Photoshop Of Horrors



To promote its new men's fragrance Tom of Finland, Etat Libre d'Orange has employed a guerilla marketing technique. The company has been posting images along the same line of Tom of Finland's artwork-sexualized illustrations of leather daddy-type men-in public spaces, attaching the images at the crotch to protruding…
John Brady, a columnist for Folio: magazine, has declared that magazine scent strips stink. He writes that the perfume or cologne ads in magazines "all smell alike" and make the entire publication smell "like the men's bathroom between innings at Fenway Park." His way of dealing with them is to rip them out, put them…
The Washington Post reports that a jewelry, fashion, and fragrance designer with a background in human-rights law named Symine Salimpour has a new scent called Shiloh. She began developing the fragrance more than a year before Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt bestowed that name upon their daughter. Last year, Jolie filed…
Today's 'Thursday Styles' section of the New York Times tries to convince readers that heterosexual, 20-something guys are into fragrance. They say such men belong to "Generation Axe" — in other words, "20-something urban men who... do not think that wearing fragrance is somehow unmanly." The story begins at a New…
Like handwriting, an endorsed fragrance can either be a window into the inner life of a celebrity... or a sign the celebrity lacks any inner life whatsoever! News of trouble in the celebriscent industry inspired us to ask the question: What the fuck do these things smell like anyway? Since our own olfactory sense is…
Parlux, which licenses Paris Hilton's fragrances, has announced that the heiress/jailbird's newest fragrance, Can Can, will be in stores in Oct 2007, for the holiday season retail push. "Can Can"? Seriously? Though the name was selected long before Paris's current change in address, we can't help but smirk at the…