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Madonna Nudes 1979 ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 9 June 2009 54 Comments

Madonna Nudes perfumes

The Madonna Nudes 1979 fragrance duo, inspired by a series of photographs of the pop star taken by Martin H.M. Schreiber in 19791, will launch this month.

Madonna Nudes 1979 for Men (shown above left) features notes of citron, grapefruit peel, olive blossom, star anise, cardamom, tonka bean, tobacco, teak and musk.

Madonna Nudes 1979 for Women (shown above right) includes tangerine, pomegranate, lotus petals, orange flower, magnolia, gardenia, atlas cedar, amber, and cashmere musk.

Sizes & concentration unknown. (via moodiereport)

1. Madonna, who was then unknown and who was reportedly paid $30 for the photo session, apparently granted Schreiber all rights to do with the photos as he wished, and Schreiber has since published them and granted licenses for products ranging from handbags to fragrances (these are not the first fragrances under the "Madonna Nudes" name).

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Tagged With: celebrity perfumes, madonna

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  1. AnnS says:
    9 June 2009 at 9:27 am

    Maybe I haven’t had enough caffiene yet today….All I can think to say, with total puzzlement, is: ……Huh??

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    • Robin says:
      9 June 2009 at 9:42 am

      Apparently it took MHM Schreiber a number of years to see the commercial possibilities himself…now he has seen the light.

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  2. RusticDove says:
    9 June 2009 at 9:42 am

    Oy.

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    • Robin says:
      9 June 2009 at 9:43 am

      Yep.

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  3. dissed says:
    9 June 2009 at 9:47 am

    Maybe I need a new career aspiration: Shameless Opportunist.

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    • Robin says:
      9 June 2009 at 10:33 am

      LOL…not that Madonna has been lacking in that area herself…

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  4. pigoletto says:
    9 June 2009 at 10:07 am

    I do wonder how well this not-officially-stamped-with-Madonna-seal-of-approval stuff sells. And where does it sell? You would have thought the die hard Madge fan would only want to buy what her Madgeness officially endorsed.

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    • Robin says:
      9 June 2009 at 10:34 am

      If they even know…hard to say. The older Madonna 1979 scents seem to be sold online in the UK at VERY low prices.

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  5. fleurdelys says:
    9 June 2009 at 10:11 am

    NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

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    • Robin says:
      9 June 2009 at 10:34 am

      But yes ;-)

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  6. Jessica says:
    9 June 2009 at 10:16 am

    Huh? So far-fetched and irrelevant for a fragrance concept! However, I do love that set of photos. I like remembering how Madonna looked before she turned British and/or plastic.

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    • Robin says:
      9 June 2009 at 10:34 am

      Now she’s plastic & American again, right?

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      • Tama says:
        9 June 2009 at 2:38 pm

        I’m shocked that you are aware of this. lol

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        • Robin says:
          9 June 2009 at 4:31 pm

          HA — it’s rare that I know anything like that, isn’t it?

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    • lilydale aka Natalie says:
      9 June 2009 at 11:25 am

      I agree — it’s refreshing to see one of today’s brittle, Botoxed celebrities back when they were squishy and real and … um … hairy!

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      • Jessica says:
        9 June 2009 at 1:33 pm

        Yes! My husband, who has never followed Madonna’s life and times, recently watched “Desperately Seeking Susan” with me (at my request). He was strangely quiet. At the end, he said he’d never realized that she used to be so attractive. And it wasn’t an “age issue” for him… more that she used to have natural curves and a natural face and a funky, individual sense of style!

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        • Robin says:
          9 June 2009 at 1:43 pm

          She is far too buffed for my taste — and while it’s hard to knock someone for staying fit, I do think a few more pounds would look nice.

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          • Joe says:
            9 June 2009 at 2:43 pm

            Last time I said that about Audrey Tautou, I got flamed!

          • Robin says:
            9 June 2009 at 4:31 pm

            Joe, you’re right! You never know when it’s safe to go in the water, LOL…

          • Dagmar says:
            9 June 2009 at 5:05 pm

            Here’s the rule to follow, I think, with women working out: you want OBAMA arms, not MADONNA arms. Am I right or am I right?

          • Robin says:
            9 June 2009 at 5:20 pm

            You are exactly right. MO’s arms look perfect.

