Once she got the juice to an early stage, Blige shared it with Baxter. Every day they would bring me blotters to test - after a while, everything started to smell the same, so I had to pull back.” I knew exactly what I wanted and would ask for an incense smell, a musk smell, a wood smell. “We’ve been family for years,” Blige said, before adding about developing a fragrance, “I’ve never done it, but it was so much fun because I have a keen sense of smell.
Blige’s husband and manager, Kendu Isaacs, has an uncle who is married to Baxter, who Blige affectionately calls Aunt Pam.
And I wanted this perfume to represent every female’s everyday life.”īlige, who worked with Firmenich to create the scent, concedes fragrance development was new to her, but she did have a secret weapon: Pamela Baxter, president and chief executive officer of LVMH Perfumes & Cosmetics North America. We’re soft, we’re edgy - we’re all those things. We’re educated now, we didn’t know it then. We know we’re beautiful now, we didn’t know it then. We know we’re smart now, but we didn’t know it then. So it’s a special tribute to us as women. “And four million women said, ‘Mary, we’re going through it, too, but you’re helping us by calling on us.’ From that day on, I began speaking truths about my life, and about their lives, and everything around us. “I was crying out for help, because I was going through so much,” she said of the period around the time of the recording, speaking exclusively to WWD on the set of the ad shoot for her scent. The album represented a major turning point in Blige’s life and by using it as a reference, she is attempting to encapsulate her decadelong transformation and triumph.
“I wanted my fragrance to be something special for my female fans,” said Blige of her new fragrance with Carol’s Daughter, My Life, named for her landmark 1994 recording of the same name. Over the decades, much has been made of what is in a fragrance bottle - hope or science? For Mary J.
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