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Avengers Cologne Is Merchandising Gone Mad

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9:30AM January 25, 2012 | Nick Broughall

Exactly how excited are you by the upcoming Avengers film? Very excited? Über excited? Ludicrously excited? Excited enough to buy Avenger-based cologne? Wow, that’s pretty excited then… More »


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Pork Barrel BBQ Cologne Makes You Stink Like Hog Heaven

5:20AM June 8, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Throw away that musty old bacon cologne; there’s a new eau de piglette here to make sweet porky love to your nostrils. Que, from Pork Barrel BBQ, was forged from the sweet crackling char of Mt Oink. More »


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Microsoft VP’s Side Project: Selling Money-Scented Perfume

2:20PM January 20, 2011 | Rosa Golijan

Apparently Patrick McCarthy, a vice president of sales at Microsoft, has an odd side project: convincing people that buying his money-scented perfumes and colognes will make them feel more confident. More »


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How To Sell Perfume Online? Easy, Print ‘N Sniff

9:00AM June 1, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

It must be puzzling, working for a perfume company and trying to figure out how to market it to internet users. Brazilian company Kaiak found the most amazing solution to show people just how good (I’m presuming) their cologne is. More »


Iron Man Cologne Bottle Disturbs Me

9:40AM March 31, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

A minute ago in Gizmodo’s bullpen: Me: “Diesel Iron Man cologne. I want Tony Stark’s cologne.” Jason: “That’s just bourbon.” Kat: “I would rather have Robert Downey Jr’s sweat as a cologne.” [LAT]


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Victorinox Swiss Unlimited Eau De Toilette: The Scent of MacGyver

10:00AM April 16, 2009 | Sean Fallon

If you could bottle the masculine and industrious musk of MacGyver in a bottle, it would be Swiss Unlimited from knife-maker Victorinox.

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Calvin Klein MP3 Speaker Bottle: The Scent of a Gimmick

6:00AM February 19, 2009 | Sean Fallon

As part of their “We are One” campaign beginning next month, Calvin Klein will be offering bottles of CK One & CK Be with a removable MP3 speaker in the base.

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Love, Jealousy, Passion…Star Trek Cologne for Men

10:00AM February 4, 2009 | Sean Fallon

The merchandising machine for the upcoming Star Trek film is getting fired up with a slew of absurd and unrelated products—including a three-fragrance lineup for men.

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Cityscope Illuminated Sculpture is Like Glowing Crashed Meteor In Cologne

9:40PM November 25, 2008 | Kit Eaton

Cityscope is a new sculpture by Marco Hemmerling, designed to deal “with the fragmented perception of urban spaces” or something: To me, it’s better to imagine it as a meteor that just managed to soft-land in a city square. Or, better still than artistic mumbojumbo: perhaps as a particularly odd-looking alien spacecraft. This works even better when you learn its partially-mirrored surfaces disappear at night as it is dynamically multicolor-illuminated from inside. That said, there was a lot of design thought put into this to make it “fit” its space, and the whole thing was CAD-CAM’d into existence. Pretty. [Dezeen] galleryPost('cityscope', 3, '');

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Crayon Cologne Tells the Ladies You Are Mature

10:29PM August 31, 2007 | Wilson Rothman

Close your eyes, think “Crayon” and the first thing that occurs to you isn’t the bright yellow box but the smell: part puke n’ earwax, part unbridled creativity. Now you can wear that essence, in the form of Demeter’s Crayon Cologne. At $19 an ounce, you better hope the message you’re giving off is Raw Sienna, not Burnt Umber. [Perpetual Kid] More »