Prada Olfactories: The Fragrance

Have you ever wondered what Purple Rain smells like? What it would be like to spritz Tainted Love on the nape of your neck? What the scent was that permeated the air of the gardens in Last Year at Marienbad? How badly Divine’s mouth must have smelled after that infamous scene in Pink Flamingos? Well, now you can find out, thanks to the power of fragrance, or more specifically, Prada Olfactories. Not that they captured the scent of Divine’s mouth post her delicious snack – no one would want to smell that good. You might be arrested for unintentionally causing a riot in your wake. But then, that is the power of scent. Pink Flamingos, for example, is a “cloud of pink bubbles floating through the heart of Tokyo. The scent of fluorescent pink blossoms, stylised and innocent”, whereas Purple Rain is a “fragile perennial fortified into an opulent bloom that evokes its namesake goddess of the rainbow”, and who wouldn’t want to evoke that purple rainbow goddess that was Prince? For Prince was not a woman or a man – he was something we cannot understand, so if Prada want to refer to him as a goddess, they can. Indeed, whatever you want to smell like, be it Divine or the purple one, there are 10 of these creations, so go forth and spritz and release that Prada-scented alter ego within.

Taken from “Ten Commandments” Issue 58 of 10 Women, ANGELS PLEASURE FLUID, on newsstands now…