Well Blow me Down With a Feather and Call me Surprised: Tilda Swinton Gets Own Fragrance

SWINTON, as she was christened by the Fug Girls, was in Dublin over the weekend for the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, and took part in a recorded public interview at the Lighthouse Cinema on Sunday. I went - I think she's amazing (even if she does never wear mascara) and I also live about four seconds from the kino, so it wasn't exactly a struggle.

SWINTON is as you'd expect: tall, angular, a vivid presence, charismatic, compelling to listen to, funny, hugely articulate and totally wrapped up in what she does. It is inspiring and heartwarming that women like her are to be found on the increasingly vapid celeb plane of existence, and while she may indeed be on a different plane of existence to the rest of us (or me, anyway), I was gladdened to hear her say how important fashion is. During the after-interview questions I didn't dare to ask her anything - but by god I'd love to have a chat with her about her beauty routine. Of course, I assumed that SWINTON is above all this sort of malarkey, and boy wouldn't I feel foolish?

EXCEPT (every para must now begin with an uppercase word) I see via the powers of Bellasugar that SWINTON is actually to launch her own fragrance! Yes! I'd buy that for a dollar.  Or, er, a euro. To be released under the kooky Etat Libre D'Orange brand, SWINTON's fragrance is called Like This, and contains notes that include mandarin, heliotrope, rose de Grasse and vetiver. I like the sound; will have to reserve judgement until (if) I smell it.

LAUNCHING in Paris on the 13th, I'm not sure if the perfume will make it to Ireland, but even if it doesn't, surely this has to herald some sort of benchmark in the murky-smelling world of celebrity scents?