  7. Nina says:
    9 June 2009 at 10:43 am

    Those bottles are really tacky. Quite appropriate, really.

    And the drawing looks nothing like Madonna to me.

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    • Robin says:
      9 June 2009 at 11:03 am

      Agree…it’s odd they didn’t try to make it look more like her. Or look sexy, which I would have expected.

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  8. platinum14 says:
    9 June 2009 at 10:46 am

    Just for the star anise, the teck and tonka in the men’s version, I may need to smell this.
    But if I should happen to like it I would have to put a brown paper bag over the bottle for shame…

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    • Robin says:
      9 June 2009 at 11:05 am

      No idea how widely or where it will be distributed…the company holding the license is in Dubai, I think, and also distributes the Cadillac fragrances.

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  9. kaos.geo says:
    9 June 2009 at 10:54 am

    Well, as Robin said, the guy has found another way to make a living hehehe.

    I love Madonna, and I think she must not care much about fragrance herself. If she did, she’d probably come up with a way to make money out of it. At least for her Kabbalah propaganda efforts.

    I must say I liked her better when she was singing about “Don´t go for second best, baby” express yourself ;-) rather than preaching.

    And on the trivia side: I heard once that she went through a “Fracas” period. Too bad the taste for good perfumes didn´t stick.

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    • Robin says:
      9 June 2009 at 11:07 am

      It’s very odd that she hasn’t done her own scent — wonder if nobody has offered her a tempting deal. But what do you mean by “the taste for good perfumes didn´t stick” — what does she wear now?

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      • Carlos BFL 319 says:
        9 June 2009 at 12:35 pm

        According to http://tinyurl.com/lzl5na She likes Creed Tubereuse Indiana.

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        • Robin says:
          9 June 2009 at 12:38 pm

          She does seem to like tuberose then!

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          • Pimpinett says:
            9 June 2009 at 4:58 pm

            I’ve read that she wears Youth Dew, too – pretty good taste all around, it seems.

          • kaos.geo says:
            9 June 2009 at 5:09 pm

            I meant that it had stick long enough, perhaps we’d already have a Madonna scent.

            But the comments point to her liking tuberose, so I guess if she ever gets out a scent it will smell like that. :-)

          • Robin says:
            9 June 2009 at 5:19 pm

            P, ah, I understand. I was wondering if the reason was that none of the more prestigious companies had made her an offer.

    • LaMaroc says:
      9 June 2009 at 6:29 pm

      I read once that she liked and wore Mat by Masaki Matsushima. It was the first time I’d heard of the brand and it sent me sniffing.

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  10. miss kitty v. says:
    9 June 2009 at 12:11 pm

    For some weird reason, even after I had already read that it was Madonna, I thought the picture was of Bjork. No, certainly doesn’t look like Madonna. (Good thing? Bad thing? I’m not gonna touch that one…)

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    • Robin says:
      9 June 2009 at 12:36 pm

      Seems like a bad thing if you’re trying to sell to Madonna fans, at any rate.

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    • Dagmar says:
      9 June 2009 at 5:07 pm

      Personally, I think a Bjork/Mathew Barney perfume would be pretty interesting. I bet the bottle would be very arty. It would also cost about $3000.

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  11. LaMaroc says:
    9 June 2009 at 1:13 pm

    I dunno…I kinda like this idea when I view it through my Andy Warhol-tinted glasses. :) The juice itself sounds appealing enough to my senses. The bottles are tacky, but there’s the joli-laid part of me that likes tacky things. If it’s readily accessible, I’ll try them, but I’m not going out of my way.
    I remember when her nudes were published in Playboy. Looking again at them now, I think some of these pics are absolutely stunning. If I had the money, I’d buy the one of her from the back featuring her mane of hair and her prominent rib bones. I think it’s great that Madonna didn’t sic her lawyers on this guy. One thing I still like about her is her support of the arts and artists.

