A new fragrance based on the movie Twilight has just been released (smells like lavender and freesia! Shaped like a pretty apple!) and, though I'm sure it will be a massive hit among tweens, I'm dying to know how many actual grownups will buy it. I mean, even if in secret, or secretly ashamed, we know that adult women are reading the books (if you don't believe me, ask your friends or check out the very serious site TwilightMoms.com). And they're enjoying them. The Twilight franchise has reconnected non-teenage readers to their hyper-romantic 15-year-old selves, the ones who spent high school feeling awkward and left out and really just wanted to be liked by a super-cute, super-nice boy (and NOT have sex). But will that adolescent nostalgia translate to wanting a perfume? More specifically, the question becomes: Would you be more embarrassed to wear the scent of young Bella than to live vicariously through her erotic pubescent tales?
Twilight perfume, $48
Oh, and on a completely unrelated note, Perez Hilton points out that there might be a big scandal involving the perfume's design, which looks like this:
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Should grown women wear the Twilight fragrance?
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