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What fragrance would you where to your funeral?

post #1 of 66
6/29/12 at 7:29pm
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Ok, I know this quite odd and some may say morbid...but if this were to be the last scent for you to be remembered by..what would you choose?
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post #2 of 66
6/29/12 at 7:34pm
Straight to Heaven (better than Passage d'Enfer!)

j/k, I don't wear either.
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post #3 of 66
6/29/12 at 7:51pm
Angel
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post #4 of 66
6/29/12 at 7:56pm
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Ungaro III
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post #5 of 66
6/29/12 at 8:03pm
i wouldn't
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post #6 of 66
6/29/12 at 8:12pm
Thread Starter 
Why not?
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post #7 of 66
6/29/12 at 8:24pm
Possibly Diorissimo at this junction.
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post #8 of 66
6/29/12 at 8:25pm
I have no idea really !
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post #9 of 66
6/29/12 at 8:45pm
Brings to mind this glorious Angel review by user FruitDiet that ends with:

"One of my best friends who happens to be a mortician told me an amazing and frightening story. While preparing a corpse for its funeral, she was handed a bottle of Angel and instructed to spray it all in and around the coffin because it was the deceased's favorite scent. Angel, which already smells of death, follows its wearers TO THE GRAVE."

Hope that story wasn't hyperbolic. Talk about exquisite corpse, hmm...

It seems fitting that the whole room-burial site-day should smell like Fracas during my funeral, so everyone can be a bit uplifted but kind of disturbed too by that off-the-rails I Don't Believe in An Afterlife and beautiful decay quality tuberose communicates.
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post #10 of 66
6/29/12 at 8:51pm
Encre Noire
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post #11 of 66
6/29/12 at 8:52pm
Nothing.
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post #12 of 66
6/29/12 at 9:21pm
Nothing
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post #13 of 66
6/29/12 at 9:25pm
Embalming Fluid EDP
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post #14 of 66
6/29/12 at 9:41pm
Guy Laroche Drakkar Noir•_
Giorgio Beverly Hills Red for Men•_
Creed Bois Du Portugal•_
Gres Homme De Gres•_
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post #15 of 66
6/29/12 at 9:46pm
Thread Starter 
To those saying nothing...they clean and wash you up, throw clothes everything else is made up for you...why no fragrance?

Just curious...
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post #16 of 66
6/29/12 at 9:49pm
For me its not the place for fragrance...its a funeral not a club. Fragrance makes me happy...so thats not the best place to wear it for me. But thats my opinion.
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post #17 of 66
6/29/12 at 9:52pm
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Well if your dead...its kinda past the point of feelings like being happy...but I get what you're saying.

When you go to funeral people are suited up and groomed and even the dead...so I thought why not? They even put make up on so why not fragrance...meh, guess it ain't for everybody.
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post #18 of 66
6/29/12 at 10:15pm
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Originally Posted by yteek View Post

Well if your dead...its kinda past the point of feelings like being happy...but I get what you're saying.

When you go to funeral people are suited up and groomed and even the dead...so I thought why not? They even put make up on so why not fragrance...meh, guess it ain't for everybody.

