It makes perfect ‘cense.
Gwyneth Paltrow may have been onto something when she started marketing a candle — which sold out in hours — called “This Candle Smells Like My Vagina” last month.
Erykah Badu plans on selling her very own scent to the masses, too.
The four-time Grammy Award winning neo-soul icon said that one of the products featured in her upcoming online marketplace, Badu World Market, will be an incense scent based on her — yes, you guessed it — vagina.
“There’s an urban legend that my p—y changes men,” she said in a cover story for 10 Magazine. “The men that I fall in love with, and fall in love with me, change jobs and lives.”
Badu, born Erica Abi Wright, has been romantically linked to Oscar and Grammy Award winner Common, and has had kids with OutKast frontman Andre 3000, West Coast rap pioneer The D.O.C. and New Orleans producer Jay Electronica.
Last year, in an interview with People, Common revealed it was “hard to eat” after the split.
“With Erykah Badu, that was my first love where you’re just open and floating,” he confided. “When we split, I was 27 or 28. I was in a haze, just going through the motions. It was hard to eat.”
Post-Badu, Common went on to date Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson, sports icon Serena Williams, political firebrand Angela Rye and has been recently spending time with funnywoman Tiffany Haddish.
So if that’s indicative of Badu’s prowess making a man better, her incense scent could be a best-seller.
Paltrow – who The Guardian referred to as “the queen of the vagina-industrial complex” – has marketed vagina-themed merchandise on her Goop lifestyle website.
The 47-year-old Academy Award-winning “Contagion” star nearly broke the internet when the $75 votive named “This Smells Like My Vagina” went on sale in January, as a partnership with Heretic.
According to published reports, the test run of the product — containing a “blend of geranium, citrusy bergamot, and cedar absolutes juxtaposed with Damask rose and ambrette seed” quickly sold out.
It’s now selling for $250 on sites such as Ebay and Poshmark.
The process of making Badu’s fragrance, provocatively called Badu’s P—y, apparently uses her collection of underwear.
“I took lots of pairs of my panties, cut them up into little pieces and burned them,” she said. “Even the ash is part of it.”
Ladies..For a SWEET vagina
I Drink raw cranberries often.
Now the secrets out. (Reluctantly)ALSO promotes healthy,strong WOMB &bladder.
— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) May 18, 2014
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Since arriving on the music scene in the mid-1990s, Badu has pushed the envelope with her groovy music and Afrocentric fashion sensibilities.
Way back in 2014, Badu offered up her secret to a “sweet vagina” on Twitter.
