Two limited edition fragrances (there might be more) introduced at Star Wars Celebration V earlier this month:
Slave Leia (shown) ~ "Chains cannot restrain your smoldering sensuality even when the most despicable scum in the galaxy surround you. Whether you're on a daring rescue mission or are being held captive by a nefarious slug/gangster, your regal bearing lets the world know that despite appearances, you're no one's servant. Fearless and inventive, Slave Leia Perfume includes floral top notes of white peach, lily, bergamot, heliotrope and raspberry that dry down to a warm sultry mix of cashmere woods, musk and night-blooming jasmine. Slave Leia Perfume: More powerful than a thermal detonator yet more comfortable than a metal bikini!"
Eau Lando ~ "Card player. Gambler. Scoundrel. You'll like him! You've rubbed fashionably-clothed elbows with some of the most notorious bounty hunters, outlaws and gangsters in the galaxy, all the while maintaining your sophisticated appetites and an unquestionably cool style all your own. Because a suave pirate-turned-respectable businessman deserves the best the galaxy has to offer in surroundings, in belongings and most certainly in female companionship. Classy and stylish, Eau Lando Cologne is a potent mix of mandarin warmed with incense and lotus flower, exotic woods, dark violet and sensuous musk."
Star Wars Slave Leia and Eau Lando are available for pre-order at StarWarsShop, $39.99 each. (via shop.starwars, with many thanks to LaMaroc for the link!)
Vaguely related: Star Trek Pon Farr, Tiberius & Red Shirt.
Gee, I never thought of that Jabba the Hut cave as having a scent I would wish to evoke. What was Leia’s line, “Darth Vader, I should have known, I recognized your scent.?” Something like that.
I would love to know if there are more of these…seems odd there is no Darth Vader, among others.
Oh, wouldn’t it be great if they had a Darth Vader one, and when you pressed the spray nozzle it made that heavy-Darth-Vader-breathing sound?
GAHAHA.
I think she says, “I thought I recognized your foul stench.”
It’s a phrase I try to work into my everyday conversations. I can’t manage it often.
making a move from accounting to customer service?
Sadly, I could work that one in daily, but would most likely be fired.
Sadly, I seem to say it most frequently to Taz. Who may be not-quite-ten, but somehow garners all possible stink to himself: BO, smelly hair, Eau de Chien, Odeur de Calf, bicycle grease, just plain dirt…
awww poor Taz, he’s just being a boy….as long as he’s showering daily you may survive….
The notes don’t sound bad, but I never imagined a ‘Star Wars’ fragrance, lol.
If Star Trek has a fragrance, so should Star Wars
Oh goodness Robin – You read my thoughts! (see 3rd comment below…)
Star Trek has a fragrance?? Eau de Spock?
They should have made up notes that don’t exist in our galaxy.
Yes! Like Wookie accord and essence of Tauntaun.
Yes!!!
I am reading this wondering if time is moving forward — is it Prix au Faux season already?
Yes! I had the exact same thought. I want this to be a joke for the sake of my own sanity.
And if they were going to do a Leia scent, why specifically evoke the moment when she’s chained up? Does any woman fantasize about being enslaved by a giant slug?
Yeah, I think that is the lame man fantasy of the steel bra, etc. And heliotrope isn’t gonna cut the stench from Jabba, you know? They should have done Leia: Endor – something nice and woody and independent, lol.
That’s what I was thinking too!
LoL!!! Well, I think it was last year when they came out with the Star Trek fragrances? so why not Star Wars?
*Groan* For reals?!
“What is that fragrance you’re wearing?”
“Slave Leia.”
Is there a grown woman out there that could utter those words without wondering if maybe, somehow, her life had begun to slip into a downward spiral?
Maybe it’s targeted in young boys entering puberty? (Did I say that???)
I think there are probably women who attend Comic Con who would fit your criteria. Actually I’m sure of it.
Indeed. In fact, I have a few friends who I’m going to link to this because I feel like it’d be right up their alley.
I have some friends in the 501st — a huge Stormtrooper group that does the con circuit, charity benefits and what not — who I know would be interested.
I’d buy them just for the novelty … and well, I am one of those crazy ladies at Comic Con.
I really admire those guys in the 501st. It started out with just a couple of guys building their own uniforms and now it’s turned into a little community that does such wonderful things for other communities. They totally make the kids’ (of all ages;) ) day!
HA HA! The Eau Lando has a little cape draped arond the bottle. That’s fabulous.
I know! That picture of a caped bottle never fails to make me start giggling. I don’t know what it is about it. Just the pure ridiculousness, I guess.
I really hope that bottle is just the prototype! It looks like someone took the cape off an action figure and stuck it on a plain bottle. (Not that I’m against dressing up your perfume bottles in little outfits. No… in fact… my bottle of Mitsouko would look stunning in a little faux-fur coat… Hmm…)
I like that it looks like the cape is from an action figure. It just makes it that much more cheesy and hilarious. Lando’s cape also makes me think of Dracula, natch, so I’m wondering if that bottle of PdC Vampire will have a nice black cape for Halloween? lol
Btw, the notes in the Lando scent actually sound really nice.
No doubt I am just bitter and jaded, but nothing about Slave Leia says “fearless and inventive” to me. More like “tame, obvious, and done to death”.
