I disagree.
I disagree.
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.
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The British urge to eat mummies still going strong
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My god this is an outrage, I was going to eat that mummy! Fry has got to go!
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Described by William Dampier, a 17th-century British pirate as "extraordinary large and fat, and so sweet, that no pullet eats more pleasantly".
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Well, they were eaten as medicine for centuries. Not to mention as a paint and possibly for fires...
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Cat mummies have been used as fertilizer too.
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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.
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There's a place for you in the valley of poets
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How do they feel when you roll them under your tongue?
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Smooth.
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Do not leave archeologists or geologists alone with a mummy.
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Or any kind of Englishman.
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I was going to eat that mummy! 😠
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Oh good, I was worried.
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when I die I better be buried with some awesome cologne like these mummies!
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The intoxicating bouquet of ancient microbes you have no immunity to.
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Can I get this as a perfume? Maybe Axe could do a thing?
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Axe: Spicy Pharaoh
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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.
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i dunno, musky scents like that do have their place in the perfume world, in moderation.
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Well and good but how is Kasparov and his lilac marigolds anything to do with it.
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