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"And you? What would you do for love?"......fucking advert

78 replies

ssd · 14/12/2017 18:45

for Miss Dior

I hate this advert, it really annoys me

OP posts:
SwedishEdith · 14/12/2017 22:59

Jordan Barrett - just Googled Grin.

QueenOfThorns · 14/12/2017 23:08

Anyone remember this? I particularly like the guy with the fish on his head.

Considering this one is more than 20 years old, pretentiousness in perfume ads is clearly not a new phenomenon!

alltoomuchrightnow · 14/12/2017 23:13

not as bad as demented Nicole Kidman 'love to dance' some years back...or Scarlett Johannsen with her frightwig doing her own love scenes

christmaspudding1 · 14/12/2017 23:15

Ah yes Kenzo,totally stupid and cringy,worst advert ever

ad agency will of got paid £££ for that idea,they must of been on glue when they choose that

Elsouth · 14/12/2017 23:20

I actually like that advert but I think it's the song, I just don't like the lines at the end. I cant stand the johnny depp one either.

I have a soft spot for the Chanel bleu one with the rather handsome French actor from Hannibal rising.

inabizzlefam · 14/12/2017 23:26

I want someone to make a perfume ad where someone sprays it on, walks into work and everyone says how nice they smell, that's it, not all this throwing themselves off piers or staring moodily at the camera.

PeanutButterIsEverything · 15/12/2017 07:18

Yes it's a ridiculous advert (not entirely sure exactly what she has 'done for love') but the advert has...ahem.... awakened rather surprising feelings in me about the staggeringly beautiful Natalie Portman. I would have said I have never really fancied another woman but in this? Oh yes. She is just gorgeous and certainly gets me going more than the blokes spraying perfume on their cocks or that ridiculous Olympus one where he just swaggers about like an arrogant prick.

BaffledMummy · 15/12/2017 07:45

YADNBU..I cringe every time it comes on. I hate the fake screamy bit and I don’t like the bit when she shoves her out of shot boyfriend (I’m assuming). If my partner behaved likes that they wouldn’t be my partner for long!

corythatwas · 15/12/2017 08:48

well if having to endure the smell of that perfume would be as bad as taking a bullet for me, then I think I'll do the kindly thing and not put it on my wishlist

it's like those stupid adverts "are you ready for the X challenge?". Look here, mate, if eating your breakfast food/yoghurt/chocolate is a challenge, then I'd rather just get something I can eat as a pleasure

Takeoutyourhen · 15/12/2017 09:36

What about the latest ad for Hugo Boss (?) with Kit Harrington in Italy. He's having a jolly old time but looked like he really sold out to me.

FancyPantsMe · 15/12/2017 12:47

Brilliant song, bloody awful advert. Sad to see it bastardised, Chandelier has one of the best videos I've ever seen

Yes yes I totally agree.

pallisers · 15/12/2017 12:50

If you were Bruno Mars you’d take a bullet to your brain apparently. DCs and I have a right laugh at that one.

Yes every time he sings "but you won't do the same" we all shout "good girl yourself"

RhodaBorrocks · 17/12/2017 05:05

Not some aggressive knocking-30 thing

She wishes she was only knocking 30. She's older than me by 3 months .

*Keith Knightley

Is that her Dad*

I LOVE my autocorrect! She will forevermore be known as Keith now. Xmas Grin

MissionItsPossible · 17/12/2017 06:13

My vote goes to Nintendo Switch featuring the aggressive granny. Family happily playing a computer game and she turfs them all out demanding she wants to watch the Queens speech so they relocate to another room. They play another game and her husband is quite happy milking a virtual cow and then you hear her pipe up "George, what are you doing"? He's milking a virtual cow in the other room because you wanted to watch the bloody queens speech, mind your own business!

minimonkey11 · 17/12/2017 07:18

I saw an ad for veet eyebrow shaper where the two women were having a pillow fight in lingerie- feathers floating around- before one decided to shape her eyebrows 😳 actually aghast

BlackPeppercorn · 17/12/2017 19:27

What do we reckon to.......Fresh.....mumble mumble.....Fresh......mumble mumble.

Thehairthebod · 21/12/2017 10:04

What about the latest ad for Hugo Boss (?) with Kit Harrington in Italy. He's having a jolly old time but looked like he really sold out to me.

I think it's Dolce and Gabbana and now Emilia Clarke has done an identical one. 'Jon Snow and Daenerys have a fabulous time in Italian village' seems to be the thing?

Thehairthebod · 21/12/2017 10:07

I do love the Chandelier song from the Dior ad, whenever I hear it on telly or the radio I'm like

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHMMMMMM gonna SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNG from the chandelIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEERR from the chandelIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERR

ForagingForFaerieGold · 21/12/2017 10:17

Facts.
NONE of those things are things you do for love.

All perfume ads are wank.

Most other ads are wank too.

Johnny Depp is a cock

I haven't seem the John Lewis annual sobfest yet this year. So it's not ALL bad Grin

Care80 · 09/05/2023 04:22

This commercial makes. me not want to ever look at or watch Natalie Portman in anything ever again, it is so unfortunate and utterly ridiculous. Yes.....wont anyone run through a "field of flowers" for love, Really? Wow that is something...No I cant ever take her this girl serious ever again for anything. If I was an actor and even got paid a ridiculous amount of money to look this stupid I would not do it. Use your brain. Sometimes. It is a completely hideous commercial and I want to either gag or run everytime it even comes across my screen. Horrible.

bumblebee2218 · 28/11/2024 14:35

Miss Dior advert winds everyone up especially dogs
puts me off buying it

TheNinkyNonkyIsATardis · 28/11/2024 14:43

The Hey Duggee pisstake of perfume ads is superb.

KimberleyClark · 28/11/2024 14:48

I hated that one - Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue with that man in tiny white budgie smugglers.

blacksax · 28/11/2024 14:57

What I hate even more than that advert is people resurrecting threads that were started in 2017.

honeylulu · 28/11/2024 15:06

Clicked on this thread because I HATE it too. If you watch stuff on ITVX you get this advert, Johnny Depp advertising Oh Sausage and pretending to play the guitar, and Domino-hoo-hoo just about every single break.

Thanks to you lot, I am now enlightened that the actress is Natalie Portman and not Keira Knightley as I had assumed. Still doesn't explain the silly French accent. Neither of them are French.

So annoying, "what would you do for love" suggests something monumentally romantic and self sacrificing. I don't think wrecking your designer dresses by jumping in the sea and running around in the sand really fits the bill. And the bit where she dances around with her mucky feet on the dinner table is just boakworthy. The previous advert (same tagline) was even worse, implying that shoving and shouting at your partner is "doing it for love". I don't know how advertising companies think glamorising domestic violence is a good look.

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