What Famous People Smell Like

What Famous People Smell Like

• Tom Ford: “vanilla bean”

• Michelle Obama: “cherries”

• Cher: “a mermaid”

• Kevin Bacon: “a little mix of baby powder and Listerine”

• Rihanna: “coconut and vanilla”

• Gideon Yago: “that clean smell that really young children have, as if they’ve never been dirty”

• Joanna Angel: “fresh laundry with a hint of menthol”

• Justin Bieber: “a unicorn running through a field of fresh flowers”

• Ron Jeremy: “babies”

• Taylor Swift: “expensive wood”

• Gwyneth Paltrow: “moth balls”

• Heather Donahue: “pine and myrrh and earth and balsam”

• Chad Johnson: “a frat house at 5 A.M.”

• Miles Davis: “chicken soup”

• Howard Stern: “death”

• Steven Tyler: “a skunk”

• Anne Hathaway: “nachos and maple syrup”

• Matthew Fox: “a liquor cabinet”

• Steven Spielberg: “a newborn baby:

• Snooki: “King Kong’s you-know-what”

Elon Green is a contributing editor to Longform.