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Smells like teen marketing
Moata Tamaira in Moata's Blog Idle | 7:48 am 28 July 2008
I was wandering around that credit card liability otherwise known as “Farmers” last week just killing time when I noticed that there were no staff at the perfume counter.
For someone like me the presence of an unattended perfume counter means only one thing - I can take a whiff of all the “fragrances” unobserved which means that if I don’t like how they smell I can make “that face”. It’s the same face I make when I see something unredeemably ugly, like the Rebel Sport building on Colombo St. “Why,” I thought to myself, “what a wonderful opportunity to sniff Mariah Carey”.
Celebrity endorsement of fragrance is nothing new. Everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Catherine Zeta Jones to Hilary freakin’ Duff has their own scent. I’m quite sure that, should her television series go well, we can all expect to see Eau de Jacquie Brown hitting our shelves eventually.
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Smells like teen marketing
Moata Tamaira in Moata's Blog Idle | 7:48 am 28 July 2008
I was wandering around that credit card liability otherwise known as “Farmers” last week just killing time when I noticed that there were no staff at the perfume counter.
For someone like me the presence of an unattended perfume counter means only one thing - I can take a whiff of all the “fragrances” unobserved which means that if I don’t like how they smell I can make “that face”. It’s the same face I make when I see something unredeemably ugly, like the Rebel Sport building on Colombo St. “Why,” I thought to myself, “what a wonderful opportunity to sniff Mariah Carey”.
Celebrity endorsement of fragrance is nothing new. Everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Catherine Zeta Jones to Hilary freakin’ Duff has their own scent. I’m quite sure that, should her television series go well, we can all expect to see Eau de Jacquie Brown hitting our shelves eventually.
...read more
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