Fragrance Ads Are So Weird

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  • Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
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Комментарии • 94

  • @gracelament
    @gracelament Год назад +345

    I really liked this video, but it was a bit hard to follow because I don't know what an "advertisment" is. I tried to use context clues, but honestly I'm just confused!

    • @sinsofthefather
      @sinsofthefather Год назад +10

      I agree

    • @acoelomate2984
      @acoelomate2984 Год назад +22

      it’s ok you’re doing great, just watch it a couple more times and maybe you’ll figure it out i believe in you 🥰

    • @allie4085
      @allie4085 Год назад +8

      influencers when they get sponsorships

  • @tiavanbockel8887
    @tiavanbockel8887 Год назад +161

    i cannot express how much of a manic, unhinged madman you came across as in the first seven seconds of this video. just wandering around the frame looking entirely lost with your hands in the air before devolving into the most crazed laugh i have ever heard. threw me into another dimension

  • @Allukard353
    @Allukard353 Год назад +88

    You're just jealous that you don't smell as good as Adam Driver's iconic "Centaur Mode"

  • @starsINSPACE
    @starsINSPACE Год назад +84

    It occurs to me that i haven't bought a magazine in so long, do they still have the perfume ads with the little peel aways to test the scent. Those were such a vibe when i was a preteen reading teen vouge.

    • @harryjamesmiller
      @harryjamesmiller  Год назад +33

      now this is something i can get behind

    • @howdydee
      @howdydee Год назад +20

      They still do!

    • @SnailSnail622
      @SnailSnail622 Год назад +2

      They do! I still see them for cologne ads in my dad's Men's Journal magazines

  • @direcircumstances
    @direcircumstances Год назад +37

    When I think of silly perfume ads, I immediately think of this old commercial for Chanel No. 5 with Nicole Kidman where she is hanging out on a rooftop with some guy she just met and at some point she shouts, "I love to dance!" and she's just acting so weird and cheesy. I think it came out around the time that Moulin Rouge was really big, so they were trying to tap into that whole vibe.
    Another one from ~my youth~ was for Dior starring Charlize Theron and she's marching down this fancy hallway really aggressively and saying weird dramatic stuff while taking off her jewelry and throwing it on the floor like she hates it. Every time that commercial came on TV I'd be like, "why is this beautiful woman so pissed off? how is this related to perfume?"

    • @sseraphim2818
      @sseraphim2818 Год назад +4

      I remember that Charlize ad. It used to baffle me too.

    • @JDMimeTHEFIRST
      @JDMimeTHEFIRST Год назад +1

      I remember that!😅 “I love to dance!”

  • @quinzequinze
    @quinzequinze Год назад +23

    "You ever think about the passage of time and get sad" I was in college in 2011, so yes

  • @ladaga444
    @ladaga444 Год назад +6

    You gotta admire how intense Harry’s desire to direct a fragrance film is

  • @crudeish4066
    @crudeish4066 Год назад +55

    i want more of this! i have always wondered why no one talks about how freaking bizarre fragrance ads are

  • @adolin.kholin
    @adolin.kholin Год назад +43

    Absolutely cracked up multiple times watching this. Adam Driver on a bike absolutely fucked me over, as did the 152$ carafe. I literally thought about how weird these ads can get (just like car ads) a few days ago, and I love seeing you cover it ❤️

  • @babywigeon
    @babywigeon Год назад +21

    "I sat my white ass down, and listened." 😂

  • @adriennenevin6784
    @adriennenevin6784 Год назад +32

    I spit out my lunch when you said "A hundred fifty-two dollars" 🤣🤣

    • @adriennenevin6784
      @adriennenevin6784 Год назад +1

      or is it spat? haha. whatever it made me laugh!!!! love all your videos!

  • @liv97497
    @liv97497 Год назад +5

    The thing is perfume ads are only meant to convey "a vibe". Fresh, flowery scents will usually have a young woman in a light flowy dress and lots of fake laughter, warm scents are sexy (ie someone's naked), and men's perfumes have to feature animals for some reason🤷‍♀️

  • @rat_enthusiast
    @rat_enthusiast Год назад +25

    Kylorse has haunted me and I’m glad society is talking about it

  • @matchybea7994
    @matchybea7994 Год назад +15

    I’m mainly obsessed with the fact I got a fragrance ad before this video

  • @youbasictoxicconch
    @youbasictoxicconch Год назад +8

    "If you wanna fuck, wear this perfume," sums up my early tv ad-watching experience, where perfumes were being advertised as alluring, enticing, sensual; the ads obviously featured an uncomfortable amount of fake-scenting, usually ending with a guy seductively unbuttoning a woman's clothing, and it's the raunchiest most awkward thing to watch on your family TV at that age.

  • @-Liska
    @-Liska Год назад +18

    That fly really suffered for your art.

