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The blood is sort of primal

Posted by Robin on 22 February 2011 70 Comments

In terms of the process of creating the perfume, I wanted to extract the feeling and the sense of blood and semen from molecular structures...That is in the perfume but it doesn't smell like it.

You just get the after-feeling of sex from the semen and then the blood is sort of primal. It was taken out of my own blood sample, so it's a sense of having me on your skin.

— Lady Gaga, on her upcoming perfume with Coty. Read more at Gaga Put Her Blood Into Making Perfume at Contact Music.

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  1. Julia says:
    22 February 2011 at 9:48 am

    Ew. I don’t want Lady Gaga on my skin. Also, blood and semen has already been done by ELd’O.

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    • Robin says:
      22 February 2011 at 9:57 am

      As she says, “it doesn’t smell like it”…so that sets it apart from the ELdO scent 🙂

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    • boojum says:
      22 February 2011 at 11:54 am

      She already gets *under* my skin, don’t need her on it, too.

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      • Julia says:
        22 February 2011 at 6:00 pm

        LOL. I did like her appearance on GMA promoting her new Viva Glam lipstick from MAC (her second). The proceeds go to MAC’s HIV/AIDS initiative and she seemed very earnest and sincere in her support. Unfortunately, it is the colour of peanut butter which I think will be as unflattering on me as the first hideous pink one was. Any word about a portion of the profits of the perfume going to charity?

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        • ol rait says:
          23 February 2011 at 12:39 am

          I do believe that 100% of Viva Glam’s proceeds go to charity.

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  2. Valkyrie says:
    22 February 2011 at 9:55 am

    at least maybe it will be weird but wearable instead of boring fruity floral in a flashy bottle.

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    • Robin says:
      22 February 2011 at 9:59 am

      In the same article, she says it smells like an expensive hooker. To me, that sounds like it will not be at all weird. My original guess was strawberry sorbet & pink pepper, and I will amend it slightly since she says she didn’t want fruit, but I’m sticking with the overall point which is that it won’t be weird at all.

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      • March says:
        22 February 2011 at 11:58 am

        Yes, $20 says it’ll smell fairly generic, or how’s she going to sell it for Coty?

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        • ceelouise says:
          22 February 2011 at 12:05 pm

          I’m also betting it won’t be original.

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      • miss kitty v. says:
        22 February 2011 at 4:01 pm

        Expensive hooker… So that would be Putain des Palaces that she would *really* be ripping off, then? Man, she can’t cut ELdO a break.

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        • Julia says:
          22 February 2011 at 6:02 pm

          Heh, heh. If she mentions floral ashtrays I’m calling shenanigans.

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        • Dolly2 says:
          22 February 2011 at 7:34 pm

          Ha! I wonder if price and fragrance choices would be an option:
          Gaga’s perfume vs. Expensive hooker.
          Decisions, decisions!

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  3. dewey eyed says:
    22 February 2011 at 10:01 am

    Madonna doesn’t have a scent, does she? Because it would only make sense that Gaga’s would smell nearly identical, just louder.

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    • Robin says:
      22 February 2011 at 10:37 am

      No 🙂

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    • eaudemale says:
      22 February 2011 at 10:53 am

      I see what you did here

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  4. Tara says:
    22 February 2011 at 10:07 am

    ICK….I don’t want anyone’s blood on me…ever!

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    • Robin says:
      22 February 2011 at 10:38 am

      There won’t be any real blood in the perfume. Sounds like maybe they did headspace technology to capture the smell.

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      • Bonbori says:
        22 February 2011 at 5:44 pm

        Maybe they just told her they used headspace technology.

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  5. elise says:
    22 February 2011 at 10:19 am

    My guess is also: Fruity Floral in some giant weird bottle…I’ll bet you $5 the perfume or bottle is red!…If I wear it, will I attract vampires? hmmm…

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  6. mixiemay says:
    22 February 2011 at 10:29 am

    Is this a joke?

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    • KateReed says:
      22 February 2011 at 1:17 pm

      I was thinking that it had to be. After all, this is the same chick that said she was celibate because she was afraid that if she had sex, evil spirits would crawl up through her vagina and suck out all her creativity. *rolls eyes*

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      • AnnS says:
        22 February 2011 at 1:39 pm

        Thanks for my first good laugh of the day. Evil spirits indeed. Maybe she could get some of those in her ridiculous potion as well. 😉

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    • krokodilgena says:
      22 February 2011 at 5:20 pm

      yes, she’s enjoying trolling people and getting money from it because people are clueless and impressionable.

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      • Bonbori says:
        22 February 2011 at 5:45 pm

        I think you’re right about the troll which is why this bugs me.

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  7. marko says:
    22 February 2011 at 10:35 am

    Hey – NOBODY puts their blood and semen on me with out at least buying me dinner first!

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    • Tara says:
      22 February 2011 at 10:42 am

      LOL!!!!!

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    • Dolly2 says:
      22 February 2011 at 7:44 pm

      LOL!!!!!!!
      So, she says it’s the after sex feeling from the semen? Well at least we have a clue that it will stick to your skin once dry!
      Sorry to have spoken Gaganese folks.

