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Khloe Kardashian And Lamar Odom's Steamy Fragrance Ad

Kim Kardashian has a fragrance line and now her younger sister Khloe does too. Khloe Kardashian and her husband, Los Angeles Lakers star Lamar Odom are debuting a new unisex fragrance called Unbreakable which will be sold exclusively at Perfumania stores starting February 12. On her blog Kardashian says that she and Lamar are doing a meet and greet at the Florida Mall Perfumania in Orlando on the day of its release at 7pm.

The pair posed for black and white still images for the campaign and shot a sexy advertisement which shows Kardashian wrapping herself around her shirtless husband. The couple also has their own reality show in the works.

The scent notes say that it is a blend of Italian bergamot, sparkling clementine, Asian saffron, green apple, African geranium, sheer jasmine, lily of the valley, juicy red fruits, texas cedarwood, tonka bean, vanilla bean and dark chocolate. The 3.4 ounce Eau De Toilette spray sells for $42.99.

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Taylor Momsen's Perfume Ad For John Galliano

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Gossip Girl star and Pretty Reckless singer Taylor Momsen is the face of John Galliano's perfume Parlez-Moi d'Amour. The ads, shot by Ellen von Unwerth, show the young starlet in her signature raccoon eyeliner crooning over a love letter while her own song "You" plays in the background. The ads, which seem a little like outtakes from "Burlesque" or "Moulin Rouge" are a companion to the print ads showing a lingerie-clad Momsen with the envelope-shaped bottle with a floral Galliano stamp. The fragrance name means speak to me of love)and the sweetly romantic scent has notes of rose, jasmine, cypress, ginger and blueberry.

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NASCAR Driver Carl Edwards Turns Scent Spokesperson

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Champion NASCAR driver Carl Edwards is the face of Avon's latest fragrance, Turn 4XT. The rather confusing name comes from turn 4, the final curve on the track before the finish line. Edwards is a an American NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and Nationwide Series driver for Roush Fenway Racing and has earned 16 career Sprint Cup victories and a Nationwide Series championship. He's famous for the back flip he performs off the side of his car after a victory. He is also a member of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition.

The scent is describes and being an "oriental wood fresh scent" with spicy pepperwood, java vetiver, mahogany, basil, cilantro, ginger, lavender, amber and sandalwood notes. The fragrance will launch in the U.S. in November 2010. Other celebrities in the Avon stable include Zoe Saldana, Fergie, Reese Witherspoon, Patrick Dempsey, Courteney Cox and Derek Jeter. Check out a video of Edwards after the jump.

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Kate Walsh To Debut Fragrance On HSN

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Actress Kate Walsh is the latest to join the celebrity sellers over at HSN. The "Grey's Anatomy" and "Private Practice" star will launch her first fragrance, Boyfriend, on multichannel retailer HSN and at hsn.com on November 11 and 12, 2010. The collection is a unique new line of five beauty products. Terry Richardson photographed the brand advertising campaign.

The fragrance was inspired by the scent of a "guy on a girl," and has notes of amber and woods mixed with a bright floral scent. Notes include dark plum and myrrh with night blooming jasmine. The Boyfriend Kit, a black train case inspired by a vintage design retails for $79.95 and comes with a miniature fragrance spray, body creme, dry body oil, votive candle and pulse point oil. After HSN, the line will be stocked by Sephora in 2011.

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Katy Perry's Purr-fect Plan For A New Fragrance

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Pop star Katy Perry is following in the footsteps of Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce and so many others by launching her own fragrance. Katy Perry Purr was inspired by Perry's love of cats and a catwoman costume she wore on tour. An early report from WWD indicates we've got another fruit bomb on our hands, the scent will have peach, apple, jasmine, freesia, Bulgarian rose, vanilla, orchid, white amber, green bamboo, sandalwood and musk notes. The cat-shaped bottle will have jeweled eyes and metallic accents. Pow, sounds as sweet as the whipped cream bra she sported in her "California Gurls" video. The scent will cost $36-$65 and will be available at Nordstrom this fall.

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Luxist Review and Giveaway: Paris Hilton's Tease Perfume

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Paris Hilton has quite the perfume empire. The indomitable heiress is releasing her tenth scent this month. Tease was inspired by another showy blonde, Marilyn Monroe. The box features a black and white image of Paris posed as a blonde bombshell. The pictures were shot in Los Angeles by Tony Duran. "I am all about being alluring, but with a wink, and a fun, fresh take on all that is enticingly feminine about a woman today," says Hilton in a press release.

