tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post4846753243265975144..comments2024-03-29T05:13:21.130+00:00Comments on Perfume Shrine: Miss Dior La Vie en Rose: new campaign for Dior's best-selling fragrancePerfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-58298185111508889352013-02-25T13:17:09.643+00:002013-02-25T13:17:09.643+00:00A,
good point! She has worked hard to give a more...A,<br /><br />good point! She has worked hard to give a more "tortured" nuance to her persona after all. <br />Let's see what happens when the whole commercial airs. ;-)Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-39245753160527136552013-02-25T00:03:55.659+00:002013-02-25T00:03:55.659+00:00Honestly, I love Ms.Portman as an actress. But she...Honestly, I love Ms.Portman as an actress. But she is never a paragon of relaxedness or that kind of innocent eroticism I would combine with 'Miss' or 'rose'. She always comes over as ambitious and highly wired...Those clips are full of subliminal contrasting messages and she looks, as if she for one didn't believe the story. Unsettling.Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17696642632266992519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-72497767358413517602013-02-21T10:46:50.642+00:002013-02-21T10:46:50.642+00:00Anon,
can't argue with that. No need to apolo...Anon,<br /><br />can't argue with that. No need to apologize. <br />Luxury has lost its luster, I suppose. Dana Thomas after all said it all...Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-65924715029898784432013-02-20T16:05:16.770+00:002013-02-20T16:05:16.770+00:00Guess they can afford this ad campaign with all th...Guess they can afford this ad campaign with all the money they saved by turning their perfumes into crap (sorry). It's so sad about their formulae. And it's also neither romantic nor luxe.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-35400995851609412862013-02-20T10:34:15.588+00:002013-02-20T10:34:15.588+00:00Anon,
they're heavily going after stereotypes...Anon,<br /><br />they're heavily going after stereotypes: the suave and somewhat rebellious/sinister man in La Piscine (for Eau Sauvage), the playful insouciant Bardot-like debutante from And God Created Woman (for Addict flankers), and of course La Dolce Vita for Miss Dior (Cherie). Talk about originality! If Delon is seriously engaged by the brand I'm waiting till they try to exploit Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-61895034407060060132013-02-20T10:27:51.208+00:002013-02-20T10:27:51.208+00:00Lyubov,
you have an excellent point, it's dej...Lyubov,<br /><br />you have an excellent point, it's deja vu mostly (while Sofia's first commercial was not!). All this too romantic stuff gets tedious after a while. Though let's see what happens when the whole thing airs. <br /><br />One thing I'm pretty sure is those campaigns are not targeting us; they're targeting new customers who will be lured in via pretty, glam imagesPerfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-77618398355451144212013-02-20T10:25:46.988+00:002013-02-20T10:25:46.988+00:00C,
that's probably why they dropped the "...C,<br /><br />that's probably why they dropped the "cherie" from the name! :-DPerfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-225236955119860482013-02-20T10:25:16.418+00:002013-02-20T10:25:16.418+00:00Barbara,
I know what you mean! :-D
(To be 100% h...Barbara,<br /><br />I know what you mean! :-D<br /><br />(To be 100% honest, I never liked the Cherie when it came out, but at least it had character. Now it's neutered; pretty but designed to be inoffensive)Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-15649355669400969042013-02-20T07:55:49.649+00:002013-02-20T07:55:49.649+00:00Couldn't Coppola come up with something more ...Couldn't Coppola come up with something more L'Original than the La Dolce Vita inspired fountain scene? I do like the ads, but the girl in a fountain thing has been done enough already.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-85920117785682662142013-02-20T06:40:49.311+00:002013-02-20T06:40:49.311+00:00The teasters are sweet, but the whole story is get...The teasters are sweet, but the whole story is gettig so tediuos to follow, and the people so reluctant to test that not even Sofia Coppol cna get them out of the mess.Lyubovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11157867536911237953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-55188637129400400812013-02-20T00:00:46.731+00:002013-02-20T00:00:46.731+00:00She's not that dear to anyone...She's not that dear to anyone...Miss Heliotropenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-53680692044416847282013-02-19T18:19:04.788+00:002013-02-19T18:19:04.788+00:00I love Miss Dior but not the cherie!I love Miss Dior but not the cherie!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-89161256261593278072013-02-19T14:47:49.602+00:002013-02-19T14:47:49.602+00:00To be clearer:
I mean that both formulas (two com...To be clearer: <br />I mean that both formulas (two completely different perfumes) do circulate (one in a much more esoteric circuit, granted) with the exact same name. Which is mind-boggling!Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-7979044648046837912013-02-19T14:46:12.951+00:002013-02-19T14:46:12.951+00:00PD,
it's been a while since I last saw a perf...PD,<br /><br />it's been a while since I last saw a perfume counter at the UK, but the official Dior site has this following page on the matter, in which it looks like the Miss Dior (stat) is now/still official name for the 2011 reformulated Miss Dior Cherie (do consult my link on this whole confusion if you have some time).<br /><a href="http://www.dior.com/beauty/gbr/en/Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-21925596688052366922013-02-19T14:07:02.170+00:002013-02-19T14:07:02.170+00:00Dear Shrine
I'm confused!
Are you saying that ...Dear Shrine<br />I'm confused!<br />Are you saying that Cherie is still being marketed as Miss Dior (straight) as it were? Is this campaign about to reinforce that?<br />Here in Old London Town, that whole unhappy episode seemed to have been disposed of and frosted and embossed glass bottles containing a resemblance of the original (not 'originale') perfume have reappeared.<br />As theperfumeddandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06826475345009599846noreply@blogger.com