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Lazy weekend poll ~ scent the celebrity

Posted by Robin on 19 March 2011 183 Comments

Lady Gaga

A while back, shortly after the “Lady Gaga’s perfume will smell like blood & semen” nonsense was making headlines, one of the blogs at the Dallas Observer did a (rather snarky) list of fun fragrance possibilities for other famous musicians. One of the kinder examples: used flip-flop and a Boca Burger for Phish.

We’re going to do our own list. Any celebrity you like, just name what you think their fragrance should smell like. If you want to assign that celebrity a real perfume too, do go right on ahead.

Your host today is miss kitty v:

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A couple very quick rules: please keep it reasonably clean…

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Avon + Reese Witherspoon Expressions Love, Laugh & Live ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 19 March 2011 7 Comments

Avon + Reese Witherspoon Expressions

Avon will launch a new trio of fragrances — the Expressions collection — fronted by actress Reese Witherspoon. Love, Laugh and Live are designed to “capture three different dimensions of Reese Witherspoon’s multi-faceted femininity”…

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You’ll never get to smell like George Clooney

Posted by Robin on 4 March 2011 13 Comments

Sadly, you'll never get to smell like George Clooney.

— Once you've dried your tears, you can go read the rest of the story at Cost blows off Clooney scent, at the New York Post.

The blood is sort of primal

Posted by Robin on 22 February 2011 70 Comments

In terms of the process of creating the perfume, I wanted to extract the feeling and the sense of blood and semen from molecular structures...That is in the perfume but it doesn't smell like it.

You just get the after-feeling of sex from the semen and then the blood is sort of primal. It was taken out of my own blood sample, so it's a sense of having me on your skin.

— Lady Gaga, on her upcoming perfume with Coty. Read more at Gaga Put Her Blood Into Making Perfume at Contact Music.

CB I Hate Perfume 2nd Cumming

Posted by Robin on 15 February 2011 20 Comments

CB I Hate Perfume 2nd (Alan) Cumming fragrance

CB I Hate Perfume has re-introduced the (anti) celebrity fragrance, Cumming, under the name 2nd (Alan) Cumming. If you missed the first Cumming, see the review and the commercial.

The fragrance, which is reportedly unchanged, is now in the CB I Hate Perfume house packaging, and all profits go to charity…

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