Smelling The Oscars Perfumes

The Oscars are about showing off, looking gorgeous without looking like you have been trying too hard. They are also about the complimentary mystry perfumes. Here's some highlights 

1. Charlize Theron, the face of the house’s J’Adore perfume since 2004, arrived tonight in a Dior Haute Couture gown too, natch. She reportedly makes about $2 million per year to hawk the fragrance — and presumably, wear the pretty dresses too. Tough job.
2. Jessica Chastain (from Zero Dark Thirty) is the so-called global ambassador for Manifesto, the new fragrance from Yves Saint Laurent, in an advertising campaign that will make its debut in March. Chastain would perfectly embody the company’s new jasmine-laced fragrance. Her beauty, he said, is “seductive, glamorous and sometimes even a little bit dangerous.”
3. Speaking of contracts, I fully expected to see Jessica Chastain in Yves Saint Laurent since it was just announced that she would front their new fragrance, Manifesto. Instead, the redhead wore a copper silk satin strapless Armani Prive with a mesh overlay of white sequins and crystals.
4. Nicole Kidman’s (awesome) perfume. Nicole Kidman caught our attention for wearing the best perfume we’ve ever smelled. You guys, she smelled really really unnaturally good. It was like an orange grove mixed with rose petals and fresh laundry in the summer time. Dipped in chocolate. She smelled nice, ok. Nice enough to make us forget all about that whole Paperboy golden shower thing. That is all.