Britney Spears has launched Blissful Fantasy, a new fragrance for women. Last year, she introduced Electric Fantasy. Both scents are limited edition flankers to 2005′s Britney Spears Fantasy…
Vetiver, the zesty scent
Vetiver, the zesty scent that [David Bowie] wore the day they met and every day after, is balanced with hints of bergamot and blackberry, which bring to mind the Italian countryside where they were married. “Florence was on my mind so much throughout the process of formulating the fragrance because the sunset upstate reminded me of the times we spent in Tuscany,” says Iman... “All the memories came flooding back,” she continues, noting that the packaging is printed with a distinctive sunset scene she painted herself. There’s a trace of rose as well, a tribute to Bowie’s British heritage. “You know, he always wanted to go back to England,” she says.
— Iman launches Love Memoir at HSN. Read more (and see pictures of her house in the Catskills) in Iman Launches Her First Fragrance Inspired By Her Love Story With David Bowie at Vogue via Yahoo Life.
He never bothered to look at the products or smell the products
Mr. Carter testified he never bothered to look at the products or smell the products. What does this tell you? It tells you ... it was all baloney.
— That's Parlux’s attorney Anthony Viola, providing one last juicy nugget from the Parlux vs Shawn Carter lawsuit, which ended yesterday in a lose for everybody (Parlux lost their suit for $67 million in damages and Jay-Z lost his $6 million countersuit). Read more in NYC jury clears Jay-Z in breach of contract suit brought by perfume company at Daily News, or see Jury Clears Jay-Z In $68M Cologne Contract Case at Law360.
Crappy, lazy work
The rap mogul recalled the moment he learned his cologne, Gold Jay Z, hit the shelves of a Superdrug, a UK-based drugstore. “It’s crappy, lazy work,” the “99 Problems” rapper testified during his second day on the witness stand in perfume company Parlux’s lawsuit against him. [...]
In an email shown to the jury, the rapper also ripped a commercial that Parlux made for the fragrance, which depicted liquid gold being dripped on a woman’s body, as “B rate.” “Pretty much like all of their ideas — lazy,” he testified of the commercial.
— Jay-Z testified for a second day in Parlux vs Shawn Carter. Read more in Jay-Z calls perfume company’s work ‘lazy,’ ‘crappy’ at contract trial at New York Post.
I wanted great products
Carter almost seemed to enjoy a moment, mid-afternoon, when Viola read aloud a 2014 email in which the rapper had written that “the partners” on the perfume release “suck.” The star was quick to tell the court (twice) that “the partners” referred to Parlux. “I wanted great products and these guys didn’t understand,” the star added. “It was so frustrating working with them.”
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Adding insult to alleged injury, the fragrance company said the rapper rejected a design for a Gold Jay-Z bottle with an 18-karat gold exterior that was worth over $20,000, but that he pocketed the prototype.
— Parlux vs Shawn Carter gets going. Read more in Jay-Z Testifies in Perfume Lawsuit: ‘You Have Me on Trial for Something I Didn’t Do’ at Rolling Stone.