Robert Eggers ‘Nosferatu’ Remake Inspires ‘Eau de Macabre’ Perfume That Evokes ‘Uneasy Chill of Encountering an Apparition’
variety.comRebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Finally, at long last, there’s a way to smell like Dracula. That’s thanks to a new perfume inspired by the upcoming Robert Eggers film “Nosferatu,” a remake of the gothic tale about a terrifying vampire who stalks a haunted young woman.
Heretic Parfum founder Douglas Little concocted the custom scent, also called Nosferatu, through a scientific process that involved viewing the film, historical research and “time period understanding,” according to a press release.
The result is one that answers the age-old question that’s long haunted historians: What does a vampire smell like? Described as “cold, pale and pellucid” and evoking “the uneasy chill of encountering an apparition,” the fragrance aims to conjure the aroma of the dark, possibly smelly, spaces inhabited by Count Orlok himself.
Dubbed “Eau de macabre,” the perfume captures the odor of the eternal being with “top notes of lilac and ambrette seed that fall into a heart chord of violet, orris root and petrichor.
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