Archive for June, 2010
How many times have you seen an actor, or just thought about one, that a women’s perfume or men’s cologne come to your mind? I have to admit that I have never thought of that, until now. However, since reading about this new fragrance by Peter Andre and what he has to say about it, I may have to change the way I look at things.
Peter Andre, singer for the group Behind Closed Doors believes that his recently launched men’s cologne called Conditional reflects the image of George Clooney. Andre said “if you can imagine George Clooney walking down the red carpet and how he would smell. That’s how I try to imagine this smells.”
So all you women out their who really like George Clooney, I suggest that you go and buy the cologne for your man, then you can simply close your eyes and pretend your with George. Who knows maybe now I will start putting famous faces to famous scents, or, not so much. Anyway, I am a little intrigued, and will go out and purchase a bottle, if only out of curiosity.
I have always been a person who loves perfumes, colognes and lotions etc. Anything that can leave me feeling and smelling fresh and clean. I can remember as a teenager (back in the late 70’s) my brother had a girlfriend that used to wear his cologne all the time, when I asked her why she told me that she loves the smell and that it didn’t smell the same on her as it did on him. Which I found to be quite true.
2010, I’m curious and searching for unisex fragrances and find that times sure have changed, the list is very long, from Jean Paul Gaultier to Bulgari to Calvin Klein, now I love men’s cologne but not so much that I want to wear it. So I do my search to find the best unisex fragrance there is. So far CK One has my vote.
CK One’s fragrance notes include, bergamot, cardamom, fresh pineapple, papaya, jasmine, violet, rose, nutmeg and musk and it has a light, citrus fragrance that doesn’t overwhelm. Calvin Klein has also relaunched their CK One in a new limited edition bottle with an attached MP3 player. Now if that isn’t just the coolest thing yet. The limited edition bottle is available exclusively at Macy’s.
Who would have guessed that wild cats like men’s cologne? Not me, that’s for sure, apparently in order to stimulate the animals curiosity, zookeepers spray cologne and perfume on trees and rocks. Pat Thomas, the general curator for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo in New York, tested which fragrance that cheetahs responded to most positively. Using 2 cheetahs and 24 fragrances, he recorded how long it would take them to notice, and how long they interacted with it. Obsession won at 11.1 minutes, 2nd place was Nina Ricci’s L’Air du Temps at 10.4 minutes and Estee Lauder’s Beautiful, held their attention for a whopping 2 seconds.
In 2007 a study was done in Guatemala using jaguar’s with Obsession on a rag and the rag covering the camera, 3 times as many walked up to the camera. Ann Gottlieb, who helped create the men’s cologne, Obsession, told The Wall Street Journal “it sparks curiosity with humans, and, apparently, animals.”
So now we know how the phrase “animal attraction” came to be.