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

[GetOrfMoiLand]

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.

I hate perfume/aftershave ads but have to say that one I saw last night with the bloke waterskiing in a tux made me howl with laughter.

"I am king" or somesuch,the tagline declared.

The worst one is the one for some Diesel fragrance where that man is shouting - I dislike it so much I cant even remember what he is shouting.

better link to pretension add

I would like to add though that Charlize Theron wasnt bought up with servants, infact her Mum murdered her violent Dad.

2 words.... SKY. +.

slug, I did think, re the John Paul Goat-herder or whatever he's called ad with the sailor leaving the girl in the bedroom...

'He's going home to his boyfriend now'

The other thing that irritates me is how the voiceover says 'Yves Saint Laurent' in their ad (can't even remember what it's for, just that it's perfume). I know French pronounciation is very run together, but that particular person sounds like she's speaking while gargling phlegm. But I'm annoyed with all things French since my French car and French slow cooker died in the same week not long ago.

oooh, Mario, I think know the one you mean! He's just yelling random phrases while sort of running all over the place while someone plays bongo drums or something like that?

I'm sure it's something terribly meaningful and inspiring, and if I could just get over my irritation I'd go out and buy some for DH

Well charlize was definitely brought with servants in that ad.

I mean, can you imagine, she's frolicked and simpered her way into the kitchen nekkid, drunk her milk, spilt it down her front etc etc- then thinks oh bugger better go back and pick up my slinky frock, magic pants and wrestle my shoes out of the floorboards.

No. I think not.

(AND I bet she doesn't then look down at her lady garden and go cos her topiary's not up to date....)

oh fgs.

Brought up with etc etc

Actually I think GetOrf and I should breathe fresh air into the whole perfume ad industry and sell 'em our alternative ideas for flogging smelly stuff.

oh bugger - i didnt see this thread! i just started one! great minds think alike and all that.

Until I read this thread I have always thought that the woman in the J'adore as was Brigitte Nielsen oh dear .

YANBU. Also - what even is the point of an advert for perfume? Either you like the smell or you don't.

It's not a perfume ad, but this thread reminded me of my all-time favourite wanky ad, very much in the same vein as perfume ones: Levis ad from 1994. Great music, too.

Yes me and Shodan could reinvent the industry.

Will be very no nonsense adverts a la peter Kay's ads for John Smiths.

'ere you go, wear some of this stuff, smells all right.

I love the idea of Peter Kay style adverts. Could you also put in some objects that give us at least a little idea of what the stuff smells like? Y'know...citrus fruits, woods, etc.

I used to like Estee Lauder's Pleasures advertising. They were the ones with the puppies. I possibly could have been sold on that lifestylerolling around in a field with puppiesbut I wouldn't have associated it with smelling particularly good (puppy breath, erughh).

GetOrf, would you follow that up with 'A bit expensive, mind, but you can get it cheaper on the market?'

I particularly hate the Armani code ad.'Do you have the Armani code?'
No.Of course I dont.WTF is it?

Twaddle.I hate it so much that I am refusing to buy any for DH even though he specifically wants it.

Fifty pound for a bottle of smelly water

FIFTY POUND
(said in manner of 'garlic bread?!'

Ere yar, get yer bugle round this.

The armani code ad always puts me in mind of old tunes adverts - sounds like someone asking if you've caught the latest virus...

I wonder if these ads make people go into shops and try to re-enact the ad to the shop assistant cos they've forgotten the name of the stinky stuff.

You know, like you used to go to Our Price records and say 'You know that song, right, it goes like this , well have you got it?'.

I don't think our brand of advertising would work-

'Spend fifty quid on this stuff that smells like loo cleaner. You still won't be able to do a perfect french pleat, there won't be paparazzi following you and you'll still have to pick up your own magic pants but you'll be 50 quid lighter....,

I'm still smarting for being fooled into thinking I'd be able to roller skate if I used a Certain Brand of tampons....

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAH BodyFOOOORM

Dammit. That was it. Now have the stupid jingle rattling round my head.

Oh but hang on. Can displace it with :

'Triumph has the bra for the way you are.
Whether you're.... or whether you're.... Triumph has the bra for the way you are'

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