In order to celebrate the release of the sixth season of the Walking Dead, a new fragrance has been created to help fans smell like a zombie. Fans of the show will know that one of the ways to avoid being eaten alive is to mask any human scents by being coated in the remains of the undead.
The 'Obfleshion, Eau de Walker' was designed by The Perfume Mistress, Tanya Moulding to smell like the rotting flesh of a Walker, using core notes like Clary Sage, Mushroom absolute, Gromwell and Geosmin. As Moulding puts it, the fragrance effectively evokes the scent of "rotting corpse and damp vegetation."
Although there have been several perfumes like this released over the years, there has yet to be a commercial so comical released alongside the unusual zombie-scented fragrance.
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The 'Obfleshion' Scent Helps Walking Dead Fans Smell Like a Zombie
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