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I was about to say that “Jennifer Aniston” is a pretty unevocative name for a perfume, but then I realized that you can't get more evocative than suggesting that the entire essence of a whole person has been crammed into a tiny bottle.

And unlike most celebrity scents, which usually smell like the dregs of the berry vat, the cupcake vat and the tuberose vat poured into a single new vat stamped with the star's name, “Jennifer Aniston” (quote marks to differentiate from the living, breathing, vigorously yogacized Jennifer Aniston) actually conjures the actress' natural, beachy, mineral water-quaffing beauty.



This eau de parfum, with its beach-skin smell of jasmine and salty musk, lives in the Gendarme neck of the woods. But it's softer and prettier than Gendarme, cushioned as it is with the palest rose, violet and sandalwood.

And according to Jennifer's longtime hairdresser, Chris McMillan, who I ran into at Scent Bar (he's a dedicated fumehead as well as a hair hopper), Jen was very involved in the development of the perfume. He just spontaneously volunteered that tidbit in between snorts of Avignon, and since “Jennifer Aniston” is such great match between the celebrity and the scent, it sounds plausible.

“Jennifer Aniston” would find a loving home with younger fumies who favor a lighter perfume, as well as with anyone who needs a low-key but quietly enjoyable scent for school or work.

Jennifer Aniston is available from Perfume.com

22 comments:

  1. I am not a big fan of most celebrity fragrances, but this is one of my favorite light scents. It is not annoying when I wear it on the warmest of days.

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    1. Yes! Ideal hot weather frag without being a citrus.

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    1. Exactly. I do love this because it's so easy to wear.

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  3. Sounds like the sort of scent that used to be popular in the nineties named after an actress who used to be popular in the nineties.

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    1. Because this fragrance is named so directly after, it makes me wonder whether Aniston is this beach-living zen creation the fume purports, or is instead really high-maintenance type who chants "I am zen" all the time, just to calm herself down. This fume has me so interested in her psyche. Maybe this self-naming of hers is a cunning ploy, to get the globe to try and draw analogies between fume and her mind's inner workings, and stoke public interest in her.

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    2. Well, if it is a cunning ploy, it's certainly working on you! I don't know if Ms. Aniston is truly or faux-ly Zen, but she can't take the credit or blame for laying her name on her perfume. It seems to have been a last-minute pre-launch move when the original name, Lolavie, was deemed to close to Lola by Marc Jacobs.

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    3. Ah but this self-naming of a perfume just seems so wrong.

      "Jennifer Aniston amused me for a while with her lightweight girlish charms and her suggestion of beach living but could not hold my attention for long and I soon wanted to stray for deeper more provocative pastures.

      Will Angelina Jolie be bringing out a perfume soon, I wondered?"

      See what I mean? Whether Lolavie or JA ended up as its name, someone somewhere needs new marketing people........

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    4. Somehow, "Jennifer Aniston" seems weirder than if it had just been called "Jennifer."

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    5. and calling it "Aniston" somehow sounds like a men's fragrance.

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    6. Yeah, you're both right. If it had been part of her name or a nickname, or a play on her name it would not have seemed so damn and definitively representational of its creator, and so very, masculinally formal. One can only wonder why the marketeers stopped short of including the first line of her address. Personally, i would have gone to the other extreme and called it Jen-Jen's Malibu LIfestyle. As in, "you too can have 'JJ'sML'"

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    7. Oh, now I like the idea of calling it "Miss Aniston"!

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  4. I was very surprised at how much I liked this fragrance when I tried it on.

    Seeing it in Sephora, my first reaction was eye-rolling. But I do enjoy it.

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    1. When it comes to celeb scents, the eyes do get a rolling workout. With such lowered expectations, it's almost tempting to overpraise a celeb scent that's pleasingly competent. But I do think "Jennifer Aniston" is very nice. But it doesn't reach the heights of SJP's truly lovely Lovely.

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  5. This one is on my radar, but I have yet to spot it in store over here. Any scent that saves me having to do the mineral-water quaffing and yogacizing routine has my vote. Couple of spritzes and I am hydrated, toned and good to go! : - )

    Oh, and does it give you the highlights too? I have been known to ask hairdressers for her caramelly blond tones, and occasionally got an approximation, though sometimes all concentrated over one ear.

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  6. I loved the scent but it does NOT last AT ALL ! If I have to spend my hard earned money I better be able to smell it. I returned it

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  7. Okay, so since we're talking about celeb fragrances, has anyone smelled Dita Von Teese's perfume? I don't think it's available in the states, and I'm very curious. I can't see her being the type of celeb who had no input whatsoever, who didn't care.

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    1. Haven't smelled it...but Dita's been talking it up like she's been nurturing it from a seed to a flower.

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  8. Not really a fan of JA the celeb, love the scent!

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  9. I can't wait to try this based upon your review of it. I do wish it did not directly have her name on it, because if I love it, I don't love "wearing" someone on my on darn self....but I do think she's an intriguing person so at least that's a plus. All the fume notes that you say it has seem to be right on the money. The sandlewood description from the other end of the telescope was priceless!

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