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kalina5129 – :
It does smell haunting, but it sadly won’t transport me to the funerals I’ve been to. In my head, in a funeral there is a weeping heaviness in the florals. The short and full bodied echo of the coffin wood. Formaldehyde. Dry, dead skin turned into dust. The fine thread of salt and minerals that come from the endless tears, and the dry sweat, loud pounting hearts.
But the flowers weight the most. From where I’m from, there is also coffee and club crackers, but I could not expect that from a perfume like this. But I did expect the heaviness in the flowers.
Enziiik – :
plastic bags and rotten flowers,or corrupted water from a flower pot
ramzez9559 – :
If you like the smell of formaldehyde mixed with lilies then this perfume is for you. This perfume will remind you of your first funeral that you ever attended, it’s a bit nostalgic. This just doesn’t smell very good on my skin for some reason so I just sometimes spray it in my pillow and fall asleep to the smell of lilies.
mr_bim – :
this is an interesting one, I cant say wheter I like or not, on one hand is has this linear smell of flowers that is nice and soothing on the other hand there is an ingredient which makes one note separate itself from the others and stand out, a strong stingy one which I reminds me of..chlorophorm?
anyway, it really smells like a funeral home. I cant say where one can wear this perfume, definitely not on a date or at a kindergarten play or a birthday party. Longevivity is weak though and that’s a shame, sillage is even worst.
Corpsish scent, I feel like Lurch from Adams family while wearing it but I cant fully say I dislike it.
Chung2030 – :
this was a blind bought. Im crazy about carnation scents, which are very hard to find cause I think is no longer a trend.
When I read about this one, I thought I had to have it, as everybody is talking about the carnation being so present in it.
Well, I finally got it, here in Europe is not easy at all to find it, and it is not so as cheap as in the states…
It has been mainly a flop… I really would like to know where do you smell carnations???? Am I to used to L’heure Bleue, L’Air du Temps or Series 2 red Carnation??? cause honestly, I don’t smell them almost at all.
maybe in the dry down I barely can notice something similar to carnations, but they are no strong at all…
I dont hate it or dislike it, but I expected far more…
eugeny.rumyantzeff – :
When I think of floral perfumes, words like soft, delicate or elegant come to mind. This is a floral scent…a strong one, none of those adjectives apply. The florals here are sharp and almost bitter. I bought this because I found the name amusing. When I first sprayed it, I was surprised. The initial blast of harsh florals and stinging green notes overwhelmed me, but I liked it.
It softens as it dries down, but there is still something strange and jarring about this fragrance…not what I typically expect from a floral scent. It is clean, but heavy…not pretty and garden-like. This is unusual and I find it compelling. It’s a shame it doesn’t last longer, but this is a Demeter so weak longevity is to be expected. I like this stuff though.
pomidor – :
Fragrance Review For Funeral Home Demeter
NOTES
LILY
CARNATION
GLADIOLUS
CHRYSANTHEMUM
GRASS
MAHOGANY
ORIENTAL NOTES
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the loss of this fragrance because like life itself, it is so brief…….
Don’t let this fragrance repulse you. Indeed they perfectly recreated the scent of walking into a funeral home/parlor where the closed coffin is laid out and it’s surrounded by dozens and dozens of floral arrangements. Every note goes very well together except the Oriental notes which I couldn’t even detect. At the first spritz of Funeral Home, you get a distinct green note of grass. It’s like the well-manicured lawn in front of the funeral home. Once you walk inside, you pick up on the smell of mahogany wood. These are the chairs, and rows of seats in front of the coffin for the guests of the funeral to sit on during the service. It’s a typical woodsy scent but quite realistic and has the power to take you to a specific place: in this case a funeral home. This is a place most of us would rather not visit but it’s part of life. One wonders where and when one can wear this fragrance. It is not meant to be a joke nor created in levity. I believe it was designed to be worn to actual funeral services. It’s a fragrance to match up with your black funeral clothes: suits and black dresses.
It is a floral fragrance that just happens to smell like a funeral home. The flowery scents of white lilies and gladiolas, as well as chrysanthemum and carnation are totally real. These are strong florals, and the aroma is very much like being indoors among flowers/floral arrangements. To me the gladiolas did it. The gladiola flowers are the flowers I always associate with funerals. The carnation here is white and with the additional white lilies, you get chrysanthemum. The chrysanthemum note along with the green notes of grass, reminds me of De Profundis by Serge Lutens which is itself a funereal fragrance. De Profundis smells more like a cemetery with flowers on graves, though, not the inside of a funeral home. Funeral Home is a realistic scent of being at a funeral.
