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Brad Pitt new face for Chanel No. 5

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By: Grant
Posted 05/09/12 • Last updated 05/09/12 • 10 views • 23 comments
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Chanel have announced Brad Pitt as the new face for Chanel No. 5. No further details from Chanel, but other reports say that filming begins in London this week. Pitt is the first male face for the fragrance, but joins other previous celebrity faces for the iconic perfume such as Nicole Kidman, Audrey Tatou and Marilyn Monroe.
See below for a selection of Chanel No 5 ads from the past:





by Jean-Pierre Jeunet with Audrey Tautou and Travis Davenport


by Baz Luhrmann, feat. Nicole Kidman


Featuring Estella Warren.


Featuring Carole Bouquet. Directed by Ridley Scott.

Brad Pitt Image: © CHANEL 2012 - Greg Williams

Comments (23)

NYperfumegirl 5/8/12 at 5:00pm
So strange! I don't even think he's that hot anymore.
PerfumedLady 5/8/12 at 5:00pm
Lol, I saw the title of this article and clicked on it thinking it must be some sort of joke! What an odd choice. Guess we shall see how that turns out!
Ursula 5/8/12 at 5:00pm
Big mistake. He was cute in "Thelma and Louise" ... could have worn LONE STAR MEMORIES (well, that was not invented yet ...)

So crass !!

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Click on to the link and you shall see his ugly mug.
Ursula 5/8/12 at 5:00pm
See next post.
tott 5/9/12 at 5:00pm
I guess Brad will be the love interest or something of a woman wearing No 5...
Primrose 5/9/12 at 5:00pm
The Estella Warren film is using the soundtrack from Edward Scissorhands.

Interesting how they would choose a male spokesmodel for a women's scent. A new angle on advertising.
chorando 5/9/12 at 5:00pm
Why not choose someone like Gaspard Ulliel. Much younger than brad and coming into his adulthood very nicely thank you very much in that beautiful smouldering gallic way. Or if they wanted someone in his mid - forties Olivier Martinez would had fitted the bill. They both have a certain mystiquery about them and sexual allure, charismatic! Brad Pitt is well....Brad Pitt and I personally never got the appeal. Great Actor of course but here were talking perfume and french to boot!!
Redneck Perfumisto 5/9/12 at 5:00pm
Something is afoot. Not sure what, but it should at least be interesting.....
Pour_Monsieur 5/9/12 at 5:00pm
Other than having a big name endorsement just for the sake of it , this makes no sense at all
Sniffmonkey 5/9/12 at 5:00pm
Hm, I agree with most of the posters so far. What are they thinking?! "He was cute in "Thelma and Louise" ... but.... meh. And NOT what I think of when I think of Chanel. A bit crass and desperate... But I maybe I'll be proved wrong.
GelbeDomino 5/9/12 at 5:00pm
If they were going to choose a man, he might well have been someone French.
Brad couldn't be less evocative of No.5 to me (so was Ms. Kidman)
Shame on Chanel!
gandhajala 5/9/12 at 5:00pm
This must be for the soon-to-be-released No.5 Sport Pour Homme.
heavenscent1 5/9/12 at 5:00pm
What, they couldn't get Angelina?! I'm thinking he'd do better as spokesperson for a male fragrance, something shaggy, but sexy, like him. Preferred Stock maybe.
Leesee 5/12/12 at 5:00pm
I can't see the logic. He always looks unwashed to me, not exactly Chanel material.
deletedmember 5/12/12 at 5:00pm
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Originally Posted by Redneck Perfumisto View Post

Something is afoot. Not sure what, but it should at least be interesting.....

+1. Sounds cool!
knit at nite 5/12/12 at 5:00pm
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Originally Posted by Leesee View Post

He always looks unwashed to me, not exactly Chanel material.

True, but I bet he still cleans up well enough
deletedmember 5/12/12 at 5:00pm
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Originally Posted by knit at nite View Post

True, but I bet he still cleans up well enough

ROFL! And smelly...
noirdrakkar 5/13/12 at 5:00pm
i don't think they should have used a man who is well known.

there are plenty of men just as attractive as brad pitt that they could have used. yes, proportionately rare, but still a dime a dozen.
Primrose 5/16/12 at 5:00pm
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Originally Posted by Leesee View Post

I can't see the logic. He always looks unwashed to me, not exactly Chanel material.

Agree with this. He has a "grunge" quality.

When I think of Chanel, I think of the colours of black and white, like a man in a tuxedo--like Tom Ford.

Wait a minute, he has his own fragrance line! (Seriously, I think a Tom Ford-esque model would be perfect.)
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