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Celebrity perfume news round-up 2008, part the twelfth (UK b-list Edition)

Posted by Robin on 30 July 2008 44 Comments

Kerry Katona Outrageous perfumeAs previously reported, Kerry Katona is introducing her debut fragrance this year, Outrageous. You remember, it's the one with phwoar factor. More details: it's a "French-made" (really! from France!) fruity floral musk.

Kerry Katona Outrageous will be available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette, and should be in stores by late August. (via ok.co.uk, hellomagazine, with thanks to Amanda for the tip)

Meanwhile, Jade Goody is launching her second fragrance, called (what else?) Controversial:

Clean and fresh top notes of sweet red fruits accords blend seductively with an exotic creamy floral heart of tiare blossom and frangipani. An opulent base of patchouli and rich amber adds sophistication.

If you want to see pictures of her dropping the bottle on the ground at the launch party, go to the Mail On Sunday. Or if you missed it, read about her first fragrance, Jade Goody Shh... (quote via theperfumeshop)

Filed Under: new fragrances, perfume in the news
Tagged With: celebrity perfumes, jade goody, kerry katona

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  1. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 1:07 pm

    That bottle is dreadful.

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  2. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 1:24 pm

    That's the ugliest and most unapproachable bottle I have ever seen.

    Dawn

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  3. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 1:37 pm

    It's an explosive weapon. Those black shards fling a smog of Real French-Made Fruity-Floral Musk boiling into the atmosphere. Outraged victims report an overwhelming yearning for temporary anosmia.

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  4. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 1:41 pm

    Who is Kerry Katona? Did I miss anything?

    This juice can't be too expensive, right?

    And if you don't like one can use the bottle as a s.. toy 🙂

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  5. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 1:55 pm

    LOLOL!

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  6. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 1:56 pm

    See, I think it's funny! And most are just ugly but not funny 😉

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  7. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 2:30 pm

    She was in a girl group (Atomic Kitten), but left them when she got pregnant (they got a new member & became huge).

    After two kids she split from her husband, went to re-hab for cocaine abuse, then annouced she has bipolar disorder.She is still fighting him for over custody three years later.

    She's now re-married with two more kids. Her jobless second hubby is always in the paper with other women hung all over him.

    She now earns her money though tv ads and a reality show….

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  8. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 2:36 pm

    What in the name…%$? How are you supposed to open the thing?

    A London newspaper I read today reported that Kerry thought her fragrance should be sold in 'Iceland and chip shops, because that's where all the people who'll buy it will be'. (This is not the country of Iceland, in case you wondered, but a retail chain selling cheap frozen foods, for whom Kerry has featured in many TV adverts.)

    What a lovely thought, queuing up for your cod-and-chips (yummy), a sachet of ketchup, a buttered roll and a bottle of Outrageous.

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  9. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 3:02 pm

    OMG what's with that ridiculous porcupine-like lid?????? Hideous. My wallet bleeds with my perfume habit..I don't need my fingers to as well when I'm trying to open the lid to apply!

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  10. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 3:04 pm

    Thanks!

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  11. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 3:05 pm

    I assume it's a soft rubber cap & comes right off? But who knows. And chip shops! That's great.

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  12. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 3:14 pm

    OUTRAGEOUSly funny in fact! LMAO!!

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  13. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 3:34 pm

    Wow… The bottle looks like the explosive a character in a video game would throw. Who's designing these things?!?!

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  14. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 4:39 pm

    Not a chance in hell I'll be buying it, but I *love* that bottle. I'll have to see if any of the Kerry-devotees about these parts will let me have it after they've finished.

    Utterley bonkers and totally impractical exactly what I like in a piece of design (no-one can ever borrows my stuff it takes too long to work out how it works).

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  15. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 5:33 pm

    I do think that bottles pretty hilarious, but the only thing outrageous about all this is that people are still making such in your face “I'm a fruity floral” scents…My stars…and this from a girl who has nothing against a decent fruity floral- if for nothing else than nostalgia. But you're right, I'd probably keep this one around just for the bottle…

    Is it just me, or does this poor woman sound like a British version of Britney Spears? And now she's following in her fragrance footsteps? Pshaw.

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  16. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 6:53 pm

    Love the bottle.

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  17. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 8:01 pm

    From the look of the font, someone drunk 😉

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  18. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 8:02 pm

    Glad to see another fan, I'd like to have one too.

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  19. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 8:03 pm

    I am quite sure very little expertise went into the making of either scent — they're both going to be cheapie drugstore scents, after all. And that means she must not be nearly as famous as Britney, who at least rates a Macy's scent.

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  20. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 8:04 pm

    That makes 3 of us, I think 🙂

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  21. Anonymous says:
    30 July 2008 at 11:50 pm

    You're not alone! I like it in a Road Warrior kind of way. Just wish the juice sounded better. I swear, half or more of the perfume descriptions I read on here have the same description: Burst of fresh fruits followed by tantalizing white florals, drying down to seductive woods and ambers.

