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July 10, 2009

A Young Al Franken Gets a Friendly Olfactory Tip: You Need Heavy Changes Ego Spray {Perfume Images & Adverts}





The new junior senator of Minnesota Al Franken who was a comedian in his previous life played in the movie Tunnel Vision in 1976. In it there is a passage where he pins his difficulties in dating chicks on body odors. Not so, answers his pal. What he really needs is Heavy Changes Ego Spray in 15 varieties: Smart Ass -- Rock Star -- Little Boy -- Biker -- Sensitive Artist -- Bisexual -- Englishman -- Aggressive -- Mama's Boy -- Homosexual -- Certified Public Accountant -- Petulant -- Macho -- Super Macho -- Extra Super Macho.

Nice spoof on the superficial remedy that perfume can represent in some cases. It may mask an odor but not a personality problem. At the same time, it can get fixed with a spritz of the right formula. There is always a better formula somewhere

 (Via Huffington Post)

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July 5, 2009

Roget & Gallet Love The Dior Port-of-Call Concept {Perfume Images & Advert}


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Apparently Roger et Gallet think that the Dior idea of selling fresh eaux de cologne by evoking the  atmosphere of port of calls in the summer is great (see ad for Escale à Portofino and ad for both Escale à Portofino and Pondichéry below). The new advert for their line, which includes the latest Bois d'Orange, uses the tag line "Summer port of calls" as if each Roger et Gallet perfume held the promise of an exotic escape by sea wayfare. It is less glamorous than the Dior ad but hopes to tap into the same vein.

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June 28, 2009

Spring & Summer Notes: Peonies Red, Pink and Yellow {Scented Images of the Day}


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I was eager to plunge my nose in the spumy peonies as soon as they appeared last spring. Peonies always remind me of one day in spring in my childhood when I arrived at the country house of a friend for the Easter holiday.  As soon as I got out of the car I was welcomed by the sunny, undulating spectacle of gusts of wind blowing hard on a large seemingly frenzied bed of peonies which despite their mass were dancing as if in a wild ballet, surging episodically like rustling waves of foamy silk chiffon. The froufrou sound they made against the wind is still in my ears. I ran towards them in order to instinctively hug them and we were all laughing hard trying to prevent them from breaking but also a little out of our minds of happiness to be able to dance with the wind and flowers so soon after we arrived. The flowers seemed to be about our heights...

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June 19, 2009

Issey Miyake A Scent Movie & Video Interviews with Perfumer Daphne Bugey & Designer Arik Levy {New Fragrance} {Perfume Images & Adverts}


A Scent is the new feminine perfume to be introduced in September by Issey Miyake. Described as "green, floral, and woodsy" it is also "an emotion like a vital breath found in the heart of nature."

The perfumer is Daphné Bugey -- see short video interview,





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Chopard Cascade Behind-The-Scene Video: Sneak Peek {Perfume Images & Adverts}


Cascade by Chopard launches next month. Here is a sneak peek at the behind-the-scene video for the commercial featuring model Michaela Hlavackova. The song is In a Manner of Speaking by Nouvelle Vague. Photographer Philippe Demarchelier shot the ads which were art-directed by Jérôme Faillant-Dumas, Love.

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Hora by Christine Nagel: Perfume-Formula-Poem Collage {Perfume Images}


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Guerlain Presents Idylle with Nora Arzeneder & Ora Ito {Fragrance News} {Perfume Images}


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Guerlain held a presentation of their upcoming women's perfume Idylle on June 17, 2009 at their Champs-Elysées boutique with fragrance spokesperson actress Nora Arzeneder and designer Ora Ito who conceived the bottle (he is on the right)...

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June 16, 2009

Burger King Flame (2008/2009): Overtones of a Whopper {New Fragrance} {Perfume Images} {Celebrity Scent}


Flame-Burger-King-Piers.jpgBurger King just introduced in the UK their meat-flavored personal perfume called Flame. They launched it last year in the US to wide popular appeal. The concept of the advertising campaign was so right-on that the vial spray perfumes sold out in 4 days. The scent was then faced by a Mr. Burger King, this time it is fronted in the same outrageously campy style by British celebrity Piers Morgan best-known internationally as the host of Britain's Got Talent and supporter and crush of singer Susan Boyle....

