Vulva?

[bobquasit]

I thought I'd run out of things to say. Nothing left but angst. I figured everyone on my flist had read enough angst, so that left me no other option but silence.

And then this morning I read (in Salon) that a German company is marketing a new fragrance that is called - and supposedly smells like a - "Vulva".

Thank you, Germans. You've amused me once again.

You may be forced to watch an ad first if you don't have a Salon membership. And fair warning: the site for the perfume itself - which I have NOT linked to here, but is linked to from the Salon story - is apparently quite NSFW.

I'm trying to imagine who would buy this, apart from exceptionally eccentric Germans - women, probably, although who knows?

The comments in the Salon piece are pretty funny, too. They cover all of the humorous possibilities that I've thought of so far (such as a male version of the scent, for example).

It would take the Germans to make me smile on a morning like this.

Comments

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

...it could be worse, for a moment I miread that as volvo... and wanted to know who would want to smell like a car.

Vulva... for when you really want the world to know you're in heat and need as many horny guys as possible in a single day?

Vulva - for when you really want to convince your male boss you need a raise?

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

It could be MUCH worse. Just imagine...

Shit...the designer fragrance for German porn stars.

Or does that require too esoteric a knowledge of the world of pornography? If you're wondering how I know, I could remind you that I worked in "the biz". But that would be a lie (although suddenly I remember that one of our magazines was called "Enema Digest", a truly unfortunate title).

In fact, that genre of German porn was was mentioned on SNL a long time ago, and my friend Steve did a series of movie reviews in cartoon form - absolutely hysterical - in which he reviewed, among other things, a movie called something like "Der Caviar Dinner". I leave it to your imagination. Or rather, I strongly urge you NOT to try to imagine it.

I need an icon to express absolute horror. :(

[moonlitmagik.livejournal.com]

i may be bi... and i may be a female.. but i dont smell and i dont want to smell some one else via perfume

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Now I'm wondering how they GET that scent. I can't believe that they'd use human donors. I mean...they couldn't. Could they?

I don't even want to GUESS what that factory would look like! :D

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

The web site for the stuff, after you get past the animation of the genitals flying into you in attack mode, pretty much indicates that this is more a Porn thing than a perfume thing. The one semi-rational use I can think of for it is, uhhh, ummm, on one's uhhh, "love doll."

Now, the question which comes to mind is....

Who are the most strangely perverse? The Germans or the Japanese? :)