Vittoria Ceretti for Carolina Herrera La Bomba.
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Vittoria Ceretti for Carolina Herrera La Bomba.
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It’s so refreshing to see a Designer pillar new release finally.
That bottle reminds me of BonBon by Viktor & Rolf, but turned on its side. Haha
They are hoping for another Good Girl, I’m sure, with a million color flankers 🙂
Your responses are always oblique…I guess you want to keep pleasing the niche manufacturers and brands who bankroll your blog.
But the reality of fragrance commercialization is far from the niche market. Your average buyer is someone who finds a designer fragrance to be aspirational and is unable to go to a niche store to sample.
Only perfumistas and so-called influencers who have blogs, Vlogs and what have you; and who receive freebies and kickback praise the niche market.
An average consumer of fragrance is a low-salary person who is still impressed by designer brand names and often finds their price to be unaffordable on their wage.
It’s time to be honest with your readers and show them the truth: The fragrance market is still owned by the large conglomerates who also own the designer brands. They have to do wat they have to do in order to stay relevant and generate more income.
What?!? My blog is “bankrolled” entirely by Adsense, which only just barely covers the costs of the website hosting at this point. I don’t have to please anybody. I get no kickbacks of any kind, never did although I did used to take advertising from retail stores, and there was a day when I got lots of samples (from niche and mainstream brands) but those days are long over; I don’t write reviews anymore so there would be no point. This blog exists at this point largely for my amusement and the amusement of the people who participate in the daily polls.
I don’t see how my comment, which pointed out that Carolina Herrera is hoping for another big commercial hit, is either oblique or dishonest.
ps but if you just wanted to accuse me of being a niche snob, fair enough, I do think most mainstream releases are crappy, although these days I think the vast majority of niche fragrances are pretty crappy too. It is not the only reason I stopped writing reviews, but it was a big factor.
I see that I struck a nerve Robin!
First of all, I’ve been your reader since 2007 and I respect you. These days I skim through and I seldom leave a comment. The gradual shift from designer enthusiasm to obscure niche adoration has caused a huge misrepresentation of the market. The reviewers trash any designer launch before they even have a chance to spray it. And all the cynicism from bloggers about a designer launch in favor of the so-called dedicated niche brands can be condescending to hard-working people who live paycheck to paycheck but still want to treat themselves to something that makes them smell better and feel better in their hard-working life. Without shopping on Luckyscent!
Obscure niche is more corrupt and chemical laden than mass market. And the dream of any niche brand owner is to be acquired by a conglomerate. That’s what the Neela Vermeeres of the niche world are hustling for. But no one is biting. And for a good reason! Your average person doesn’t necessarily miss castoreum or civet anymore and generation Y has never even smelled it.
Let’s stop poo poo’ing designer releases and go back to the times when an M7 or a Gucci Pour Homme was reviewed and praised or criticized on your blog despite it being a designer launch. There’s nothing wrong with planning for a La Bomba Floral or a La Bomba Extreme. That’s how the industry rolls.
It is unpleasant to be accused of dishonesty and corruption, so yes, you struck a nerve.
The rest of it is not relevant to this blog and especially not in its current state; I will go on being cynical about the fragrance industry in general.
May be it’s time to retire. Because your blog is becoming irrelevant.
And if you want to convince readers that this blog exists for your own amusement only, you may want to turn down the cash you’re pocketing form advertisers.
You’re an acerbic woman trying to pass for nice and by saying that this blog is only for your amusement and not a business, you’re disrespecting all your readers who naively take the time to write and contribute to putting more of that cash that you despise so much in your pockets. Think about your style before you go off on a reader who’s expressing a legitimate opinion!
Geez, Eric, if you no longer find Robin’s thoughts interesting and entertaining, maybe it is time for you to stop coming here and insulting people, you know what I mean? I have been here for a long time, and I don’t remember ever noticing your name. I have noticed an increase of weird nasty posts denigrating women’s blogs all over the internet, however. You haven’t received a gratuity of some sort for promoting this perfume, and then attacking someone you claim to follow and know well, for being less than positive about it, have you?
I mean, the model in the ad at least had a sense of rhythm and looked like she was having a moderately good time, but the bottle is tacky and juvenile, as all perfume bottles made to look like butterflies have been since the beginning of perfume production, and reading the notes, we can all tell that it is one of those workshopped to death commercial fragrances designed to smell like everything else, with just a hint of something identifiable in the top notes to make the sniffer feel competent and “in the know”. Most of Robin’s audience here is not exactly the person this perfume has been designed to appeal to, and your attack on Robin is inappropriate, and oddly out of proportion to what she actually said, you know what I mean? And now you can all tell how much I love changing the sheets on my bed, sinde I let this distract me from the task at hand. LOL!