Unless you've been living in a van down by the river for the past few months, you've heard of this "Twilight" phenomenon. If the book had come out when I was in a tween or teen, I would have been all over it, but having heard so much about the story, I can't see reading the series. The novel centers a round a couple, Edward and Bella and guess what? Edward's a vampire. Teen girls went crazy over the book, I'm thinking the reason for that is every girl wants a bad boy at some point in her life (thankfully for most of us, we get over this) and vampires rank pretty high on the bad boy scale. I dated a few bad boys, no vampires, although one was questionable, but probably more wolfman than vampire.
Anyfang, seems girls are bananas over this Edward dude and they all saw the movie, bought the t-shirts -- it's Twilight madness. Well, if that wasn't enough and you want more Twilight, get ready.
It's Twilight, the fragrance.
You know, for times when you want to smell like a vampire. I don't know when those times would be, but just in case, here ya go. I'm pretty sure it's not to be worn to ward off vampires, but to draw them to you. If it were for warding off vampires, I assume it would smell like garlic, but as you can see, the perfume comes in an apple-shaped bottle. I kind of doubt the perfume smells like apples. From seeing the trailers from the movie, I tend to think it would smell like hair gel and glitter. Them is some shiny vampires. Looks like Edward fell into a lake of fabulous! and came out all glisteny and shiny, like when I dusted myself with the shimmer powder from Smashbox and didn't realize just how shimmery it was. For a man, even a vampire, there is a thin line between shine and fabulous! -- Clay Aiken being on the latter side.
From what I understand from reading the author's quotes, the apple on the cover of the novel is to symbolize the forbidden fruit, because people and vampires generally shouldn't date. At least that's what I've always been led to believe, and having seen a lot of vampire movies, I would tend to run away from one.
But, of course the Twilight generation didn't grow up with The Lost Boys and Anne Rice's vampires, Lestat, Louis, or Armand. So since they haven't been properly educated, I guess we have to let it go. And going out on a limb, I assume the kids today haven't read Bram Stoker's Dracula either. If (and I know this is not the popular view) one had read the novels or seen the movies I've mentioned, a vampire wouldn't be the man of one's dreams. Trust me, I've read a ton and I dated a few bad boys back in the day -- and I tend to believe bad boy + vampire = kiss of death, literally.
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