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Miller et Bertaux Oh, ooOoh …oh ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 9 November 2012 44 Comments

Miller et Bertaux Oh, ooOoh ...oh

Niche line Miller et Bertaux has introduced Oh, ooOoh ...oh (mist, wood, wind and guitar):

Oh, ooOoh ...oh from Miller et Bertaux is an eau de parfum composed like a folk ballad in which the chords lead us along the street.

In California, along the coasts.
A wood home in front of the sea barely visible.
A veil of fog.
A fire burning in the fireplace
A gin tonic
The smell of withered grass
Around the huge, US nature
Artemisia bushes, juniper tree
The big red trees, the sequoias.
Down there, beyond the plain, spirals of sacred smokes rise from an Indian camp.
The night smells of bitter orange flowers

Oh, ooOoh …oh
A voice arises. That of a free cowboy, a poet.
With a stone he carved a heart on the bark of a cedar tree

Oh, ooOoh …oh
A perfume of wind, wood, fog and guitar

Oh, ooOoh …oh
Folk, natural and sexy

Miller et Bertaux Oh, ooOoh ...oh is available in 100 ml Eau de Parfum, and can be found now at First in Fragrance in Germany, €94.

(via first-in-fragrance, additional information via extrait.it)

Filed Under: new fragrances
Tagged With: miller bertaux

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  1. Ari says:
    9 November 2012 at 10:35 am

    Lol, LooOol … lol

    LOL!

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    • Robin says:
      9 November 2012 at 11:05 am

      Excellent!

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    • Haunani says:
      10 November 2012 at 10:54 pm

      Ha!

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  2. Janet says:
    9 November 2012 at 10:46 am

    Where is a music video when you need one?
    Oh, ooOoh …oh!

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    • Robin says:
      9 November 2012 at 11:06 am

      Exactly!

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  3. Erin says:
    9 November 2012 at 10:51 am

    Do you think you’re actually driving niche creation now? This must have been created purposefully for the Prix Eau Faux. Mist, wood, wind and guitar? The Indian Camp? Noone will top this. Is it April 1st? Have I been in a coma? Do I speak English? What language is this?

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    • Robin says:
      9 November 2012 at 11:06 am

      Ha! They want to win the gift certificate :-)

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    • Rappleyea says:
      9 November 2012 at 11:13 am

      ROTFL!! And so true!

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  4. 50_Roses says:
    9 November 2012 at 11:08 am

    With a name like that, I would expect it to smell like an owl ;)

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  5. JolieFleurs says:
    9 November 2012 at 11:08 am

    Dear God, this is insane.The name is just batcrap stupid, but they copy….. maybe it sounds better in French?

    Does anyone else hear the Braves Tomahawk Chop when they see the title?

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    • Lucy says:
      9 November 2012 at 11:29 am

      I do now! This is going to be in my head all day.

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  6. Lucy says:
    9 November 2012 at 11:28 am

    I’m having more fun reading this as a poem than a folk song…narrated by Brad Pitt. :)

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    • KateReed says:
      9 November 2012 at 3:07 pm

      Or William Shatner.

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      • Thalia says:
        9 November 2012 at 3:40 pm

        OH! (oooh oh) — I’d pay cash money to hear Shatner read this.

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    • Emily says:
      9 November 2012 at 6:56 pm

      Has anyone else heard that intensely dour and mannered recording of T.S. Eliot reading “The Waste Land”? I think his intonation and delivery would be ideally suited to this ad copy. (Especially see lines 128-130: “O O O O that Shakespearean Rag / It’s so elegant / So intelligent”)

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      • Robin says:
        9 November 2012 at 9:14 pm

        YES! Had that on LP, back in the day.

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  7. Abyss says:
    9 November 2012 at 11:29 am

    – I like your perfume, what’s it called?
    – !!!

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    • dewey eyed says:
      9 November 2012 at 11:49 am

      Even better, the band !!! comes out with a scent called ???.

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  8. Duke of Pall Mall says:
    9 November 2012 at 11:47 am

    Hmm, maybe legalizing pot isn’t such a good idea after all…

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    • Emily says:
      9 November 2012 at 6:50 pm

      “spirals of sacred smoke” … mmm hmm.

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  9. Thalia says:
    9 November 2012 at 12:13 pm

    Ah, yes — the Indian camps and cowboys and big red trees of California — and all around the huge, US nature …

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  10. VanMorrisonFan says:
    9 November 2012 at 1:15 pm

    I like the gin and tonic part…are there refills?

