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Celebrity perfume news round-up 2008, part the seventh

Posted by Robin on 6 May 2008 33 Comments

Naomi Watts for Thierry Mugler AngelActress Naomi Watts is the new face of Thierry Mugler Angel:

Naomi Watts was the inspired choice for Thierry Mugler, over and above her beauty and her star image. Displaying a modern touch, the actress projects a personality that blends sensuality, voluptuousness and evanescence to evoke the many facets of Angel. A blond fragility, a natural tenderness, an emotional seductiveness...

Look for print and video advertising starting this October. (via yahoo)

And look for a unisex perfume, who knows when, from Sarah Jessica Parker:

With two fragrances already on the market, SJP revealed to E! News that another is on the way. "I have a genderless one that I've been working on for about six months," she said, "and wore it a lot when I was shooting the movie."

The movie, for those of you who live under an even larger rock than mine, would be Sex And The City. (via eonline)

Paris Hilton will be making a personal appearance at the Oxford Street Selfridges in London on May 15 at 12:30, but you've got to show up the day before and buy perfume to get a pass:

Come in store on Wednesday 14 May and receive your VIP pass with the purchase of Paris Hilton’s Can Can EDP. Any purchases made prior to this date will require you to come in store on the 14 May where you will be eligible to receive your pass on the presentation of a valid Selfridges receipt detailing your purchase. (via selfridges)

The rumors are confirmed: Audrey Tautou is the new face of Chanel no. 5.

Filed Under: perfume in the news
Tagged With: audrey tautou, celebrity perfumes, chanel, london, paris hilton, sarah jessica parker, selfridges, thierry mugler

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  1. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 9:06 am

    Much as I dislike Angel, I can applaud their choice of someone over the age of 35 to be the 'face' of their fragrance. I think Naomi Watts is a good actress too.

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  2. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 9:30 am

    A blond fragility, a natural tenderness, an emotional seductiveness…I dig that :-) Love Watts, great choice for Angel, to make it softer and less “alien”.

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  3. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 10:59 am

    SJP a unisex perfume? I'm intrigued and cannot wait to smell it ! I hope it's good! I love her and looking forward to the movie too :)
    As for Naomi Watts, she's not a woman I'd associate with Angel instantly, I was a bit surprised :)

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  4. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 11:28 am

    I had no idea she was even over 30 — she looks great!

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  5. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 11:29 am

    M, I'm confused by the picture…what is the image she is standing in front of? Because if that is an ad w/ Watts in it, I'm a “no” vote.

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  6. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 11:30 am

    Tilda Swinton!

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  7. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 11:31 am

    I'm looking forward to it too….hope this is the “real” SJP perfume we've all been hoping for.

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  8. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 11:32 am

    Right on!! Very good choice !

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  9. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 11:34 am

    Totally

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  10. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 11:35 am

    I know! Well, I am hoping that the image is distorted, because it is turned kind of sideways and then photographed. :-)

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  11. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 11:53 am

    Tilda Swinton – perfect! I nearly suggested Sissy Spacek, as she does have an other worldly quality about her, and of course has acted in some classic horror movies, but Tilda Swinton is spot on!! She is quirky and ethereal in just the right measure…

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  12. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 11:59 am

    Me, too!! The one we've read about in Chandler Burr's book, mirroring SJP's now-legendary DIY concoction of Bonne Bell skin musk (if memory serves), some crazy NYC street-vendor's Arabian oil and a big, fat whack of CdG Avignon!!!!!! We're ready, Sarah Jessica.

    And yeah, Robin, Tilda Swinton. Totally.

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  13. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 12:18 pm

    Oh great! So THIS will finally be the commercial equivalent of that dirty, layered scent featured in the book. I wasn't sure if Covet was supposed to be that, only it got a bit doctored along the way, just as Lovely was safe (and lovely!). This one is supposed to be really risky and kick ass…assuming Coty don't bottle it! (As in “duck out” I mean!)

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  14. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 12:25 pm

    I love Sissy Spacek! And Tilda Swinton. Both great quirky actresses.

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  15. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 12:26 pm

    Robin, we're ready, and we know SJP is ready, but it remains to be seen whether Coty is ready!