Well, being dead and all, I probably wouldn't care. To be honest, when I'm gone, I'm gone. I'd rather just get donated to science or cremated or whatever's most convenient. No funerals where people are forced to look at or, worse, smell me. They should all just go to a pub and eat a nice meal!
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post #19 of 66
6/29/12 at 10:23pm
To be honest, I just realized I miss raid the question. But I still think I wouldn't want them to spray anything.
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post #20 of 66
6/29/12 at 10:31pm
Demeter Dirt, of course. Or More probably the one made just for said topic, Demeter Funeral Home.
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post #21 of 66
6/29/12 at 10:32pm
I'd be pissed as hell! Nobody deserves my hard-earned collection. "Dump all 70 of 'em in the coffin with me!"
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post #22 of 66
6/29/12 at 10:38pm
Thread Starter 
That'd be quite the explosion if you're planning on cremation ^
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post #23 of 66
6/29/12 at 10:46pm
none
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post #24 of 66
6/29/12 at 11:32pm
None for me as well!
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post #25 of 66
6/29/12 at 11:58pm
Probably brimstone. Might as well get used to it.
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post #26 of 66
6/30/12 at 12:50am
You could dip me in horse shyt for all I care.
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post #27 of 66
6/30/12 at 1:36am
Just pour everything I have in my collection after I die into the casket, and that will probably be a gallon or more! Anyone that wants to view the corpse will get what they deserve...
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post #28 of 66
6/30/12 at 2:24am
I usually wear Caron Pour Un Homme to funerals!
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post #29 of 66
6/30/12 at 2:35am
Nothing, the adjacent, flower sprays should supply the desired ambience.
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post #30 of 66
6/30/12 at 2:52am
I haven't thought about it, yet... I guess my view is quite epicurean, when I'm here (enjoying perfumes- that's me, not Epicure), death's not, when there's death, there's not me (enjoying perfumes, again), so... I don't know if I care.
Slightly off topic: I pay attention to fragrances I wear to funerals, trying to make some sense. At my granma's, Fleur de Liane, to reflect the dangerous swamp that my childhood with my family was; at an old friend's- an intelligent, sharp and very straightforward, almost rough journalist and writer- I wore Bornèo..
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post #31 of 66
6/30/12 at 3:11am
Even it's macabre, yes, I have thought about actually.

While I do prefer cremation, I think one of my favorites scents on this occasion, to be last applied/sprayed before would most likely be a classic citrus-chypre along the lines of Armani PH or some ADP, but then again, these are the kinds of frags I'd wear almost during any less ordinary, less trivial, less mundane moment of my life, irrespective of the occasion (so it's less related to my last rites, but far more to any "best case scenarios" regarding several "rites of passage" in my life).

Bonus point, my ideal scenario would be - though I would never be selfish to demand this form the ones present, especially the ones legitimately grieving or at least affected by this even in the slightest - would be that some of the gentlemen and even some of the ladies attending the civil and/or religious ceremony wear the very same favorite frag I used to cherish during my lifetime, since I'd prefer to be remembered by means of my joys and hobbies and in a joyful context, also reminiscing about the scents which were pleasurable for me during my lifetime.
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post #32 of 66
6/30/12 at 3:45am
20 sprays of Le Male.
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post #33 of 66
6/30/12 at 3:45am
If I died today... Oud Wood by Tom Ford. It's my number 1 favorite right now. That will change though because my favorite changes every month and then eventually comes full circle.

As far as some saying "nothing" or "because it's not a happy time and fragrance makes me happy..."
Sack that! I want people to be happy that I'm gone and moving on to a better place. Spray Oud Wood throughout the funeral home and be happy and celebrate the life I did have.
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post #34 of 66
6/30/12 at 12:55pm
And that will actually be the most asked question on that sad day: "Where to my funeral?"
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post #35 of 66
6/30/12 at 1:08pm
Have you any further doubts ??????
DE PROFONDIS by uncle Serge + 20 spritz of Musk Koublai Khan over it........I swear, the funeral will be very fast..indeed !!!!!!
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post #36 of 66
6/30/12 at 1:25pm
I'd request that my family put an atomiser of something in my suit pocket!! That way one I get wherever it is I'm going i can make a grand entrance :-)
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post #37 of 66
6/30/12 at 1:39pm
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Originally Posted by Dernier_Cri View Post

And that will actually be the most asked question on that sad day: "Where to my funeral?"

Thank you for your witty response a la Lynne Truss. I must have been a bi***y English teacher in a previous life because this I keep hoping the thread title will be corrected. LOL

I plan to be cremated, so my cousin the mortician is welcome to pour whatever splash bottles in my collection over me to get the conflagration off with a bang. (I wouldn't ask him to spray- would take too long) (wink)
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post #38 of 66
6/30/12 at 1:48pm
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Originally Posted by knit at nite View Post

Thank you for your witty response a la Lynne Truss. I must have been a bi***y English teacher in a previous life because this I keep hoping the thread title will be corrected. LOL