Tease is a good name for this scent, it's not a sugar slam like many of her other scents. Sure, the fruity sweetness is there but it comes on soft in a powdery whisper. The scent starts with fruity notes of fresh Fuji apple, sunny sea mist accord, white peach nectar and Sparkling Bergamot. The heart is full of white florals: frangipani petals, night-blooming jasmine and creamy tuberose. Even the base is soft, winding up with golden amber, blonde woods and warm sand accord. It would be hard to dislike this one, Hilton has called the scent sweet and flirty and it is but like a flirt it disappears before you have time to really consider it, leaving behind just a fluffy warm memory.

The scent was created for Parlux by Steve DeMercado who has spent 20 years in the perfume business.

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Jennifer Aniston's Fragrance Debuts Next Week At Harrod's

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The much-anticipated debut of Jennifer Aniston's first fragrance is scheduled for July 21 at Harrods. The fragrance was created by perfumers at IFF. Aniston wanted the scent to capture many of her favorite sensory memories from her Southern California childhood. Basenotes reports that the fragrance, which WWD previously stated was to be called Lolavie, has top notes of citrus grove and rose water, middle notes of blooming jasmine, violets and Amazon lily and a base of sensual musk, golden amber and sandalwood. The bottle, shown above lower right, was created by David Lipman who also created the campaign including beachside images shot by Mario Sorrenti. The fragrance will be released in three sizes 30ml - £23, 50ml - £29 and 85ml - £36.

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"Bulgari Man" Scent Set To Debut in September

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Bulgari will launch "Bulgari Man" in early fall with actor Clive Owen as its face. According to HAPPI, to promote the scent, the media campaign will include 13 million scented pieces (strips, catalog inserts and magazine ads) that will reach 22 million people. Industry sources estimate that Bulgari is aiming for a first-year sales target of $10 million at retail.

Perfumer Alberto Morillas gave Bulgari Man a woody-oriental scent with top notes of pear, bergamot, and violet leaves, in addition to white wood and vegetal amber that's based on a proprietary Firmenich molecule.

Bulgari Man eau de toilette sprays will be available in three sizes: $79 for a 100 ml bottle, $58 for 60ml and $42 for 30ml. A 200ml bath and shower gel, at $35; a 100ml aftershave balm, at $44; and a deodorant stick launching in January, at $25, will accompany the fragrance.

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Luxist Review and Giveaway: With Love... Hilary Duff

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This one came out years ago but a bottle recently came my way so I thought I'd share it and my thoughts with you. Like its namesake, With Love... Hilary Duff with most likely resonate with someone a bit younger than myself. The scent from the popular singer and actress is aimed at teens and young women and has that familiar vanilla sweetness associated with dewy youth. But there's a little bit more going on here.

Amidst all the sweet amber, sparkling fruit and everpresent musk there's just enough spice to make it interesting. That may be why it became so popular when it launched a couple years back. The fragrance billed as an effervescent oriental has top notes of magnosteen fruits with a hint of spice. A heart of cocobolo wood and a base of amber and musk ground the scent in familiar territory. Right out of the gate it was one of the top sellers at department stores and it was nominated for Best Celebrity Women's Fragrance in The 8th Annual Basenotes Awards (it lost out to M by Mariah Carey).

I'm giving away the 1.7 ounce With Love...Hilary Duff Eau De Parfum Spray, valued at $45.

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RSVIP: Kim Kardashian Brings Sexy to the FIFI Awards

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An Oscar is to film and a Tony is to Broadway what a FIFI Award is to fragrance.

On June 10, the 38th Annual FIFI Awards commandeered New York's Downtown Armory, adding a sniff of glamour to the behemoth brick Army post. Kim Kardashian appeared vacuum-packed into a gown by Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad. The double breasted scoop in the front, with six large buttons, added gravity-defying lift to Kardashian's ample cleavage. Like everyone at the event, she spoke Fragrancese. "It's basically all my favorite memories in a bottle," said the reality-show star of her eponymous scent, aptly subtitled in the sexy ads, "The voluptuous new fragrance."

"The gardenia [note] is for the family vacations with my dad in Hawaii," she said. "Tuberose reminds me of my mom. All my favorite scents happen to be white florals. I added a bit of orange blossom for citrus," she told Luxist.

Usher, honored as the FIFI's 2010 Fragrance Celebrity of the Year, wore a padded black waistcoat by Alexander McQueen that resembled fencing garb. He called his move into fragrance "the branding of Usher," and speaking of his scent "VIP," he told Luxist, "This will be my fifth fragrance. I wanted intelligence; I wanted elegance. If you look at the advertisements, the weight of the bottle, the essence, it's all top-shelf."

"When everything else comes off," he quipped, "the fragrance stays on."

