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"Well, I can finally check &amp;quot;interview THE Isaac Mizrahi&amp;quot; off my bucket list. Last night I caught up with the illustrious designer at Bloomingdales to chat about his first foray into the fragrance market, Fabulous. With top notes of mandarin, nectarine and bergamot, along with hints of jasmine, tuberose, freesia, peony, sandalwood, vanilla and cedar, the perfume smells like a girly, spring day. I&amp;#x27;ll skip the &amp;quot;it lives up to it&amp;#x27;s name&amp;quot; joke (although it does) and get right to the good stuff. On who he had in mind when he was designing: &amp;quot;There were a few different women who I had idolized growing up. Super models, like Gerry Hall and Renee Russo. All of those women who I really thought were fabulous. You know, kind of from a far they kind of taught me, what it was to be fabulous. Think Lisa Taylor and Patti Hanson.&amp;quot; On his inspiration for the bottle: &amp;quot;Well originally I wanted to do something that teetered around like a child&amp;amp;#8217;s toy. And we kind of developed that and it was deemed not the most safe product in the world to people. So I decided to just design an orb that was slightly tilted that way. I just love the quirk of it and the beauty of it. The whole central idea of trying to revive the glamour and the fabulousness of this, of the spray.&amp;quot; On how his favorite fragrances when he was growing up influenced Fabulous: &amp;quot;Fracas by Robert Piguet, Y by Yves Saint Laurent, and also Tatiana by Diane Von Furstenberg, those are some of my favorite things. And you know there are similar notes in Fabulous, there&amp;amp;#8217;s tuberose. There&amp;amp;#8217;s bergamot, the bergamot starts the whole journey of the fragrance. And those things, I associate them with fabulous women. You know, as if they were people sitting in front of me at the opera, smelling like bergamot, just smells like rich people. That&amp;amp;#8217;s what I grew up with so that&amp;amp;#8217;s, the bergamot thing, and the nectarine thing, I always associate that kind of peachy nectarine thing with fresh feminine, you know.&amp;quot; The It-Girl he would love to wear Fabulous: &amp;quot;She&amp;amp;#8217;s beautiful and sort of blonde with short hair...Carrie Mulligan! I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know why, I just think she&amp;amp;#8217;s so fabulous.&amp;quot; His number one tip for being Fabulous: &amp;quot;I mean it sounds very trite, but I would say, don&amp;amp;#8217;t take yourself too seriously. You know, and kind of reverse it. Think of yourself as fabulous, and you will be fabulous.&amp;quot; When a woman should wear Fabulous: &amp;quot;I have a funny way with my fragrances. I know what I associate with different times of the day or when I come out of the shower or later in the day and I just want to mask something. I can&amp;amp;#8217;t describe, because for me it&amp;amp;#8217;s a 24 hour thing. I would spray it on myself the minute I got up and the minute I went to bed. I want to smell this all the time. And I kind of do, when you&amp;amp;#8217;re not around. I do wear this!&amp;quot; And finally, how to tell if he&amp;#x27;s lying or not: &amp;quot;I always use the word fabulous. People who know me, I say &amp;amp;#8216;Oh, that&amp;amp;#8217;s fabulous.&amp;amp;#8221; I never lie when I use the word fabulous. I can&amp;amp;#8217;t say &amp;amp;#8220;Oh that&amp;amp;#8217;s fabulous&amp;amp;#8221; (sarcastically). I use the word in the truest sense. You know if I say, &amp;amp;#8220;Oh, that&amp;amp;#8217;s nice&amp;amp;#8221; then you know, I mean I might be lying.&amp;quot; The perfume&amp;#x27;s available on the Bloomingdales site now! Tell me, do you wear perfume? If so, do you stick to one signature scent or switch things up? Discuss!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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