Thank you for your support Knit at Nite. I kept hoping the title of the thread would be corrected also and then I couldn't stand it anymore and tried to find a joke somwhere in there.
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post #39 of 66
6/30/12 at 2:01pm
Same here, dernier and knit, but one never knows if someone is ESL or really tired or drunk or whatever, so I tried to reign in the snark. I recently posted a thread in which I used "can" when "could//may" would have been more appropriate and self-flagellated for about ten minutes. Silliness.
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post #40 of 66
6/30/12 at 2:11pm
Tue, quite true. I have great respect for our multilingual members ability to write rings around me in several languages and have posted that a few times. .... oh God- here comes the B****y English teacher... "Yet, "wear" and "where" have disparate meaning in most tongues, one would imagine"... (Struggling, more struggling for Knit to re-emerge)

Who will win the battle? News at 11
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post #41 of 66
6/30/12 at 2:12pm
I'd literally want a whole bottle of 6.8 Fahrenheit poured on me.
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post #42 of 66
6/30/12 at 2:53pm
I will be turned into ashes anyway and sprinkled into the ocean. What bugs family members mostly, is the disarray of paper work left behind. That I will not wish on my worst enemy. So, when the time draws closer, I have to throw out junk papers and consolidate, what they call "clean up your affairs" (paper affairs, that is).

A special piece of music should be played, and that is usually very easily arranged.

Other than that, everybody sheds tears and then go out to eat.
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post #43 of 66
6/30/12 at 3:35pm
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Originally Posted by 30 Roses View Post

Straight to Heaven (better than Passage d'Enfer!)

j/k, I don't wear either.

Oooooooohhhhthats cold lol

- - - Updated - - -

Personally, I would use Coromondel
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post #44 of 66
6/30/12 at 4:35pm
Creed Windsor, please, for my funeral. I should amend my will to donate the surviving wardrobe to Grant to distribute as he sees fit.
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post #45 of 66
7/1/12 at 12:49am
Tom Ford Oud Wood
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post #46 of 66
7/1/12 at 5:47pm
Something funny to make people smile. Probably Thierry Mugler Womanity? I think its wonderful and strange, but from reviews it seems like a lot of people think it smells like trash. Probably wonder what the heck they embalmed me with.
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post #47 of 66
7/2/12 at 2:05am
Soak me up in Shalimar!
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post #48 of 66
7/3/12 at 3:46pm
I don't see any rule against using dark humour for one's first post...so here goes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putrescine

I won't be wearing it. I'll be exuding it.
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post #49 of 66
7/3/12 at 4:14pm
I always wear a SOTD as if it was the last...day. So if I die outside the house - stroke, car accident, an elephant falling from the sky or whatever - I'm prepared. Same for the SOTE: Would be only fitting if the scent that I usually wear to bed accompanied me to sleep eternal.

"Imagine waking up one day to find that you're dead."
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post #50 of 66
7/3/12 at 6:23pm
My suit will still smell of Habit Rouge, so that would be it.
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post #51 of 66
7/3/12 at 6:51pm
I am a firm believer in burial, though strictly "a la francaise," which style dictates that, in absence of a family crypt, a whole is dug in the ground, a thick white brick encasement is built there in, the sarcophagus is lain inside of it, and then this lapidary "box" is sealed over with a large marble plaque, often engraved, or, merely sealed over with slab of concrete in more humble circumstances: The "sealing" is hermetic and so the coffin and its contents remain inside there to naturally turn to dust without the aid of earth worms and maggots. These actually do ultimately turn to dust: Ancient crypts that are vandalized and open after hundreds of years contain only heaps of dust and fragments of bones. I would have to insist on Jicky. Not only would I insist on it, but, were I given the option, a sealed 1000ml bee bottle of Jicky PdT as well as a 250ml one of parfum would be nestled inside the coffin along with me: I recently had an all white tux made. I wore it to a party. Once the party was over, I thought: I could save it to be buried in. I think I would like a greyish mauve silk velvet lining in the coffin, the all white tux, the all white everything, pocket square, etc, body, clothes and hair drenched in Jicky. There are options. But, regardless of what I wear, Jicky is *the only one* that i will ever "be remembered for," so.....Jicky. --I think I would want all white flowers as well: Stalk, Flox, White Carnations, Casablanca lilies, white roses, phaleanopsis orchids, all white--with maybe just a tiny hint of mauve: Lavender stalks perhaps. I would also like all invitees to wear white, and, were it my express wish, I'd bet that they all would: White, white & white, Jicky, Jicky, Jicky.
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post #52 of 66
7/3/12 at 8:03pm
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Originally Posted by le mouchoir de monsieur View Post

