Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/08/05/luxury-fashion-brand-launches-100-perfume-for-your-dog-spurring-an-rspca-warning.html
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I love ylang ylang, musk and sandalwood, but would never spend $100 for it, nor spritz it on a pupper!
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Given how important smell is to dogs, I wonder how the poor little yappers would respond to not being able to smell their own odour.
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Luxury fashion brand launches $100 perfume for your dog, spurring an RSPCA warning
Allan Rose Hill 3:06 pm Mon Aug 5, 2024
image: Dolce & Gabbana
Dolce & Gabbana has expanded its line of perfumes with a new scent that delivers the “warm notes” of ylang ylang, musk and sandalwood. It’s for dogs. Very fashionable dogs. Luxury dogs, you might say.
The video ad (below) depicts a series of fancy dog breeds with this voiceover: “I am delicate, authentic, charismatic, sensitive, enigmatic, rebel, fresh, irresistible, clean, cause I’m not just a dog, I’m Fefé.”
Fefé sells for €99. The bottle features a 24-carat gold-plated paw so you know it’s worth every penny. Thing is, the RSPCA says a dog perfume is a terrible idea.
“Sometimes dogs can be anthropomorphised and the lines can become blurred between what dogs like and what we, as humans, think they’ll like,” RSPCA senior scientific officer Alice Potter told The Guardian.
“Dogs rely on their sense of smell to communicate and interact with their environment as well as the people and other animals within it. Therefore we advise that strong-scented products such as perfumes or sprays are avoided, especially as some smells can be really unpleasant for dogs.”
This is the post.
But, fair warning, NEVER anthropomorhise animals.
They hate it.
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I know they spritz dogs at the doggy day care if my kid’s dog gets groomed. I doubt it’s from a $100 bottle. Haha.
ylang ylang, musk and sandalwood
For when you want your dog to smell like the ren fair?
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Reputable groomers use pet “colognes” that have no weird chemicals nor essential oils. I wouldn’t trust those yahoos to make a safe pet cologne, not even at $100 a pop.
I love ylang ylang, non-overly heavy musks, and sandalwood. Each was also pretty exotic for varying am’ts of time.
This is what ylang ylang (Cananga odorata when it’s at home) flowers look like:
…and here’s a sandalwood (Santalum album [and other species] when it’s at home) tree:
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This was literally a joke product on SNL back in the 90s.
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Ylang Ylang essential oil is toxic to dogs. It is also a powerful scent.
You’d think people with $100 to blow on this stupid and potentially dangerous stuff could just buy a nice smelling, and safe, pet shampoo. Then again, I found. Pet shampoo for cats and dogs with tea tree oil in it
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Do you want your dog to roll over that dead skunk in your neighbors’ yard? Because this is how you get your dog to roll over that dead skunk in your neighbor’s yard…
(Yes, I speak from experience 
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Shampoo w/tea tree oil at least gets rinsed out of the pet’s coat.
ETA:
Tea tree oil also has actual therapeutic uses, like anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties.
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$108 per the current exchange rate, according to Bloomberg.
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Was it tested on humans first?
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On at least one human….
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