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11/14/17

Kim Kardashian Is Releasing a Fragrance Inspired By Healing Crystals and Getting Robbed At Gunpoint

I love it when celebrities get interviewed about their fragrances. What is there to say about a fragrance, ever?…

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IKEA Smells Like Meatballs and Broken Relationships

IKEA, a shopping experience so miserable that it should only be undertaken with blood relatives, is releasing a home…

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Malfunctioning Can of Axe Body Spray Spurs Evacuation

The Seattle Fire Department recently evacuated a church and a daycare due to “cough inducing fumes” coming from a…

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This Early '80s Jane Seymour Commercial for Max Factor Perfume Is Captivating

Before she was Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Jane Seymour was a glamorous made-for-TV-movie queen. But she also took…

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Rihanna Would Like You to Inhale Her Eleganza

Rihanna stopped at Macy’s in New York Monday to promote her brand new fragrance, RiRi, a fruity floral with top…

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

9/01/15 12:45PM

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7/22/15

Rihanna Is a Pretty Pretty Princess In Her New Perfume Ad

Amid the back and forth between Nicki Minaj and untouchable music deity Taylor Swift, Rihanna snuck in and announced…

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Let's Get Scentimental

You already know this, but your sense of smell is linked to your memory. For me, the smell of Folgers coffee will…

Laura June

6/24/15 1:00PM

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5/5/15

Diddy Weirds Everyone Out With New NSFW Fragrance Ad

Diddy is back in the celebrity fragrance game, and everyone needs to pay attention, dammit! On May 6, Sean “Diddy”…

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Drew Barrymore Has Three Fragrances, Still Takes the Rancid Subway

Drew Barrymore is coming out with three new scents as part of her makeup line Flower Beauty: Radiant, Cherished…

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Mad Genius Tara Reid Is Selling a Perfume Called 'Shark by Tara Reid'

Tara Reid, star of the acclaimed films Sharknado and Sharknado 2 is the latest celebrity to jump into the perfume…

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Nia Long Is the First Non-Elizabeth Taylor Face of White Diamonds

Nia Long has been named the brand ambassador for the new version of Elizabeth Taylor's fragrance White Diamonds…

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'Manly' Brands Have No Idea How to Talk to Men

Bros? Have you noticed more and more ads these days speaking your bro-language?

Mark Copyranter

6/26/14 4:00PM

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4/28/14

Expensive New Perfume Contains Notes of 'Pollution'

Avant garde design house Comme des Garçons has unleashed a new perfume called Serpentine that contains notes of…

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Soon You Will Be Able To Pay for Marc Jacobs Perfume With Tweets

That's right: At a new pop-up shop, you will "pay" for Marc Jacobs fragrances with tweets.

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A Whiff on the Wild Side: Confessions of a Vintage Perfume Addict

It was a few years ago when I was the editor of a women's pop culture website that I started writing about perfume…

Barbara Herman

12/07/13 5:00PM

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9/6/13

The One Direction Fragrance Made Half a Million Bucks in One Week

The oh-so-fun lads of One Direction took the time to sniff a bunch of chemicals and "create" a fragrance — Our…

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Clinically Depressed Rob Pattinson Cavorts With Models in New Dior Ad

The man lies, fully clothed, impeccably dressed, in a a bathtub. His chiseled jaw is set. Square. Granite. He takes…

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Christ: Smurfs 2 Hath Wrought a Fragrance. Nay, a SMURFUME

Today in Are You Fucking Kidding Me, there's a new scent coinciding with the release of Smurfs 2. It is a SMURFUME.…

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Artists Combine Every Single New Fragrance From 2012 to Create Monster Scent

Did you know that nearly 1400 fragrances were launched in 2012? Do we really need that many new artificial scents…

Tracie Egan Morrissey

2/28/13 10:00AM

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12/16/12

European Perfume Makers Are Fretting About Proposed Restrictions on Allergens

If the big, bad EU lawmakers in Brussels — glutted with government-issued waffles and chocolate — have their way,…

Doug Barry

12/16/12 3:30PM

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