Yep. Coming to Sephora in France in May, a new fragrance for the Sex Pistols. I can't tell you anything else about it except that it possibly involves leather — although of course I'll update later if I find more details — but it probably doesn't matter: you'll either want it or you won't. (via vogue.fr)
Update: this seems to be either a Sephora branded product or a Sephora exclusive. It was developed by perfumer Mathilde Bijaoui and includes notes of patchouli, black pepper, ambrette, citron and aldehydes. (via cyberpresse.ca)
Another update: the Sex Pistols fragrance was made by Etat Libre d'Orange.
Hmmmm.
Perfect for 25-year-old hipsters to wear with a CBGB t-shirt, maybe?
Maybe! The whole thing cracks me up.
Oi! You just described me.
I’ll skip on the ‘fume, though.
I wonder who owns the right to the Sex Pistols name. It seems odd that Sid Vicious or Johnny Rotten would allow such a commercial project. These are after all the guys who refused to be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and called the museum “a piss stain”. If this is a scent in the punk spirit it should cost a fortune and smell like brackish water
Sid Vicious has been dead for a very long time, but I do wonder who owns the rights to the band name. Perhaps Malcolm McLaren? It would be wonderful if this was a really edgy scent, something beyond even anything CdG has done, but I’m not holding out high hopes.
They really should have gone with CdG! Doesn’t look like it though.
Yes…would like to know who owns the name!
This was my first thought, that Sid Vicious is rolling over in his grave, over this selling out. >:(
They already sell iPod skins & shot glasses on their website, so that’s over & done with.
Oh. Well, hmm. Then as long as there does not come to pass a Led Zeppelin fume, or a The Who fume, or a Rush fume, all is normal.
LOL Rush perfume! Maybe Geddy can have a perfume counter behind him next tour instead of rotisserie chickens.
I’ll still sniff it, though, me likee leather!
Johny Rotten advertises Country Life butter in the UK (that I should live to see this day!
), In a very tongue in cheek fashion and, I’m sure, to the great financial gain of both parties.
Oh my! Did not know.
The story I always heard was that Malcom McLaren threw the band together in Vivian Westwood’s store SEX. So if it was a band based on clothes, a perfume based on a band based on clothes seems totally fitting.
That said, where’s my DEV-Eau?
You’re right, and I can totally see Johnny Rotten doing such a thing. I hope it is outrageously expensive and he laughs all the way to the bank.
This is when I start to feel as if I’ve lived too long…
LOL — ditto!
Yep!
Hmmm-mmm!
I guess I’ll leave this one to those who were not already born at the time!
Johnny Rotten (nee Lydon) has never hid his interest in commerce and money.
And I guess if Jimmy Page can play Kashmir with P Diddy (or whatev he’s caled now) and a big ol grin, Johnny Rotten can have his fume.
Did Jimmy Page do that?? Oh my.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvA26p6wMYc
Skip to the one-minute mark to get to the… erm… song. Blech.
Oh my.
Perhaps this will smell of anarchy and contempt with a safety pin accord.
You need to write perfume briefs for a living–that is excellent.
Plus I want to smell it!
LMAO, perfect!
Ha! Great idea.
Or maybe a dissonant, difficult topnote (cheap hairspray, dirty laundry, stale beer, and ashtray), a strange, oddly opaque middle (ink and paper–money, flashbulb accord, and a bit of fruitchouli-groupie accord), with a conventional sellout drydown (vanilla musk).
Even better, Monkeytoe!
See, they should have had CdG do it!
Yep, they missed the boat on that one.
This! This! This!
You beat me to the punch.
To Bunny (couldn’t nest anymore), yes, a fume counter and think of the irony when they play Subdivisions. lol.
On stage they’ve had a laundromat, an auto-mat and a Swiss Chalet… why not a shopping mall too!
I *so* need to see them play live! They came to the Northwest a few years back, to the Gorge at George, but I couldn’t convince my DH to go. I’ve successfully converted the guy to Led, Steely Dan, and all manner of blues, but, while he appreciates the insanity of Peart’s drumming, he won’t take me to a concert.
It’s usually the guys that want to see Rush!
I saw them in Sept 2007 in Toronto, it was a great show!
I would love it if the licensee listed on the bottom was “Public Image, Ltd.”
LOL!!!
Aww, man–kicking myself for not thinking of that first.
Ha! Perfect!
I just remember their album cover with the dead deer on the front with the arrow shot through it. I’d like to see them put that on the box cover and see how many they sell to these young teenagers. Young rebellious guys might go for it though.
Oh yeah, that would work.
Next they could do a fruity floral and call it Pretty Vacant
Brilliant.
Teen-angsters will love it, the worse it smells the better. What about flankers?…eek.
Will teen-angsters even know who they are?
LOL…”The band that Grand’Pa used to listen to!”
OMG, I’m going to pee my pants!!
Actually, they very well might… the 80s are back, including 80s new wave bands, and any serious music fan will dig back to the inspiration for them. For that matter, my teen had to do a project for music that involved sitting w/a handful of adults and asking about their favorite music. Mine got a good dose of new wave from me, and old school punk from my husband. She’d know them.
Good!
I’m kinda surprised it wasn’t called Filthy Lucre, after their reunion tour. Maybe they’re saving that for the flanker??
You guys are killing me! And some of us are showing our age. My husband was at the Randy’s Rodeo show in Texas all those years ago.
if that doesn’t stand for ‘sell out’, nothing does LOL
I’m thinking the first flanker will be PiL.
it’s sweet that people associate ~*punk rock*~ with integrity
Isn’t it, LOL…
Bless you, bless you, bless you my dear, for taking the words right out of my mouth.
Is supposed to smell like: Citrus, Black Pepper, Amber, Prune Jungle Essence, Electric Aldehydes, Heliotrope, Patchouli, Orcanox, Leather.
I def. got the citrus, pepper and leather. Don’t have any idea what prune jungle whatevs should even smell like. Its okay. I rec’d a bunch of testers from luckyscent today, so I have this on one wrist and Miss Marisa Nuit on the other, and one, both, or the combo is giving me a headache.