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post #1 of 39
7/19/06 at 9:23am
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This must be the most ridiculous fragrance ad that I have ever seen. I mean to a certain extend most frag ads and frag bottle are subliminal recreations of either a man penis or a womans vagina but this ad is going where no other ad has gone before. They didn't even try to be low key and the name of the frag is the cherry on the cake. It is the most insane frag name EVER. its just plain disgusting. I really wonder what this crap smells like.

Picture:




Name of Fragrance

FULL CHOKE

Amazing

mentallo
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post #2 of 39
7/19/06 at 9:26am
Be careful... It might actually smell awesome...

But can you imagine picking up the bottle? Everyone would call you a wanker!

Either that, or ask you why you have a glass dildo.
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post #3 of 39
7/19/06 at 9:32am
this stuff is actually pretty hotly saught after around here. I am one of many who would love to catch a whiff of Fullchocke.
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post #4 of 39
7/19/06 at 9:43am
i like this one --

http://www.jokaroo.com/funnypictures/assfragrance.html
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post #5 of 39
7/19/06 at 9:56am
This one gets my vote:


This woman does not look happy, she looks like she's in a desperate need of a loo.

EDIT Sorry, forgot to add this: http://perso.orange.fr/imagesdeparfums/en/
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post #6 of 39
7/19/06 at 10:02am
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Originally Posted by tigrushka

This one gets my vote:


This woman does not look happy, she looks like she's in a desperate need of a loo.


Now I don't care who y'ar; that's FUNNY!!!

Dan
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post #7 of 39
7/19/06 at 10:09am
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Originally Posted by tigrushka

This one gets my vote:

Sort of looks like she's toting a bottle of Full Choke.

Look, Mom, "No hands!"
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post #8 of 39
7/19/06 at 10:33am
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Originally Posted by tigrushka

This one gets my vote:


This woman does not look happy, she looks like she's in a desperate need of a loo.

Instead of the ad copy saying "Clinique Happy", it should say "Advil: The Every Pain Reliever".
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post #9 of 39
7/19/06 at 2:00pm
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1...Aramis1986.jpg

Please follow the link. Since we are not allowed to post copyrighted material, I guess I will have to link it.
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post #10 of 39
7/19/06 at 2:06pm
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Originally Posted by MFfan310

Instead of the ad copy saying "Clinique Happy", it should say "Advil: The Every Pain Reliever".

I think the picture in the ad perfectly reflexes the high voltage between the tension a person would feel in a sad
CLINIQUE
and the tranquility and
HAPPINESS
this scent could offer.

Perfect.
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post #11 of 39
7/19/06 at 3:17pm
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Originally Posted by tigrushka


OWW!! WHO PUT A $%^#& THUMB-TACK IN MY SHOE?!?!
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post #12 of 39
7/19/06 at 3:49pm



"Take no notice 'cos I'm just the same
There's a thousand other faces with the very same name
And we look like each other, and we all live together.
We talk about the same things
And we never try and change things.
(Chorus)
We're the happy, happy people
(repeat)
We never give opinions and we never state views
After all, you can't be sure that what we say is true
And if you want to join us, you can follow on behind us.
You can talk about your visions
You can make some big decisions.
(Chorus repeat)
We believe in having fun and smiling all the time
And sometimes we're on TV if we're over 69
And when we have a raffle, then it's just a big reshuffle.
It's a democratic poll
But we're the ones who are in control.
(Chorus repeat)"

Yep.
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post #13 of 39
7/19/06 at 6:47pm
The MOST ridiculous frag. ad ever would have to be for M7. Thats the one with the full frontal male nudity right????? Give me a break!!!!! I would NEVER buy anything that had an ad campaign like that.....including M7.
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post #14 of 39
7/19/06 at 7:15pm
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Originally Posted by Quarry

Sort of looks like she's toting a bottle of Full Choke.

Aaaaah, so that's what she has in her pocket!

Does it vibrate?
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post #15 of 39
7/19/06 at 8:19pm
As a big fan of the original Francesco Smalto, this one has me...excited.

I don't know where to sample it in the States, though. Any ideas? I'm in Texas.


