French actress Mélanie Laurent in a new ad for Christian Dior's Hypnotic Poison. The music is Nina Simone singing I Put A Spell On You.
Below the jump, an older ad with model Milla Jovovich, followed by a short 2010 ad with actress Monica Bellucci.
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The Idole d’Armani commercial with the same music was just 2 years ago! And it was much, much better!
Thank you so much — I just KNEW somebody had used that recently & couldn’t think of it.
https://nstperfume.com/2009/09/30/everyone-says-that/
KITTEH!!!
🙂
LOL! That was my favorite part, too. 😛
Milla Jovovich’s ad pwned Mélanie Laurent’s.
Totally agree. Although really, poor Monica Bellucci is the real loser here.
I am trying to equivocate that “perfume ad French” accent to an American one but I just can’t do it! I don’t think there is one. As a Brit accent, it would be posh like Sienna Miller or Toby Stephens.
We don’t have that any more, do we? I think certain kinds of Mass. accents used to be seen as posh, but not at all sure they are now.
Long Island used to be posh once apparently – i.e. Grey Gardens. (Just watched the movie-version of that finally, with Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lang. Stunning.)
I never saw the fictional movie, just the documentary. It is funny — Edie’s accent does not sound “posh” to me at all. Maybe once it sounded posh. I think maybe now, in the US, having any discernible regional accent is unposh?
That second ad made me all “OMG she’s pouring pure parfum on. the. FLOOR!?” Other than my soul weeping at watching that parfum go to waste, I really like the gothy-ness of that second ad. 😀
Oh dear, then you won’t like this:
https://nstperfume.com/2010/05/24/you-left-the-cap-off/
That’s not Milla Jovovich in the second ad – she was in the print ads, but not the commercial for some reason. But yes, it’s a more interesting spot than the other two combined. (Notice how Dior had a first name back then?)
Oh dear — do you know who it is?