Posted by Robin
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8 November 2011
Angie’s post yesterday on celebrity fragrances she’d like to see reminded me that I have fallen woefully behind this year on reviewing celebrity fragrances — the real ones that she’d rather not see. So, in the interest of catching up before it’s too late, here are four celebrity fragrance reviews, listed in order from not so very bad to not so very wonderful. In other words, we’re going to start out lukewarm and things are going to go downhill from there; consider yourself warned.
Taylor Swift Wonderstruck
I was wonderstruck reading the recent New Yorker profile on country pop star Taylor Swift. I had heard her name, but had no idea — number 7 on Forbes’ list of Most Powerful Celebrities? More albums sold in the last five years than any other musician? Who knew? Anyway, her debut perfume came out this fall under a licensing deal with Elizabeth Arden, and it’s about what you’d expect: a “charming and sparkling surprise of vibrant fruits, kissed by a bouquet of soft petals and a touch of sweet indulgence.” In other words, it’s a sweet-ish fruity floral with plenty of vanilla in the base, along the lines of Britney Spears Fantasy, and while there’s not much to distinguish it from the two bazillion other variations on Britney Spears Fantasy, it’s perfectly wearable and it’s reasonably age-appropriate for the target market…
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Posted by Robin
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20 June 2011
Jessica Simpson will launch a new fragrance for women, I Fancy You, at the end of June. I Fancy You follows 2008′s Fancy, 2009′s Fancy Love and 2010′s Fancy Nights. I Fancy You “celebrates the moment we discover what it means to be in love”, and will reportedly be the last fragrance in the Fancy collection…
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Posted by Robin
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4 November 2010
Jennifer Lopez Love and Glamour
It’s getting hard to keep up with Jennifer Lopez, not least because my local Macy’s no longer carries all of her fragrance releases (Britney Spears has likewise been relegated to mass market). I sniffed My Glow quickly on paper when I ran across it in Walgreens (and pretty promptly forgot all about it), but Blue Glow and LA Glow will have to remain unsniffed mysteries. Love and Glamour is her latest effort, and apparently Macy’s consented to provide it counter space…
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Posted by Robin
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15 May 2010
Jessica Simpson will launch Fancy Nights, the second flanker to her debut fragrance, Jessica Simpson Fancy. Simpson says the new perfume is “more provocative” and shows “a more romantic side of my personality”…
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Posted by Robin
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2 June 2009
Jessica Simpson will launch her second fragrance, Fancy Love, in July. The new perfume for women is described as a warm, romantic floral.
“Romance has never been more important to me so I wanted to celebrate that special feeling with this new fragrance,” says Jessica Simpson…
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