  • @ana-sg2ir
    @ana-sg2ir Год назад +13

    thanks for the jared leto tw, im still scarred from when i watched fight club for the first time last year and he appeared

  • @cassidya.963
    @cassidya.963 Год назад +9

    Dude I just recently discovered your channel and you’re hilarious. Actually got me laughing out loud like I’m watching Drew Gooden.

  • @Man-ej6uv
    @Man-ej6uv Год назад +1

    i got a perfume ad on this. an entirely incomprehensible ad too. and then a dune ad.

  • @JessiQuinn
    @JessiQuinn Год назад +10

    this video was a huge banger!! genuinely made my day better :)

  • @radiostatic
    @radiostatic Год назад +5

    Fragrance ads cause me an unnecessary amount of rage with their absurdity. And for what? Liquid with a smell that you can put on your body without chemical harm.

    • @radiostatic
      @radiostatic Год назад +2

      Replying to add some that cause me said rage since you asked! The 2021 Dior J’adore campaign with Charlize Theron, the ad with Miley Cyrus for Gucci Flora (despite the cute animals & pretty colors, the transition to anime sends me into a spiral), and any fragrance ad by Valentino is completely over-the-top.

  • @shadow_song
    @shadow_song Год назад +1

    i'm so glad to see you guys were having a better day!

  • @cadyfitzgerald3273
    @cadyfitzgerald3273 Год назад +3

    I cannot stress enough how much I hate the Natalie Portman ad 😂 I cannot explain it, but I’ve had to sit through it so many times that when I hear that music and her say “wake up”, I immediately enter this state of barely concealed rage, I’m so sorry Natalie.

  • @thekneesbee
    @thekneesbee Год назад +6

    I have never thought to myself 'wow I wish I smelled more like a horse, especially one that's been running' so why would you highlight that animal in your ad...

    • @Limonenmixgetraenk
      @Limonenmixgetraenk Год назад +2

      YES! Once I see a horse, I don't want to smell it if I am not, you know, near a horse. I can imagine it far too well and no, thank you.

  • @teallineart8805
    @teallineart8805 Год назад +2

    0:38 Say what you will about that commercial. That is objectively funny.

  • @Remerdre
    @Remerdre Год назад +6

    The Coty Wild Musk commercial looks like it had to have been made in the 70s. I looked it up and was very surprised to see it came out in the mid 80s. I'm guessing the commercial's budget was spent on cocaine and fedoras.

  • @happily_blue
    @happily_blue Год назад +5

    This was a Star Wars-heavy video

  • @peelessoften
    @peelessoften Год назад +3

    you say you’re not like that guy in the caveman ad but you cannot deny the primal hunter instinct that kicked in when you killed that fly. or annoyance, who’s to say?

  • @Lara-SM
    @Lara-SM Год назад +2

    Me & my brothers had this game where we had to guess what they advertise just from the first few seconds (a car, perfume, etc).

  • @Sofia-airsignrights
    @Sofia-airsignrights Год назад +5

    maybe this edible is stronger than i thought but "foutside" made me snort

    • @Sofia-airsignrights
      @Sofia-airsignrights Год назад +3

      seeing it written it looks like a french name. Harry if you release a fragrance ever its gotta be named that

    • @harryjamesmiller
      @harryjamesmiller  Год назад +5

      deal

  • @yramismynamenowdealwithit
    @yramismynamenowdealwithit 2 месяца назад

    I love randomly hearing intrumental piano from famous plays, that I dont know that names of, but I know are familiar because of Glee 😅

  • @ubiaron9848
    @ubiaron9848 Год назад +1

    Please do a sequel!!!

  • @Laura22996
    @Laura22996 Год назад +4

    another great vid!!
    btw harry, are you keeping up with the new blaseball season? you were the one who introduced me to it with your videos and got me invested, so I've been thinking of you now that it's back LOL. proud hawaii fridays fan right here 🌴

    • @harryjamesmiller
      @harryjamesmiller  Год назад +7

      i am! the jazz hands are continuing their proud tradition of being extremely bad at pitching, and i am thoroughly impressed with the wild wings DOMINANT start to the new era. i'm really excited to see what comes next

  • @mandyw8659
    @mandyw8659 Год назад +3

    Speaking of odd ads, chadtronic has a fun series on that alone, so you can satisfy your odd ad craving without live tv 👍🏾

  • @aqo911
    @aqo911 Год назад +1

    I have to say, Opium is by far my favorite perfume, it's just by far too expensive.

  • @charliekeelingover
    @charliekeelingover Год назад +6

    Clearly Keira Knightley was in Egypt

  • @namchurritos
    @namchurritos Год назад +1

    came for the funny fragrance ads stayed for the fly/bug juice

  • @andreak.5996
    @andreak.5996 Год назад +1

    Wow these are on an another level 😅 never thought that the best fragrance ad i've seen will be a one direction one...

