The ''The smell of near extinction'' is a performance costume (1:1). The garment is designed based on the state of mind of an emotionally damaged person, deconstructed and fluid. Influenced by medieval instruments of torture, the garment of the corset and BDSM clothing, designed with tights leather bands encircling the reptilian body leaving uncovered spots of it, like sores. The uncovered flesh of the naked body can be touched, licked or to biten by anybody present, it can be stroked or stabed. This garment is the bonds and the cocoon for a transformation.