"I was happy to find my new love, new passion, which is fragrance," he said, then posing with a soldier in fatigues.

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Forever Mariah Carey, Girly Grows Up (A Little)

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While I wasn't looking forward to giving Forever Mariah Carey a scent test I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised. Given Mariah's love of butterflies, pink and super exaggerated femininity. I was expecting to be bowled over with bubblegum sweetness. But just as her turn in "Precious" proved, Mariah is more than just a big voice and a larger-than-life persona. The girl's got heart and this scent has plenty of it. It's sweet but the sweetness is subtle and endearing.

The fragrance takes its name from Mariah's single from the Daydream album. This is sort of a dreamlike scent. It's ethereal qualities mean that it's not particularly strong, perhaps a good thing in this case because too much strength might result in a headache inducing scent. It's billed as a modern opulent floral but while the floral is there the modern and opulent seem in short supply. It's not strong enough to really be opulent and it doesn't seem that modern to me. It seems more vintage, like an antique dressing table complete with a large mirror and a powder puff, glamour but with a girlish giggle. Flowers run deep in this one starting with top notes of neroli and lotus blossom and a heart of tuberose and gardenia. Apple notes provide a little relief from the flowers and white musk and exotic woods anchor the scent. It's a whisper of a scent, at least on me, it didn't last very long leaving only a subtle wisp of tuberose and white musk behind.

Forever Mariah Carey was developed by perfumer Olivier Gillotin. The 1.7 ounce perfume sells for $55. I was given a bottle to review and usually give away the bottle to a reader but in this case the top was broken during shipping so I won't be doing that.

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Mary J. Blige To Sell Perfume on HSN

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Singer Mary J. Blige will become the latest celebrity with a fragrance when her scent 'My Life' debuts this summer. The name of the scent comes from her well-regarded 1994 album. Blige who is an ambassador for and investor in the beauty brand Carol's Daughter is creating her fragrance with the company. The scent won't appear in stores but will be sold through the Home Shopping Network beginning July 31.Carol's Daughter's products have appeared on HSN before and have been a huge hit. HSN is also filming vignettes of Blige's life that will be part of the HSN sales pitch.

The fragrance is described as having top notes of gardenia petals, Bartlett pear and white freesia with a heart of tuberose, blooming jasmine, gold lily and apricot flower and base notes of cashmere woods, praline, sesame and incense. It will sell for $46 for 1.7 ounces and will be sold with a clutch purse. One dollar from every bottle sale will go to her foundation, the Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now. After the jump check out an interview with Blige done by WWD that includes information on her plans to create a fashion line.

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Bruce Willis Wants You To Smell "Extremely Masculine"

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Bruce Willis is jumping on the celebrity "signature fragrance" bandwagon and recently announced to WWD that he'll be launching his own Eau de Parfum this summer. He's creating it in collaboration with German company LR Health & Beauty Systems and all we know about it so far is that, according to CEO Tilo Ploger, "The Bruce Willis scent will be extremely masculine and - starting from ingredients through to design - embodies every individual feature of the Hollywood star: strong, self-confident, consistent."

What that means exactly I'm not sure but it certainly makes sense considering Willis' reputation as a tough guy/hero/bad ass. And since he seems like one of the least likely celebrity men to come out with a signature fragrance I'm more curious than ever to see what it smells like. Look for it debut in Europe this July.

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Usain Bolt Is The Face Of Puma's New Fragrance

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Usain Bolt has become the latest athlete to become the face of a fragrance. In a natural fit for the world's fastest man, sports-centered brand Puma has chosen the Jamaican sprinter as the first celebrity face for its fragrances. He will appear in the ads for Animagical, a new fragrance line for both men and women. Both scents will have zebra-themed packaging and fresh and fruity notes. Puma Animagical Man has notes of African Kei Apple, cardamom oil, rosemary and pineapple with white ironwood. Puma Animagical Woman adds floral notes of Cape Town freesia and water lily to pink grapefruit and Caribbean lime anchored by South African Tamboti Wood. The scent and the ad campaign will launch in June.

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Akon's Handcuff Fragrances

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I don't always cover every celebrity scent out there but I had to show you the bottle design on these. The scents are from the rapper Akon and named for his 2006 album Konvicted. The Konvict scents, Konvict Femme for women and Konvict Homme for men come as two handcuff bottles linked with a chain. Konvict Femme combines notes of lemon and mandarin with vanilla and almond musk. Konvict Homme has fresh notes of bergamot and lemon with an earthy base of sandalwood and cedar. Each sells for $41.95 and10% of the proceeds will go to Akon's Konfidence Foundation which is "dedicated to increasing public awareness of the conditions in Africa."

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