I have discovered a new favorite perfume in the last couple of years. It's called "Rapture" and it's manufactured by Victoria's Secret. It was introduced in 1992. It's a versatile all-around scent that can be worn day or night.
Rapture by Victoria's Secret is a complex blend of many scents. These include orange blossom and citrus, musk, amber, vanilla, freesia, jasmine, and rose. Rapture would be classified as an oriental fragrance. Rapture smells very feminine and luxurious. Victoria's Secret Rapture is a sophisticated perfume that is not heavy at all. It smells very clean and light. I prefer simple fragrances, so this was a change of pace for me.
Rapture's top notes are mainly citrus and orange blossom. The middle notes consist of freesia, jasmine and rose. These heart notes tend to last for quite awhile. The base note mainly consists of amber, with a hint of vanilla and musk. The base notes are very deep and sensual.
Victoria's Secret Rapture is available in many products and sizes. The cologne spray is in .75 ounce and 1.7 ounce bottles. A purse spray is available. Rapture is also available as a body wash that is called shower cream. It is thicker than most body washes. It leaves your skin feeling very silky and smelling great. An 8 ounce bottle of Rapture Pure Silk body lotion can also be bought. Victoria's Secret also offers Rapture Gift Box sets of different products.
Rapture by Victoria's Secret is a bit expensive. The 1.7 ounce bottle of cologne spray is $35. The .75 ounce purse spray is $19.50. Rapture Rich Velvet body cream costs $21. Rapture Pure Silk body lotion is priced at $20. The gift box sets are found during holidays and usually cost about $85.
The packaging will probably be Rapture's downfall. The perfume is packaged in an attractive heart shaped bottle with gold trim. Upon closer inspection, the gold trim is gaudy cheap plastic. The red and gold cap on the perfume bottle is also made of plastic. Five dollar bottles of perfume are presented with better quality packaging.
Speaking of packaging, I have bought two of the gift box sets in different years. The first box was very nice. It was covered in red satin material and was very heavy. The gift box set I bought the following year was dreadful. It looked like a cheap box of chocolates that a person buys at the drug store.
I have made multiple purchases of Rapture perfume. Everytime without fail, the perfume bottles stop operating correctly. I had to throw away the miniature bottle that came with the gift set. The spring broke on the bottle and I couldn't fix it or find a way to get the rest of the perfume out of the bottle. It ended up leaking on my cabinet and staining it. Also after using about one-third of the perfume, every Rapture cologne bottle starts refusing to spray. The spray simply quits working. And the plastic caps always crack. Sometimes they get stuck on the bottle. The caps must be spray painted gold, because the gold starts peeling.
Sadly, I will never buy "Rapture" by Victoria's Secret again. For a fragrance to cost as much as "Rapture" does, the packaging is cheap. It's ultra cheap, in fact. And I can't afford to pay $35 for perfume that I'm forced to throw away with most of it still in the bottle.
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So, basically, the ad is beyond airbrushing. HuffPo and New York Magazine are both theorizing about whether Kimora’s head really was popped onto some other lady’s body, and whether or not this was Kimora’s evil plan all along:
Kimora Lee Simmons’s new fragrance Dare Me is cheap. No, really. Instead of beginning with prestige distribution like her past fragrances, this will go straight to a total of 18,000 mass-market doors, like Walgreens, Target, and Kohl’s stores. Prices range from $12 for a travel-size bottle to $28 for a full ounce.
However, what probably wasn’t cheap about this launch were the marketing materials, because hello, retoucher! Either they Photoshopped Kimora’s body to death or stuck her head on a model’s body. The question is, if they did the latter, would they tell her? Ironically, Kimora says the “message with this fragrance is empowerment and self-reliance.”
[From New York Magazine]
Yep. And you know Kimora probably approved this sh-t 100%. What I’d really like to know is whether or not the staff was like, “Actually, we’re just going to pop your head onto this chick’s body” or if they didn’t say anything and Kimora actually thinks she looks like this. Note: I am not saying Kimora has a bad figure at all. Her normal body looks fine - great even, especially since she just gave birth to son Kenzo less than a year ago. And obviously, she’s got something going on, because Djimon Hounsou is still all over her. But let’s be straight - this is not her body, and she shouldn’t be putting herself out there, promotionally, with lines like “this fragrance is all about empowerment and self-reliance.” Empowerment is not your head on another woman’s body.
Here are some photos of Kimora from January and February:
Julian Rouas Paris
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