Teen pop star Justin Bieber will launch My World, his debut fragrance, next month on Black Friday. The unisex scent will not be sold as a liquid, though — for now, it will be sold at Wal Mart as scent-infused wristbands and dog tags:
The fragrance, named after the singer’s current tour, is embedded into a patented resin technology designed to hold the scent for at least one year.
The notes for My World include bergamot, lychee, pomegranate, cedar and musk.
Justin Bieber My World wristbands and dog tags will be $10 each, and will come in four designs (Icon, Energy, Tour and Web). (via wwd, image via justinbiebermusic)
This was inevitable. It’s good that they are selling it in a form (and presumably at a price point) appropriate for the age of most of his fans.
But given all the fuss about his bangs, why not a hair fragrance?
Also glad to see it’s cheap and fun.
IS THIS REAL LIFE?
Nope, it’s the internets 😉
A resin infused offering to millions of screaming pre-teens is definitely not part of my life.
My girls torture me with Bieber fever. They aren’t rabid teen fans or anything but think he’s cute in a sweet puppy dog kinda way-especially his song “I need somebody to love”
Lord help me! ha!
Hey, then be glad they’re only $10 a pop!
Oh. My. I have only a vague idea who Justin Bieber is but what I do know is that he desperately needs a haircut!! Wouldn’t it be nice if he used his power for good and introduced a good, i.e not fruichouli or candy-floss, fragrance for all these Tweens to cut their teeth on? That would be fab.
Yeah, you think his hair is too long?
Justin Beiber is this year’s Frankie Sinatra, Elvis, Richie Avalon, Davy Jones (the Monkee, not the real David Jones, who ended up as David Bowie), David Cassidy, Bobby Sherman, Rick Ashley (Do I have that name right?), Justin Timberlake…..
I probably missed a few generations of teen dreams. As the above list indicates, some teen dreams are guys with great talent and great hair and some are guys with great hair.
Whether we bought the posters or not, whether our choices were eccentric or mainstream, chances are we all had some rock or pop star whom we adored when we were young.
DAVY JONES! I lurved Davy…
A major symptom of listening to my parent’s Beatles records when we were young was that I had a HUGE crush on George Harrison when I was like 10. It never crossed my mind that he was waay out of my league! It’s funny to remember these things. My younger sister had a huge crush on Davy Jones – we watched the Monkey’s on MTV!
Monkey’s? Monkies??
OMG that was one of my favorite shows (along with I Dream of Jeanie and Gilligan’s Island). This boys is hitting all the right keys to make it rich and retire by the age of 18! I can’t think of what I was doing at his age of any use other than rifling through my mother’s cosmetics and perfumes. I honestly don’t think the idea of a scented wristband idea would have appealed to me at that point.
Monkees!
MONKEES, Ann. I watched them in reruns on TV, too… was probably 8 when I fell for Davy, and at the time he was maybe 30.
Had a huge crush on Kurt Russell as well.
Thanks everyone for setting me straight on the Monkees!
Kurt Russell – yes please!
I love that episode of the Brady Bunch when Davy Jones was on there. To me, I thought he was adorable.
😉
Mike Nesmith was my Monkee of choice.
Mike was the Thinking Man’s (or woman’s) Monkee. Being a non-thinker, I was ALL ABOUT Davey. I imagined myself, walking hand in hand, on the beach, with Davey, not saying I love you, but. I like you….I wanna be freeeeeeee…..I wish I had little music note icons there. I have a private class on the Beatles, from In Spite of All the Danger to the very last song. I’m learning my Beatles the academic way…
I just re-bought his first post-Monkee’s album, Magnetic South, on CD finally. Love that thing to death! I wore out 2 copies of it on vinyl. Kind of country-twang but with very edgy lyrics.
Dilana- it was Rick Astley.
From that whole list, young Frank Sinatra is the only one who does it for me… once again proving my theory that I was born in the wrong era. 🙂
Me too – the Tommy Dorsey / Frank Sinatra recordings are the most romantic music that was ever recorded. I could listen to that music every day.
I agree! I love Big Band and Swing music. I also love watching all of the movies from the 30′, 40’s and early 50’s.
