LIKE A PERFUME VIRGIN :: Philip Tetro is just tickled to bits that he can finally be a Madonna fan using all senses. Madonna’s first perfume is finally released in Canada, even though he somehow managed to get his hands on it months ago!
Madonna has released a fragrance. Before you accuse her of jumping on the “celebrity fragrance bandwagon,” please know this: you will be pleasantly surprised.
The fragrance, Truth or Dare, is one of the most age-appropriate things Madonna has ever released. It doesn’t smell like cotton candy or licorice or red roses like most other celebrity fragrances. It smells like a 53-year-old woman should – sexy and provocative. This isn’t your grandmother’s perfume.
I was lucky enough to receive a sample of the perfume in early February (the week of the SuperBowl performance) and have been wearing it on-and-off ever since. It smells sophisticated, classy and sexy. I don’t tell people what fragrance I’m wearing until they question me. It doesn’t smell like anything else I’ve ever worn, so people are normally taken aback by it’s simple, yet daring tones (hence the name, “Truth or Dare”).
I also received the like-smelling promotional candle which, even though I’ve yet to light it, makes my bedroom smell like a garden of gardenias. It’s so potent, yet so elegant, even in a room.
The design of the bottle shows Madonna going back to her Catholic roots: it looks like a bottle of holy water at a gay church that I definitely would go to every Sunday. The simple white and gold design, at first, I thought was far too plain for such a great fragrance, but as it would turn out, Madonna knows what she’s doing. She’s letting the scent speak for itself, without the frills of a complicated bottle. The gift with purchase is also a gorgeous, black-leather tote bag (which I haven’t decided if I wanted to keep on display in my room, or use on an everyday basis. It’s THAT nice). The body lotion and shower gel are equally as fragrant.
Another marketing advantage to calling the perfume Truth or Dare was the re-release of her infamous 1990 documentary of the same name, which came out on bluray for the first time less than a month before the release of the perfume of the same name. If that’s not a business woman’s brain displayed at its finest, then I don’t know what is.
Madonna hinted on Twitter recently that she wants to make a men’s cologne, too. But, I don’t know – I might just always dare myself to always wear this one.
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