Perfume ads are not like other ads. It is uniquely difficult to advertise an olfactory product via a visual medium, and this leads to some unusual outcomes. A game that my loved ones and I like to ...
Hong Kong, CHINA: A man walks past a billboard advertising for a perfume in front of Residence Bel-Air on the South side of Hong Kong, 08 February 2007. Residence Bel-Air, part of a high-rise, ...
It is starting to feel like Ram is specifically trolling us here at Jalopnik. Its new fragrance, which it calls "Ram, for men," is already sold out, probably thanks to a ridiculously corny ad that ...
It’s December, when beautiful actors star in famously nonsensical perfume ads, whether Emma Watson waxing paradoxical for Prada, Natalie Portman screaming about love for Dior, or a star-crossed couple ...
LONDON — It looks as if British audiences will only be able to gaze at Beyonce Knowles after dark. The Advertising Standards Authority, the independent body in the U.K. that aims to maintain standards ...
It’s the holidays so there are a lot of fragrance ads on TV. Why are all (or nearly all) perfume and cologne ads provocative and just plain weird? What’s the history there? Have retailers found that ...