Christ, we all knew it would happen sooner or later. Hot on the heels of announcing that her forthcoming single would have the boringly peurile title 'Shit', Lady Gaga - the Western world's foremost purveyor of cod-transgressive, pantless tedium - has expressed the intent to release a fragrance which smells of 'blood and semen' or, as we here at TRR call it, 'Friday night'. You'll forgive us if we stifle a yawn, but we can't help but recall an altogether similar scent having been produced by Etat Libre d'Orange; their floridly-named 'Secretions Magnifique' has the dubious honour of being the first perfume created to recall the altogether familiar scents of 'blood, milk and iodes', effectively beating her Ga-ness of Ga to the punch by several years.

It certainly isn't the first time that the unitard-wearing space buffoon has sought to capitalise on the devotion of her 'Little Monsters' by appropriating the work of another artist, but let's give the Lady her dues - in this case, she would have found it somewhat difficult to crib from her usual sources. After all, as far as we at TRR Towers are aware, neither David Bowie nor Grace Jones has ever released a fragrance.

(No word on what the name of this olfactory abomintation will be thus far, by the way, as it's set for release in 2012, but we suspect it's unlikely to better our favourite celebrity fragrance title - namely, that of the actor Alan Cumming's second offering, poetically dubbed 'The Second Cumming'. Genius, non? Call us back when you've got a good pun lined up, Gags, and we'll talk.)

Posted on January 27, 2011 at 10:27:09 by Philippa Snow