  • @zljmbo
    @zljmbo Год назад +3

    Harry is great as always

  • @nishitaiyengar
    @nishitaiyengar Год назад +2

    Best first 7 seconds of any video I've ever seen

  • @t.j.vellinga6225
    @t.j.vellinga6225 Год назад +5

    Your audio levels are a little low. From binging other RUclips vids I had to turn up the volume a bit. Just a heads up. Maybe listen to other youtube vids to calibrate yours to be consistent? Idk but you are doing great! Get those subs!

  • @beedee1090
    @beedee1090 Год назад +3

    entering the walter white fly arc I see

  • @alexisb3829
    @alexisb3829 Год назад +1

    I just saw that Natalie Portman ad before I watched this!

  • @danaslitlist1
    @danaslitlist1 Год назад +2

    All I could think of was that the perfume would smell like wet horse and sweat😂

  • @JDMimeTHEFIRST
    @JDMimeTHEFIRST Год назад +1

    I have to say Born in Roma is the only perfume I’ve liked and I don’t know the commercial. I just smelled it and liked it.
    I will defend that Adam Driver is an oak tree and this smells like the forest.

    • @JDMimeTHEFIRST
      @JDMimeTHEFIRST Год назад +1

      I would guess that the Johnny Depp one smells like douchebag😅. Even the wolf is like, would you shut up?
      They then made the Natalie Portman one to be the antidote (the anti-douchebag).

  • @brittanythebeast
    @brittanythebeast Год назад +2

    The Peterson clip took me out 😂

  • @SophieHeflebower
    @SophieHeflebower Год назад +2

    loved this!

  • @cephlapap.3817
    @cephlapap.3817 Год назад +2

    HOLY SHIT I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED THAT THEYRE ALL SO WEIRD

  • @fruncedx6225
    @fruncedx6225 Год назад +1

    Wait, is that how Americans pronounce Guenica for real or was that part of the radio joke? In Spanish, it's usually said Gare-NEE-kah.

  • @theoverwatcher6520
    @theoverwatcher6520 Год назад +1

    Looking forward to that bear vid!

  • @JDMimeTHEFIRST
    @JDMimeTHEFIRST Год назад +1

    I miss weird commercials. They’re so boring now.

  • @EllaShartiel
    @EllaShartiel Год назад +6

    A SCENTaur???? 🤔🤔🤔

    • @EllaShartiel
      @EllaShartiel Год назад +2

      I can't believe this video has been out for 6 days and I'm the first person to make this stupid pun

    • @harryjamesmiller
      @harryjamesmiller  Год назад +3

      genius isn't always revealed at first

  • @jmv333
    @jmv333 Год назад +3

    Whoa new Video!!!!

  • @Squishy876
    @Squishy876 Год назад +2

    Well this was hilarious

  • @imbluedubbadee
    @imbluedubbadee Год назад +2

    I'm sorry, it smells of incense? What kind of incense? As far as in aware, I may be wrong, there are *at least* 2 kinds 🤷🏻😂

  • @jaks1312
    @jaks1312 Год назад +1

    Noooooo poor fly :((

  • @wchpsh
    @wchpsh Год назад +1

    "foutside"

  • @CleverBurnett
    @CleverBurnett Год назад +1

    I feel like you could spend a whole video just talking about the Kenzo World “film”.

  • @MonsterBunx
    @MonsterBunx Год назад +2

    I LOVE THE ANIME STYLE GUCCI FLORA COMMERCIAL WITH ANIME MILEY CYRUS, MILEY IS A MAGICAL GIRL NOW AND NO ONE CAN TELL ME OTHERWISE PLS PLS PLS REVIEW

  • @phenomenal-flop
    @phenomenal-flop Год назад +1

    Bro what these descriptions for the perfumes man

  • @earthran
    @earthran Год назад +1

    u remind me of hank green lol

  • @benjaminstevens4468
    @benjaminstevens4468 Год назад +1

    I forget, what continent is Washington DC located upon, again?

  • @mayamacisaac
    @mayamacisaac Год назад +2

    what a well-crafted fly in this video!

  • @nanyabish
    @nanyabish Год назад +3

    Are you drew gooden’s lost brother?

  • @bombasticnoa
    @bombasticnoa Год назад +2

    good video next time dont murder a fly or i can’t continue to support u

    • @harryjamesmiller
      @harryjamesmiller  Год назад +4

      i have made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement

  • @swebb1
    @swebb1 Год назад +4

    Surprised you didn’t talk about the ritualistic “daisy” chanting at the end of the commercial. Kinda midsommer

  • @Korrin69
    @Korrin69 Год назад +1

    1000th like!

  • @ositaiza888
    @ositaiza888 Год назад +3

    time to cancel,,, he stalked a fly and posted it for clout

  • @erinisonline
    @erinisonline Год назад +1

    severely underprepared for the hasan callout

  • @toddsaskatchewan
    @toddsaskatchewan Год назад +2

    WRONG. Flies don't have teeth.

  • @charlotteashley04
    @charlotteashley04 Год назад +1

    Second 😊