Kim Kardashian’s debut fragrance, Kim Kardashian, will launch in February at Sephora. According to Ms. Kardashian,
I wanted something rich and creamy and sexy, but still youthful. I met with Claude [Dir] and had an in-depth meeting about what I liked and didn’t like, and he and his team came up with seven samples based on that. I liked the base notes on one, the heart notes on another — we started mixing it up.
The notes for the “bold and sultry” floral feature crisp notes, jasmine, tuberose, gardenia, tonka bean, jacaranda wood and sandalwood.
Kim Kardashian by Kim Kardashian will be available in 30, 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum and in a 10 ml rollerball ($16-$65). (via wwd, image via kimkardashian.celebuzz)
Update: see a review of Kim Kardashian by Kim Kardashian.
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Well, this is a whole new level in celebrity fragrances, isn’t it? Reality celebrity fragrances? Is this the first time a reality TV star has made a perfume? I have never seen the show but just the buzz I hear about it is obnoxiouse enough to make me cringe.
No, not the first…although most of the others have been in the UK.
Surely Paris Hilton is first of the reality stars to do that. She only got mega famous after The Simple Life.
Oh, I completely forgot about that!
A whole new level all right – Z level!
Just saw Ms. Kardashian on CSI:NY last night so I guess she’s now an actress? (By her performance, I’d say the jury is still out on that.)
When I heard she was coming out with a fragrance, the first thought that came to mind was: “I bet she’s going to load it with tuberose and gardenia.” Et voila! She just looks like the cloying floral type.
That bottle doesn’t surprise me at all. It’s trying for “sophisticated boudoir” but instead comes off as “not even sophisticated enough for Victoria’s Secret”. Makes me appreciate Agent Provocateur more now.
I don’t know what she is…wasn’t she already well known for something before she started a reality show?
Yeah, to quote Joel McHale from The Soup (on E!): “Kim Kardashian – famous for a big butt and a sex tape.”
Yep, apparently the quick way for young women to debase themselves and rise to the ranks of celebrity is to release a sex tape.
How to put this…she is famous for her posterior and, I believe, quite successful in young men’s magazines. I think she’s famous for being famous. Sort of today’s Pamela Anderson but without her acting chops.
Now I’m off to get a saucer of milk!
She has a strong cult following with Make Up Artists. I think she’d be really successful if she launched a cosmetic line.
Her (deceased) biological father was the Kardashian who defended OJ Simpson, and her stepfather now is Bruce Jenner. Not that it has any relevance to anything, but if you’re my age (early 30s) who she is the child of means more than what she is famous for. And I think she also got some fame for being a friend of Paris Hilton, but ultimately I think it was the prodigious behind and the sex tape that got her where she is today. Ma must be proud. Oh wait, she’s on the reality show too!
Not that there’s anything wrong with having a prodigious behind
*takes big bite of breakfast burrito fried in butter*
Thanks guys…
All I can say is: At least it’s not shaped like a butt.
I’ll withhold judgment on the actual fragrance.
She already gets one point from me for not having any of the following in the perfume (at least noted): pink pepper, beach accord, caramel, vanilla, chocolate, any kind of cake, fruit, pink diamond accord (I’m looking at you, Donatella).
I agree! Not that I’m buying it, but at least no cotton candy or marshmallow accord.
hey i like marshmellow! i bought a cheap ‘M’ and a ‘Covet’ in Marshalls for that smores effect.
Interesting mix!
It sounds like it’s in the same category as Mariah Carey Forever. We’ll see. I haven’t smelled the other one from her license holder, Lighthouse Beauty (Power by 50 cent) and don’t know how good a job they do.
I literally just snorted my coffee! Thanks Miss Kitty! lol
LOL you’re KILLING me!!! thanks, Kitty…you just made the day better.
Thanks, everyone, for the education and saving me a trip to wikipedia. I was vaguely aware of the reality show and the sex tape… did not know about the butt and why her father was famous.
I’m also glad to hear there’s NO FRUIT, and as far as I’m concerned, the perfume world needs more $16 rollerballs.
You know, there are really a huge number of rollerballs at Sephora now, and was surprised at how many I saw on my last trip to Nordstrom. Wonder if they’ll all disappear if the economy improves?
I think the first rollerballs were by Valentino RnR and RnRC (P&G) that were given as gwps. Then Juicy Couture rolled them out as a retail product and they were positioned as POS items and sold amazingly well. Customers who didn’t want to invest in a full bottle were happy to pay for the rollerball. Now Sephora (LVMH) carries an impressive selection of them. It’s an inexpensive way to buy into a brand and most consumers don’t think about what they’re actually paying for (the ounce/cost ratio).
No, they were around long before that…they were already around in 2003 when I first got interested in fragrance (I know Narciso Rodriguez had one then) and DKNY made one for Be Delicious when that launched as well (2003 or 2004).
Totally forgot about those! Thanks.
Joe, I give you credit for your relentlessly positive outlook!
I like the bottle I would not mind giving it a try.Today I tried Circus Fantasy and I really liked it.So if it smells good I will wear it.I try to keep an open mind.She gets points for not having a pink bottle.Hey if Paris can do it why not her.LOL
Might as well give it a shot then!
