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Mariah Carey never wore perfume before agreeing to create a scent for Elizabeth Arden, because she was unable to find a fragrance which compliments her natural smell.
The 36-year-old finds the complex job of blending numerous fragrant ingredients comes naturally to her as it is a very similar process to songwriting.
She says, "It's gonna be the first fragrance I'm ever gonna wear because people are always, like, 'What perfume do you wear?' And I'm like, 'Nothing, it's probably my hairspray or me.' So now I'll have an actual perfume."
"I'm just sort of approaching it kinda like making a record... When you make a perfume it's like each little part of the fragrance is kinda like a note, so the fragrance is like a song."
Under the new Elizabeth Arden deal, Carey will develop and market her own line of fragrance products which will debut in department stores next year.
Source: Teen Hollywood
Thursday, April 13, 2006
They call the wine Mariah
A story has been passed around via numerous publications and picked up on the Internet over the past year or so indicating that pop star Mariah Carey has invested in a vineyard in Mendocino County that bears her name. But Jim Caudill, spokesman for Brown-Forman, the distributor of Mariah Vineyard zinfandel, said that other than drinking the wine and liking it, Ms. Carey has no connection with the wine.
How does something like that get started? “Some blogger in the UK saw the TV show ‘MTV Cribs’ where Sir Richard Branson was showing some celebs, including Mariah, around his private island and she started talking about how she liked this wine and was shown drinking it,” Caudill said.
(Robert Louis Stevenson called wine “bottled poetry.” Is Mariah “bottled music?”)
Mariah Wants All Fans To See Her — And Even Smell Like Her // Updated by Iga
Mariah Carey practically reeks of the sweet smell of success, so she's planning to bottle it — as soon as she has the time between her next video, movie and tour.
The singer's just signed a licensing agreement with Elizabeth Arden, announced Thursday (April 6), to develop and market her own line of fragrance products to debut in department stores next spring. But she's still trying to figure out her schedule for this spring.
While her video for "Say Somethin' " is expected to hit video channels soon, Carey's got another clip to shoot for the gospel track "Fly Like a Bird," since she sent both singles out simultaneously. Carey's still figuring out the concept, which she's hoping to keep basic with the main guest stars being her pastor and church choir.
"We don't have a lot of time to do it," she said. "It's not a big-budget thing. But it doesn't need to be. It just needs to be about the song, capturing the song and the emotion of it."
After that's taken care of, Carey jets to the film set of the indie drama "Tennessee," which starts shooting in New Mexico and Tennessee this month for five weeks. She'll play a waitress who joins two brothers on a journey to find their estranged father. "It's not about my character, but she has an important part of the story without the whole thing resting on my shoulders," Carey said. "Plus, I'll be able to get up and go to work and be somebody else for the day, and we like that, because sometimes you just need to get away."
When "Tennessee" wraps, Carey will start to rehearse for her summer tour. She's still mapping out the dates, but don't worry — she's planning to keep ticket prices pretty reasonable.
"People ask me, 'Why don't you just go on tour and charge huge amounts of money? Do these small venues, but charge thousands and thousands of dollars to go in,' " Carey said. "Because I have fans of all different ages and different money ranges, and they can't afford to go out and spend that kind of money. Not everybody has a budget to go out and go really high-end."
Just because it won't be high-end doesn't mean it won't be high-concept. Carey's dream scenario would be to feature "every artist I've ever worked with."
"I've worked with so many big names, it'd be so much fun, just for one show. That would be hot," Carey said. "You never know."