I tell you this for nothing. That packaging makes for a huge psychological incentive to buy the largest bottle they have.

They should have just gone full tilt and made it spray from the tip.


Mark
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post #16 of 39
7/19/06 at 8:43pm
This one is quite ridiculous, the name is even more stupid than the ad...
http://perso.orange.fr/imagesdeparfu...Heaven01.htm&2
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post #17 of 39
7/19/06 at 8:55pm
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Originally Posted by Panto

This one is quite ridiculous, the name is even more stupid than the ad...
http://perso.orange.fr/imagesdeparfu...Heaven01.htm&2


hahahaha
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post #18 of 39
7/24/06 at 10:11am
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Originally Posted by Panto

This one is quite ridiculous, the name is even more stupid than the ad...
http://perso.orange.fr/imagesdeparfu...Heaven01.htm&2

Fantastic! "Bruno Banani"!

I think the FullChoke thing is almost humorous... it actually made me smile. It's just on the edge of the line of being vulgar. But this is a french designer. Europe is a lot different from the US when it comes to ads like this. The Fullchoke ad really is nothing special compared to other ads that have been used here in Europe. I can give examples if you want to but I'm not sure it would be sensible to post them in this forum as I respect that some people might not want to see them.

I just had a trip to New York and I must say there's a big difference when it comes to ads like this. I'm not sure that ad was intended for the US.
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post #19 of 39
7/24/06 at 10:28am
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Originally Posted by minilomaniac

Fantastic! "Bruno Banani"!

I think the FullChoke thing is almost humorous... it actually made me smile. It's just on the edge of the line of being vulgar. But this is a french designer. Europe is a lot different from the US when it comes to ads like this. The Fullchoke ad really is nothing special compared to other ads that have been used here in Europe. I can give examples if you want to but I'm not sure it would be sensible to post them in this forum as I respect that some people might not want to see them.

I just had a trip to New York and I must say there's a big difference when it comes to ads like this. I'm not sure that ad was intended for the US.

I know I'm going off-topic, but after have seen here Rocco Siffredi making an hilarious spot for a brand of potato chips, I guess no one has nothing else to teach us about hilarious spots&Co. playing with double meanings...
Btw, glad to see ya back here Minilomaniac!
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post #20 of 39
7/24/06 at 10:59am
Perhaps a stupid question... but which men's magazine has the most/best fragrance ads? That new Men's Vogue? GQ? Esquire?
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post #21 of 39
7/24/06 at 11:10am
Perhaps a stupid question... but which men's magazine has the most/best fragrance ads? That new Men's Vogue? GQ? Esquire?
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post #22 of 39
7/24/06 at 1:20pm
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Originally Posted by rosbergs3

The MOST ridiculous frag. ad ever would have to be for M7. Thats the one with the full frontal male nudity right????? Give me a break!!!!! I would NEVER buy anything that had an ad campaign like that.....including M7.

I'm not a fan of M7, but I loved that ad campaign ; )
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post #23 of 39
7/25/06 at 9:19am
there's a good article about "silly and ridiculous" ads over at :

http://perfumesmellinthings.blogspot.com/
it's called "ads that make you go huh?!"

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post #24 of 39
7/25/06 at 2:00pm
When Azzaro launched its campaign for Black Onyx there was a rather dated tag line that was featured on the sample card with the fragrance:

"What is a man with a woman?"

Well, Augesten Burroughs would have immediately shouted, 'Gay!'

Since I share his proclivity, I second that!
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post #25 of 39
8/8/06 at 2:18pm
any bijan ad with that ridiculous man cavorting about showing off his capped teeth

any of his poses could be described as you have already the sharon stone clone above needing to pee and stepping on a tack simultaneously

but here he is in a velvet mood, stuffed into a too small jacket and rather subdued:

http://www.modirha.com/aks/bijan.gif


****where can we see the M7 ad?
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post #26 of 39
8/8/06 at 2:36pm
Scroll down to where the comments start:

http://perfumesmellinthings.blogspot...o-how-you.html

I'm not sure that ad matches the scent, but I must compliment it for it's audacity.
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post #27 of 39
8/8/06 at 11:30pm
I wouldn't call it ridiculous, but distracting, disrupts the texture of the fragrance ad experience. . .
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post #28 of 39
8/9/06 at 4:08am
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Originally Posted by rosbergs3

The MOST ridiculous frag. ad ever would have to be for M7. Thats the one with the full frontal male nudity right????? Give me a break!!!!! I would NEVER buy anything that had an ad campaign like that.....including M7.

