Though they do have that nice spicy scent, akin to incense you’d smell at a Catholic Church, there is defo a hint of dry rot.
Oh good, I was worried.
when I die I better be buried with some awesome cologne like these mummies!
How do they feel when you roll them under your tongue?
Smooth.
Do not leave archeologists or geologists alone with a mummy.
Or any kind of Englishman.
Can I get this as a perfume? Maybe Axe could do a thing?
Relevant Smithsonian article.
I’d probably skip on the animal fat and bitumen, but cedar, juniper, and cypress all smell pretty good.
Apparently the scent could also vary slightly depending on who was being embalmed.
Axe: Spicy Pharaoh
I don’t mind the sun sometimes, the hieroglyphs it shows,
I can taste you on my lips and smell you in my gauze,
Cinnamon and sugary and softly mummified,
You never know just how to look through the all-seeing Horus eye.
The British urge to eat mummies still going strong
Well, they were eaten as medicine for centuries. Not to mention as a paint and possibly for fires…
Described by William Dampier, a 17th-century British pirate as “extraordinary large and fat, and so sweet, that no pullet eats more pleasantly”.
My god this is an outrage, I was going to eat that mummy! Fry has got to go!
