Red Poison Bottle Sticker – Gothic Skull Potion Art

A mysterious black bottle marked with a bold red skull label. This original gothic sticker combines poison-bottle imagery, dark apothecary aesthetics and a striking red-and-black palette for horror, witchy and oddity collections.

Sticker details

• One sticker featuring original Cerebroscope Studio artwork
• Synthetic PP with a glossy protective laminate
• Water-resistant
• Printed, laminated and contour-cut in Germany

Available sizes

• Longest side approximately 5 cm (Medium)

For decorating notebooks, journals, laptops and other smooth surfaces.

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From the Cerebroscope archive

Z.O.M.B. LABORATORIES

Unknown Substance Intake 121-R

Container: Black glass bottle
Label: Red, skull symbol
Contents: Unknown
Hazard status: Treat as potentially hazardous pending identification

The bottle arrives sealed.

Records

Poison.

Z. Omb

Unknown.

Records

It has a skull on it.

Z. Omb

Yes.

Records

That's the universal symbol for “don't drink this.”

Z. Omb

That is excellent advice.

Records

So poison.

Z. Omb

No.

The bottle is photographed, weighed and examined externally.

No written chemical name.

No concentration.

No manufacturer.

No preparation date.

No hazard statements beyond the skull imagery.

The glass is sufficiently dark that the contents cannot be meaningfully inspected through it.

Omb places it in secondary containment.

Records

You're taking the skull seriously, though.

Z. Omb

Of course.

Records

But you don't believe the label.

Z. Omb

Those are not contradictory.

A warning can justify caution without establishing composition.

Records asks whether Omb is going to open it.

Z. Omb

Eventually.

Records

That sounded ominous.

Z. Omb

It was a scheduling statement.

Before opening, Omb checks whether anything useful can be learned non-destructively.

Mass recorded.

Container dimensions recorded.

Exterior examined.

No obvious pressure deformation.

No detectable leakage.

The stopper and neck are inspected.

Then the bottle is moved to controlled handling.

Records

Can you smell it?

Z. Omb

No.

Records

You haven't opened it.

Z. Omb

That is not the problem with that question.

Records

Oh.

Z. Omb

Do not deliberately inhale unidentified laboratory substances.

Records

Right.

A new handwritten sign appears above the workbench shortly afterward:

YOUR NOSE IS NOT ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT.

A minimal sample is eventually withdrawn under controlled conditions.

The bottle remains otherwise intact.

Omb starts with tests intended to narrow the problem rather than randomly exposing the sample to reagents.

Physical properties.

Solubility.

Acidity.

Spectroscopic observations.

Then increasingly specific analytical work.

Records watches the file grow.

Records

So what is it?

Z. Omb

A mixture.

Records

Of?

Z. Omb

Several things.

Records

Are any of them poison?

Z. Omb

“Poison” is not a chemical identity.

Records

I knew you were going to say that.

That becomes the next problem.

Omb pulls up toxicology references.

Toxicity depends on substance, dose, route of exposure, duration and organism.

Even familiar substances can become harmful at sufficient exposure.

A skull label alone communicates none of those variables.

Records

So technically everything is poison.

Z. Omb

No.

Records

But the dose makes the poison.

Z. Omb

That principle describes the importance of dose. It does not mean all substances have equivalent toxicological properties.

Records

You can make every sentence less fun.

Z. Omb

Accuracy is not an attack on fun.

Eventually enough components are identified to establish something useful.

The mixture would be harmful if ingested in sufficient quantity.

The skull warning was therefore appropriate.

It was just scientifically inadequate.

Records

POISON.

Z. Omb

Hazardous mixture.

Records

The bottle won.

Z. Omb

The bottle communicated a legitimate warning.

Records

That's bottle winning.

CURRENT RECORD

Container contents: Chemical mixture
Exact formulation: Partially characterized
Potentially harmful: Confirmed
Ingestion recommended: Absolutely not
Skull warning appropriate: Yes
Skull warning sufficient for laboratory identification: No
Supernatural properties: None observed
Anomaly: None detected
Research priority: Low

Catalogue designation: Poison Bottle — retained.

At the bottom:

DO NOT DRINK.

Omb has added:

This instruction did not require the preceding analysis.