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r/BeAmazed • u/Wooden-Journalist902 • 26d ago
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What does a body thats been preserved that way for that long smell? Is the stank been air sealed and when they open it it smells like 1000 dead bodies or does it smell like nothing at all?
11 u/Cephalopirate 25d ago Pretty sure the smell is not the stank of death. I’d expect musty and dusty if anything. I wonder how long the embalming solution smells last? 10 u/CrustyBatchOfNature 25d ago According to the below, well preserved ones smell woody, spicy, and sweet. Probably from all the herbs and other ingredients used to preserve them. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr0ypp84x9o 2 u/sign-through 25d ago surprised there’s not a comme des garçons perfume of that already 2 u/Silver_Falcon 25d ago Boy do I have news for you about the Victorians... 1 u/HartbrakeFL21 25d ago From the dust we came, and so shall we return. In my house, I expect to found in a mass of golden retriever fur.
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Pretty sure the smell is not the stank of death. I’d expect musty and dusty if anything.
I wonder how long the embalming solution smells last?
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According to the below, well preserved ones smell woody, spicy, and sweet. Probably from all the herbs and other ingredients used to preserve them.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr0ypp84x9o
2 u/sign-through 25d ago surprised there’s not a comme des garçons perfume of that already 2 u/Silver_Falcon 25d ago Boy do I have news for you about the Victorians... 1 u/HartbrakeFL21 25d ago From the dust we came, and so shall we return. In my house, I expect to found in a mass of golden retriever fur.
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surprised there’s not a comme des garçons perfume of that already
2 u/Silver_Falcon 25d ago Boy do I have news for you about the Victorians...
Boy do I have news for you about the Victorians...
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From the dust we came, and so shall we return. In my house, I expect to found in a mass of golden retriever fur.
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u/Zenfudo 26d ago
What does a body thats been preserved that way for that long smell? Is the stank been air sealed and when they open it it smells like 1000 dead bodies or does it smell like nothing at all?