Johnny Depp Dior Sauvage

*reshoot not resort

Probably quite hard to resort perfume ads mid pandemic and they don't want to miss Christmas sales.

I'm surprised it's still going. I think it was last Christmas that I politely declined a sniff of sausage from the nice lady in boots because it was endorsed by a wife beater.

I've gone right off sausages.

So Ambers behaviour is just fine then?

He's not been pretty since the 90s.

That advert has been around for ages and I'm suprised they haven't canged it yet. He looks like he smells of booze sweats and fag breath to me.

All that wine and at his age though. It's going to be a bit of a chipolata at best.

There are many of us who think of Sausage instead of Sauvage......

He needs the money (dropped from Pirates and Hollywood won't touch him), Dior saw a publicity opportunity. L'Oréal haven't dropped Amber Heard. The nature of big business is to follow the money and fuck morality.

He's not been found guilty and therefore has as much right to earn a living as anyone else. Also he's not being used as a role model - its an advert for aftershave! He's being used because of the way he looks.

ugly, dirty, man sausagy and stinks of pork

So definitely a wild thing in the forest then.

I have to say, that every time I see Johnny Deep, who always looks grubby these days I do think he must stink of man sausage and have this adverse reaction to the thought. It makes him even less attractive.

But now I will also be imagining him stinking of Tesco's Finest!

So he's now ugly, dirty, man sausagy and stinks of pork as well as being a wife beater in my head.

[quote flapjackfairy]@RedToothBrush
Depends which sausage we are talking about.
I could get quite excited by the aroma of a Tesco finest pork and apple sausage.
A man sausage ... Not so much ![/quote]
Would you want a man who stank of Tesco's finest pork and sage sausage anymore than one who stank of man sausage???

I think I'd struggle with either.

@RedToothBrush
Depends which sausage we are talking about.
I could get quite excited by the aroma of a Tesco finest pork and apple sausage.
A man sausage ... Not so much !

Dido

I don't know who buys fragrances! But I suppose it depends whether he's being more supported by men or women, then. The impression I have is that he's getting plenty of female support and that his fanbase was predominately female to start with. But I tend to hang out in female areas of cyberspace like mumsnet, so you can take that with a pinch of salt.

I can only think that someone (probably quite a lot of someones) is more likely to buy a fragrance if they see an ad for it, otherwise companies like Dior would have realised they didn't need to go to the effort and expense of filming ads and paying channels for the airtime. Maybe it's simply about raising brand awareness amongst shoppers who would have bought a random men's fragrance in Debenhams as a Christmas present?

The ads came out ages ago. I thought they were a flop due to the ongoing court case at the time. Plus JD doesn't look anywhere near as good as he used to.

Maybe Dior wants to cause some controversy to get their name out there to sell more perfume.
They need to get their money's worth. I can't imagine JD was cheap.

Every single time.

I just see the advert and read 'Sausage'. Scent of Sausage. And wonder who on earth wants to buy a male scent that makes you think of sausage?

Seems a popular marketing technique to put out ads that they know will get people arguing.

He's looking for his lost wine collection. Where, oh where can it be?

It's especially wrong at a time when DV murders are on the increase. Even in usual non pandemic times, two women a week are killed by a current or ex partner.

I doubt it will get anywhere, but I've made a complaint to the advertising standards authority.

I think it's inappropriate to keep showing an advert featuring a known basher of women. It sends out a terrible message wrt domestic violence.

Gay men obviously will have to select their own but I'd have assumed heterosexual men would leave the choice to their partners.

Do perfume ads in general work? I've never actually bought perfume based on an ad. In my teenage years it was patchouli oil, then a couple my mother recommended. I was given a bottle of 24 Faubourg in my mid 20s and have stuck pretty much with Hermès ever since.

I think if I were influenced by perfume ads I would not buy this as Depp is losing his looks.