacco, vanilla, cannabis. It throws out a lot of different incongruous notes with a decidedly unisex body. Zombie is a spicy smoky scent with minimal florals and sweet notes. This is a big tobacco scent on me but that's not a bad thing. I would also call it more masculine than feminine but again that's not a bad thing. Smells like smoke coming out of graveyards and zombies holding red poppies or ylang flowers while rising from their graves. That's the image I have in my head when I smell this. The dominant note is cannabis so if you are ok with how that smells - and we all know what that smells like - think of it as a smaller scale sweeter perfume version of it. The sweet cherry and vanilla has a kind of spicy peppery smell and a bit like licorice or Dr. Pepper. I happen to like Dr. Pepper, cherries and vanilla so this is pleasant for me. The vanilla is there to keep everything casual, light-hearted and youthful. Any young guy or gal teens to 20 something year olds would pull this off well. I'm in my 20's and this scent matches up with my personality especially this time of year for Halloween. Again the only issue I have with this fragrance and the other Elvira frags - Black Roses and Vamp - is the longevity. It's a real amazing scent while it's on you but it's all gone in 30 minutes or less. Wearable as a casual party scent day or night. Exotic, spicy, smoky, but not heavy duty stuff. Very modern and very eccentric and sure to get attention.

FYI FRAGRANTICANS: Over 400 DSL (Demeter Scent Library) scents are available in 10 ml rollerball and cologne sprays of 30 & 120 ml. depending on fragrance, are available BELIEVE IT OR NOT on a discount US consumer site called Fingerhut. (Their site is simply their name dot com) Flabbergasted...and giggly with delight at the thought of my 1,200 USD credit limit (!!!)...I immediately began brainstorming and scribbling until I had my order down to Snow, Thunderstorm, Dirt, Funeral Parlor, Cannabis Flower and Black Bamboo-for me mum. The rollerball format is IMHO the best way to go, when you're dealing with an already sizeable collection. More akin to pure perfume it projects less but last longer and adds a sensuality to DSL I had not experienced previously. I have not gone back to the retail site, but I am thinking that it's a good time to add some new DSL titles to the fold. How a propos that the sexagenarian Elvira is leading the mob-darkly delicious and salacious, even in her undead form... Yellow florals with hints of spice mingling with a sweet cherry tobacco, with all of it surrounded by a cannabis haze with hints of poppy?? YES PLEASE

This is my first perfume with any tobacco notes, and I absolutely love it. I smell cherry first, then the tobacco, and then a musky vanilla. I've been wearing it almost nonstop since I received it 2 weeks ago, and the longevity seems to depend on the day. The first night, I woke up having applied it about 10 hours earlier and still got whiffs of smoky cherry when I got out of bed. Other days it seems to be gone within 30 minutes. I've been layering it with an Ambergris roll-on, also from Demeter. It doesn't need the additional scent, although the combo works well, but it does seem to help the longevity. Spraying it on clothes and in the middle of my chest, under my clothes, also seems to make it last longer. This is definitely more complex than most Demeter scents. For the $20 I think it's well worth it even if it doesn't last. I wish they would offer it in a roll-on.

Mmmm....a sweet cherry tobacco scent to start out with, a hint of darkness to it in the first few spritzes, but it is very SEXY and wonderful. No cherry cough syrup accord (like a lot of cherry scents) but still a nice sweet cherry/vanilla/tobacco fragrance. The middle notes are a bit soapy and clean to my nose as the tobacco itself fades ---I attribute this to the ylang coming through. It shows up clean, not too floral on my skin. The drydown is pretty much clean dryer sheets, which is also pleasant and a little strange. So many layers to this scent---far less linear than most Demeter scents. Longevity is about 3 hours, sillage is still fairly close to the skin. I'd be interested in trying the other 2 scents in the collection.

The opening smells a little too synthetic to me but not terrible. After a few minutes this really starts to smell great. Not too sweet or too floral, completely unisex to my nose. Reminds me of Tom Ford’s Lost Cherry. But Zombie came first so I’d say that this is definitely an inspiration to LC. A rich cherry liqueur with tobacco and vanilla are dominant, the florals are in the background, the cannabis note is detectable if you really pay attention but it’s not something anyone would notice in the air. The longevity and sillage on clothing is really good. At the end of the day I hung my shirt up in the bathroom and a 24 hours after spraying it I walked in and could distinctly smell it in the air.

This is an awesome perfume!! The best I have smelled from this company. I have repeatedly asked them to bring it back even repackage so we can get the scent. Very sexy dark fragrance.

I WANT THIS SO BAD, demeter has such fckn cool perfume ideas that high end brands steal from its ridicu-lous! So innovative! Damn elvira u will always be famous honey ♀️💅

This fragrance is AMAZING!!!!!!!!! I can't stop smelling myself. spicy, smoky, sweet.....just sexy.

I didn’t expect this to be so flowery. It’s a bit overpowering. Yellow flowers and Dr. Pepper.

I want this! I love ELVIRA and this sounds amazing! ware can you buy these fragrances at????

Oh yeah this is just a normal fragrance, let me check the notes....

i want to smell this so bad.. the notes r so unique I NEED IT

Just make sure you avoid police dogs while wearing this.

Would give away my soul for a bottle of this. 🥀

i need this so bad yall have no idea

cocaine for a note is crazy as hell

ware can I buy this? I LOVE ELVIRA!

Designer's please get your game up