The painting is striking for its inclusion of phosphorescent meteors, vaporous luminosity, and spectral protagonists. He modified an idea of Aristotle's, which explained it in terms of vaporous exhalations. He had previously explained them in terms of vaporous exhalations. Fossil-like facial forms and dismembered body parts coexist uncomfortably with vaporous, ghost-like shadows. According to "Le Parisien", "a gothico-melancholic muddle fills some vaporous songs of the album". In vaporous form it appears as a canary yellow smoke.