Have no opinion on Ms Kardashian whatsoever, but I thought the bottles were *relatively* tasteful, for a celebuthingy, and to be honest, the list of notes sounds right up my alley. Tuberose & tonka bean? I’ll probably find a tester at Walgreen’s and sniff away.
Agree, the bottle is nice enough, and I’ll give it a sniff when it comes out.
I have to say, my first thought when saw the list of notes was, “hmm… sounds cloying.” But if it was by Serge Lutens? Or PdN? I would have been drooling over it. My suspicion was that it would smell like one of the lesser Victoria’s Secret frags, but may it prove me wrong.
You’re right, of course, Miss Kitty. I should apologize for my knee-jerk snit. Between the glut of affordable but usually heinous celebu-frags and the hideously overpriced and banal “niche” releases, I’m getting more and more cynical and bitter toward the fragrance industry. I wonder how I can better handle this fatigue from new-fragrance-bombardment?
I had the same sort of knee-jerk reaction….I’ve gotten to a point where just having a celebrity attached to the fragrance puts me off.
I think the bottle is fine. The notes sound a little too BIG FLORAL to me but I can tell so little from a list of notes. I’ll sniff it out of curiosity if I see it at the Ulta….that’s about it.
There’s something to the knee-jerk reaction, though. It comes with experience. There are good fragrances of all calibers out there, but I think we all know a low-budget, stack em’ high/sell em’ low sales campaign when we see one.
Like I said, may it prove me wrong…
If you figure that out, let me know!
Just don’t spray it on your derriere…snicker!
Too bad it doesn’t play “Baby Got Back” when you take the cap off.
Lol. That’ll have to be an added feature to the limited edition crystal-studded posterior-shaped bottle.
As long as the white florals aren’t washed out and watered down by the crisp notes, this might not be too bad.
While shes beautiful, I really dont care for her at all. Shes famous for a sex tape and a big butt. Im not liking the bottle but it could be worse. Queen Latifah! LOL! The notes sound fine. I really dont like tuberose so Im hoping it doesnt overpower it. Im assuming the “crisp notes” are all fruit which could make it another fruity floral. Something on the lines of M and Fancy. Well c. : )
Yeah, who knows what crisp notes are — could be just citrus.
The notes don’t sound bad, but I have to admit that if I *did* like it and wear it, I would never, ever, ever, ever admit that I was wearing it.
yep
Yeah. I don’t even admit to wearing SJP Lovely, and that’s really pretty innocuous, as celeb scents go.
I freely admit to both SJP Covet and Hilary Duff … With Love, but I couldn’t admit to Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton, for that matter. Not that I think that it will be a problem – even if I liked it, I don’t know that I could bring myself to put money in either of their pockets.
I watched her show over the summer when I had way too much time on my hands. Her sisters were mad at her because she wanted to name her fragrance Dashing after the store that all 3 of them own, but their names weren’t going to be on the fragrance…they threatened to sue her and everything. I wonder how many brain cells I have wasted on pop culture in my lifetime….
LOL…I’ve wasted quite a few myself, but haven’t seen her show yet.
It’s pretty bad, lots of cat fighting and stupidity, but it’s not nearly as trashy as the VH1 strippers-making-out-with-washed-up-rock-stars train wrecks…which reminds me, I need to set my TIVO to record the Rock of Love marathon lol.
Kalynna, it is a shame we do not live near each other. (Or do we? I actually don’t know.) We could watch bad tv together. Rock of Love? Count me in.
I’m in LA, all you have to do to see fake people and drama here is walk outside
I would love to have someone to watch trashy reality tv with!
GROAN. I’ve had enough of celebrity fragrances. Was it Elizabeth Taylor that started the fad? The notes sound promising though… At least it isnt another fruity floral
I think we can blame Elizabeth Taylor to some extent, but also Jennifer Lopez, who started the modern trend.
AHHHH! ROBIN, HERE’S THE INFO FOR BEYONCE’S NEW FRAGRANCE!!!!!
http://www.wwd.com/beauty-industry-news/beyonce-discusses-launch-of-heat-fragrance-2398237?module=today
http://WWW.READYTOCATCHTHEFEVER.COM
Oh, and Beyonce is doing a fragrance signing on Feb 3, 2010 at MACY’S! YESSS! IT’LL BE IN THOSE KINDS OF STORES!!!!!
Yes, glad this isn’t another direct-to-mass!
I had to register just to comment on this: So the symbol on the bottle is like a Russian letter “ж” (zh) which happens to be the first letter of the word for butt. So it’s like “Big Butt” on the bottle! I wonder if she wants to market to slavic countries.
Gosh, is she even known outside the US? But have no idea where they’re planning to market it.
TUBEROSE, TUBEROSE, TUBEERRROOOOSSE! Smells like Michael Korrs.
Ah, thanks. Any good?
I like it, i’ve not worn anything this…deep before. Orientals typically aren’t my cup of tea, but Diorissimo and Pleasures just aren’t enough for a night out. This is really nice, the top notes are more floral, I think it’s the jasmine. it was really bright at first, but as it settled into the gardenia the crispness disappears. The gardenia doesn’t nauseate me (as it has a tendency to do). Heavy on the tuberose and gardenia, but I think it’s the sandalwood that tones it down a bit at the end. i’d probably buy this.
I wouldn’t call KK an oriental, but it’s certainly a heavier scent than Diorissimo or Pleasures.