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      • Meg says:
        22 February 2011 at 11:38 pm

        Hmmm…. seems like some oddly heteronormative marketing considering all her pro-queer proclamations.

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  8. Rappleyea says:
    22 February 2011 at 10:42 am

    Somebody send her a sample of Secretions Magnifique. 😉

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    • AnnS says:
      22 February 2011 at 1:42 pm

      It would be interesting if she did sniff SM without exactly knowing what it was. I bet her reaction would be very grossed out. But if someone told her ahead of time what it is, I bet she’d fawn all over it. It’s all a big tough girl act.

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      • jen5arah says:
        22 February 2011 at 4:47 pm

        I need to smell this – I am really curious!

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      • Daisy says:
        22 February 2011 at 7:47 pm

        I think Ann has it right on the nose!

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      • Amanda says:
        22 February 2011 at 9:28 pm

        Exactly. She’d be all over SM if she knew what it was… I get the whole art side of it, and the comment on religious rituals, blood of Christ etc, but I’m totally with you she would turn up her nose at something like SM without its press release. Although I can’t claim that if I didn’t know anything about it, that I would be running out for a bottle either…

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  9. Owen says:
    22 February 2011 at 11:27 am

    I WANT GAGA ON MY SKIN !! I hope it’s weird but wearable.
    can’t wait to see what the bottle looks like too.

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    • Owen says:
      22 February 2011 at 11:30 am

      I don’t want to smell like an expensive hooker though 🙁

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      • Rictor07 says:
        22 February 2011 at 11:35 am

        do you want to smell like a cheap hooker?

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        • AnnS says:
          22 February 2011 at 1:42 pm

          😉 I will probably smell like Tabu.

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  10. Merlin says:
    22 February 2011 at 11:49 am

    ‘I wanted to extract the feeling and the sense of blood and semen from molecular structures…That is in the perfume but it doesn’t smell like it.’
    Huh?

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    • Morgan says:
      22 February 2011 at 12:27 pm

      That’s what I thought.

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    • Robin says:
      22 February 2011 at 2:02 pm

      Made sense to me…she seemed to be saying those notes don’t dominate the perfume.

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      • Merlin says:
        22 February 2011 at 2:46 pm

        Even if the notes don’t dominate – they still need to register (smell) if they are to be notes. Its kinda like she wants to backtrack by saying there will be some similarity in molecular structure (on a micro level) but its not going to have any of the pong, so don’t worry!

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        • Robin says:
          22 February 2011 at 3:07 pm

          Don’t want to argue, but I can’t agree with the idea that they need to register to consumers in order to be listed as notes…they can contribute to the overall effect without registering as “blood” or “semen” in any way. For that matter, they can easily be listed as notes and not be present in any way, shape or form in the formula — it isn’t like there are any regulations that prevent it.

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          • Merlin says:
            22 February 2011 at 3:28 pm

            Can’t argue with that – even if I want to ( :

  11. Gilty says:
    22 February 2011 at 12:20 pm

    A truly original, outlaw move would be to just say no to the massive selling out/cashing in that is the celebrity perfume mill…

    Just saying…

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  12. Ladyslipper says:
    22 February 2011 at 1:03 pm

    What a weird brod…

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    • krokodilgena says:
      22 February 2011 at 5:13 pm

      that’s what she wants you to think.

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      • Ladyslipper says:
        22 February 2011 at 5:51 pm

        so true

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    • Dolly2 says:
      22 February 2011 at 7:45 pm

      Wonder what her follow-up fragrance will be called? Excreetment perhaps?

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  13. Ari says:
    22 February 2011 at 1:08 pm

    I can’t believe she has the nerve to blatantly rip off a very recently created perfume, especially considering it’s probably become more well-known since Turin and Sanchez called it one of the 5 sexiest scents in Allure recently. This is just in really bad taste.

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    • Dolly2 says:
      22 February 2011 at 7:54 pm

      Ari- I was flipping through the channels a few weeks ago and an entertainment reporter had mentioned that she really doesn’t bring anything new to shock people.This has been done to death by Madonna, who, he went on to say, Gaga has borrowed heavily from. Just like Brittany Spears and Madonna

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      • Dolly2 says:
        22 February 2011 at 7:58 pm

        Sorry, I said it twice in one sentence: Madonn

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        • Dolly2 says:
          22 February 2011 at 7:59 pm

          One last time before I realize I just got off work and need to go to bed: Madonna

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    • Lovetosmell says:
      22 February 2011 at 10:54 pm

      This is my thoughts exactly the nerve of her.Either she didn’t know and just wants to shock people or she knew and ripped it off.But, she should of done her homework.What gets me is how she has all these little girls that look up to her and its like oh here is a fragrance that smells like blood and semen.Way to go….fail.She should of just been the face of a fragrance instead like I could see her going with Jean Paul Gautier that could of worked.

