Perfume Images & Adverts Archives

 An oldie but a goodie. In 1995, Jean-Baptiste Mondino directed a Star-Wars-, Blade-Runner-inspired commercial for the perfume Jean-Paul Gaultier now known as Classique by Jean-Paul Gaultier (1993). The ad is entitled "Parfum Esprit."One of the lines said by the grand-motherly...

I think it was last month that I was riding past the Musée d'Orsay in a taxi cab when I noticed a giant advertising canvas featuring Kate Moss as the face of Parisienne by Yves Saint Laurent on the side...

 The full ad for the new campaign for Miss Dior Chérie featuring Natalie Portman has been unveiled. Well, let me rephrase that. A few more inches of it have been offered to appreciative public viewing since last time. In it,...

 By reader's request and because we aim to please on The Scented Salamander, here is "the other ad" for one of the good gentlemen's juices, Dirty English by Juicy Couture (the first ad is here and the review here.) This...

  Last fall in 2010, Guerlain issued a sumptious crystal luxury Bee bottle created by Baccarat. It was edited in 47 copies and displayed in the Guerlain boutique windows in Paris. Harrods also advertized it. They can still be...

 Because I ended up sniffing Dior Leather Oud like mad, ushering the New Year 2011 with it, here is my way of sharing some of the excitement (apart from an upcoming review), with the video the house filmed to promote...

Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry reveals in an artfully directed spot borrowing from the genre of the interview what her new, upcoming perfume Reveal is about (advance review forthcoming by the way.) Playing opposite actor Stephen Dorff who can be heard...

One of the most noteworthy launches of 2010 to my nose will no doubt be the latest Man by Bulgari whose spokesperson is actor Clive Owen. The latter already signed a beauty contract in the past for Hypnôse for Men...

  One way to revive the classics is by making them look cooler. Here the new advert for English Leather by Dana initially released in 1949 deliberately plays with distanced tool-itude and a fratboy type of humor. Did they go overboard...

A perfumer emerges froms the shadows In this 2001 commercial for the French brand of coffee Carte Noire, a parfumeur-créateur, Gilles Romey, appears in a rare occurrence of use of a perfumer as a public figure......

  L'Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA) holds quite a reserve of perfumes reels. In this one, you can watch a segment on the Parisian metro filmed in 1959 where a journalist, Michel Péricard, asks an RATP engineer, M. Mamier, about the...

Image: plettro.comDolce & Gabbana commissioned a feature-like segment for their fragrance Sicily when it was released in 2003 with the tag line "Feel the passion." The short film was directed by  Here is the long version with actress Monica Bellucci...

 Actress Diane Kruger is the spokesperson for the latest Calvin Klein fragrance, Beauty. The commercial in which she plays puts the accent on the classic inner-outer-beauty dynamic and the moral boost a perfume can give you: It's what you don't...