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Lady Gaga has reportedly requested that two avowedly provocative olfactory notes be added to her upcoming perfume with Coty. There shall be blood and semen. This is a far cry from her personally advertised taste in fragrance as the lady Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta in her former private life, she who seemed to prefer subtle, non-obtrusive scents. But true to her reputation as the Lady Gaga and her stage beast persona, there had to be some Gaga-esque notes worth their salt in her jus which is tentatively, possibly, dubbed Monster...
Continue reading "Mother Monster Wants to Feed her Little Monsters Blood & Semen...So What? {Fragrance News} {Celebrity Perfume}" »
Celebrity Paris Hilton is bringing not only a new collection of perfumes to her fans this spring 2011, but a new fragrance concept for them: the storied trio of perfumes. The Passport Fragrance Collection includes Paris (of course!), South Beach and Tokyo, which are three of the Hilton Hotel chain heiress' favorite world destinations...
Continue reading "Paris Hilton Passport Fragrance Collection Paris, South Beach, Tokyo (2011) {New Fragrances} {Celebrity Perfumes}" »
Beyoncé has introduced her latest flanker to the original Heat launched in 2010 (you can read our review). It is called Heat Rush; its tag line is "Feel the rush." In between there has been Heat Ultimate Elixir (2010). The composition is signed by perfumer Honorine Blanc of Firmenich...
Continue reading "Beyoncé Heat Rush (2011) {New Fragrance} {Celebrity Perfume}" »
 Supermodel Heidi Klum is preparing to launch her debut fragrance under the aegis of Coty in September 2011. It is called Shine. The announcement could not be more timely as she particularly shined and glowed on the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards in an outfit to be remembered signed by Marc Jacobs. The association of Klum with the beauty industry goes way back when as she recounts how her father who used to work for the makers of 4711 Eau de Cologne would bring back beauty samples regularly,
“My father worked as the marketing director for 4711, a cosmetics company in Germany, for 20 years,” Klum said. “He would always bring home testers of lipsticks, eye shadows and perfumes....
Continue reading "Heidi Klum To Launch Signature Fragrance with Coty in 2011 {New Fragrance} {Celebrity Perfume}" »
 Reb'l Fleur is the debut signature perfume by R & B idol, Rihanna. Judging by the press the launch is getting, her fame is working like an opening on great top notes. You can read more about the initial hints here. First off and to satisfy curious inquiring minds, Reb'l Fleur is much more wearable than you might imagine it to be thinking about the rebelliousness theme: this is no shrinking violet, but it is not shocking either (what fragrances are shocking nowadays, anyway?). Second, despite the name, it is not so much floral as fruity although like for other stage queens who have developed sig scents lately, tuberose is the flower of choice to express the XXL feminine personality, the kind that takes up a lot of room. Reb'l Fleur was baptized after the nickname that Rihanna's grandmother calls the singer. Rihanna said,
"I believe a woman should dare to be different - willing to live her life for herself and not for other people," "This fragrance is about my passion for individuality - being expressive and empowering, yes, but also emotional and intriguing. I promise you Reb'l Fleur will not be easily forgotten." She more recently told People that she wanted a perfume that said "Rihanna was here" and that she was aiming for a subtle and lingering signature... 
Continue reading "Rihanna Reb'l Fleur (2011): Chypre on the Beach {Fragrance Review} {Celebrity Perfume}" »
 In a quirky turn of events, a US- and France-based French brand of perfumes, Julian Rouas, Paris will launch a debut duo of men's and women's scents inspired by pop legend Michael Jackson, which were developed together with the Jackson clan, after the death of the icon. Post-mortem celebrity fragrances are a group of their own....
