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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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The Celebrity Fragrance Hall Of Shame

Dancing With the Stars recently replaced QVC, in our mind at least, as the last refuge for one-time A-listers still looking for life in the limelight, but a new final destination for fame-seekers seems to be emerging, courtesy of the beauty industry. The world of celebrity fragrance, long home to big names and pseudo-celebrities looking to capitalize on the medium’s mass appeal, appears to be getting an unlikely pair of new acolytes in the coming months. Amy Winehouse’s alleged desire to license her name to a perfume house made big news around the blogosphere last week. A host of reports about GM’s new Cadillac fragrance, which is set to debut this fall, received somewhat less attention, but of the two it’s the one we find more entertaining. Produced by Beauty Contact Inc., a Dubai-based cosmetic company, the automotive-inspired scent boasts notes of grapefruit, chamomile, geranium, tarragon, and cinnamon, rather than “new car smell,” and is a commemorative effort to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the luxury sedan. Whether or not the new fragrance is intended as a post-bailout revenue-generator, it’s an intriguing endeavor, although we’re not totally convinced that the resources wouldn’t have been better spent on, say, developing electric cars and more hybrids. But we’ll keep our expertise to beauty for now. Would you douse yourself in either perfume?


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  • VictoriaB's Avatar
    Posted by VictoriaB Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:51am PDT

    Amy Winehouse doesn't exactly look like she smells good...perhaps they should pick a different spokesmodel. One who, like, bathes, and stuff...

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  • p4recious's Avatar
    Posted by p4recious Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:04am PDT

    NO I refuse I do not buy expensive perfumes In our town we have a couple who make scents and are included in quite a few of using them .This place is very inexpensive 3-6 a bottle you can get a matching lotion soap a linen spray they are very successful very kind a lot of business goes in and they haven't raise a price in 4yrs. trying to keep people happy they had customers say if ya have to then so be it they asked a question how much increase would be fair the outcome was truly amazing some said 1-2.00 they were very happy and agreed if they did they would start with change first they haven't yet ...it seems as though they are more busy now then before they asked the customers...love this place

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    Posted by Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:06am PDT

    OMG, VictoriaB - I couldn't agree more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Rebekah's Avatar
    Posted by Rebekah Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:41am PDT

    They totally should have gone for the new-car smell, idealized. Leather and spice, you know. Then make it a men's cologne.

    Rock on, VictoriaB. What would an Amy Winehouse perfume smell like? B.O. and booze?

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  • Mo B's Avatar
    Posted by Mo B Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:44am PDT

    I can't see why an automobile company would ever come out with a perfume. I agree that it seems like a waste of money, I mean who would buy a cadillac perfume. Amy Winehouse, I can't imagine buying anything she endorses. And yes I agree she looks like she stinks, mayb it's the whole crackhead look but I would never buy a perfume from someone who looked like that.

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  • deleta's Avatar
    Posted by deleta Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:24am PDT

    Brittney Spears' perfume is not bad and has cute bottles.

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  • Sarah's Avatar
    Posted by Sarah Sat Aug 1, 2009 2:54pm PDT

    who would WANT to smell like a strung out, scrawney, tat-ed up, hoe? i would not wear winehouse's perfume, bleck.

    if that was what i was going for i could just hang out by the docks with the hookers and get the smell of 2 day old BO, cigs and alcahol for free.

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  • Sarah's Avatar
    Posted by Sarah Sat Aug 1, 2009 2:55pm PDT

    alcohol* lol

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