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

125 replies

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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MeltedTreeChocolates · 08/12/2009 13:51

I was given a Kate Moss perfume after giving birth. At first I was sceptical but tbh its deffinately one of the nicest perfumes I have had.

FimbleHobbs · 08/12/2009 13:51

There is a dreadful one set in a field of flowers... aarrgghh

They don't work on me, I have no idea who the slebs in them are, and can never remember what perfume they were for anyway.

TheFoosa · 08/12/2009 13:52

actually think it's Tom Ford

ooojimaflip · 08/12/2009 13:53

YABU.

It is quite rational to hate them because they are shit.

MamaLazarou · 08/12/2009 13:53

Hmm, I don't mind the Matthew McConaughey one either. WOOF!

nickelbabe · 08/12/2009 13:53

it's not irrational.
i hate the man's eau de toilette advertwhere he's in white tiny speedos in a boat.

i DO NOT!! find a man in white tiny speedos attractive! even the sight of it makes me want to vomit!

MamaLazarou · 08/12/2009 13:55

Oh no, I quite like the tiny white Speedos one too.

TheFoosa · 08/12/2009 13:55

wonder what that smells like

RockBird · 08/12/2009 13:56

YANBU. They are utterly, unspeakably poncey!

ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight · 08/12/2009 13:56

I made you this film...so you can see me...my eyes...my kneecaps...my little fingernail....

YANBU. Except the Jean Paul Gaultier classique ones. Sexy perfume, sexy ads.

GetOrfMoiLand · 08/12/2009 13:58

Oh CHRIST no that bloke in speedos in a boat is great, especially when he starts to cla,ber over a lucky woman

I watched that ad with DP sat next to me, he said for god's sake close your mouth.

Gratuitous nakedness of the male form totally acceptable in perfume ads imo. Better than women jumping about looking vacant.

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EdgarAleNPie · 08/12/2009 13:58

YABU

the charlize theron one is fantastic, she looks beautiful, its a piece of art

the one with a Muse song and the chick in fantastic Midnight Blue gown is also wonderful - dior midnight poison

and the audrey tautou one...love it.

I agree that the chicks dressed in Gold for Gucci is more an advert for marching powder than perfume.

and nicole kidman is as execrable in that advert as she was in the film it references.

skihorse · 08/12/2009 14:00

The Keira Knightly one makes me giggle, is it just me or does anyone else think she walks like Oda Mae Brown?

EdgarAleNPie · 08/12/2009 14:00

the bloke in white speedoes HAS NO WILLY!

BitOfFun · 08/12/2009 14:01

Lol TheFoosa- Eau De Fanjeau?

EdgarAleNPie · 08/12/2009 14:01

rofl at the tom ford one. DD was watching...

GetOrfMoiLand · 08/12/2009 14:02

Edgar - Charlize is a beauty, but she looks deranged in that ad, stomping along dropping her clothes.

She sounds like she has been possessed by the devil as well.

Madness.

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GetOrfMoiLand · 08/12/2009 14:03

Gawd knows what I have missed in that Tom Ford one.

LOLOL at Oda Mae Brown.

I love the way that Keira is a pouting beauty when her face is in repose, however when she smiles it is a manic grin from the gates of hell a la Jack Nicholson in the Shining.

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ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight · 08/12/2009 14:04

Yes the midnight poison and chanel no5 ones are very good. Some can be quite beautiful but some a extraordinarily awful.

EdgarAleNPie · 08/12/2009 14:05

i think the worst ever was the 'show me your TOMMY!' one,tommy hilfiger, c1997=8

BitOfFun · 08/12/2009 14:07

Anyone remember this ad for j'adore which looked like the mosel had been exhumed from an Egyptian crypt?

The Barry White stylee tunes crack me up though.

GetOrfMoiLand · 08/12/2009 14:07

My favourites perfume ads of the old days were the Liz Taylor ones. She looked mad spectacular.

Also love perfume ads in print. In OK they faithfully show Alex Curran's perfume ad. Alex Curran! Who in the name of god would buyt that?

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GetOrfMoiLand · 08/12/2009 14:09

DISCLAIMER

I do not buy OK magazine (viewed in doc surgery/dentists/flicked through guiltily in Sainsbos cafe)

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Lemonylemon · 08/12/2009 14:10

What's that stupid one, you know, the one that goes "have you got the code"? What a pile of drivel.....

I also hate the one with Jude Law in it - basically because I think he's a twat.

MadreInglese · 08/12/2009 14:12

Oh yes I could happily slap Keira Poutly and Sienna Miller in their "I'm so kooky, chuckle chuckle" ads, and Nicole in the "I love to dance" one

but I do like the eerie one with a girl surrounded by flowers where they're playing a spooky version of I Feel Love