I am a firm believer in burial, though strictly "a la francaise," which style dictates that, in absence of a family crypt, a whole is dug in the ground, a thick white brick encasement is built there in, the sarcophagus is lain inside of it, and then this lapidary "box" is sealed over with a large marble plaque, often engraved, or, merely sealed over with slab of concrete in more humble circumstances: The "sealing" is hermetic and so the coffin and its contents remain inside there to naturally turn to dust without the aid of earth worms and maggots. These actually do ultimately turn to dust: Ancient crypts that are vandalized and open after hundreds of years contain only heaps of dust and fragments of bones. I would have to insist on Jicky. Not only would I insist on it, but, were I given the option, a sealed 1000ml bee bottle of Jicky PdT as well as a 250ml one of parfum would be nestled inside the coffin along with me: I recently had an all white tux made. I wore it to a party. Once the party was over, I thought: I could save it to be buried in. I think I would like a greyish mauve silk velvet lining in the coffin, the all white tux, the all white everything, pocket square, etc, body, clothes and hair drenched in Jicky. There are options. But, regardless of what I wear, Jicky is *the only one* that i will ever "be remembered for," so.....Jicky. --I think I would want all white flowers as well: Stalk, Flox, White Carnations, Casablanca lilies, white roses, phaleanopsis orchids, all white--with maybe just a tiny hint of mauve: Lavender stalks perhaps. I would also like all invitees to wear white, and, were it my express wish, I'd bet that they all would: White, white & white, Jicky, Jicky, Jicky.

Good luck getting the county to pay for all of that.
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post #53 of 66
7/3/12 at 8:59pm
I should say my namesake, Heaven Sent, that would be so fitting, but, really, just spritz me down with Knowing and I'm good.
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post #54 of 66
7/3/12 at 9:08pm
Why ever would "the County" be involved in a funeral, provided it was a private one? That's specifically why Family Crypts come in so handy, you know: They sometimes have three to four levels, deep, deep in the ground: If you've never been inside one or seen one it's difficult to imagine how that works but, from the ground up, they look a bit like a miniature Church. Once inside, there are stone stairs that descend into the subterranian levels, where there are "halls," and the walls of these have compartments, like drawers, and the coffin is slid in, then the open space sealed over with a plaque. Most of these types of crypts were bought and constructed in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, and it was a given that enough space would be allotted to be filled up by future generations. I don't know how such things work in America--I know they just lower the casket into the ground and bury it--I think this is an English left over of American Culture as they do this also in the UK--just toss the casket into a hole in the ground. Catholic countries have a slightly less pragmatic approach. I suppose it doesn't make a terrific lot of difference one way or another, but i, personally, have always thought burying a casket in dirt was somewhat barbaric. Some people find burial and entombment barbaric outright: I think the same of cremation. We all have our ways and means!
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post #55 of 66
7/3/12 at 10:28pm
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Originally Posted by anomie et ivoire View Post

Same here, dernier and knit, but one never knows if someone is ESL or really tired or drunk or whatever, so I tried to reign in the snark. I recently posted a thread in which I used "can" when "could//may" would have been more appropriate and self-flagellated for about ten minutes. Silliness.

Best to rein in the snark lest you end up looking silly indeed. And definitely don't trust Truss for advice on these things. Her book is full of bloopers!
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post #56 of 66
7/3/12 at 10:43pm
Hahaha, I hardly "reigned" in the snark. If only.
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post #57 of 66
7/4/12 at 2:33am
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Good luck getting the county to pay for all of that.

Very very good. I actually laughed out loud. As for the funeral quests wearing white just make sure a luncheon is provided for the hospital orderlies.
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post #58 of 66
7/18/12 at 2:10pm
All them! And would like to be cremated with them all!
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post #59 of 66
7/18/12 at 2:19pm
Sexual Sugar Daddy for the win.
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post #60 of 66
7/22/12 at 10:24am
I wish I would get updates at least on the threads where my jokes were appreciated....
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