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Mandy Aftel perfume exhibit & other fragrance news

Posted by Robin on 21 November 2005 9 Comments

The 3A Gallery in San Francisco will be hosting a new exhibit by Mandy Aftel of Aftelier Perfumes called Constructing Perfume, "an interactive exhibit of perfumes and their relationship to space and color". The exhibit opens on December 1st and runs through the 23rd; 3A is located at 101 South Park. For details call 415-543-3347.

Columnist Vince Staten points out that there is nothing new about using body sprays like Axe and Tag to attract girls; that was also the main purpose behind fragrances like Canoe, English Leather, Hai Karate, and British Sterling (link to article no longer working, sorry!).

Fashion Wire Daily talks to Alan Cumming about his eponymous scent and then takes him shopping at Love Saves The Day in the East Village. (link to article no longer working, sorry!)

Filed Under: perfume in the news
Tagged With: aftelier, alan cumming, celebrity perfumes, conceptual art

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  1. Anonymous says:
    21 November 2005 at 12:22 pm

    I read the columnist piece about cologne = chick magnet, and I agree, pretty much. I think the Axe ads just strike everyone who's seen them as particularly vulgar, though — they're a fantasy not of attracting a girl but attracting maybe five drunk girls in heat on the same busy Saturday night.

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  2. Anonymous says:
    21 November 2005 at 1:41 pm

    T, take a look at this for Hai Karate:

    http://www.wfmu.org/MACrec/haikarate.html

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  3. Anonymous says:
    21 November 2005 at 2:21 pm

    OK, you got me. That's hilarious!

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  4. Anonymous says:
    21 November 2005 at 2:27 pm

    I do want to add that the Axe ads are still much, much more vulgar. I'm referring specifically to the print ads that were plastered over Manhattan recently, in which young women's backs were shown with the imprints of clothes hangers, elevator buttons, and steering wheels, showing some pretty rushed “intimacy” due to Axe spray. Look, boys, I don't care how nice you smell. A steering wheel smashed so hard on a girl's back that it leaves a mark? That would be, um, painful.

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  5. Anonymous says:
    21 November 2005 at 2:41 pm

    T, I have not seen that one, but here is more fodder:

    http://www.coloribus.com/axe/index3.html

    Check out marionette girl!

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  6. Anonymous says:
    21 November 2005 at 6:10 pm

    I LOVE Alan Cumming. I'm so envious of that writer. Spending part of the day dinking around shopping like that with him? I am j-e-a-l-o-u-s.

    He's right, though. Cumming does smell generally different on men and women. Which is nice.

    Also, there was one shocking part of that article. Queen Margot for only three bucks??? What is the world coming to when a film like that only goes for three bucks???

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  7. Anonymous says:
    21 November 2005 at 7:32 pm

    LOL — I don't know. I can hardly get my son a Spongebob movie for less than $12.

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  8. Anonymous says:
    21 November 2005 at 9:49 pm

    I love everything about Cumming (and the man himself) except the way the juice smells on me. I keep trying it but anything with a rubber note smells like I've been hanging out in a Firestone shop all day!

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  9. Anonymous says:
    22 November 2005 at 9:06 am

    Darn! That rubber note is very short lived on me — but I know exactly the smell you mean 🙂

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