Big Band is wonderful stuff!
I think you mean Frankie Avalon. You can tell I’m of a certain age…
Totally agree – every younger generation has its teen heartthrob(s). The Beatles, The Monkees, Bobby Sherman, and David Cassidy were a few of my generation’s. Although this fragrance wouldn’t interest me (and I’m certainly not the target market), I give them mad props for the clever dog tag/wrist band format. And the low price point should make parents very happy!
All I have to say is that I’m SO grateful that my ‘kids’ are way too old for Bieber fever. HA! He’s actually not that bad though so I’ll be nice. I was in love with David Cassidy, so who am I to judge?
Mine aren’t too old; they just have better taste. 😉
That’s right Boo – your girls are the perfect age, so you lucked out! 😉
Actually, I engaged in active brainwashing from an early age. My 14 yr old still doesn’t touch makeup, either. She does like things that smell nice, though.
If David Cassidy had sold scented dog tags, I’d have bought the dog tags.
No Robin – he would have had scented puka shell necklaces!! LOL
YES! I am pretty sure I never owned one of those, but who knows — I have a very kind memory.
(meaning I forget what I need to)
They were his signature accessory – he was rarely seen without his puka shell necklace! 🙂
OMG, Robin, when I was in like 3rd or 4th grade there was this silly girl who was in the David? Shaun? Cassidy fan club. And she was going on and on and on this one day about him. She said: … if you were lucky you got picked to go visit him in his house and this one girl got to sleep with her head on his butt for a pillow…
I still can see her saying this b/c it took me days to get the image of some girl using his butt as a pillow our of my head. 🙂
LOL! That is a weird story.
Me too. I love the 1970’s. The teen idols back then were just so sexy!( Sigh)
Sigh! …….David Cassidy……….sigh! I remember “then”.
This is bizarre! I just had a conversation this afternoon about David Cassidy with one of our clients who boards his horses.
It was Shaun Cassidy for me. 🙂 And Andy Gibb. I had a Shaun Cassidy pillow case.
I had a Shaun Cassidy screen-printed tee-shirt… wore it until he got all peely. I’d have had a Leif Erickson one if I’d had funds. As it was, I had to make do with posters from Teen Beat.
I have this very clear picture of you wearing this t-shirt in my mind. It’s blended with all my memories of the girls in school with their poly bell bottoms or gauchos, clogs and long sleeved white blouses under their boy t-shirts…. Did you used to wear those barrettes with ribbons all over them too? Lucky girls got to wear stack espadrilles. In our neck of the woods it wasn’t cool unless you had one of those gigantic Goody combs in your back pocket and some bonnie bell lip smacker on a string.
Ann – it was a “ringer” tee-shirt in heather blue, with Shaun in all his glory on the front… I didn’t wear a blouse under it, but I did wear those ribbon barrettes! The comb was not a necessary accessory, and we kept our Bonne Bells in our pockets (Dr. Pepper flavor, yum).
Dr. Pepper is the best of all those flavors. Cool!
Mals- I would have shave my head if I could spend one date with Paul Michael Glaser. I loved his dark good looks. I think the only blond teen idol I liked back then was Rex Smith (Mmm) and John Schneider.
OMG, I forgot about Rex Smith! But didn’t he take over for Andy Gibb after he left Solid Gold? I always held that against him. 🙂
I had the Bonne Bells too! Bubblegum, Sour grape, peppermint and Good and Plenty. My friend had the huge barrel-style Lip Smackers. I got the smaller ones.
Oh, I love those jumbo ones! I remember I had the bubble gum flavored one until the stub at the bottom fell out. So much fun.
You and Mals really go for the blonde dudes!
Oh no! Andy Gibb?!? Now the picture is complete. Kitty disco dancing in her boots.
Different band but Xanadu was my especially favorite song in those days.
Andy Gibb I agree with too. Remember Tony DeFranco?
Oh, I was madly in love with Parker Stevenson! I can still see those old Hardy Boys TV shows and it cracks me up.
Oh no, don’t get me started on my Parker Stevenson squeal. Easy now!
Let’s squeal together!