The ad campaign was the only reason I bought M7. Guess it worked on me.
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post #29 of 39
8/9/06 at 7:08am
I liked the M7 campaign as well as i like the scent.
*admits*


But that Full Choke bottle is just... i wonder if one could get hurt by the cap ? ;-P
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post #30 of 39
8/9/06 at 7:11am
Hillarious thread!

The M7 ad was refreshing in its un-PCness.

Didn't know about the Smalto one!!
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post #31 of 39
8/9/06 at 2:54pm
when an ad features a big juicy erection, then maybe I'll bite!

choke bottle looks like the steeple of some tacky post vatican 2 church
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post #32 of 39
10/6/06 at 3:56am
Although Smalto Full Choke looks and sounds ridiculous, actually I have found (thanks to Jae) that it is a *shooting/gun term* (of all things); "A tight constriction in the muzzle of a shotgun, producing a long range and tight pattern".
See?
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post #33 of 39
10/6/06 at 4:57am
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Originally Posted by Dayknight

As a big fan of the original Francesco Smalto, this one has me...excited.

I don't know where to sample it in the States, though. Any ideas? I'm in Texas.


I tell you this for nothing. That packaging makes for a huge psychological incentive to buy the largest bottle they have.

They should have just gone full tilt and made it spray from the tip.


Mark

Won't you get arrested for having this in Texas? But they should send a few crates to Capitol Hill perhaps, so the Reps don't have to molest pages
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post #34 of 39
10/6/06 at 11:40am


Well it does what it says on the picture
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post #35 of 39
2/3/07 at 9:55pm
speaking of Bijan, I walked by the store on Rodeo and the theme is sort of "All Arnold" they have signed photos and images of la Schartzenneger EVERYWHERE in the store!
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post #36 of 39
2/5/07 at 9:46am
Does anyone in the UK remember the ads in the 1980s for a perfume called Sheila? (I think it must have been around 1987.) It was branded as an Australian fragrance and had a really ugly bottle with a little metal bushman's hat strung with corks as its lid.

It was a hideous bottle and a horrible advert, but it was extremely successful - I remember my Mum's half brother wanted a bottle for his girlfriend and came back very dejected from shops, having learned it was all a spoof to try to gauge how successful particular kinds of advertising were. Stores were paid to tot up how many people had inquired about Sheila and report back to the advertisers. The only reference to it I could find to the campaign online is http://www.dynamiclogic.com/eu/press...overage/?id=69 (a few paras down). The whole thing suggests to me that no matter how tasteless, ugly or class-free an ad campaign is, it'll work as long as the ads are ubiquitous enough!
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post #37 of 39
2/5/07 at 1:40pm
I've got a love - hate relation with the Hai-Karate adds.
The T.V adds are great!!!, here's a ''normal'' add

http://wesclark.com/am/hai_karate.jpg
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post #38 of 39
2/5/07 at 6:37pm
Well, I've seen it all. Literally. For M7 to be advertised with a guy with his dick hanging out, is beyond my ability to rationalize. Is it really like this in other countries? Call me ethnocentric, but that's just freakin' weird! He should have trimmed up a bit more too.

Supermarky, if I come across a fragrance ad with a giant hard-on, you'll be first on my list of people to let know. LOL!

What is the world coming to?! yeah, just rest the bottle right on his taint, that will sell millions. lol
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post #39 of 39
2/5/07 at 7:07pm
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Originally Posted by Panto

This one is quite ridiculous, the name is even more stupid than the ad...
http://perso.orange.fr/imagesdeparfu...Heaven01.htm&2

Some of the other ads on this site are pretty good also. The Agent Provocateur were interesting.

This thread did provide some nice laughs.
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