[Michael Musto recently pointed out how shes starting to look like mae west]
The curiousness of her lateness to the game is compounded by the old fashioned-ness of ToD. Its a take on a classic 1948 fragrance called Fracas which I smelled once at Neiman Marcus; and from what I remember ToD resembles pretty closely. Its a loud, diffusive buttery floral note of inky tuberose anchored by vanilla marshmallows. This would be amazing on a boy with neck tattoos and a mowawk at a knitting circle but besides that I use it for, wait for it, linen spray. When I'm makin' the bed and gettin' fancy I'll spray 'er down and its quite lovely. On a woman it seems a little on the nose, but maybe if you had your hair up librarian style, pearls, and a baby blue cardigan with rock-hard nipples poking out it could work. So its cheap and good (for a couch or bed) but I'm left with why this now and why call it Truth or Dare in the middle of releasing an album called MDMA? Why hasn't she been puting her name on fragrances longer? The closest Madonna got before Truth or Dare was the patchouli scented liner notes of Like a Prayer. This couldve been fun for Dick Tracy-20's flapper(no I'm not referring to her vagina) era Madonna with her furs and dresses, cone bras, and Warren and whatnot but doesnt seem to fit name or otherwise with her attempt to make the forward thinking dance album MDMA when ToD was released to perfume counters.
Imagine all the possibilities that slipped through those vascular hands of hers: a modern incense for Ray of Light, a disco Angel bomb for Confessions, a take on leather from her Erotica era. I don't know, there's professionals that are supposed to be good at this but I just now crapped out three great ideas.
This stuff must've really bombed because as of writing this you can find nuclear-war stockpiles of the stuff at TJMaxx and Marshalls and the go for about 10 dollars a large bottle.
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