Otherwise, the best that can be said of them is that they don’t last very long, so that if someone who is wearing one sits down next to you at dinner, you stand a chance of regaining your appetite in time for dessert.
— Columnist Sarah Vine tries some of the newer celebrity scents in Because you need it in the UK Times Online.
Very witty column, and I couldn't agree more with the author: I have also been confused for a long time about who, exactly, most celebrity fragrances appeal to. Britney Spears, in particular, just boggles the mind – is she in *any* way “aspirational” at this point? I'm confounded by why Elizabeth Arden would even touch her with a ten foot pole now, and yet, the fragrances just keep being pumped out, each more generic than the next. Now, as Ms. Vine says, if there were some celebrity scents inspired by or created by really original, intelligent, interesting women, I might even jump on board. (Probably the closest thing right now is actually Etat Libre d'Orange's Eau de Protection, inspired by (created in part by?) Rossy de Palma.) One would of course, be tempted to say that tweens and teens are buying most celeb scents,and that this explains their popularity, but surely this can't account for all, or even a bulk, of their sales. So, in other words, there are still plenty of grown women out there who think that wearing a Britney Spears or Mariah Carey fragrance is the way to go. Of all the scents in the fragrance department, they choose those ones. 'Tis a great mystery. *shrug*
I am guessing that if EA had known how the year would turn out, Believe would not have been launched. If they do another one any time soon, I guess I'm proved wrong!
Hilarious!
Yep