Call me crazy but I love it. It’s melancholy, touching, beautiful. I see it as a well made floral perfume. It is rather strong so don’t spray lavishly. One or two spritz to let YOU know it’s there but don’t wear this to get other noses’ attention. The fragrance does not last long as unfortunately Demeter frags are very short-lived, so you might consider spritzing on this perfume before walking into the funeral home, and not before the drive towards the funeral home because the scent will be gone by the time you get there.
Although Serge Lutens De Profundis, a fragrance to mourn the death of playwright Oscar Wilde, is my masterpiece of funeral flowers, this one is not bad. It’s cheaper, easier to wear and just as introspective and intellectual. It makes you ponder about the brevity of life itself. “Like sands through an hour glass so are the days of our lives” to quote the Bible or the intro to Days of Our Lives. Or one also thinks of the Biblical quote (I think it’s Psalms, I forget which one): “As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.”
For me the gladiola is the star here. It’s a well made gladiola which is a very rare note in perfumery. I don’t have too many fragrances with that note and I have countless frags in my collections. Funeral Home is good for wearing to a funeral, but I also believe it’s OK to wear it for yourself at home AFTER a funeral. It’s for you to feel at peace as well.
The fragrance will inspire contemplation, remembrance, not so much grief of melancholia. It can be sad but in no way is this a bad thing. No one complains about the melancholy aspects of Guerlain’s ever popular L’Heure Bleue. This is the same thing. You smell the fragrance and you feel calm, quiet, peaceful, and you think of someone dear to you that is no longer around. In my case when I smell this fragrance I’m reminded of a very good mentor of mine, an older woman from Boston, a socialite, who was a role model for me and who got me into perfume and fashion when I was just a fresh out of high school Brooklyn girl. She taught me what I needed to know and the rest I learned myself.
This fragrance is beautiful. I would even say it’s the best and most beautiful of the Demeter Fragrance Line.
FilipLic – :
I wore this on Halloween. My SO and I dressed as mourners and it was perfect for the occasion. It smells like an old funeral parlor!
skashtan – :
I really like it! and oh my GOD!! I use to work in a nursing home as a CNA and when a resident would pass sometimes the funeral bouquets would be given to the facility. They would leave them in the entrance sitting room where residents, visitors and workers could take a few home. This smells EXACTLY like this room full of lilies, white carnations and all manner of white flowers with a bit of old wood! It’s amazing, sad and beautiful at the same time! I wish they would come out with a pure perfume, the pick-me-up cologne doesn’t last long.
Alexx-62 – :
I don’t know what’s supposed to be insulting or sickening about this. It’s an insult…to who exactly? It’s not called Rotting Corpse, it’s not called Butcher Shop. I wasn’t aware of the fact that a funeral home is an unmentionable place to some people. People die and that involves a lot of flowers in their honor being around. There’s nothing here to clutch your pearls over.
sskopuz – :
I’ve never been in a funeral home but this one reminds me of another place – a florist shop. It smells flowery but not in the sweet way; it’s very green and wet, just like the smell of the water the flowers are dipping into. I also sense ink in there.
A very interesting scent indeed. It’s fresh and odd, I like it.
Maz535 – :
This is not the only weird scent they have, there’s also one called Lobster Scent, not listed here.
bedboy08 – :
It smells like wet grass, soil, and lilies. If I want to get technical the grassy plant smell is probably green accord and the lily smell is supported by the carnation. This does not smell like dead anything or embalming anything. I can see an association to a funeral in that lilies and carnations are often present in bouquets and cemeteries often have wet grass. It’s very much a living spring showers smell and unique and for that reason I love it.
danilinpe – :
Holy smokes, this smells just like my grandparent’s funeral. BAD MEMORIES.
Smells pretty good though, white flowers. Smells just like sitting on the end of a pew with all those funeral garlands in a line on the wall next to you and the faint smell of the mahogany casket.
cypedrearia – :
A lot of white floral scents, chemical perfumey substance, and makeup! I wonder whose original idea this is for creating this one-of-a-kind experience and I hope nobody wear it on regular basis.
ventel123 – :
OH MY — the overload of lilies! But I suppose that’s what is associated with funerals? Either way, if you’re a huge fun of lilies this perfume will definitely excite your nose. It’s a decent smelling white floral mist with very little longevity. Beware – use this frag up within a year or two because it will go rancid {aiding to a true funeral smell}
lesik – :
Silly, silly people! If you smelled this fragrance and it had no label, would the comments be the same? I highly doubt it. The power of suggestion is at play here. It should be renamed Flower Shop, because that’s exactly what it smells like. I guarantee that if the name were excluded NO ONE would say it smelled of old carpet, formaldyhyde or dead people! But if that’s your thing, enjoy the connotation.
