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* Retail version of perfume is obviously not this size. It's bigger.
"Darl" is precisly what one Kylie Minogue doesn't want her first dabble into fragrance, Darling, to be abbreviated to. But understands it may happen.
Cause, y'know, she's 'Strayan; we're 'Strayan, and even though Darl's right up there with 'Pet' and 'Sweetart' as one of the most Irritating Nicknames People Give To Other People that Sometimes They Don't Even Know And Are Merely Selling a Newspaper To, chances are, someone out there, probably someone wearing elasticised clothing and minimal rubber footwear, will call her fragrance Darl.
Bless them in their totally innocent devastation of her perfume's name. They mean no harm.
I had the luck/pleasure/fun of frolicking to a super luxe mansion in the real posh like area of Sydney for the launch of Darling last night. We even got driven to the secret location in a convoy of tricycles!
Vans, vans, I mean vans.
Kylie was there, which was the Very Exciting Part, and she glowed as she stood on stage in front of an audience full of women that have secretly loved every single song she has ever released and probably danced to most of the inappropriately at family weddings, too.
We were an easy audience, you might say. Except for the man up the back who aggressively demanded to know why the fragrance wasn't called Locomotion. I'm lying. There was no such man.
She wasn't on stage for long.
She is little and radiant.
She was very girly and self-deprecating.
She had Definitely Excellent dark nail polish on.
I had already smelled the juice a while back because Coty sent me one to shoot and then send straight-back-immediately-if-not-sooner, but i'd forgotten what it smelled like, other than 'nice'.
It's sweet. It's violently wearable, in the way you could buy it for your sister for Christmas and she'll wear it, unlike that nasty fake Red Door you bought her from Perfume Bargains last year. It's a floral, but not one of those pansy florals. No, this is the kind that might order a steak sandwhich at the pub. I know we're not supposed to play comparisons, but it kind of, a little bit reminded me of Curious.
I like it.
And if i didn't leave it in its shiny holographic box on my lounge, i'd have worn it today.
Because no one else has it yet.
And i'm the kind of chump who gets excited by that.
