I can’t help it. When I hold a new baby, I can’t stop myself from taking long, heady sniffs of that particular warm-doughy-milky-baby-scent. But can that particular baby scent be bottled?
Italian design house Dolce & Gabbana have recently launched a designer perfume for babies, Baby Fragrance.
Designer Stefano Gabbana believes that babies can smell sweeter than they already do with Dolce & Gabbana’s alcohol-free fragrance, which contains notes of bergamot, melon, honey and musk (I find this a little peculiar as these aren’t scents I normally associate with babies).
The fragrance was inspired by the “softness of baby skin, the freshness of baby breath, a mother’s sweet hug and the first smile”.
A 50-ml bottle of the Dolce & Gabbana Baby Fragrance fragrance costs US$45 and is available exclusively at the Dolce & Gabbana Boutique in Corso Venezia 7.
Personally, I don’t think a baby’s natural scent can be improved upon, even with the finest perfumers in the world working on bottling it. I would also be reluctant to put anything on my baby’s skin that wasn’t entirely necessary. But perhaps I’m old-fashioned. Over to you, readers – would you use a baby perfume on your bub?
(via Inhabitots)
8 Comments
I’d love a sample so I can give an opinion
I wouldn’t ever. All baby products should be unscented. Ask your dermatologist.
Thinking this is a horrible idea….. changing the sweetest smell in the world, why would you contemplate such a thing? Also from the perspective of all the sweet newborns, non-scented sensitive skin products for our tiny people – that’s the recommendations from the experts.
The thing that worries me is there will be people that jump on this as a fabulous idea…..
I agree that this is a ridiculous concept. Not to mention irresponsible! I hope they have developed the scent for babies without the usual poisonous concoction of phthalates and parabens.
i think i’d be far more inclined to wear this stuff myself than spritz my baby. plus they kind of end up smelling like their mother when we’ve dolled up with perfume to go out so maybe that will do for the mean time. babies smell divine without any fancy shmancy sprays.
How inappropriate! Perfume for a baby? I’d laugh if I met a parent who put perfume on their child. Shame on them.
this reminds me of a movie I saw once…where the evil character could smell out a child…
baby brain has the exact movie hazzy ….but seriously only an evil character in a movie could want to change the smell of a child or baby…
D&G how about focusing your attention on maybe on a wash for baby blankets/ or clothing items – or anything that the real smelly stuff gets on…
I think it’s nice. So long as the ingredients are safe , what is the harm in a Long distance spray on to bubs clothes before dressing them? I agree babies smell lovely on their own, but lets not forget all those stink poop nappies and we’d that bub does that sometimes smell pretty bad.. Sometimes clothes soak up that smell even after a thorough change! So why not let bub smell pretty? Why do we wear perfume? It’s not like we are painting toenails and putting lipstick on them.. That would be silly.. But a nice scented spray on their clothing would be nice, or even on their blanket? Be interesting to know the full ins and outs, or for someone to come up with an all natural Organics spray for babies that we KNOW are safe :-)