The Andy Warhol thread made me think of this one (a friend dropped a bottle of Beautiful into his casket). A touch morbid, but ...

What perfume will accompany you to the Great Beyond? Which fragrance would you like family and friends to sniff as they pay their last respects and raise a glass to your life well lived? And might there be a little bottle of something tucked away to accompany you on your Final Journey?

I would like to be accompanied by CdG Zagorsk when I go on to my reward. :-)

I want a bell jar of Ambre Sultan Serge Lutens put in my casket.

I hope my hair looks good when they get me all done up too.

At first I thought this read - which perfume will kill you - and of course my answer is Amarige.

But, the one to drop into my casket? Antaeus.

and I hope I still have hair, and not just some Friar Tuck ring around the ears hair, etiher.

Cuir Beluga.

LOL!

I want to be cremated (deep, irrational fear of waking up underground--don't ask) but before I go into the furnace, spritz me with Chanel no. 5.

Messe de Minuit seems appropriate, it would enhance that sense of decay.

But in the hope of better things to come, somthing lily-ish might be better. Un Lys?

Andy was a HUGE perfume-lover. He would've LOVED this BB (and the Internet in general).


"Perfume is great because it allows you to take up more space."


Just drop a bottle of SHALIMAR en extrait into my casket, please.

I'm with alto on the cremation thing, but a judicious amount of Shalimar perfume sprinkled over my finery will do the trick, thank you (in more ways than one)!

Right, because you'd sooooooo rather wake up screaming and engulfed in flames than buried quietly underground . . .

Actually, yes. I'd rather have that.

LOL!

Okay, your phobia trumps my sarcasm.

But I think if I were to be buried with a perfume, I'd pick something that would make everyone pay for the insolence of still being alive while I'm, like, dead and stuff.

Clive Christian No. 1 for Men pure parfum. Take that!

Since I am being cremated it would have to be something incensey??? Norma Kamali Ceremony maybe......?

As I said in the other thread, ashes for me. I give those who survive me permission to crack open that sealed half ounce bottle of the original Nina parfum I have tucked away, pour the whole thing on me and then throw in the bottle after it. At that point I won't care if I can't get any more and besides, Heaven, where I'm sure I'm going , will be full of Nina!

It would have to be something that blends well with formaldehyde, perhaps something tropical or earthy? (emphasis on the earthy)

But Santal Mysore is what I would like today. Tomorrow it might be something totally different.

Hey Ginny, maybe Demeter's "Dirt" ???

My empty botttle of Apers L'Ondee edt, circa 1994, which was a fun year for me, and I hope I'll end up in a place with a Guerlain refill station, pre-EU formulations, of course.

Chopard Heaven

Chenas! So good to see you again!

Ashes for me too. But I want a BIG BOY scenting those ashes. Kamali's Incense it is. (Ceremony is way too tame)

I'll second that!

Chenas! Woo-hoo!

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Angel yet.

I'm not sure what I'd wear. I adore Venezia, but there's something almost edible about it, and in this context that just seems ... wrong.

The perfume that hits me at the deepest places is Mitsouko, but it seems wrong, too. Not edible exactly, but something.

Maybe I'd have someone just empty an entire bottle of Chanel No. 5 parfum on me. I'm so parsimonious with the stuff due to its cost; but at that point, who cares??

QUOTE (CHARDKAY @ Jun 19 2008, 11:48 AM)

Hey Ginny, maybe Demeter's "Dirt" ???

Char....Vetiver would be my dirt of choice, maybe with a bit of frankincense & myrrhe?

Its a pity that Demeter's don't last long because their scents are pretty much right on the money!

I would like to be seen off with, Carolina Herrera's 212.

In addition, I would like one of those grave/tombstones that has a built-in video screen that would be cycling through random images/footage of New York City. Or, it could be like my avatar here on Perfume of Life, where I took certain sections of the actual 212 television commercial and put them together to make a short clip.

Perhaps a 3.4 oz bottle permanently mounted on the stone would be a nice touch along with an embedded copy of the most recent 212 print ad.

I find vetiver a wonderful uplifting scent for any occasion. Good choice in my book, scents!

CHENAS!!!!!!!!! Thirding the welcome back!!!!!!! I was seriously just thinking about you today.

BTW--Dirt-- Ha! Good one! Never thought of that.

How about Passage d'Enfer?