Davey Jones, Bobby Sherman,etc. was a little before my time, but I had John Travolta on my wall back then and I also had a massive crush on Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky from Starsky and Hutch) as well as Erik Estrada, The Hardy Boys and Rex Smith.
I was about to ask you up there who Paul Michael Glaser was… you might be just a few years older than I am, because I never watched Starsky & Hutch (my mom didn’t like it). A few years later, I was mooning over C. Thomas Howell…
Then in the 1980’s, it was Rick Springfield.
Oh – I was sooo in love with Rick Springfield! What was that movie he did that was so cheesy and romantic??? Ah, thank god for the imdb … Remember “Hard to Hold”???
Rick Springfiled still looks pretty darn good too – saw him recently.
Rick Springfield DOES still look good! Not one of those people who got weird plastic surgery and looks like a different person.
Not only this but he has a line of nail polish with the brand Nicole for OPI.
Fun, I didn’t know that!
Ok, I have to admit that, after a long time making fun of Justin Bieber, I finally went out of my way to listen to one of his songs. And you know what? It was kind of cute. So I don’t think he’s all that bad. And the dog tag and wrist band thing is perfect: finally a way to give kids measured doses of fragrance! No more school hallways filled with Axe and Brittney Spears Fantasy! Well, I’m sure that will still happen. But this is a nice idea.
No broken bottles in the locker room. Argh! Measured doses is a good idea. You could also use them as car fresheners!
I didn’t even know who he was until I was watching Leno one night and he kept making jokes about the hair.
He happens to like Britney Spears perfume on girls! Caught that headline yesterday but it wasn’t specific about which one. Why am I not surprised?
He’s a teenage boy… I’m sure he’s only smelled that kind of thing on sweet little teenage girls… we should be patient, someday he may get a noseful of Shalimar or Eau de Merveilles on the Right Girl and change his mind.
I feel like I was one of the few blessed with not knowing who Justin Beiber was until I was in Japan where the only things in English were reruns of Lost, CSI: Miami & MTV — they still show music videos over there.
Lol. Scent dog tags. You know they will sell, though. Perfume & plastic really shouldn’t go together. I have a scented Burberry Brit cause bracelet that I got as a freebie from Bloomingdales, but I’ve never removed it from the packaging.
Yes, indeed, the young man needs a hair cut. But I totally applaud his ability to work the market and his own image so successfully. He’s just riding the fragrance gravy train like everyone else. At least his concept is unique. I hope there won’t be a situation where he tanks out by the time he’s 22.
Ann, see, I’m older than you. His hair is a dead ringer for all of the Beatles’ haircuts when they first began. Of course my brother wanted to wear his hair like that and my father wasn’t having it!
Yes, you are right! Did I mention that I was in love with George when I was little? Still needs a cut, lol.
I don’t think he needs to cut his hair. He just needs to grow it into something less stupid looking. 😉
Ha. Yes. 🙂
Oh, I feel old. I wasn’t so into musicians, but I was a dancer and thought Baryshnikov and Patrick Swayze were SO dreamy. Still do!
Ah, well, I’m probably older than you, and I also think that Baryshnikov is dreamy! I was lucky to see one of his experimental dance troupe’s in the mid 90s. I loved that movie “White Nights”. Who didn’t want to be Isabella Rossellini? And everyone in the world was in love with Patrick Swayze after Dirty Dancing. I think even my mom had a crush on him!
My cousin developed a thing for PS after seeing Dirty Dancing 50 times (no exageration).
Most of Dirty Dancing was filmed very near where I live, so of course we ALL went to see it. And went back to see it again.
The father of one of my good friends is in it – near the beginning, when Jennifer Grey steps on a guy’s foot during a group dance lesson at the hotel? It’s Bobby’s dad’s foot. Cracks me up every time. They kept auditioning extras for this dance scene, and he was all excited because he kept making the cut… what he didn’t know was they were looking for the very worst dancer they could find, who could be counted on to go the wrong direction and have Baby step on his foot!
Good story.
Classic! Thanks for sharing.
Oh, Patrick Swayze… I like to call him “something for everyone.” I named our raccoon after him. (Don’t ask.) The neighbors look at us funny when we yell, “Patrick Swayze, that is not your food! Leave the kitties alone!”
