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Piers Morgan Takes It Off for Burger King Perfume Ad

Celebrity perfumes are clearly not something new, being actually often described as the safest segment for stars to branch out and make certain profit. However, if there ever was an unlikely celebrity-cosmetics brand collaboration, or fragrance for that matter, then that must be Piers Morgan of Britain’s Got Ta...

15 June 2009
13:21 GMT

All Men Should Wear Perfume

A trace of musk is often more than enough to make women turn their heads after a man passing them on the street, even if the guy in question is not necessarily good looking for their standards. Perfume should be a man’s never-missing last piece of his “outfit,” but only granted it’s used accor...

21 May 2009
14:21 GMT

Uma Thurman Is the New Face of Givenchy

Celebrity endorsements are such a common practice these days that they almost come as a second profession, if you will, for the stars who are lucky enough to get such contracts. Uma Thurman, for one, has made good money with her many endorsements – and she’s about to add yet another contract to her belt, ...

16 April 2009
14:51 GMT

Reviving a 3,500-Year-Old Perfume

Each time archaeologists discover something that belonged to the ancient Egyptian pharaohs, they are overwhelmed with joy upon unearthing items that are more than 2 or 3 millennia old. But recently, one of their discoveries has made the entire community buzz with excitement – researchers have found a perfectly-...

16 March 2009
04:33 GMT

New Meat Flavor for Christmas from Burger King

Finding the right Christmas presents for the loved ones is not that easy in these difficult recession times. Maybe that's one of the reasons why many companies have upgraded their offers not only to meet the wishes of the pickiest of their customers, but also to help them stick to the budget. Burger King follows...

18 December 2008
03:01 GMT

Perfume Vials from Christ's Time Found in Israel

A group of Franciscan researchers claim they have discovered some perfume vials which resemble the ones used by the woman that the Bible mentions to have washed Jesus Christ’s feet. The archaeologists stumbled upon the amphoras while performing dig works in the biblical town of Magdala, now occupied by Israeli ...

11 December 2008
17:51 GMT

Christina Aguilera Launches Inspire Fragrance

Christina Aguilera is one of the few pop icons to walk in the shoes of a “natural-born” perfume designer and to do it so well. The latest, Inspire, was just launched recently, at Macy's Glendale Galleria in LA. The new fragrance is especially designed to combine modern and classical notes, floral and...

9 December 2008
05:00 GMT

Kate Moss Promotes "Velvet Hour"

Iconic British supermodel Kate Moss masters the art of reinventing herself better than most other celebrities out there, whether we're talking catwalk queens, actors or any other kind of artists. Her modeling career - which some also see as the epitome of fashionable longevity - has been marked by a series of sp...

13 June 2008
04:34 GMT

Queen Latifah to Launch Her Own Fragrance

Celebrity-endorsed beauty products are all the rage these days - well, maybe not for customers as much, but for the celebrities themselves, endorsing a clothes or shoe line or lending your name to a brand of perfume is the latest must-have accessory. Everyone from Paris Hilton to Fergie and LL Cool J are playing the ...

3 June 2008
06:22 GMT

The Latest "It" Trends

Without further ado, we're here to talk about the latest in trendy clothes and accessories. Whether it's a prom-style dress, the latest chunky costume drama jewelry or a particularly hot fragrance, this summer time has come to forget most of our past prejudices and open our eyes to new and exciting things -...

19 May 2008
09:12 GMT

New Perfumes Smell Like Sweat, Blood, Saliva and Sperm

In the end, that's nothing odd on this. On one side, researches showed that man's armpit sweat does contain pheromones, and if they do not make women enter in heat like animals, they do change some hormonal concentrations and brain chemistry. On the other hand, one of the most appreciated and expensive sce...

17 March 2008
14:06 GMT

The Disease of Technology: MCS

We live in a world of synthetic chemicals. They are found from our food to all the objects around us. Many of them are toxic. And some can trigger what is called Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). For example, you may say you live in a healthy countryside, but the pesticides they throw in the neighboring crop field...

18 December 2007
14:06 GMT

The Best Perfume Coming From Vomit

If we pay huge prices for perfumes coming from the anal glands of the musk deer and civet cat and coffee coming from the dung of civet cat, why should we be surprised by the fact that one the most expensive perfumes is actually vomit?Ambergris comes from the intestines of the sperm whales. It is actually a biliary se...

6 October 2007
13:02 GMT

How to Get Vanilla Perfume from Cow Dung

Well, many things have a nasty smell, but what about that nasty thing smelling like vanilla? If not the whole thing, at least part of it...A team at the state-run International Medical Center of Japan has managed, in co-operation with Sekisui Chemical Co, to extract vanilla scent from cow dung. "A one-hour heating an...

6 October 2007
06:37 GMT

No Margarita, No Boots, No Vagina on Display. Hey, Is This Britney?

Why did I feel the need to write yet another post on Britney and her ad for her new BELIEVE fragrance? Well, if you really must know, I realized I might have a thing or two to add concerning the pop princess everyone knows to be an alcoholic and an overall braniac (in her own words) and everyone's desire to expl...

28 September 2007
09:37 GMT

Celebrity Sniff-Off: Diddy Vs Mimi

No, this isn't a pet contest and we're definitely not fighting over who's got the dog with the smelliest breath. This time, it's celebrities gone fully haywire on the perfume front. But someone is definitely out sniffing for a chance to get more media attention. And no, wrong again, no one's ...

27 September 2007
08:38 GMT

Is a Woman's Beauty the Same Worldwide?

Globalization may bring us together, but when it's about beauty, our culture, geography and even religion mark our cosmetic and aesthetic tastes. Not all women are the same. There are important cultural differences which determine the beauty of their facial expression. Apart from its personality and fashion tast...

22 September 2007
06:28 GMT

Posh Blogs. That's Major!

Stop the presses! About two weeks passed by and Victoria Beckham was nowhere to be seen. And, by nowhere, I obviously mean shopping. Clearly, Posh's absence from all those shops that have anxiously been waiting for her to hit LA with her army of bodyguards and the always present crowd of photographers and camera...

14 August 2007
06:27 GMT

In Photoshop We Trust

Thanks to the almighty and ever-present paparazzi and their ceaseless work (not to mention the countless hours spent hounding and stalking celebs), we know by now that we're never to believe what we see in magazines. Celebrities are also humans (duh!) and therefore, their bodies are also subject to the little pe...

11 August 2007
04:44 GMT

How Did Ancient Greeks Smell Like?

We look at the Middle Ages and we tend to think that precarious hygiene and "skunk" scent characterized the human kind till relatively recent times. Wrong. A new exhibition in Rome reveals to us how people during the Bronze Age employed refined and sophisticated perfumes, typically a mix of natural spices and olive o...

28 March 2007
07:16 GMT

...Get the Best Perfume from the Cat's A**...

Does it come as a surprise for you to find that your extremely costly perfume comes from a cat's ass? One of the first famous and highly valued perfumes, named Civet, comes from the civet cat and is an ancient article of commerce. In Arabia and Africa, civet is employed for millennia and in Arabia it's stil...

2 March 2007
10:55 GMT


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