I could go with Angel -- I'd just have to decide which star to go with

I think I'd also like Summersent. The gorgeous little perfume bottle looks like one they might have in a garden shop in heaven

Twitchly that's brilliant! So tasteful, too....(ha)

For my funeral pyre, I'd want to be doused in Patou Joy parfum. I want to go onto my next life smelling damn good!

Hello, Alto, Twitchly, Besotted and FiveOaks. It's good to be alive again.

I believe it's called embalming fluid. This is a joke, right? Personally, I wouldn't want anyone's memory of me to be wrapped up with me being in my coffin, sorry. I'd want them to have other memories of me.

Hi Chenas! Sorry to welcome you back on such a morbid thread.

I'm going for cremation myself. No scent.

I'd rather be cremated here than down there!!!

Seve Exquise, because that's my resin-y-green-I-am-connected-to-all-living-things scent.....and death is just another part of life!

I want the ashes , but am I going to get them ? Probably not , but I am sure if i go before himself he will see to it that no embalming fluid is there to interfere with oil mixture of jasmine , tuberose and orange blossom and he will be jolly good enough to "dispose" of my sad and sorry remains in twenty four or less.

I'm on Team Cremation too.

I can't stand the thought of having perfume burned with me or buried with me or anything like that, though. Hopefully when the time comes, I'll have had time to make a list of who gets what.

Whoever was taking care of things for me would probably reach for the Shalimar to send me off in, and I wouldn't lift a cold, dead finger to stop them. Although I might prefer Fleurs d'Oranger.

CHENAS!!!! HOW ARE YOU??? We missed you!!

I'd like full bottles of Diorissimo and champagne broken over my casket or drawer of ashes to launch me like a ship into the beyond.

I agree. I want them to remember me and my fragrances as I lived in them, not dead.
Funerals are for the living and not the dead, so my husband and children can do whatever they want.

Vol de Nuit would be the perfect final and permanent scent for me.

Since I intend to dissolve in a spontaneous burst of light it would have to be CB I Hate Perfume's Cradle of Light.

Yikes!! ((Cringe))

While we're on the topic of the finiteness of life, let me issue this public service announcement for my fellow stashers/hoarders:

YOU CAN'T BRING IT WITH YOU!!!

USE YOUR PERFUME WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!!!!

Oh my, bad news for all the hoarders out there. I can already hear the popping of bottle tops and frantic spraying.

Truthfully? Once I am dead, it doesn't matter what happens, as I am dust! *I* am no longer in that body so they can do what they want with it.

I think those close to me will associate many fragrances they may smell after my departure with me anyway. When I smell something familiar, it brings that person or particular time to my mind, doesn't that happen to almost everyone?

You smell cookies baking, and your memory brings back thoughts of a day when you were in the kitchen helping your mom bake cookies.

You smell Chanel #5, and it brings back a moment in time when you smelled this on someone special.

Do I really want or even *think* that my loved ones last memory of me will be that of me in my pine box as a lasting memory?

NOPE.....I know they will remember me with a familiar scent or scents, quirky little situations that happened, and funny scenarios. They will have more pleasant memories to remember me by.

But since the question was asked.....I'd like to *think* that there would be a nice, soothing, warm, and familiar scent around me and my pine box rather than the scent of *death*. I think this is all in jest, really, and I took it as such.

I think we all want to look decent even as we are laid out for all to see. So why shouldn't we want to smell decently?

Its human nature to want to look good or at least halfway decent, right?

LET's face reality people. Not too many people are going to give a dern about our perfume when we're gone. We are an 'unusual' bunch. USE it now! It's just like star war figures............I threw all my sons out. He went wild. Now of course they're worth a lot on ebay but.............
When people are throwing out and dividing up your stuff............if they don't like or want it.......they're going to give it to Goodwill or something. As a matter of fact...........that might be a good place to go perfume looking.

I've come back to this thread a few times now, thinking an inspiration would hit me. I just can't relate to the question, somehow. I have no feelings about it whatsoever. Funny, huh?

I hope people have a fabulous party to celebrate my passing..if they fancy that. Other than that I have absolutely no preferences. They could throw my corpse in a scrapheap, really.

Now, what would I wear on the my last day on earth to say goodbye to everyone? Probably something that expressed a tenderness that perhaps I never felt I could adequately - something gentle and feminine like a rose scent.

I doubt anybody's going to get close enough to you to give you a sniff myself. ??? It's not something that the funeral home is going to do probably.

I plan on being cremated also. I wonder if frankincense and myrrh resin still smells after it's burned? I might have to burn some to see. If so, I might like to request that some gets put in with me. Or maybe some amber......