Continue reading "Tribute to Michael Jackson The Jackson Legend, Timeless from Neverland (2011): Made in Grasse, Approved by Jackson Senior {New Fragrances} {Celebrity Perfumes}" »
John Galliano's follow-up act to John Galliano EDP (2008) and EDT is his new Parlez-Moi d'Amour skewed towards the younger segment of the consumer market. It was created with perfumer Aliénor Massenet. While the debut Galliano fragrance had personal whimsy injected into it such as the scent of hot irons, a sense of genuine nostalgia for the haute couture workshops, the Parlez-Moi d'Amour scent feels like the considerate study of marketing data. Knowing that Massenet is a visual perfumer and that Galliano loves purple, there is still an aesthetic statement of sorts to be found in the dark purple palette of the scent. The bottle reveals a good dose of fantasy having been shaped in the likenesss of a flowery stamped letter. What does "Parlez-Moi d'Amour" mean? It means something like, speak to me of love, whisper to me of love, make me think of love, make me love love. In French culture, the echoes of the song sung by Lucienne Boyer and more famously still by Edith Piaf conjure up the retro vibrations of a bastringue. Taylor Momsen is John Galliano's muse in the attempt to corner a segment of the youth market. He may have liked something about her. She has cultivated the looks of an updated absinthe drinker for the 21st century resembling more and more her own wasted and suffering ghost. The route to perdition really stops at the surface of things because the jus itself - as a perfume blogger I cannot totally ignore the contents of even the cutest bottle on earth - professes not much more but a deep love for blueberries. The conceptually feeble attempt at offering a blueberry twist on the musky-floral for young women in age to date is noteworthy for its commercialism. What can we say besides the fact that indeed here is a very nice, headspace-like blueberry accord? We'll try nevertheless...
Continue reading "John Galliano Parlez-Moi d'Amour (2010): Tell Me More about Blueberries {Fragrance Review} {Celebrity Perfume}" »
Dior have unveiled the first images of the new Miss Dior Chérie campaign featuring actress Natalie Portman (see her also at the Dior boutique inauguration in NYC with John Galliano right after the jump.) It will be a way, as we see it, to underline the versatility of the perfume itself which might be thought to be mainly targeting very young women,...
Continue reading "Natalie Portman is the New Miss Dior Chérie {Fragrance News} {Celebrity Scent} {Perfume Images & Ads}" »
Singer Rihanna, who did not hesitate to harness the power of the internet to look for a perfume name back in March 2010 asking her fans to provide her with suggestions, has now settled for a beauty-inspired fragrance name based on her recent tat reading "Rebelle Fleur" which she got on her neck in August 2010 at East Side Ink Tattoo Parlor in NYC...
Continue reading "Rihanna Announces Debut Signature Perfume Reb'l Fleur (2011) {New Fragrance} {Celebrity Perfume}" »
Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry reveals in an artfully directed spot borrowing from the genre of the interview what her new, upcoming perfume Reveal is about (advance review forthcoming by the way.) Playing opposite actor Stephen Dorff who can be heard off-camera,...
Continue reading "Reveal by Halle Berry Commercial is Inspired by Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight {Perfume Images & Ads} {Celebrity Fragrance}" »
OK, so we missed this UK celebrity perfume of the end of 2008 which launched in December then. But it is so worth it to take a look back at it. In fact for all the missing fragrances from the blog, I should maybe start categories like "Recent Launches" and "Launches in the not too distant past." Time is an entry by Glasgow-born Scottish singer Lulu...
Continue reading "Lulu Time (2008): The 1960s Smelled of Patch & Musk {New Fragrance} {Celebrity Perfume}" »
One of the most noteworthy launches of 2010 to my nose will no doubt be the latest Man by Bulgari whose spokesperson is actor Clive Owen. The latter already signed a beauty contract in the past for Hypnôse for Men by Lancôme. The new Bulgari cologne which feels revolutionary within the field of men's fragrances...
Continue reading "Clive Owen in Commercials for the New Bulgari Man (2010) {Perfume Images & Ads}" »
The Buckingham press office have released the official portraits of Prince William and his betrothed, Kate Middleton. The pictures are signed by Mario Testino. There is a formal version (below) and an informal one (above) which looks more like a magazine spread of a couple beaming with happiness... 
Continue reading "Prince William & Kate Middleton Photos by Mario Testino {What Perfume Celebrities Love to Wear - Beauty Notes}" »
Pretty Woman is the debut fragrance of Barbara Orbison, the widow of singer Roy Orbison. It was named after the 1964 hit song "Oh, Pretty Woman" which was later made part of two film soundtracks, American Graffiti (1973) and Pretty Woman (1990), a testimonial to the catchiness and increasing popularity of the tune...
Continue reading "Barbara Orbison Pretty Woman (2009): Soft Olivine Oriental with a Complex Sillage {Fragrance Review} {Niche Celebrity Fragrance}" »
  Avon will launch a new women's fragrance from January 2011 called Slip Into.
When I first read the name of the new perfume I thought about lingerie. But no, it turns out to be about shoes... and empowerment, a very feminine version of it, “It’s really about that moment of slipping out of flats into high heels — that act that makes women feel more confident, more sexy and more sophisticated.”...
Continue reading "Avon Slip Into (2011): The Transformative Power of High Heels: Fronted by Christy Turlington {New Fragrance} {Celebrity Perfume}" »
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