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- Pop music icon and entrepreneur Lady Gaga is releasing a new woman's fragrance called Fame.
- The perfume features an innovation where it is black in the bottle but sprays on transparent.
- Lady Gaga states that she wanted the fragrance to smell like a slut to be totally honest.
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At just 26 years old, Lady Gaga is not only a pop music icon with hits like Bad Romance and a fashion trendsetter, she's an astute entrepreneur as well with earnings of $52 million. This autumn, Gaga is as busy as ever, posing for the cover of Vogue and in one of her most ambitious projects yet, releasing a new woman's fragrance called Fame.
I'm really passionate about this fragrance. I wanted to create something that represented the duality of Fame and when I first met with Cody, I told them that the most important thing to me was that we could be innovative. The big innovation is the look of the perfume. Fame is black in the bottle but sprays on transparent, the first of its kind.
Were you surprised they were able to actually do it? I mean, you asked them to do it, but at the time it was impossible. They said no for a whole year and then even after I made the bottle so nice, they said, oh but Gaga now the bottle is just beautiful, we must just sell it as a regular perfume so you don't have to explain to everyone about how it won't get on your clothing and I said I don't want to do it unless it's black
because it makes lovely sense, doesn't it? A fragrance called Fame that smells good but it's not really. As with her music, Gaga says Fame's inspiration was her fans. You're not getting a random product that I signed off on.
We really spent a lot of time creating this for you because we love you and we appreciate that you love the aesthetic that we have created through our music and TV performances. What were you looking for when you were searching around for that? It must be difficult to come up with something that is unique and personal to you.
I wanted it to smell slutty to be totally honest. I don't think that women need to smell interesting. I have an interesting mind but I want to smell like a slut to be totally honest.
Do you think that other people will as well? I mean it in a lovely way. The way that your husband makes you feel when you've had a really long day and he knows exactly what to say to you that will make you feel sexy and the smell of Fame is that mating call.
That mating call, I am larger than life. The beautiful parts of Fame which is what I hope to share with this fragrance are that you can find the inner queen in yourself, the inner princess.
Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well. But you know in the form of a perfume it's perfectly harmless. You can spray it here and here. Sold in stores everywhere. Do you consider yourself a businesswoman, a savvy businesswoman? Well I guess we'll find out.