throughout my adult life when I first
started playing with my style and my
look I kind of realized fairly early on
that when I did things that just made me
feel good about myself rather than
thinking about what other people like or
what my boyfriend liked the time when I
when I did what made me feel beautiful
and glamorous then I was doing the right
thing and so if you look at that like
I'm not like anybody else I don't belong
here you're missing the point you do
belong there and you should be yourself
and you should be a unique original and
like things about yourself that make you
different from other women and one of
the words I love to use the most
glamorous glamour is something much
different the beauty in a way it doesn't
require natural beauty it doesn't
require you don't need to be young you
don't need to fit into a certain
standard it's about creating magic so I
use the word glamour a lot because I
love the word and what it really means
I've always believed that perfume is a
vital stepping stone to achieving
glamour and I have different fragrances
for nighttime
day time when want to play the part of a
thumb betal or when I want to play the
part of a pinup
I love having like a fragrance wardrobe
I love also having a really recognizable
signature scent that that one can only
associate with you this is my original
fragrance when I when I created I was
living in Paris and I had a new
boyfriend and I was walking down the
street with him about two or three weeks
into the relationship and he asked me
about my perfume and he said my mother
wore that perfume and I suddenly like
got a pang in my heart and went oh my
god I called a friend of mine who's a
famous perfumer named Killian Hennessy
and I asked him what I should do
anything he didn't skip a beat and he
said either get rid of the man or you
get rid of the perfume when I thought
it's a pretty good band at the same time
I was approached to make my own
fragrance which was a really great time
for me to come up with something and
originally you know I remember I first
walked in and I sat down and they had
like 10 bottles out and they said these
are all great perfumes that are going to
do really well in the marketplace just
choose one I said no way like I'm not
going to miss out on the opportunity to
create my own signature scent and so I
spent about a year in
fragrance house testing and fine-tuning
my perfume to find my own signature
scent which would replace this one that
I had to abandon and you know maybe
mine's gonna be a little bit more nation
a little more special but I feel that
way I'm not you know your normal
celebrity that is meant to appeal to the
masses I feel like I'm specialized in
what I do and so I thought my perfume
should be unique and original and is
meant for someone who wants something
different you know when I was making the
perfume I thought about what kind of
fragrance my idols like Marlena Dietrich
would were and I knew it wouldn't have
anything vanilla or fruit flavors in it
my fragrance is really of all about like
you know being a grown woman and being
and having pleasure and femininity and
adult womanhood femininity it's really
interesting too for the process in
general about you know I had I had to
fight a lot for the things that I
believe in because the things that I
believe in are not the standards of what
how these things are done in in perfume
or in beauty in general some people made
fun of me along the way I definitely
have also learned that you can't do
something great without being the
subject of ridicule at times and you
know I kind of thought I'd look at the
person that was giving dishing out the
insult and think oh god I don't want to
be part of your tribe I have an awesome
tribe over here with great people around
me I want to be part of this tribe you
know my whole career is built on self
creation I do all my own hair and makeup
for red carpets for most of my
photoshoots I create all these like sets
and shows and learn I know about
lighting I don't have a plan squad
backstage with me that
I need my hair and my makeup I'm kind of
like you know my own work of art I like
to say and the message in that that that
I think is really important is that you
know I'm a normal girl from a farming
town in Michigan if I can do it you can
do it too
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