MRaCK – :
I hope that this scent was mostly just made to be funny. Because this is the strangest Demeter fragrance I have come across so far, and I have come across quite a few of their strange ones.
Statexcurce – :
Yep! Smells like a funeral home…or a creepy, musty smelling, old mansion! Miss Havisham’s perhaps? Would make an excellent atmosphere scent for your Halloween display, haunted house, or even on your costume.
akanamaki14 – :
I have to respectfully disagree with a post down below. I was an apprenticed embalmer and funeral home makeup artist and I bought ‘Funeral Home’ as a joke and kept it for the sheer creepiness aspect. It smells like EVERY funeral home I have ever been in, more in the front than in the embalming room but its all there.It’s antiseptic, formaldehyde, day-too-old carnations, a hint of musty bodies and cloying floral casket sprays. So hyper-realistic that I cannot help but love it. What I find fantastic is that is translates to even the most naive person (“Ugh, it smells like a funeral home in here!” -quote from several different friends walking into my home). For the prankster, the appreciater of decayed flowers and the necrophile alike!
petja – :
This is made from a flower that is used in pest repellents.
bet1x – :
I would rename it “Mother’s Day” because the carnations rise to the top of this fresh bouquet or maybe “Easter Sunday” in honor of its proud lily note. The lasting power is quite impressive for a Demeter, and these flowers are guaranteed not to wilt nor warp. It tapers off gently with wear.
This will not seduce, so only dab it on when you are in magical-flower-fairy-princess mode and/or on your way to Sunday brunch or High Tea Time in a Victorian mansion.
Everyone who is blessed by your sillage will feel as though you have just gifted them a carnation.
gggaa23 – :
As an embalmer here in the U.S. I can tell you that our flower sprays have little scent, so that’s out. I would say that our funeral homes smell like the products and disinfectants we and the coroner’s office use (formaldehyde is odorless) Simple Green disinfectant scent(autopsy cases), Love’s Baby Soft like scent in the massage creams, and mints in our preservative powders, hairspray and nail polish. Not very glamorous.
I’m sure this fragrance is way different and has a very pretty, traditional floral scent.
fis601InsuffBooni – :
I would just like for everybody to know that this scent is on sale in massage oil formulation. For those romantic interludes where you want your lover to smell like a corpse. 😉
kepilssteem – :
“This scent actually started out to be “Flower Show”. Now our founding perfumer personally did NOT like most white flowers so this was a tough fragrance for him to develop. When a friend first smelled this one and exclaimed: “it smells like my Grandfather’s funeral… call it Funeral Home!”, so we did. ” (C)
antwolf77 – :
I wore this exclusively for years before becoming interested in perfume, and in the room spray form of all things, though maybe fitting for a way to wear a home for transient dead bodies on a living one? Now I have this in the oil and am much impressed by the better longevity, depth, richness of Demeter’s oils.
The white florals are pulled up by their roots, trailing dirt, maybe worms, then “shade(d) and shove(d) and render(ed) clean” by arrangements, green sponge wreathes and formaldehyde.
Certainly classically gothic but not morbid, Funeral Home is to me a vast improvement on the rooty dankness reputation of Iris Silver Mist, though the two are not much alike. The mood of vegetal tuber solemnity and masses of clean dirt unearthed are similar, but Funeral Home marries subliminal spices to surface ceremony and is so strikingly heavy-light as any joke about death.
Strange, but for a death-humor-or-not contemplating fragrance, this smells very much alive. Gucci Envy’s calmer partner in florist shop banality made flesh-touching novelty.
“What do the dead want with fake flowers that never die, how cruelly optimistic and too late” I wrote in a graveyard as a scrappy peri-gothic kid. Then a poem titled, yeah eyeroll, ‘a most septic mausoleum,’ well, Funeral Home is that, and it is the living breathing flower that suggests death so keenly with the vulnerability and totality of its vital heights. This will always be a favorite and will–for whatever forever is–forever be home.
nablydatel – :
Does anyone know where I can get this fragrance in the UK please? Or a UK website that sells it? The Demeter website does, but it would cost me £40 on top of the £20 for the 1oz bottle alone! All help greatly appreciated, as I’m so desperate for this scent, Thank you!
robecrerSlica – :
i don’t care about fragrance names – i just care about how they smell. this is pretty, but it smells like roses and lilies. it’s tempting to keep it, but i already have scents that smell like roses and scents that smell like lilies and i can just layer them if i want that scent.
j88888 – :
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.
