History Main / PerfumeCommercial

-->'''Lilly''': Hey, who are these guys?
-->'''Miley''': I think they're the circle.

** [[CompensatingForSomething Eau Ver Compensate: Tiny Package, Big Smell.]] The product name is pronounced [[ItsPronouncedTropay in a bad French way.]]

* [[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQgrIcCtys0 The commercial for Cacharel's Eden]] is about what you'd expect - androgynous creatures flitting around a leafy CGI paradise, and about three metric tons of FemaleGaze. But in Luca Turin's words: "Perfume journalists are still talking about the 1994 launch, which took place in some sort of aircraft hangar near Paris and involved a large artificial island surrounded by water, covered in real jungle, and populated by naked adolescents of both sexes. I'd tell you more, but I wasn't there."

* The commercial for Cacharel's Eden is about what you'd expect - androgynous creatures flitting around a leafy CGI paradise, and about three metric tons of FemaleGaze. But in Luca Turin's words: "Perfume journalists are still talking about the 1994 launch, which took place in some sort of aircraft hangar near Paris and involved a large artificial island surrounded by water, covered in real jungle, and populated by naked adolescents of both sexes. I'd tell you more, but I wasn't there."

* Glaxo Smith Kline earned themselves a fair amount of notoriety with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz4Bm_YqqPc this charming little gem]], possibly inspired in part by the J'Adore commercial. Attracted by shimmering lights appearing from nowhere, a woman looks up from her book, climbs a long staircase and enters an upstairs room where the lights swirl enchantingly around her, eventually disclosing a tiny bottle that spins in midair to reveal its name... CERVICAL CANCER. Then they apologize for having got your attention with such a cheap trick.

* The 2009 [[Film/StarTrek Star Trek]] film caused three novelty perfumes/colognes to be created: [[TheKirk Tiberius]], [[MateOrDie Pon Farr]], and [[RedShirt Red Shirt]]. [[http://trekmovie.com/2009/03/04/trek-spring-collection-preview-first-look-at-genki-star-trek-fragrances/ Even the bottles are amusing.]]

** [[OrphansOrdeal Orphan:]][[IncrediblyLamePun Foster your Essence.]]

* ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'': In one of the games, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIMW4cXSHug the jokers are playing as workers for perfume companies workshopping the ad campaigns.]] The ads are meant to be unappealing and undesirable, and the jokers have to make a hard sell for the product. The brands include...

** [[{{Gashole}} Cropdust: Just Did It.]] The ad shows [[LiteralMinded an image of an actual cropdusting plane over a field.]]

* Film/{{Looker}} opens with a commercial for Ravish perfume, with the woman in the commercial talking to a MagicMirror.

** Was it also SNL that did the spoof ad for "Pretentious" ("It pretends to be all the things that I pretend to be")?

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* The commercial for Cacharel's Eden is about what you'd expect - androgynous creatures flitting around a leafy CGI paradise, and about three metric tons of FemaleGaze. But in Luca Turin's words: "Perfume journalists are still talking about the 1994 launch, which took place in some sort of aircraft hangar near Paris and involved a large artificial island surrounded by water, covered in real jungle, and populated by naked adolescents of both sexes. I'd tell you more, but I wasn't there." WTH?
* Made fun of by Alan Cumming for Cumming the Fragrance, called by one blogger "the only celebrity fragrance that has a sense of humor." [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmdJEjJxYOY He even cracks up laughing at the end.]] It's adorable.

* Played completely straight in a 2014 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ1XM9LwS64 commercial]] for Dior's J'adore perfume featuring Creator/CharlizeTheron -- strutting through a sumptuously decorated baroque hallway in a [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles glittering]] [[PimpedOutDress golden dress]] and sky-high heels, she approaches a rotunda where a length of champagne silk tumbles from an oculus several stories above. Discarding her shoes, she begins to climb the silken rope in a sensuous manner. The train of her dress inexplicably grows longer as she climbs. As she nears the top of the rope, she rips off a string of champagne pearls that clatter to the ground as she climbs through the oculus into a [[ShiningCity city of glass skyscrapers]] that glow with the diffuse light of sunset. Closeup on a bottle of perfume as the sun sets.

