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August 18, 2005
You too can smell like a celebrity...
It has come to my attention a new trend in the world of the glitterati … celebrity perfume. A stroll through your friendly neighborhood fragrance counter will present you with a plethora of bodacious babes giving you coy smoldering looks, enticing you and saying you can be this glamorous and fabulous with this just one spritz.
Now, this is a bit different than the old standard of having a starlet become the face for a multimillion dollar campaign. These are celebrities cashing in on their caché and making millions off the consumer, who think that they are grabbing onto a little piece of the glamour these celebrities exude. I, as a consumer, am lured to these images, because I want to find myself, if for just a moment, in their $900 Manolos and toting around a gorgeous cognac Lambertson Truex Kansas bag. But I wake from my Calgon take me away moment and I’m standing in my room running late for my 9 to 5 job and looking forward to a rough day. I will never get to own a pair of Blahniks as I’m too much of a cheapskate and I can’t stomach the thought of dropping a month’s rent on a glorified wallet and key holder. But, I probably won’t ever have to deal with paparazzi following me while I go get coffee or eat dinner or deal with gossiping minds questioning what the status of my personal life is. So maybe for that fraction of a second that I’m fluttering in fantasy land, everything smells like roses and ambrosia. But I like the smell of freshly brewed coffee and recently showered boyfriend ten times better.
Posted by eva on August 18, 2005 2:26 PM

Ranting Eva is a twenty-something whose ever observant eye hopes to share the daily trials and tribulations of the 21st century, through some downright opinionated rambling on different facets of pop culture.