“Perfume can make you feel young.”
I was like, "Just think of a madras bedspread." There was this feeling of the '60s—all fresh and breaking out, but not like Charlie, you know what I mean? I always wanted to stay away from that, even though it was the most popular scent of the time. But I didn't like it. I thought it was for good girls. I wasn't one.I remember I walked into Yves Saint Laurent and said, "Oh, my God, what is that?" And the girl said, "Opium." I went, "No, come on.
Women are the future. We're not going to be taking crumbs anymore; we're going to take over, but not in a mean way. Because I think we're much better than that. I think that if women were in politics, we wouldn't have all this bullshit stuff that's going on. We wouldn't have had Trump and his merry band of criminals, you know? So I think that women are taking over things that they never were allowed to.
I've never been, like, a rose or flowery kind of girl. I like sexier ones, but I know that not everybody's going to wear my perfume. I don't want perfume that's, like, if you get on an elevator and everybody goes, "What in the eff is that?" I just want something where someone gets on an elevator and everyone goes, "Oh, my God, who is wearing that?" So I tried to split it between the obvious and the seductive and the discreet.
I was inspired by movie stars and by freedom. There's so many things happening around you—and they inspire you. I used to watch old movies in the afternoon with my mother. Audrey Hepburn, and both Hepburn girls, Katharine. All the old movie stars, like Lana Turner. Hedy Lamarr! Oh, my god, I was so crazy about her. For me, she was the deep, dark, seductive—she was the bad-girl perfume. You know, there was, like, the good-girl perfume and the bad-girl perfume.
I remember when I was young, I saw Tabu and I sprayed myself. And I just said, "Mom, I would really like to get that." She said, "Honey, good girls don't wear that." I wanted it more. But when I would breathe it around me, I had a feeling that I liked and I didn't care if good girls or bad girls wore it.I remember Kouros by Yves Saint Laurent; my boyfriend was wearing it. And I just went, "I'm gonna wear it now." You know, I like that I'm taking it.