Yesterday was one of those days. Woke at 4 a.m. with horrible pains in the stomach and back. Huh, what gymnastics did I do in bed to cause this? Well, none, duh, I was sleeping alone. Just that 24-36 hour flu that had me prone and moaning all day yesterday with stomach cramps, headache, aches everywhere. The only thing that made me happy was when I could eat last night and went in for the Healing Food – Oreos. Don’t even judge.
My other happiness – Christian Dior Grand Bal. No review yet, but this thing is so freaking pretty and lovely to wear, it almost makes me cry. And it was a tremendous comfort in my sickitude yesterday. But it’s not helping so much today with this horrible neck cramp I have from sleeping badly yesterday.
Something fun for today – The Frisky published their Ten perfume Bottles that look like Sex Toys. Perfume bottles have been phallic forever (Guerlain’s lobed stopper top???), and the tops that look like flowers? Um, right, yeah, flowers. The Frisky is absolutely right on Cartier Pasha and J’Adore – Cartier loves to make smutty perfume bottles. There are some others that qualify, and these are some off the top of my still-aching head that I’ll nominate for our own Sex and Perfume Bottles Award Category. Which is our new contest since the Fifi Award Winners this year was such a disappointment. Well, it is every year,
Cartier Roadster
Paloma Picasso.
Guerlain Jicky’s lobed stopper.
I don’t know if you can post pictures in comments, but put in a link if you can to your nominee for Most Overtly Sexual Perfume Bottle, and I’ll post the collection of them sometime in the next week so we can vote on which one is really the most sexual perfume bottle ever made. Winner will get something! I’ll figure it out when we get there.
I submit Avant l’amour: http://fimgs.net/images/perfume/nd.10624.jpg
(Oh, and Après l’amour looks like this: http://www.parfumo.de/Parfums/Parfums_Namara/Apres_l_Amour)
? (I think my first comment has vanished! Let me know if I need to repost…)
One more, less sex more toy.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_olhiYVOMcGc/SpuvrDyZlCI/AAAAAAAAB8o/Hg0CanttdY8/s400/KenzoUFO1.jpg
I think the Macho bottle is hilarious, but here are a few more (not sure if I linked right):
Donna Karan signature looks sexual in the ad:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lNFGcZimYTg/TNteSx37KUI/AAAAAAAAA-c/5zkKnWqfivM/s1600/dkad.jpg
*But the mini is too much.*
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Donna-Karan-Signature-Black-Mini-Perfume-Fragrance-RARE-Designed-by-Steven-Weiss-/150768588081?pt=fragrance&hash=item231a821531
Then there are the LE Guerlain blue baccarats. I like this Shalimar one, it has a fuzzy tassel.
http://perfumeshrine.blogspot.com/2011/10/guerlain-extrait-de-parfum-in-baccarat.html
Last one is Womanity. Something wrong with this bottle.
http://www.musingsofamuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Thierry-Mugler-Womanity-Perfume.jpg
Um…well, as it happens sometimes in one of those universal congruences, I just posted this week’s Olfactarama about the infamous Pierre Cardin bottle from 1972 and the (mostly unwanted) cascade of memories it elicited. Honestly, I never plug, but this is just too weird.
Pat, that is so funny! I loved the article. Maybe just some alignment of the stars.
Oh and there is this…
http://www.etsy.com/listing/77926702/fuschia-vanity-boutique-neroli-scented
I wouldn’t say these are the most overtly sexual even though they are intended to look like genitalia:
http://m.current.com/news-and-politics/89609707_penises-and-vagina-shaped-bottles-filled-with-perfume.htm
I found this ages ago and now is the perfect time to share!
Wow–everyone’s suggestions are hilarious! I never knew such bottles existed. Clearly, an entire aspect of my Perfume Education was lacking. 😉
I think of this one – Shiseido Feminite Du Bois ……
http://memoryofscent.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/feminite-du-bois-extrait/
Great pick! It’s in the modular and weird sex toy category, but absolutley in
I don’t know why but I think that Kenzo Flower is suggestive.
You know, all the Kenzos are like Modern Art bottles ‘o sex.
The original Pierre Cardin bottles, definitely:
http://www.basenotes.net/ID26121292.html
And then there’s Diesel’s Only the Brave:
http://www.basenotes.net/ID26130371.html
The Cardin for men was the first one that I thought of as well. Had a boyfriend who wore that back in the day, and that is one big fragrance. I still have fond memories of it, though! 😉
Those Pierre Cardin bottles, how could I have forgotten! And they were everywhere! Big ole dildoes all over Walgreens and K-mart, and nobody said a word.
1955 bottle of Revlon Intimate. I own it but will try and find a link later
A pretty pink dildo:
http://www.basenotes.net/ID10211020.html
Holy crap, it is!! did you see the Love’s Frenzy by the same company? Brown bottle. You know, more realistic!
Oh, yes, I recall this one from my early teen years; I guess I was too young/innocent to understand what that bottle was all about. Wow!
Love’s Baby Soft and Lemon Fresh(same bottle, just yellow) were all over junior high, and boy did I love that Lemon – even if did only last for about 20 minutes. lol!
and of course Naomi Campbell.
http://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Naomi-Campbell/Naomi-Campbell-Wild-Pearl-12283.html
It’s clear I hadn’t even begun to explore this. Did they use as models something made by House of Pleasure?
oh my frikkin gawd!
I nominate Fullchoke by Francesco Smalto…
http://www.imagesdeparfums.fr/Smalto/FullChoke.php
Hahahaha! I love that one.
Unbelievable!
Ha! I just hope that if there was a ‘face’ of that fragrance that he had a moustache- perfection.
No way! Too funny.
My picks are three Azzaro fragrances with very similar shapes…
Duo http://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Azzaro/Azzaro-Duo-Women-10750.html
Twin http://www.sophiasbeauty.com/azzaro-twin-perfume-women-azzaro-pi-2959.html?image=0&osCsid=3dq1bhkhg7uocf74hpq6tmjtn6
and Now http://www.unlimitedperfumes.com/images/azzaro-now-women.jpg
Are you sure those are perfumes? Feminine appliances for sure.
http://pzrservices.typepad.com/vintageadvertising/2008/01/vintage-ad-for.html
Fabergé has a kinky past…
that’s more than kinky. I think they were in another business for a while.
I find it a bit disturbing that Justin Bieber’s perfume bottle looks like a lady part and is called Someday. My teenage son says it’s modeled after Justin’s own vajayjay…not nice, but made me laugh. Also funny that this article is titled, “Something Smells Fishy”
http://main.stylelist.com/2011/06/01/marc-jacobs-justin-bieber-someday-fragrance-bottle/
HA! Oh, so funny. Thanks for the chuckle.
Along this same note but totally unrelated, I noticed yesterday that the Venus razors for the bikini area are scented. None of their other razors are, just the ones for your lady bits. How rude.
That just makes me want to scream.
Maybe…Juliette has a Gun’s bullet…
http://www.decoratrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/a-gun.jpg
Wow, just wow. That’s exactly it!