Lady Gaga Debuts Fame Fragrance. World’s First Black Perfume? Not!

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Although I wasn’t expecting something traditional and certainly not something ethereally pink, Lady Gaga’s perfume, Fame, is a flowery scent, even sweet (with apricot notes).

However, they say it’s not your average perfume (duh!) and that it doesn’t have a linear progression (meaning that it’s not like the classic scents – with top / middle / base notes but more like a pyramid – perfume structure).

Lady Gaga Fame perfume ad campaign

I wonder if they didn’t do that on purpose, so they would have to explain more on the matter and not just throw in a simple, average explanation to accompany the launch of Lady Gaga’s Fame perfume. Which comes in a black bottle, anyway. And in the black egg – shaped bottle with golden claws cap is a black perfume!

Black as in black liquid in the bottle and invisible when sprayed! Ain’t that Fame? (Oh, and did I say that it’s a flowery scent? It revolves around Belladonna. Also known as Deadly Nighshade. A plant known for giving hallucinations and delirium.)

Lady Gaga black perfume Fame

UPDATE: Thanks to our reader & commentator, Sabrina Palermo, now we know that Fame is not the world’s first black perfume! Here’s its predecessor, Black Afgano:

world s first black perfume NOT Fame

9 comments

#1 Sabrina Palermo on 07.21.12 at 11:25 am

Fame it NOT the first black perfume ever!! “Black Afgano” from Nasomatto has been there earlier, once again she is copying steeling other ideas.

#2 Riana on 07.23.12 at 7:16 am

Sabrina, thanks for the info. I, for example, never knew that :)

#3 Kelly on 07.26.12 at 7:40 am

@ kpriss – I just read your comments on tfs & found it very funny – karma sent to you!

#4 kpriss on 07.26.12 at 8:03 am

@Kelly :* thank you!

#5 JJ on 08.08.12 at 12:40 am

And where did this Black Afgano come from? Did you do any research to see if it is indeed real?
You know Gaga’s haters will do anything … Even creating a mock perfume for the Internet ….. lol

#6 Blu on 08.08.12 at 12:57 am

The Black Afgano actually ISN’T black, it’s a brownish color , it’s also more of an oil based sent and less of an actual perfume.
So, There you go.
Can’t wait to get Fame!

#7 kpriss on 08.08.12 at 1:06 am

sure JJ, so would Gaga fanatics ;)

yeah, they should totally call it “Brownish Afgano”! It’s a semantics (Fame) thing!

#8 Riana on 08.08.12 at 6:18 am

JJ and Blu we’re born this way ;)

#9 Truth be told on 10.20.12 at 4:59 pm

Relax, people. Lady gaga made the first ever black EAU DE PARFUM. Whereas black afgano by nasomatto is the first black PERFUME OIL/EXTRACT. Nice try, gaga haters. But with regards to the perfume, it’s all original.

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