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Wait! Don\u2019t click away! Had I not smelled Pretty Woman by Barbara Orbison, I, too, would have been tempted to scroll past this review. There are enough celebrity fragrances on the market to carpet Mars, and, as far as I\u2019m concerned, another planet is exactly where most of them belong. A fragrance named after the dead wife of a dead rock legend (Roy Orbison<\/a>) doesn\u2019t inspire cheers of delight.<\/p>\n And then I smelled Pretty Woman. It\u2019s not fashionable or pandering, but neither is it overly clever or challenging. Instead, it\u2019s a warm, heady 1930s-style perfume with rich sillage and a long simmer on skin. Pretty Woman is kind of a lame name for it, really. It smells more like Sultry Broad.<\/p>\n Barbara Orbison\u2019s granddaughter, Emily Orbison, explained that Barbara Orbison worked with perfumers in California to create the fragrance, which she released in 2009<\/a>. A flurry of marketing followed, including putting Pretty Woman in Grammy gift bags. Keith Urban reportedly bought bottles of Pretty Woman for Nicole Kidman. When Barbara Orbison died in late 2011, the fragrance stayed in production, but the Orbison company halted marketing.<\/p>\n Just recently, Emily Orbison decided to ramp up marketing again. Unlike many celebrity fragrances produced by giants like Coty, the Orbison family manages the fragrance\u2019s production1<\/sup> and marketing, and it\u2019s evident in the fragrance\u2019s decidedly non-slick website. But the flip side is that the perfume is an oddity among celebrity fragrances: it has personality.<\/p>\n Pretty Woman\u2019s website describes the fragrance as \u201ca complex blend of hundreds of individual floral and spicy notes,\u201d and specifically mentions bergamot, stargazer lily, red rose, carnation, fresh amber, patchouli, vanilla, atlas cedar, and sacred incense. What I smell is a flash of bergamot and raw cedar quickly cushioned by the unmistakable combination of incense, patchouli and amber. The fragrance is spicy, too, like it was sprinkled with clove, nutmeg, and even a dash of cinnamon.<\/p>\n Rose adds a wine-like touch to the composition, but I can\u2019t pick out lily. What I do smell is a vigorous dose of orange blossom, as if the perfumer were determined to balance the headiness of Pretty Woman\u2019s base notes. The orange blossom adds a clean touch that fades after an hour or so, but the spices do more to make Pretty Woman\u2019s sable-weight warmth sparkle.<\/p>\n In short, Pretty Woman is a mature, warm, spicy fragrance rich with incense. It hints at Est\u00e9e Lauder Youth Dew<\/a> without being dowdy, but it owes the most to Jean Carles\u2019s<\/a> amazing Tabu<\/a>. If you get Pretty Woman on your cardigan, you can count on the fragrance\u2019s gentle waft of spicy patchouli and ambered incense until you wash your sweater next.<\/p>\n I asked Emily Orbison what her grandmother was like. \u201cComfy,\u201d she said in her charming Nashville accent. All right, I can see Pretty Woman being comfy, although that\u2019s not the first word I think of. \u201cShe liked to wear velour sweatpants and matching tops.\u201d Hmm. Velour tracksuits don\u2019t really say Pretty Woman to me, either. \u201cAnd she loved leopard print. She always wore leopard.\u201d Ding ding ding!<\/em><\/p>\n To buy Pretty Woman by Barbara Orbison, your best bet is either the Pretty Woman Perfume website<\/a> ($60 for 50 ml and $16.95 for an \u201con the go\u201d set of three 2.4-ml spray vials) or the Roy Orbison website<\/a> ($80 for 50 ml and $15.95 for the \u201con the go\u201d set, plus you can get free Pretty Woman samples if you order something from the Roy site. (Don’t ask me why the websites, both run by the Orbison company, list different prices.)\u00a0<\/p>\n 1. Pretty Woman’s concentrate is mixed by Sarah Horowitz Parfums, and it’s diluted and bottled by Cosmetix West.<\/p>\n Read the rest of this article »<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wait! Don\u2019t click away! Had I not smelled Pretty Woman by Barbara Orbison, I, too, would have been tempted to scroll past this review. There are enough celebrity fragrances on the market to carpet Mars, and, as far as I\u2019m concerned, another planet is exactly where most of them belong. A fragrance named after the dead wife of a dead rock legend (Roy Orbison<\/a>) doesn\u2019t inspire cheers of delight.<\/p>\n And then I smelled Pretty Woman. It\u2019s not fashionable or pandering, but neither is it overly clever or challenging. Instead, it\u2019s a warm, heady 1930s-style perfume with rich sillage and a long simmer on skin. Pretty Woman is kind of a lame name for it, really. 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