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Queen Latifah Queen of Hearts ~ new perfume

Queen Latifah Queen of Hearts

Queen Latifah has launched Queen of Hearts, a new flanker to last year’s Queen by Queen Latifah:

The heart has a song all its own…

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The fragrance had to reflect me

Queen Latifah, in a "behind the scenes" for the photo shoot for the Queen by Queen Latifah fragrance.

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Queen by Queen Latifah ~ perfume review

Queen perfume by Queen Lafitah

Queen is the debut perfume from the multi-talented Queen Latifah, who joins the rest of the celebrity stable at Parlux (Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson and Andy Roddick, with Rihanna and Kayne West soon to follow). Latifah reportedly smelled about 50 different fragrances, many of them “a little too mature or a little too sweet”, before settling on the final product.1

The resulting fragrance is a woody gourmand oriental. The opening is a bit loud (I like it better dabbed than sprayed, and better on skin than on paper), and features ever-trendy booze notes (in this case, golden tequila and cognac, other notes are bergamot, mandarin, baie rose, jasmine noir, coriander, patchouli, sandalwood, vanilla, tonka bean, incense and musk) over a sweet, amber-y patchouli, quite clean, with fruity undertones and the usual dollop of pink pepper. The longer it’s on skin, the more the emphasis turns to the gourmand part of the proceedings…

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Queen Latifah Queen ~ new perfume

Queen by Queen Latifah fragrance advertQueen Latifah Queen perfume bottle

Queen Latifah will launch her debut fragrance, Queen, in August. The new scent, described as “warm and sexy”, was developed under arrangements with Parlux.

Queen was developed by perfumer Steve DeMercado

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Celebrity perfume news round-up 2008, part the ninth

Queen LatifahThe rumors are true: Queen Latifah has signed a contract with Parlux and will launch her debut perfume in the fall of 2009. (via cosmeticnews, image via queenlatifah.com)

Another rumor that turns out to be true: Avril Lavigne. She has signed with Procter & Gamble, and her first perfume should launch in 2009…

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