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Lazy weekend poll ~ slutty perfumes

Posted by Robin on 22 September 2012 271 Comments

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I have an interesting mind but I want to smell like a slut to be totally honest. — Lady Gaga (see here)

So, if you had an interesting mind and wanted to smell like a slut, what perfume would you choose?

I don’t think women need to smell interesting

Posted by Robin on 14 September 2012 53 Comments

For those of you who haven’t invested enough time already, here is the full length (5 1/2 minutes, almost certainly NSFW) film for Lady Gaga Fame. The film premiered last night at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, at a ball where Lady Gaga also got a tattoo and napped inside a giant perfume bottle. Below the jump, Lady Gaga explains to CNN that…

I wanted it to smell slutty, to be totally honest. I don’t think that women need to smell, you know, interesting. I have an interesting mind but I want to smell like a slut to be totally honest.

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Lady Gaga Fame ~ perfume review

Posted by Robin on 30 August 2012 172 Comments

Lady Gaga Fame, 2 page advert

[Note: regular readers of Now Smell This, at least, those that don’t skip all the celebrity perfume reviews, have already read this story so many times that a summary should suffice: Fame is exactly what any long-time watcher of the celebrity fragrance market would have expected it to be: a sweetish fruity floral of no particular distinction. Still, it’s wearable enough, and even after spraying it on paper, I was willing to try it on skin, which is more than I can say for Selena Gomez Eau de Parfum.]

As I’ve said here before, I am missing some portion of the gene for true fandom.1 There are famous people whose work I enjoy and whose careers I follow with some interest, but I’m not interested in meeting any of them, I don’t much care about their private lives, and I certainly would not buy a perfume just because some famous person’s name was on it. Maybe because of that, or maybe because I’m rarely more than vaguely familiar with the celebrities who land perfume contracts, I look on the celebrity fragrance market with an attitude somewhere between bemusement and detachment…

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The most important innovation in the fragrance industry in the last 20 years

Posted by Robin on 28 August 2012 24 Comments

She was really behind the most important innovation in the fragrance industry in the last 20 years. She is really pushing boundaries.

— Yael Tuil of Coty, on Lady Gaga's insistence that her new fragrance, Fame, have black juice that sprays clear. Read more at Lady Gaga 'Pushed' Fragrance Industry Boundaries With First Black Perfume at Star Pulse.

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Posted by Robin on 15 August 2012 13 Comments

Yet another short film in support of the Lady Gaga Fame fragrance. This one is possibly NSFW. If you missed the first two, they're here and here.

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