Lady Gaga's "little monsters" - as she calls her fans - will be able to smell literally like their Mama Monster, when the pop performer launches her first perfume next year. The always-shocking Lady Gaga has donated her own blood to the Coty perfumers who are her collaborators on the scent, to help them develop her desired smell. And then there's the semen.
Sex, Blood and Rock and Rock
Saying she wants her namesake perfume to smell like "an expensive hooker," the Born This Way music maker admits to examining semen and drops of her own blood to develop the smell. "You just get the after-feeling of sex from the semen and then the blood is sort of primal," Gaga told Australian radio show 2DayFM. "It was taken out of my own blood sample, so it's a sense of having me on your skin." The scent is due to hit shelves in 2012.
Bodily Fluids in Perfume
While human fluids are rare in perfumery, the use of animal secretions in scent-making is commonplace. Civet and musk, both derived from the nether regions of animals (the African civet cat and South Asian deer, respectively), are found in hundreds of mass-market fragrances from Chanel No. 5 to Calvin Klein’s Obsession.