Queenman – :
This is a very Gothic scent. This is not for the faint of heart.It’s bold. It starts off with crisp green notes. Walking in a moss covered Abby,with the ground still wet with dew. Yes, this Abby has a few graves in it, lined with white flowers.(and maybe a some red ones of good measure.)To some it up, this fragrance goes well with a good bottle of Chateau du Vampire wine, Truffle Popcorn with dark handsome man while watching The Tomb Of Ligeia. Demeter’s Funeral Home is the spirit of that movie.
kabasy1 – :
creepy but nice . .
mmb386Unlogrere – :
As a Funeral Director, I’m often asked “…what is that fragrance” as soon as one enters the door of a funeral home. It seems to hit one’s sense of smell immediately and abides with them until they leave and breath outdoor air again. Even with state-of-the-art air conditioning and air circulation systems, this overwhelming floral fragrance cannot be masked and for good reason. In the later part of the 19th century through the early 1900’s when successful embalming was oftentimes hit or miss, undertakers relied on block ice concealed beneath the deceased as a back up; especially, since wakes went on for several days. Unfortunately cold air descends rather than rises and the concept was of little or no use. On occasion; during the winter months, undertakers would maintain a list of local men who were available to guard the corpse outdoors all night. They were customarily given a bottle of whiskey to guard against animals that might happen by until the following morning when the deceased was returned to their parlor. Regardless whether it was in the heat of summer or inside a heated home during the winter months, after a couple of days, the odor of preliminary decomposition would permeate the air. It was then that profusions of flowers arrived on the scene and steadily evolved into a standardized tradition in the expression of sympathy. Flowers bring comfort to the family of the deceased and distract from the undeniable stillness of a casketed body. What is the order of fragrances one is likely to experience when entering a funeral home? The first; which is the strongest are carnations (and lillies if in season) followed by roses. Crysanthemums and gladiolas lend minimal fragrances. Because a small vent (trocar button) is inserted in the abdomen of the deceased during embalming, one is likely to also detect the smell a synthetic musk which is customarily added to cavity fluid. Demeter’s “Funeral Home” is a nice fragrance but should have been called anything but.
Alexyk – :
i love the concept, i love the smell and i love the connotation of this fragrance.i like different, i’m sometimes morbid and i love other worldly things. this works for me. i feel like mortisha addams when i wear this, lol. lillies, big bunches of white lillies. thats what you’ll get and then they throw a little coffin(wood) in for good measure. great for people who work in the business too. thumbs up.
191456284 – :
The use of lilies at funerals symbolizes the restored innocence of the soul at death . This fragrance really does smell like a funeral does ! I may be a bit macabre for liking it so much but I really do like it 🙂
naikomen – :
This is in perfect taste, as far as I’m concerned. It smells suffocating, oppressive, and sad – just like it should. Will be getting one ASAP.
Frolow – :
The next scent will be called “Dead People”.
uma632Negeltzex – :
I guess, the fragrance (which was supposed to be Flower Show) was changed a little bit, after they decided to call it Funeral Home.
Yes, it’s a white floral scent. But this is the last thing that comes to your mind, when you’re smelling Funeral Home. My first thought was “omg, it’s a funeral”. If you want to know what FH smells like, please, just take a walk to a funeral home. Don’t try to recall or imagine. Just smell the real thing.
Naturally, I was expecting all those flowers and junipers, but not this. It has that specific smell and dismal aura of a funeral home and wooden coffin. Gloomy, a bit dusty and spooky scent of despair. FH smells exactly like a funeral home. Crazy perfume indeed!
okorochka – :
I just read on a Demeter website that Funeral Home is, indeed, a white floral. There are not only lilies present, but carnations, white chrysanthemums (both flowers and stems),gladiolus, mahogany wood and a hint of oriental carpet (?!!!). Apparently one of the creators thought it smells like his Grandpa`s funeral, and this name was chosen on a whim over something more banal – Flower Show.
Deroxcddib – :
It’s not a joke, it’s just a fact, the smell. They think that it should be in their library (collection of scents we know and sometimes need), like rubber, like crayons, tomatoes, etc.
unjuttoxy – :
I have a slightly dark sense of humor, so i find it slightly funny, but I can totally see how the name can be offensive to some, especially if they lost someone close to them recently. The name is in very poor taste.