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Model Eva Mendes in the new commercial for Thierry Mugler Angel Eau de Toilette. You might remember that she is also doing the singing; the song is Windmills Of Your Mind.

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It is so dreamy

Model Eva Mendes talks about being the new face of Thierry Mugler Angel, and sings Windmills Of Your Mind for the upcoming commercial.

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The smell of violets

I don't know (what the smell is), I mix my perfumes but I have this old Cuban perfume that has violets, so they must like the smell of violets.

— Eva Mendes, on why Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg like the way she smells. Read more at Contact Music.

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Calvin Klein Secret Obsession ~ perfume review

Eva Mendes for Calvin Klein Secret Obsession perfume

1985's Obsession, from Calvin Klein, was meant to capture the “essence of the 1980's obsession with carnal and material gratification”; Secret Obsession, the brand's latest feminine fragrance, hopes to update that notion for modern times, to “become the meaning of what is sexy today — more personal, sophisticated and intoxicating”.* If Secret Obsession fails in that mission it won't be the fault of Eva Mendes, who gamely writhes and moans in (presumably) perfumed ecstasy, and shows just enough nipple to get the advertising spot banned from television, thus ensuring that a bajillion people will watch it on YouTube at no expense whatsoever to Coty.

Like the original Obsession, Secret Obsession is a floriental, but the two scents are not meant to be related in any way other than the name, and in the event, they don't share anything much other than an amber-y base and an overtly sensuous character. Secret Obsession has a sweet, fruity opening that smells entirely of today; still, don't go looking for the sparkling and sheer pinkish berries that decorate so many of the fruity florals of the past five years. These fruits are spicy and overripe…

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Between love and madness lies obsession…

Eva Mendes in the “banned” commercial for Calvin Klein's upcoming fragrance, Secret Obsession. NSFW, so I've put it after the jump. I assume they've got a cleaned-up version that they'll run on TV.

And if you've got a secret obsession that you'd like to share with the internets, click on over to the “share your secret” page at the Secret Obsession website…

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