Funeral Home

This is a perfume for all the people like me out there who can’t decide between the gothic aesthetic and cottagecore/fairycore aesthetic. If you know the album Disintegration by The Cure, it has the exact same vibe. All of the flowers used in Funeral Home (mums, lilies, carnations, etc) are somewhat dark and moody, yet comforting and nostalgic. While it does remind me of a straight-up funeral home, a memory that constantly comes to mind when I wear this is the seldom-used piano room in my grandmother’s basement. Others might have thought it smelled musty and old, but I will always have a fondness for that room because the floral-powdery scent that settled into the carpet and sofa since the late 70s lulled me into many naps throughout the years. I’m someone who finds decay and deterioration beautiful—who appreciates the quiet, ancient, silent, corners of the world—all which perfectly describe this fragrance. If you are an old soul, maybe a little morbid and wistful, you would probably love it. I’m sure if you’re buying this it’s already what you signed up for, but keep in mind that you have to carry yourself with a certain depth and complexity to wear this everyday around others, otherwise it might be offensive. Most people would only understand this frag at an actual funeral or as a distant, subconscious memory. Funeral Home definitely fits my own personality and is one of my signature scents but even I avoid wearing it in the summer...that’s just overkill, no pun intended. (Also, it doesn’t last super long, which I would normally complain about with every other fragrance, but the low longevity kinda works for this one. It’s ~fleeting~ and ~ephemeral~ or whatever.)

I just adore this perfume, even if it causes me two types of feelings, once it can make me feel ready to step on the corpses of those who stand in my way, on the other hand it sometimes makes me think how fast the years have passed and how close to the end my life can be, so I can't wear this all the time or frequent, because the second type of feeling is not the cutest thing. But I would recommend it to the young career powerful women, because for them would evolve only as the first feeling. It really smells like a typical European funeral home, old wood, lacquered, luxury leather sofas, green flowers like lilies, but also flowers already past like withered roses, that greenery that is placed on the funeral wreaths, and some carnations and tulips reached the peak of maturity which smelled strong but at the same time passed, not a garden anymore. If I would imagine a human silhouette of this perfume would be a tall woman, a German type of figure with a very sharp face, cold eyes, very dark red hair, short cut, dressed in a thick, matte black velvet suit, with the pants revealing only the thick heel from a square sandals, a black shirt tied up to the neck and there placed an unevenly cut bloodstone brooch more reddish than greenish. She wait in the middle of an old room in an apartment in downtown Copenhagen, on a rainy and cold day, she stands in the middle of the room with her hands in the pants pockets and looks at the door, waiting to be opened. A kind of Germanic Villanelle. I just adore it.

Okey dokey Goth girls and boys. This is THE scent you have been waiting for. Forget Vampire and other scents capitalizing on the Twilight/Vampire Diaries sucesses. This is truly dark and dismal. No doubt this is a very floral fragrance but there is nothing "clean," "fresh," or "outdoorsy" about this bouquet. The flowers (lily, carnation, cyclamen) came straight from the florist, with the accompanying green leaves - so how come this isn't called "Here Comes the Bride"? Well, for starters, the floral accords are muted enough by the smell of dustiness. I know on Demeter's website they claim that one of the notes is "old Oriental rug." I imagine that that rug has to be one of those really old horsehair rugs that smell stuffy and musty no matter how clean they've been kept along with decades-old furniture (they never have particularly new furniture in funeral parlors) which I find to be the dominant note of "Funeral Home". Underneath all of that, there is also a strange chemical smell, like a very sweet synthetic musk that, if you have ever been in a high school biology class you will know. This is certainly not an "easy" scent to wear but if you just need a good, depressing, melancholy, tragic scent-look no further. They got this one spot on. Unleash your inner Morticia! P. S. I'm giving this a "Love" because of its originality, its authenticity, and the mood it captures. And frankly, I really think Funeral Home smells great.

this is straight up walking into a funeral parlor or one of those little shops by the cemetery. it's a super photorealistic chrysanthemum together with a very well executed white lily, and i am also getting gerbera there, all of them with stems and leaves and everything. it opens up with a weird, spooky, almost chemical smell - sort of like embalming fluid, a clean corpse in a casket, or maybe it's paraffin candles, or spools of cheap curling ribbons? it disappears in the drydown and changes the mood of this perfume, letting you know that the funeral's over, that the only thing you're left with now are the flower wreaths upon the mound of fresh dirt. i'm also positively surprised with the wear time of this one (considering it's demeter), on my skin it stays for around 5-6 hours while on the clothes i can still catch it after 12. it's perfect. i'm obsessed. if you are a fan of spooky scents, don't even hesitate. (works great combined either with perles de lalique or myrrh & tonka - you either get a ghost on a frosty, foggy morning at the cemetery, or a vampire wrapped in a cashmere blanket, being all cozy in their old gothic mansion)

This is so beautiful I almost cry! It's so unique and I can't find out any perfume that even remind a little of this one. I've looked for a really dark floral for ages and this is perfect! I can agree with those who says that it's a tint of old flower water but it is only in the first moments. The beginning is quite overwhelming for me who have worked with flowers it's reminds of the smell when you prepare the flowers for the arrangement. You take out the flowers of the water, take away old flowers, remove some of the foliage and cut the steems in the right height, all smells at the same time... But very fast it evolve to the real bouquet with only fresh flowers. First the Lilys is most dominant but when the times go on the carnations take over and gives the end its soft woody spiciness. For me this was a blind buy. I was looking for perfume that smells like real carnations and I'm so happy that I found it but iI don't think it's a safe buy that fits everyone.