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  14. becca b says:
    22 February 2011 at 1:41 pm

    I feel like someone has to stick up for Gaga, even if just a little. Yes, there is already one perfume out there that smells of blood, sweat, semen and all other things human and unholy. But as far as my count goes, there’s just…one. Perhaps the intense reaction on here is more so because there is just that one other (Secretions) and the direct comparison becomes that much more obvious…

    No one seems to lay into other celebrities nearly as much for their “creations” even when the fragrances are so incredibly derivative they aren’t worth smelling at all.

    Point is, most of the people who will be buying Gaga’s juice (ewww, ick, I know, double entendre, but had to) will not even be aware of Secretions Magnifique’s existence, and for those buyers the idea will be fresh and strange. I think people are so caught up in the plagiarizing of ELd’O’s perfume-cum-artwork, that they are ignoring the fact that, when the perfume industry (especially the celebrity scent industry) is considered, what Gaga is doing is really quite unique, and interesting, if not a little over-wrought in forced Gaga-esque “weirdness.”

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    • Katie Puckrik says:
      22 February 2011 at 7:01 pm

      Here’s where I pipe up eagerly to list all the other semen-containing perfumes (that I know of): 6 Scents Series 3 No. 4 Ascent, Thierry Mugler Cologne, and Le Labo Musc 25. But true, the only one with dollops of blood *and* semen is SM….

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      • Merlin says:
        22 February 2011 at 7:21 pm

        Gosh! Better keep those away from my Petite Mort…

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      • Marjorie Rose says:
        22 February 2011 at 10:05 pm

        I think FM Dans Tes Bras smells like sweaty-post-sex skin, too.

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    • Meg says:
      22 February 2011 at 11:49 pm

      “perfume-cum-artwork” LOL!

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      • becca b says:
        23 February 2011 at 8:47 am

        I thought it was appropriate!

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  15. halimeade says:
    22 February 2011 at 3:08 pm

    Whaaaaaaaaaaatever. : D I will sniff it, because I really like her music, but I’m not convinced it will be strange enough to warrant the flamboyant flavor text.

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  16. Bonbori says:
    22 February 2011 at 5:43 pm

    “That is in the perfume but it doesn’t smell like it.” This is so dumb people. Now Katy Perry and Paris Hilton can say, ‘Yeah we put our blood in our perfume too, see you can’t really *smell* it … but it’s in there, that’s why its so smexy! … even tho you can’t really smell it’. Gaga seems savvy, drops designer’s names right and left and she wears couture, so I’d expect better from her.

    Too bad she didn’t collaborate with Mugler on *this* project 🙁

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    • Lovetosmell says:
      22 February 2011 at 11:01 pm

      Yeah Mugler could of worked for her.Or maybe LOL the new face for Angel.But, I do think she should of just been the face of a fragrance.But, I think she is back tracking saying her blood was used to create the fragrance but, then says you can’t smell it.Its like she is going to end up with a generic fruity floral in the end.Its been said that she wears Strawberries and Champagne body spray why couldn’t she just do something after her own favorite scent.

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  17. Dolly2 says:
    22 February 2011 at 7:30 pm

    What people won’t do for publicity. I wonder who’s semen she’s going to use. LOL

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  18. Absolute Scentualist says:
    22 February 2011 at 8:55 pm

    Coming to this party kind of late but seriously… Please, just stop, Gaga. I got more than enough blood and semen from Secretions Magnifique, which still haunts and traumatizes my scent memory the way patchouli oil exploded in a favorite purse and, despite huge cleaning efforts and replacing all the items in said purse, still smelled like Woodstock was hiding under my MAC and Urban Decay stuff months later. In fact, I sometimes still expect to smell patch when I open my purse, which would still be waaay better than Secretions Magnifique.

    I’m already bored and tired of this perfume and the *actual* official publicity hasn’t started yet. So don’t care.

    Sorry for the snark with extra snark sauce served with a side of snark, but it’s been a really long day and I am the opposite of feeling this. I wish it would go away and it hasn’t even arrived. 😉

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    • Marjorie Rose says:
      22 February 2011 at 10:06 pm

      🙂

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  19. moore says:
    22 February 2011 at 11:03 pm

    Huuugh!!! Blood should stay inside our veins or on mine wounded patients. And semen, excert for mine, HAVE to be stay away from me…
    Dear Lady Gaga, you’re interestingly freak, but don’t be ridiculous!!!!

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  20. kindcrow says:
    23 February 2011 at 12:48 am

    I bet it’ll be generic white flowers, patch,and amber.

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  21. hongkongmom says:
    23 February 2011 at 4:05 am

    EEW EEW EEW! She and the idea of it on my skin….Even my 14 yr old who is so”open” minded has written a piece about her in a rap song where she he has a night mare he marries her! Seriously, i think she has stepped so way off the balance of everything…even worse is that we do not get shocked about stuff like this anymore. I mean is there no longer clear lines of right and wrong? Everything is legitimate…I think we are heading for a massive need for recalibration!!! (of ethics of our fathers!!!)

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    • Merlin says:
      23 February 2011 at 9:28 am

      Your 14yr old is writing rap? What happened to the days in which 14 year olds wrote Petrarchan sonnets and swooned?

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      • hongkongmom says:
        23 February 2011 at 9:09 pm

        🙂

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