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to irrationally HATE every single perfume advert ever shown on telly. It can't just be me...

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GetOrfMoiLand · 08/12/2009 13:29

J'adore - Charlize Theron dropping her kecks and going J'adoooooore in deranged manner.

Anything by Kate Moss. Do you really want to smell like Kate Moss. Really?

Stupid Paco Rabanne aftershave advert where the dozy bloke clicks his fingers - fuck off.

Something by Aramani where Beyonce does her best Shirley Bassey impression. And why does she go 'Diaaaaaaaamoooooods, are a girl...best... FWIEND'.

Amd that unspeakable combo of Keira Twatley and Joss Stone on that interminable Chanel ad.

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ChickensHaveNoTinsel · 08/12/2009 13:31

You mean, you don't like watching vacant expessioned women waft about and mutter obscure bollocks? Tsk.

epithet · 08/12/2009 13:31

For me the nadir was 'I'm a dancer...I love to dance!' (manic laughter). Thank God that one isn't on any more.

GetOrfMoiLand · 08/12/2009 13:32

Thanks to Shodan on the rants thread for inspiration

And that Gucci advert where they are all dancing around to Heart of Glass looking coked out of their tiny minds, and then one daft bint looks adoringly at a huge gucci bottle.

Twats.

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SongbirdRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 08/12/2009 13:33

I find them hilarious! And epithet, God yes, that was the lowest of the low, and I can't say I've like Nicole Kidman very much since then! The most cringeworthy at the moment (noticed they've rolled it out again for Xmas) is the Ewan MacGregor one - DH is heartbroken, as Ewan apparently is coolandtalentedandhandsomeandnormalandalovelyfamilyman.

Poledra · 08/12/2009 13:35

Nope, they're all shit.And irritating.

'Nuff said.

GetOrfMoiLand · 08/12/2009 13:35

There is a very odd perfume add on at the mo for Prada where women with strange hairstyles (think 18th C duchess of devonshire crossed with Alien) gaze adoringly at one another. very strange.

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franke · 08/12/2009 13:35

That Sienna Miller one.

That daft Armani one - with the misteeq song.

yanbu and yanb irrational actually.

displayuntiltwelfthnight · 08/12/2009 13:35

YANBU. I am with you on that one.
The Charlize Theron one is plain ridiculous and J'adore stinks anyway!
Keira doesn't epitomise sensuality IMO and I particularly loathe the new one with the girl and the 2 blokes in the menage a trois (can't even remember what perfume it's for, so the marketing can't be that hot!)
I always think supermodels evoke a boiled sweet and powdery eyeshadow kind of scent.

Poledra · 08/12/2009 13:37

GetOrf - use the ad breaks to go for a wee, make a cup of tea or any of the other things normal people do - for the sake of your blood pressure, Stop Watching the Adverts!!

TheBrandyButterflyEffect · 08/12/2009 13:37

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Poledra · 08/12/2009 13:37

Ooops, x-post!

GetOrfMoiLand · 08/12/2009 13:38

OOOh Sienna Miller how could I have forgotten that one

Yes how classy of Armani to use a 8 year old Misteeq song

Nicole Kidman - do you think she did that Chanel ad for the money

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GetOrfMoiLand · 08/12/2009 13:39

Is that threesome one you're on about the Prada one - have they all got wierd hair?

I thought it was 3 women, actually. Christ.

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TinselianAstra · 08/12/2009 13:40

Thing about perfume ads - they tell you nothing about the product.

Poledra · 08/12/2009 13:41

Of course they do, Trill - you're buying a lifestyle, a way to be, an image.

Yeah right.

passionberry · 08/12/2009 13:42

I always think poor old Keira Knightly looks really rough on those Chanel ads - dunno WTF they have done to her.

And agree GetOrfMoiLand - those are some very weird ladies sliding along a wall for Prada.

Supermodels presumably smell of fags and atkins breath?

MintyCandyCane · 08/12/2009 13:42

I think the Touch of Pink one is funny. It has to be a joke surely ?

Mishy1234 · 08/12/2009 13:44

YANBU, I hate them too!

However, my all time most hated advert has to be for a deodorant (sorry, can't remember which one!) during which a guy kisses this woman's armpit. Yuk, yuk, yuk! It turns my stomach every time I see it and always seems to come on when I'm eating.

Mamazontopofsantabeingrude · 08/12/2009 13:47

Lee Mack does a very funny piece in his stand up act about perfume ads.

Francagoestohollywood · 08/12/2009 13:48

YANBU.
I particularly loathe the one with Sienna Miller pulling cute faces in b/w. Wtf?

displayuntiltwelfthnight · 08/12/2009 13:48

Mishy - does your other half not kiss your armpit regularly then?

GetOrfMoiLand · 08/12/2009 13:49

Mind you, i don't mind that advert with Matthew McConaughey striding around with no top on (funny, that).

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Mamazontopofsantabeingrude · 08/12/2009 13:50

Lee Mack on the perfume ads

GetOrfMoiLand · 08/12/2009 13:50

Don't know the Touch of Pink one.

How can it be that a perfume advert has passed me by?

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TheFoosa · 08/12/2009 13:51

have you ever seen the Paul Smith one? ruuuudddddddddddddeeeee

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