That is very funny – as long as you aren’t dancing around with him in the local puddle.
TEA SPEW!!! Snort! 😀
one of my goddaughters has a Justin B. crush, and has a dog as well, this could be an ideal gift, but probably not on sale in Europe? I’ll keep my eyes open
The scented “dog tags” are for people to wear. The U.S. military gives each solder small metal id’s to wear around their neck, which are nicknamed “dog tags” and civilians wear imitation pieces (often with slogans) as unisex jewelry.
Since dogs are obsessed with smell, I would not impose a human scent on one, except to the extent necessary to tolerate their presence (i.e. the occasional dog shampoo or a tomato bath after a skunk attack).
oops, thanks for pointing that out! 😉
You bring up a good point though, Bee. Will this be confusing to people outside of the U.S.?
help, you’re asking me something! a) I’m more of a cat person, I don’t appreciate canine effluves that much, so that was a touch of wishful thinking, sort of mentally blotting out that smell with any thing else, even the billionth celebrity scent
b) I don’t know the technical aspects, but I do think that most dogs would have chip implants (so a tag would have been wrong in any case?)
c) and I’m not very familiar with the military vernacular so I don’t know how well known the expression “dog tag” is…
Alas, as I understand it, the U.S. military now also obtains DNA samples of all personnel so they can identify “remains” which are considerably less than a full body.
It seems like when I was younger the teen idols were older, like say in their early to mid twenties. No wonder I married an older man(Laughs).
Mals- Yes I remember Hard to Hold. I so hated his female co-star in that movie. I just went into a pile of melted wax when I used to see Jessie’s Girl and Don’t Talk To Strangers come on.
I’m sorry Ann. I meant to say you too! I had the Tiger Beat, Teen Beat, 16, etc. magazines. Those posters went on the wall. I wonder if David, Shaun, Rex, etc. came out with a fragrance back then what it would of been like. I probably would have bought gallons anyway!
For some reason I think anything released at that time for a teen fragrance would have smelled like a cross between Hawaiian Tropic and Skin Musk…..
Ugh! Musk yes, but gads I hate the smell of coconut products.
I’m trying to recall who the big teen idols were when I was of age (born in 1977) and I’m drawing a blank. I don’t think the late 80s were a prime teen idol era.
New Kids on the Block! Swoon!
Amy T, I think you’re right. It seemed to have died once 1985 rolled around, but made somewhat of a comeback in 1999 with the whole Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees,etc. scene. I wouldn’t trade my time for anything.
Miss Kitty- Yes Rex Smith did take over that show for AG. I forgot about that. I have the TV movie on DVD he did back in 1979 called, “Sooner Or Later”. I LOVE that movie and watch when I want to feel like a young girl again. Ok, that and he looks completely edible in it!
Smells Like Teen Idiocy
At first I was all, “Oh NO he di’int”, complete with faux-gangsta Bieber-esque posing. But then I read that it’s unisex, and sold at a low price as a solid in dog tags and wristbands. That’s…actually kind of cute. And hey, if it’s not liquid in a glass bottle, it’s not Really A Fragrance, right? So we don’t have to take it seriously? I bet my 10-year old niece (and Bieber obsessive) would like it.
Good on ya, Biebs. Now get a frickin’ haircut.
This is a sign of the end of the world.
The four horsemen will be wearing Beiber dog tags.
Oh wow…scented dog tags…but what if my dog does not want to smell like Justin Bieber? I think he’d aspire more to a Rin-Tin-Tin sort of fragrance – ruggedly masculine so as to catch Lassie’s attention.
In case you missed the discussion above, “dog tags” are known to Americans as identifying metal tags worn on a neck chain by soldiers. They’re not really for dogs in this instance.
I was trying to make a lame joke…
Oh, sorry. Pardon the lame explanation, then. 🙂
Just Garrot Me Now! Please, SOMEBODY! OH LORD!
How old is Justin?…he looks like my 13 yr old kid…uh oh…a little scary…am getting older
He’s got a pretty voice. But than, his voice chords haven’t changed yet…
Oh Lordy.