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June 11, 2009

Obama Perfume Watch {Perfume Images & Adverts}


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Well, I think Chanel need to put Obama on the No.5 to double their sales. He has obviously become the other perfume icon. I am starting an Obama perfume watch here as the trend appears to be prolific.

Have you noticed all the Obama perfumes, air fresheners and what not cropping up lately? After an early trend-setting Potus 1600 (well, it's really Obama who was the trend-setting agent), it's become a wave. For example, check above some roll-ons of the scent called Obama issued for Inauguration Day. Below, grab some Obama air fresheners.Next, watch after the jump the packaging for Change EDP with the whole Obama family pictured, then a spoof commercial using a bottle of Bond No9 Little Italy, it seems, to turn it into Eau de Obama. There is also a cologne called Yes We Can by Parfums Deray. And it's just a short selection.

Charisma just seems to scream for perfume or is it starting to look like a regular personality cult phenomenon? But why perfume?....

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"For Inauguration week, a bunch of merchants set up a large Barack Bazaar outside the DC Armory and RFK Stadium." by Philliefan99

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June 4, 2009

Thierry Mugler Alien: The New Advert, Spring 09 {Perfume Images & Ads}


The spectacular new advert for Alien by Thierry Mugler: siren, goddess, idol, alien femme fatale, cyber Mata Hari? All of the above.

Check out after the jump for a close up of the makeup...

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May 28, 2009

Paris Hilton Holding Her FiFi Award & Siren {Perfume Images} {Celebrity Fragrance}


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As announced previously, Paris Hilton was the recipient of the FiFi award for Celebrity Perfume of the Year. She entirely deserves this award and absolutely not for the contents of the bottles she sells of course but because of the imagery she sells. She exemplifies what a glamorous-cum-trashy attitude can bring to the image of the fragrance business. In her hands is a message of attractive easiness...

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Britney Spears's Faux Gay Perfume Ad for Mo {Fragrance News - Perfume Images}


britney_spears_Mo.jpgAfter the authentically faux Louis Vuitton perfume ad that was circulated some time ago, we now have the official faux and authorized fragrance ad for Mo by Britney Spears.

The singer recorded a TV ad for theNewNowNext awards to pay homage to her reportedly significant gay following by acting in a pastiche of her own perfume ads for Curious, Believe and In Control which are portrayed as steps of progressive self-realization leading her to the Mo revelation...

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May 22, 2009

Paris Hilton Siren Teaser 3: See Paris's Siren Tail in New Advert {Perfume Adverts} {Celebrity Fragrance}

Paris-Hilton-Cannes-2009-B.jpgParis Hilton and Doug Reinhardt at the Cannes Festival on May 21, 2009. She is dressed a bit siren-like here but the ad is different.

Fun, fun, fun. I received the press kit for the upcoming Paris Hilton Siren which will debut in June-July 09 and I can offer The Scented Salamander's readers the first sneak peek at the new advert. So here is teaser #3:...

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May 19, 2009

Chantal Thomass Osez-Moi! (2009): Scent of a Boudoir {New Perfume} {Fragrance Advert}


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Lingerie mistress Chantal Thomass has introduced a new women's perfume cheekily called Osez-Moi! (something like "dare try me!"). The designer says that it is "a very feminine fragrance in line with my lingerie: precious details and noble materials with a touch of the unexpected." Thomass was inspired by the atmosphere of a boudoir and admittedly by what is to me in fact a fragrance genre, the boudoir perfume (my characterization). Usually this involves a powdery note and the fragrance is made to feel intimate and sensual evoking the ritual of coquettry and beauty of a woman.

The copy also adds that Osez-Moi is a composition that "...plays with contrasts: vintage and modern; romantic and avant-garde; technical and poetic."...

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May 11, 2009

Chanel No5 Retrospective III: Salvador Dali Appears on a Flacon of No5 {Perfume Images}


The flacon of No 5 as part of XXth century art iconography

Two icons meet, not fortuitously : the Dali moustache and the Chanel No5 bottle

But before that, Coco Chanel and Salvador Dali

Dali's nose disappeared given up in sacrifice to Baal

He doesn't need it anymore, it smells of the No 5

Surrealism gets pulled in the direction of pop culture

Chanel No 5 wins


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© Philippe Halsman/Magnum Photos, 1954

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