->'''TRÖÛP∃''' -- A new fragrance by TVTropes.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' did a ParodyCommercial for [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Calvin Kleen's]] ''Compulsion'' (a household cleaner) that heavily mocked the TrueArtIsIncomprehensible aspect.

* RogerZelazny's novel ''Isle of the Dead'' has a man from the 20th century living in the 25th. He's meeting a woman for dinner; she enters the room and falls into "a perfume-ad pose". You know immediately what he's talking about.

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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' did a ParodyCommercial for [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Calvin Kleen's]] ''Compulsion'' (a household cleaner) that heavily mocked the TrueArtIsIncomprehensible aspect.
** Was it also SNL that did the spoof ad for "Pretentious" ("It pretends to be all the things that I pretend to be")?
* One of the fake commercials in the video for Music/NeilYoung's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSvzCNBvlQ This Note's For You]]". ("Forgive me, but I'm prettier than all of you." "Liar! Give me back my shoes!")
* Mocked in ''TheSimpsons'' with an ad exec's "retooled" version of The Mr. Plow commercial. It's a black and white, impressionistic mess reminiscent of many of the PerfumeCommercial tropes.
* ''Series/TheDailyShow'' did one in mocking the Obamas' date to New York City with a perfume ad for "POTUS: For Men".
** One of ''Series/TheColbertReport'''s early "products" was "Stephen Colbert's ''Scorn''." His Formula 401 ("premium man-seed") is also advertised in the pretentious-beauty-product style.
* ''GrumpyOldMen'' suggested that perfume ads 'don't describe the perfume, but do adequately describe the state of your mind if you drink some'.
* During the 4th season of ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'', the opening credits parodied this.
-->[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbe6zAjqOhY “Between desire and reality . . . A BIT . . . between fact and breakfast . . . madness lies, lies, lies . . . a bit . . . I hate you, I hate you and yet . . . I hate you. . . . Love, rage, and angst of the ear. Pretension . . . by Fry & Laurie.”]]

* In the 8th episode of ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'', Sheep becomes famous for being on a commercial for Spotless dish soap that's an obvious perfume commercial parody
* Celebrity fragrance ads were dissected and parodied on an Infomania episode. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwX3QPbMvA C-List: The new fragrance from Conor Knighton. "I'll get there someday."]]
* ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'''s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JQ_bxt9trg Smolder by Flynn]].
* The 2009 [[Film/StarTrek Star Trek]] film caused three novelty perfumes/colognes to be created: [[TheKirk Tiberius]], [[MateOrDie Pon Farr]], and [[RedShirt Red Shirt]]. [[http://trekmovie.com/2009/03/04/trek-spring-collection-preview-first-look-at-genki-star-trek-fragrances/ Even the bottles are amusing.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' had a scene where Angelica is playing make believe that she is in a perfume ad, wearing a long flowing dress while walking down a fancy hallway.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'' showed Tish contemplating what a commercial product named after her would be like. Cue her standing in a dress for a perfume called "Tish" "''Ah, the scent of me.''"
* RogerZelazny's novel ''Isle of the Dead'' has a man from the 20th century living in the 25th. He's meeting a woman for dinner; she enters the room and falls into "a perfume-ad pose". You know immediately what he's talking about.
* ''Series/HannahMontana'' featured an episode where she does a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9KSskUH9mg perfume commercial]], telling viewers that the fragrance "completes the circle", and involving her standing in front of a picture frame with a pair of gymnasts rolling behind her.
-->'''Lilly''': Hey, who are these guys?
-->'''Miley''': I think they're the circle.
* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' featured a commercial for ''dog food'' in this style.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' had a perfume commercial parody starring [[SmellySkunk Fifi La Fume]] for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJZL3O1PcpY "Calvin Acme's Depression".]]

* From ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'', there's Brain's commercial for "Subjugation". Pinky's shenanigans ruin the effect.

* In the 8th episode of ''SheepInTheBigCity'', Sheep becomes famous for being on a commercial for Spotless dish soap that's an obvious perfume commercial parody

* ''TinyToonAdventures'' had a perfume commercial parody starring [[SmellySkunk Fifi La Fume]] for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJZL3O1PcpY "Calvin Acme's Depression".]]

* One of the fake commercials in the video for NeilYoung's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSvzCNBvlQ This Note's For You]]". ("Forgive me, but I'm prettier than all of you." "Liar! Give me back my shoes!")