In 1976, Latin American cable network TVC aired this hilariously awful spot advertising a perfume called Mandom, with late Hollywood actor and Western stalwart Charles Bronson as the leading man whose ...

It’s the holidays so there are a lot of fragrance ads on TV. Why are all (or nearly all) perfume and cologne ads provocative and just plain weird? What’s the history there? Have retailers found that ...

Bizarre perfume commercials are a time-honored tradition. I'm not sure who started the trend, but it goes at least all the way back to the 1960s. Perfume commercials are never straightforward in the ...

Perfume is supposed to make you sexy, seductive and sultry. That's the impression, at least, from the women's perfume commercials that regularly feature good-looking men and women in cliched, romantic ...

It is well known in the hierarchies of Hollywood that any actor’s success is simply a step on the path to landing their first big cologne deal. We’ve seen this time and again; for every star-making ...