To mark the launch of season two of Alone Australia, SBS Australia created a cologne to capture the scent of survival. With stale notes of campfire soot, rain-soaked dampness, and earthy moss.
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00:00 Survival is born in the wilderness, untamed, unforgiving, unpleasant. Survival has a scent, raw, real, ripe. Embrace the essence of being alone. Alone clone. A new clone, a new life.
00:07 Alone clone. Embrace the essence of being alone. Alone clone. An ode to odour.
00:14 Survival has a scent, raw, real, ripe. Alone clone. Embrace the essence of being alone. Alone clone. An ode to odour.
00:33 It's actually not bad. It's not bad. At the same time it smells like insect spray but then it grows on you. That does smell like a boys change room after the rugby. You can already smell it right?
00:49 It's pretty amazing. You tell me how close you came out to smelling like that. I can taste it. I think it needs a little bit more of the wet stuff. More of the wet stuff? And maybe a little bit of fish. I would have put it on my beard. No, no, no, don't do that. You've already been through that.
01:13 It's got potential. That is very pleasant of you. That smells slightly like my ex-husband waking up in the morning.
01:26 That wasn't as bad as I was expecting. That's worse. It's actually not that bad.
01:39 If you have wet clothes and you've left them in a bag for a month and they eat in your car but in a dry bag and they're just festering and you've left them in a dry bag. Oh yeah, that's a real visual representation.
01:53 Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to spend the rest of your life alone, wear this.