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

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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.

YANBU. Nearly started the same thread myself!

I just find it so hard to believe that people pick their perfume based on the advertising....surely you'd want to know what it smelled like? I suppose the advertising is just there to promote the name, so you try it when you go in. But what about these men buying it scent unsmelled?

I hate the bloody Prada one on at the moment. WTF is that all about????

I hate Charlize Theron in that ad. You can tell she's been brought up with servants. (sniff)

And she is NOT a work of art.

(As a slight sniggery aside though- cannot imagine self entering house and dropping all clothes. V unattractive seeing lumpy lady hopping about trying to get off socks, jeans etc etc)

(Even if I was wearing swanky evening dress you've still got the Magic Pants to contend with....)

(Plus would prob be bit pissed and fall off shoes)

ooh this old nina ricci one references hieronymous bosch in style...magic.

here is the batgirl one

I totally hate the Millionaire one. Bloody clicking his fingers and her drawers drop off. Fecking cheek!

And the one where all those sepia tinted women who are so thin I am suprised they can stand (although they do appear to lean on each other a fair bit).

How do they get away with this bollox?

The lynx ones wind me right up. They are supposed to be ironic but are just sexist crap.

Why is there so much manic laughter in perfume adverts, so much wafting and reclining. I dont understand most of the dialogue, its far to clever for me

Do you think its all a bit of an in joke. The adverstisers go out of their way to make them as pretentious as possible and see if we put up with it?

I did quite like the one with the couple in the boat. When that man leant over the woman with intent in his eyes - oh my gosh!

See! SEE! I have so many kindred spirits on this thread.

Chegirl that bloke in the boat - I nearly had an attack of the vapours over that one. And I ranted on about that Millionaire one where that twat clicks his fingers. And the Prada sepia toned on fair gives me the creeps - it is very weird.

Shodan I am so with you on the coming in drunk, trying to act all seductive barmy like Charlize, trip over your slingbacks, rip off dress in distinctly unerotic manner, have unmatching underwear from Peacocks underneath, step on a bit of lego and go ow ow ow, collapse pissed into bed and dribble into pillow

PMSL @GetOrf & Shodan

Yes, if I stomped like that in my high heels I would impale my shoes 2 inches into floorboards (weigh a ton).

The floorboards in my house are already dented from stiletto use, that is without sexy Charlize stamping.

I would trip over the cats, anyway.

Yank, you would slurp milk straight from the carton, sods law decrees that you would miss your mouth entirely and end up with a whole niagara worth of milk down your silky evening gown, which you would just scrub off in a half arsed fashion with the nearest j cloth.

ooh and i totally love this YSL still
of Sophie Dahl in her pomp

sticks out tongue

All this assumes you still have your lovely evening dress intact when you come home from your drunken night out. I had to unzip mine to drive home from my work party on Saturday as it was a tad too tight and after 5 hours' wear, my internal organs were screaming for space....

Edgar the scandal of that Sophie Dahl Opium ad - it was all over the Daily mail for weeks. wasn't it banned?

YANBU i cant wait for bloody chrimbo to be over so they stop these shit ad breaks!!

partly - acceptable in mags, not on public horadings. I thought that was a travesty in a country where page 3 is acceptable, as i thought it was most definitely a celebration of female sexuality rather than subversion of it.

though i still saw the big poster up in Boots in Brighton - aske for it but they said it had seveal possible homes already.

i really don't think perfume ads are for heterosexual men to perv over. Very different.

Well at least they're still PROPER glossy adverts, unlike all those low-budget 'We buy gold/free electronics with no credit checks/Mum's gone to SODDING Iceland" that seem to have snuck onto prime time telly now the advertising industry has taken such an almighty battering.

Horrible side effect of the credit crunch, having June Whitfield try to sell you life insurance with a free maroon letter opener while you're eating your dinner.

The John Paul gautier one always makes me laugh. Woman writhes around on a bed as man gets dressed and leaves. Forget it honey, take one look at the trousers he's wearing, the guy'g gay!!

i only went to one ball ever...was v. fat so wore green gothic princess dress.

only wore a gown gown for my 23rd birthday dinner party (purple ruched silk backless, looked great, like audrey hepburn) and my wedding (wine red taffeta with gold overlay on bodice)

wish there were more gown-wearing ocassions to look like chick from ad, (or at least her fatter, shorter sister) >sigh

Remember the advert for denim aftershave? Some fox attempts to put her talons down inside a tom selleck-alikes denim shirt and he used to grab her wrist.

Oh they don't make em like that anymore-thank Christ

i love that this hasn't really dated