But of course they don’t want to break any new ground: they want to sell a couple hundred thousand bottles to fangirls. Can’t really blame them for that.
I’m sure it’s the first time I’ve seen the phrase “nefarious slug/gangster” invoked to try to entice the buyer!
So I’ll give them inventive points for that.
They should have gone for “Senator Leia” with essence of cinnamon buns and bagels in homage to her awful hairdo in “Star Wars”.
Leia: “I love you!”
Han Solo, about to be frozen in carbonite: “I know”.
That said – I would buy these in a second at Sephora, if only because I love Star Wars. These activate my Buy Node! Now, if they came up with Essence de R2D2, in a nice glass bottle shaped just like him, I’d buy it unsniffed, even if it smelled like a Wookie.
I think they should have done “Fly Casual.”
I love the cinnamon buns, you crack me up!
How about I’m not a scoundrel “Soundrel” for Han?
OOps, I almost typed Hamm – how did Jon Hamm get replaced in my mind with Han Solo, lol???
I thought his name *was* Ham Solo when I was little. My brother would get mad and correct me. In all fairness, our next door neighbor was named Ham, so in my mind that was a far more legitimate name than “Han.”
Well that is just pretty darn cute! It is funny how children hear things.
I used to have tons of confusion over the IRA (Irish Republic Army) and the ERA when I was a kid in the 70s… And FBI and UFO…. Lots of funny ideas in my head for sure!
When the first movie came out, I was sharing an apartment with a nursery school teacher. She said that one of her students was raving about a cool character named Only One Cannoli.
(For those who don’t live on the East Coast: http://www.italianchef.com/cannoli.html.)
Hahahahahah! I really did just about fall off my chair laughing at that one. “Only One Cannoli, you’re our only hope!”
I am actually laughing out loud now.
That is just too cute!
OMG Only One Cannoli is too funny!
Thank you for sharing!
“I happen to like nice men” Leia says to Han Solo but I prefer scruffy looking nerferders aka “scoundrels”, myself.
I think I married a nerfherder, lol.
I am very glad to be in good company then!
Actually, if I desired to smell like a Star Wars babe, my choice would probably be Lea’s mother, played by Natalie Portman. (Horrors! I forgot the character’s name) from the “First” trilogy
It came to me last night. Princess Padima or Padma.
I was SUCH a Star Wars geek when I was in middle and high school…. and I’m still a total nerd. I’m going to have to buy this.
Another bottle sold to another fangirl.
Halimeade: I still am a Star Wars geek, and so is my sister. She has a houseful of Star Wars collectibles, which are fantastic.
Cant you just use the force to manipulate people olfactory glands?
Oh, I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I’ve been held captive by a nefarious slug. I must have these.
Haven’t we all, haven’t we all… That’s why I now carry a big box of kosher salt with me at all times.
Oh come on we are all missing the most obvious missing one.
Jedi
Can you imagine telling a perfume fan that you own a bottle of Jedi and they hear that as Djedi? You send them a sample and they wonder what all of the fuss is about this fragrance that smells cheap and synthetic?
Oh the chance for misunderstandings between two rabid fandoms…Star Wars and Guerlain.
Very funny observation! I can only imagine some star wars fan overbidding on ebay for a vintage bottle of Djedi!! What the heck is this stuff??
I want a Yoda fragrance. In a Yoda-shaped bottle. I don’t even care if it makes me smell like Yoda. (Which I imagine to be a mix of swamp water, wet dog, and burlap.)
Good you smell!
Funny you are.
Swamp water, wet dog, burlap, and also leather, cat breath, and eucalyptus…I don’t know why.
Oh yes, YODA. Green would it be. Of essences cooking 800 years. And everything is improved by a blast of kitteh bref.
Star Wars is full of fantastic fragrance names:
Darth: the scent of cold, metallic evil, but with an inner heart of marshmallow. Might have crossover appeal to country western fans.
Ewok: a woodsy scent, with plump notes of fur and nose leather.
Blaster: when it hits you, you’re down for the count. With notes of gunpowder, laser essence, and hyperspace accord.
I’m curious, does Eau Lando betray you to the Dark Side after several hours of wear?
Hysterical! And does it also compel you to wear snappy, blue-grey bell bottoms?
Hi. My name is Marsha, and I am a fangirl – and probably the intended audience for this. *blush* I am so wanting to try these out, as well as the Trek scents. I am so hoping some enterprising soul has these for sale at Dragon Con (in two weeks! YAY!) If they smell even acceptable, I’d buy one of each. Just so I could say I was wearing Pon Farr or Slave Leia. Plus , I want the bottle with a cape
You have to report back and tell us how they are!!
I was thinking how they might be selling these at D*C, though it seems the release date is August 30th, so I’m not sure.
And yes, two weeks. I’ve been steel boning a corset these past few days. I wish I had about a month longer between now and then. I always do this. Say I’ll start my D*C costumes well in advance only to wait till the last minute.
I decided at the last minute to costume up. Don’t have the Time for anything elaborate. Just a camouflage patterned regency dress. Tomorrow I’m shopping for a sword.
Is anybody here geeky enough to want the new R2D2 Droid phone Verizon is bringing out? It’s awfully cuuuute!
I kinda want Slave Leia. And I would be fine with saying that was what I was wearing.
WHAT??? I want an R2D2 phone!!!