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  16. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 12:27 pm

    Maybe! I don't think either Lovely or Covet came close. So we'll see what Coty is willing to bottle :-)

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  17. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 1:29 pm

    She'll be 40 this year! I like Naomi Watts very much, but I don't think she fits with Angel. She's too delicate and clean looking. She's also too angsty and tortured.

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  18. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 2:27 pm

    In my opinion Grace Jones would be the perfect model for TM Alien.

    And as the new TM face I would vote for Lucy Liu.

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  19. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 2:38 pm

    Ooooh, good call!

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  20. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 5:17 pm

    We could all look that good if we'd been botoxing since an early age. She has that tip-off shiny shiny forehead which is the classic sign of botox over-do. She got that bad habit from her BFF Nicole :D And I'm not knocking botox just sometimes one needs to put down the needle and back away.

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  21. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 8:09 pm

    I would definitely say the ad has Watts in it. Perhaps it is better than it looks.

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  22. Anonymous says:
    6 May 2008 at 10:20 pm

    I thought covet was very unisex (I loved it)….but I'm very excited for this one….she always goes big on fragrances and I believe shes one of the only celebreties that works on her fragrances….not like the rest, 1st one boom thats it all the others my fragrance company can take over to make me big bucks..lol…

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  23. Anonymous says:
    7 May 2008 at 10:57 am

    Ah, is that it? I don't know her well, although I have seen 2 of her movies (Mulholland Drive & Huckabees). Maybe I need some Botox, LOL…

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  24. Anonymous says:
    7 May 2008 at 10:58 am

    Neither Lovely nor Covet were girly, but they weren't as daring as I'd hoped either. Agree, she seems way more involved than most, and to my knowledge, is about the only celeb who was seriously interested in fragrance before she launched one.

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  25. Anonymous says:
    7 May 2008 at 10:59 am

    In that case, I'm not impressed. That doesn't strike me as an interesting ad, in fact, wouldn't have noticed that it was new.

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  26. Anonymous says:
    7 May 2008 at 6:29 pm

    Naomi Watts is a surprising choice as the face for Angel, but she does have some quality that reminds me of Jerry Hall – I think she'll do well with it.
    She wore a dress to the Costume Institute Gala that looked very much like Angel promotion to me, which is a little funny.

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  27. Anonymous says:
    8 May 2008 at 10:21 am

    I'll have to go google the dress!

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  28. Anonymous says:
    9 May 2008 at 12:23 pm

    As I like Angel so much, I am very happy with their choice of Naomi, and even better that she's over 35! Tilda S. is another great choice. She is so talented and interesting.

    In re to Audrey Tautou, great news she's representing Chanel No 5.

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  29. Anonymous says:
    9 May 2008 at 12:37 pm

    Grace Jones – brilliant!!

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  30. Anonymous says:
    9 May 2008 at 12:52 pm

    Looking forward to seeing the first Tautou ads, and hope they're not as melodramatic as the Kidman ads…

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  31. Anonymous says:
    9 May 2008 at 7:48 pm

    As much as I love Angel, this choice is just so wrong.

    Her and Nicole's aloof too good for the rest of humanity attitude are just not sensual enough. Too airey fairy.

    The name Angel may evoke transcendence and all things ethereal, but it is a thoroughly intoxicating, sensual, and voluptuous fragrance that Ms. Watts just doesn't embody. Ugggghhhhh.

    The Mugler “Angel” seems to me the angels among us, the ones that we meet and then disappear after changing our lives; not some antiquated notion of detached goodness remote from the human species. Now she could pull off Alien quite well.

    I would have loved to see a warmer and sexier face for this campaign, someone really of an earthy sensuality with a lot of strength, perhaps even a black woman who literally embodied the rich decadent chocolate notes and sweetness of this one of a kind masterpiece.

    Mary J. Blige. Much better. And she herself is one of a kind, so it would have been a marriage made in . . .

    that's right: Heaven.

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  32. Anonymous says:
    10 May 2008 at 2:07 pm

    Perhaps they're hoping to reach a new audience, I don't know…

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  33. Anonymous says:
    13 May 2008 at 10:31 am

    Or market to the same one . . .. no advert change in demographic here.

    Also shows that this is less about embodying the fragrance than the demographic.

    :-) JMO, of course.

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