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  22. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 1:27 am

    Make that 4 Robin, the old Goth chick in me thinks that bottle i's mighty fierce….

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  23. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 4:55 am

    Funnily enough, many moons again Kerry's nickname on a scurrilous gossip website was, in fact, 'chip shop'. She's compulsively awful. She's just successfully sued a newspaper who claimed a book her mum was writing said she used to work as a prostitute. This is the same mum who introduced her to speed when she was …. ooh … 12 or something and who now says she thinks Kerry's an 'unfit mother'. Kerry and her pointless husband had a series on cable called 'Crazy in love' – promoted by bipolar Kerry wrapped up in a straightjacket (!!!) The series stopped filming due to the fact it made them look so bad – and that was AFTER the editing. A follow up has just aired now she's popped out another sprog called… wait for it… 'Kerry Katona: the afterbirth'. You've got Britney, we've got someone who makes Britney seem the very model of propriety.
    As for Jade – heard her being interviewed about 'Notorious'. Or, as she said, 'Notrus… er … notorus… um… No.Tor.E.Us.' Yes, Jade's promoting a perfume she cannot pronounce around a concept she doesn't understand.
    Really, sometimes I think there is no hope for any of us…

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  24. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 5:56 am

    Yes, but isn't there a possibility that customers might mistake the round red bottle for one of those old tomato ketchup holders in the shape of a tomato and try and squeeze it onto the fish and chips? An interesting alternative to vinegar, I suppose.

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  25. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 8:09 am

    To anyone who doesn't know Kerry Katona – long story short is that if she were American, she'd be a perpetual Jerry Springer guest. Come to think of it, so would Jade Goody – awful and trashy don't seem to touch the tip of the iceberg of descriptive words for those two.

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  26. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 10:20 am

    Was just thinking how cool it would look with a black bottle & red rubber cap, LOL…

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  27. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 10:21 am

    Yuck, to all of that!

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  28. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 10:22 am

    But if she were American, don't think she'd get a perfume…we don't seem to have gone that far down in the barrel (yet) for celebrity perfume launches…

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  29. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 10:48 am

    Oh yeah, she was actually pictured drinking and smoking throughout the pregnancy, and names her last kid after her PUBLICIST. Sheesh.

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  30. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 10:53 am

    I saw 2 minutes of a show where they were filming the making of Jade's first scent, she flew to some Givaudan – or was it Firmenich? outpost in India, and there was a scene with much screeching and eewing by Jade over stuff like oakmoss and tobacco notes. You could just feel the collective urge to roll their eyes being violently supressed by the lab people in the background.

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  31. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 10:54 am

    suppressed, even 😀

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  32. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 11:23 am

    LOL — might be tasty.

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  33. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 11:24 am

    They must be used to that by now, right? There is a similarly funny video floating around on YouTube of Hilary Duff sniffing scent strips in a conference room.

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  34. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 12:23 pm

    What an ill-conceived bottle design. It probably doesn't get any worse than that.

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  35. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 2:24 pm

    Glad you mentioned the Iceland connection as that is all I associate her with these days.

    Methinks Outrageous will be Notorious and Controversial but not Magnifique.

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  36. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 2:26 pm

    Jerry Springer guest is bang on – or Trisha over here!

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  37. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 6:11 pm

    Putting you in the “no” column 🙂

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  38. Anonymous says:
    31 July 2008 at 6:13 pm

    LOL — good one!

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  39. Anonymous says:
    1 August 2008 at 11:01 am

    Add me to the minority faction that loves the bottle. I'd set it on an optic white shelf right next to Isabel Caputo's modernistic red lady bottle. I could be making a statement about feminine empowerment. lol

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  40. Anonymous says:
    1 August 2008 at 12:41 pm

    Yes — they'd be perfect together!

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  41. Anonymous says:
    1 August 2008 at 2:14 pm

    Haha! This is hilarious! I guess she really wanted attention with that bottle. And so well-fitted to please the 13-year olds who will buy it…. Err actually I take that back. Outrageous could easily be called Laughable. Or even Bad.

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  42. Anonymous says:
    1 August 2008 at 8:53 pm

    Somebody ought to do a scent called Laughable!

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  43. Anonymous says:
    5 August 2008 at 4:35 pm

    I like loads of celebrity perfumes but use to draw the line at reality stars'/footballers wivers' perfumes. That was until I smelled Alex by Alex Curran and actually really liked it. I've since added others to my collection which I never dreamed i would get initailly. I suppose as long as you like the smell….

    However, i read somewhere on here that celebrity perfumes are an aspirational thing and I definitely think that's true. Kerry Katona isn't exactly the most glamorous woman in the world and it doesn't really make u want to run out and buy!

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  44. Anonymous says:
    5 August 2008 at 6:50 pm

    As long as you like the smell, I agree, who cares who has their name on the bottle? To some extent, all perfume marketing is aspirational, so who cares.

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