Posted by Robin
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23 November 2012
It’s Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day — take your pick. Whether you’re shopping or not, it never hurts to look, right? As we did last year, we’re kicking off this year’s string of holiday gift posts with a bunch o’ scented bath & body products. More to come over the new few weeks!
From Guerlain, Liu powder spray: “…a light-as-air loose powder that enhances the face, body and hair with an iridescent golden veil. A mere press of the bulb releases the powder, leaving Liu’s mesmerizing aromas in its wake: a composition of aldehydes, sensual roses, vanilla, iris and woody notes.” $88 at Saks Fifth Avenue…
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Posted by Robin
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22 September 2012
I have an interesting mind but I want to smell like a slut to be totally honest. — Lady Gaga (see here)
So, if you had an interesting mind and wanted to smell like a slut, what perfume would you choose?
Posted by Robin
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14 September 2012
For those of you who haven’t invested enough time already, here is the full length (5 1/2 minutes, almost certainly NSFW) film for Lady Gaga Fame. The film premiered last night at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, at a ball where Lady Gaga also got a tattoo and napped inside a giant perfume bottle. Below the jump, Lady Gaga explains to CNN that…
I wanted it to smell slutty, to be totally honest. I don’t think that women need to smell, you know, interesting. I have an interesting mind but I want to smell like a slut to be totally honest.
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Posted by Robin
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30 August 2012
[Note: regular readers of Now Smell This, at least, those that don't skip all the celebrity perfume reviews, have already read this story so many times that a summary should suffice: Fame is exactly what any long-time watcher of the celebrity fragrance market would have expected it to be: a sweetish fruity floral of no particular distinction. Still, it's wearable enough, and even after spraying it on paper, I was willing to try it on skin, which is more than I can say for Selena Gomez Eau de Parfum.]
As I’ve said here before, I am missing some portion of the gene for true fandom.1 There are famous people whose work I enjoy and whose careers I follow with some interest, but I’m not interested in meeting any of them, I don’t much care about their private lives, and I certainly would not buy a perfume just because some famous person’s name was on it. Maybe because of that, or maybe because I’m rarely more than vaguely familiar with the celebrities who land perfume contracts, I look on the celebrity fragrance market with an attitude somewhere between bemusement and detachment…
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Posted by Robin
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28 August 2012
She was really behind the most important innovation in the fragrance industry in the last 20 years. She is really pushing boundaries.
— Yael Tuil of Coty, on Lady Gaga's insistence that her new fragrance, Fame, have black juice that sprays clear. Read more at Lady Gaga 'Pushed' Fragrance Industry Boundaries With First Black Perfume at Star Pulse.
