I’ve had the box of Lady Gaga’s Fame sitting on my desk for over a week, and I’ve been too chicken to actually spray it on myself. What stopped me?
All the hype, actually. I wanted to like the fragrance, but as with most things over-hyped, I was worried it would let me down. I’m also not a huge fan of drugstore fragrances, and no matter how much effort Gaga has put into making this, at the end of the day, it’s meant for the mass market.
I mean, her one requirement for the fragrance was that it be black in the bottle and spray clear. She wouldn’t sign with Coty (the fragrance maker) until they could show her that this could be done. So they went into the lab, created a formula, and when they were absolutely happy with it, they showed it to her and she signed on the dotted line. My point is that her only requirements had to do with the looks of the scent and not the body of it. I’m not sure she even cared what it smelled like. Everything is done for the artifice, and so what would you expect of the perfume itself?
Even the box holding the scent is interesting and all lies… It says that the scent is “compounded by Lady Gaga” (obviously untrue), “tears of belladonna/crushed heard of tiger orchidea/ with a black veil of incense/pulverized apricot/and the combinative essences/of saffron and honey drops”. Those are the notes.
And so the scent itself is a sweet and yes, incense-like combination of fruit and floral. It smells… like almost every other scent available at the drugstore with nothing but the name to set it apart. No, I’m not a fan. The scent is very sweet at the beginning, but quickly melts into the skin and becomes deeper more intense, finally stopping at a powdery finish. It’s a night-time scent, and I would hate it if someone were wearing this around me during the day.
Available for $39 for 1oz.
