History Main / PerfumeCommercial

* The TropeCodifier is likely a string of ads in the late Eighties and early Nineties for the Calvin Klein fragrance [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de1vyikBnsg "Obsession."]] Equal parts MindScrew and SoapOpera level melodrama, they are probably the reason why so many of the parodies are one-word emotion-based titles, like ''Depression'' and ''Compulsion'' mentioned below.

* Ads for Guerlain's "La Petite Robe Noire" ("The LittleBlackDress") are made of animated {{Sexy Silhouette}}s and emphasize the GayParee and EiffelTowerEffect tropes, combined with "These Boots Are Made For Walking" by Music/NancySinatra for the soundtrack.

* Parodied in a 2020 political ad by the People for Bernie Sanders movement: [[https://thepeoplesperfume.com/ Bérnié,]] "The People’s Perfume".

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* In ''Film/Boomerang1992'', the eccentric fashionista played by Creator/GraceJones stars in a perfume ad in which she noisily gives birth to a perfume bottle amid a jungle of flames.
* ''Film/GrumpyOldMen'' suggested that perfume ads 'don't describe the perfume, but do adequately describe the state of your mind if you drink some'.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JQ_bxt9trg Smolder by Flynn]].
* ''Film/StarTrek2009'': It caused three novelty perfumes/colognes to be created: [[TheKirk Tiberius]], [[MateOrDie Pon Farr]], and {{Red Shirt}}. [[http://trekmovie.com/2009/03/04/trek-spring-collection-preview-first-look-at-genki-star-trek-fragrances/ Even the bottles are amusing.]]
* The film ''Film/{{Perfume}}'' (duh) is about a homicidal perfumer with the smell equivalent of perfect pitch and is essentially a perfume commercial dragged out into a feature film. When Creator/DustinHoffman's character, a master perfumer, smells the main character's first perfume, his surrounding transforms into a rose garden and a sultry Gypsy woman walks up to kiss him.
* ''Film/{{Looker}}'' opens with a commercial for Ravish perfume, with the woman in the commercial talking to a MagicMirror.

** [[CompensatingForSomething Eau Ver Compensate: Tiny Package, Big Smell.]] The product name is pronounced [[ItIsPronouncedTropay in a bad French way.]]
** [[{{Squick}} Mother's Musk: Back to the Womb]] The hypothetical commercial has [[NotHelpingYourCase a bottle of perfume coming out a woman's Vagina.]]
** [[OrphansOrdeal Orphan:]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Foster your Essence.]]

* Marvelously sent up in Series/TheChasersWarOnEverything with 'WNKRY' (pronounced [[UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball Wayne Carey]]).

* Marvelously sent up in Series/TheChasersWarOnEverything with 'WNKRY' (pronounced [[UsefulNotes/AustralianRules Football Wayne Carey]]).

* Made fun of by Alan Cumming for Cumming the Fragrance, called by one blogger "the only celebrity fragrance that has a sense of humor." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmdJEjJxYOY He even adorably cracks up laughing at the end.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' had a brief story arc about some characters trying to produce a dog food commercial and the final result ended up being in this style.

* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' featured a commercial for ''dog food'' in this style.

* [[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."

* {{Subverted}} by Korean Air's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4yI2rhTZ2U Color of Perfection]]" spot. Coded as a perfume ad verging on [[DesignStudentsOrgasm Design Student's Orgasm]] -- they even show people spraying perfume -- it uses Tiffany's trademarked blue color (for which it must have paid a small fortune) and music by Robert Matt. Many viewers probably still don't realize it's about an airline.

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* ''WebVideo/TranslatorFails'' parodies these in it's "Badly Translated Beauty Commercials" video with the fake perfume "[[MemeticMutation Gradually Watermeloned]]"

* ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JQ_bxt9trg Smolder by Flynn]].

* AppealToVanity

* With Adrien being a model, it is hardly surprising that there are ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fics on the subject:

* ''WebVideo/TranslatorFails'' parodies this in it's "Badly Translated Beauty Commercials" video with the fake perfume "[[MemeticMutation Gradually Watermeloned]]"

** ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18959446 Lipstick]]'' by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/TheNovelArtist TheNovelArtist]] has Marinette preparing Adrien for such an add... which requires him to be thoroughly covered in lipstick marks.

->''[[AmbitionIsEvil Ambition]]''

->[++ [[SevenDeadlySins Passion]] ++]

->'''[+ [[PurpleProse Purple]] +]'''

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