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  11. fakejazzz says:
    9 November 2012 at 4:30 pm

    dear everyone on this website can anyone tell me if iti s possible to contact someone like private message i cant figure out how to do this thank you

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    • JolieFleurs says:
      9 November 2012 at 6:53 pm

      fakejazz, there is no private message function as far as I’m aware.

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      • Robin says:
        9 November 2012 at 9:13 pm

        That’s correct…no messaging function.

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  12. Emily says:
    9 November 2012 at 6:48 pm

    This is quite possibly the daftest chunk of verbiage ever composed in the entire history of human endeavor.

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    • Emily says:
      9 November 2012 at 7:16 pm

      (and I am speaking as someone who wrote a B.A. thesis on a book-length 18th-century poem written by an inhabitant of a London insane asylum; and then went to grad school to study experimental literature)

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      • Thalia says:
        9 November 2012 at 7:38 pm

        Oh, oh! Jubilate Agno? Someone should do a perfume called My Cat Jeoffrey — I’d wear that.

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        • Emily says:
          10 November 2012 at 5:35 pm

          Yes, it was Jubilate Agno! And I would be a sucker for ANY Jeoffrey-themed products.

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      • NinaraPoll says:
        10 November 2012 at 12:49 am

        *bows reverently to you*

        NP

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        • Emily says:
          10 November 2012 at 5:38 pm

          Ha! Quite unnecessary, I assure you. :)

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  13. djron91 says:
    9 November 2012 at 7:43 pm

    If you look at the Miller et Bertaux line – they all have non-traditional names. What sets this fragrance apart is the inspiration – California/west coast Americana .. as opposed to eastern mysticism/spirituality.

    I was in Paris last month and bumped into both of them at their store. Last year, I bought “close your eyes, and .. ” and its a contemplative fragrance for me. I was flummoxed when I realized that the two guys in the store WERE Miller and BErtaux – we chatted a good bit. They let me smell the fragrance and it was something quite special.

    Yes, the copy is a bit quirk.. and easy to laugh at .. but if you go back and read their other ad copy – it strangely fits.

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    • Regina says:
      13 November 2012 at 12:37 pm

      I’m in your camp – perhaps an Indian camp? – I love all the M&B fragrances, especially A quiet morning and Green green green & green, and so however ridiculous the copy is, this is a must-try for me.

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  14. Marjorie Rose says:
    9 November 2012 at 9:25 pm

    Hmm.
    Would the lighter flanker be Eau Oh OooOooh oh?

    If they made if for clowns. . . Bozo Oohooh oh?

    At a diner. . . cuppa Joe ohooh oh?

    If Homer Simpson were the cover model, Oh DohOooh oh?

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    • AnnE says:
      9 November 2012 at 9:40 pm

      I’ve often wished for an emoticon of a Felix the Cat laugh – you know, the one where he’s leaning backwards holding both his hands over his belly. LOL!

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    • Emily says:
      10 November 2012 at 5:34 pm

      Would Oh DohOooh oh smell like Duff beer?

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      • Marjorie Rose says:
        11 November 2012 at 9:59 am

        With a hint of old couch!

        Actually, I can’t quite scrub the image of Homer Simpson lounging in a field of flowers like a perfume model! Or maybe sauntering down a glass staircase to meet a tiger? :D

        Or maybe he should perform the Brad Pitt Chanel monologue?

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  15. CobraRose says:
    9 November 2012 at 10:05 pm

    Ooo-ee-oo-aa-ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang.

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    • 50_Roses says:
      9 November 2012 at 10:39 pm

      :D

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    • katymae16 says:
      11 November 2012 at 12:38 am

      You win.

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  16. NinaraPoll says:
    10 November 2012 at 12:46 am

    I’m still too busy laughing to attempt a coherent comment. Thank you so much for this!

    NP

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  17. body67 says:
    10 November 2012 at 4:00 am

    this must be the stupidest name ever!! predict a major fail and no sales based on their idiotic choice which will make them change it a few months down the line (hopefully).

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  18. Omega says:
    10 November 2012 at 8:57 am

    Pillsbury Dough Boy likes the name..’ooooh ahhh oooh poppin’ fresh dough.’ Member those commericals? lol

    The smell of wind, does wind smell? I mean unless you’ve eaten bad Mexican food?

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    • Emily says:
      10 November 2012 at 5:32 pm

      Okay, I will henceforth be unable to think of this perfume name NOT being pronounced by the Doughboy. And I have a new appreciation for Uncle Serge’s restraint in naming Jeux de Peau.

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