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    • Robin says:
      9 June 2009 at 1:27 pm

      At one point, Schreiber launched a condom w/ a picture of Madonna on it, and she was reportedly considering a lawsuit, but I don’t know what happened in the end. She also reportedly considered suing over a lingerie line:

      http://www.whourl.net/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=423

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      • LaMaroc says:
        9 June 2009 at 6:25 pm

        Huh! Maybe what I read was incorrect or out of date (or my mind is just going) but I thought Madge gave her blessing to this guy. Oh well. I like that he’s doing something with these pics. She likes to change images and dispose of them like biodegradable underwear. I like to see these images resurrected. Yes, I love nostalgia. :) And she looks fierce in those early pics!

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  12. Joe says:
    9 June 2009 at 2:43 pm

    Re: your last comment response, R, I’m surprised that this “Madonna Nudes” stuff really manage to avoid infringement judgments. Maybe M’s counsel just doesn’t take them seriously, because I can’t imagine all of these things keeping to the right side of the law.

    Aside from all that: What awful packaging.

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    • Robin says:
      9 June 2009 at 4:32 pm

      Joe, I think it has to do with the type of contract she signed, which essentially granted rights to do ANYTHING, and which I’m sure she didn’t give a 2nd thought at the time. Also would guess that if she had legal standing, she’d have done something by now & we wouldn’t be seeing these.

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      • Dolly says:
        28 September 2009 at 1:42 pm

        It’s hard to believe that she granted that. I thought she was a smarter businesswoman.

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  13. alotofscents says:
    9 June 2009 at 5:28 pm

    Madonna is one year older than me, and today is my birthday. I wish I had her body and her money but not her face-it’s just weird looking somehow.
    Madonna has said that New York is old and passe. Said New York, ” Right back at you.” I think I feel the same about this perfume.

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    • Robin says:
      9 June 2009 at 10:00 pm

      Hey, happy birthday!!

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    • Dolly says:
      28 September 2009 at 1:29 pm

      Alotofscents- Absolutely! But no doubt her body has been surgically altered as well. Well, I suppose that if you live the lifestyle, you have to look it. As far as the “old and passe” comment, I say-Basta! Perhaps it was redirected aggression because she is old and passe. I will give her this though- she knew how to market herself, but I think she’s running out of ideas. It seems pretty much a done deal.

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  14. sapphie says:
    9 June 2009 at 6:25 pm

    That art is a mess, and it gives me a headache. Even in 1979, Madonna’s face was iconic. How could they get this one wrong?

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    • Robin says:
      9 June 2009 at 10:00 pm

      Dunno!

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  15. MontuPoopC says:
    11 June 2009 at 6:48 pm

    I’m a -big- Madonna fan. And these bottles are RIDICULOUS. It looks like Victoria Beckham. It doesn’t even resemble Madonna. At all. There are 100 iconic images of her they could have chosen, and they like… wth IS it? Lol.

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    • Robin says:
      11 June 2009 at 7:33 pm

      Hey, I didn’t think of VB but you’re absolutely right!

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  16. Dolly says:
    28 September 2009 at 1:34 pm

    The artwork is awful- kind of looks like the drawings on the old pinball machines.

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  17. isaisa says:
    10 October 2009 at 3:03 pm

    Just to say for all Madonna ‘s fans (I’m a big fan of her talent), I DO KNOW she’s been wearing for years, and years: OLENE FROM DIPTYQUE; I know it cause, I discussed once with the creator of Diptyque perfumes. He told me she very often enters the boutique, boulevard St Germain, in paris, wearing (une perruque: false brunette hair), and buy Olene. He had even proposed her, other perfumes, but she just answered she jus wanted Olene. She’ is found of “ivy” candles by Diptyque too. Do you know Olene, it’s very special: jasmine+narcissus and glycine (in french), I think we say wisteria, but not sure. In fact it smells, you know: strong jasmine tea.
    I don’t find it very sexy (it’s like orange blossom scent, I could see a “mama” wearing it) but, it’s her choice.

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    • Robin says:
      10 October 2009 at 9:03 pm

      I love Olene! And that fits since she is said to wear Fracas too.

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  18. isaisa says:
    11 October 2009 at 4:46 am

    All right… I did not know Olene was a little similar to Fracas…. because, in Olene, there is no tuberose, but, now I think deeper about it, you must be right: there are both very flowery (especialy whitte flowers), and “strong”. Thank so much Robin, for your precious a kind help!

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    • Robin says:
      11 October 2009 at 9:49 am

      Yes, just both strong white florals!

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