Katy Perry's new fragrance Killer Queen will be released in the states later this summer, and the singer has spilled some details about her latest fragrance, to be released with Coty Inc.
"Killer Queen has been in my vocabulary since I was 15, because of the song 'Killer Queen' by Queen," Katy told WWD. "Freddie Mercury painted the lyrics of this woman who I wanted to be. She seemed very powerful, and she captivated a room when she walked in. I named my company Killer Queen after those lyrics. I feel like, after all this time, it was appropriate to use that name in association with something I did. I feel like I'm falling, finally, into that woman Freddie painted."
Killer Queen is Perry's third fragrance, following on from Purr in 2010 and Meow in 2011. This latest scent is set to be a more sophisticated offering than the singer's two previous perfumes. "Killer Queen is powerful, edgy, sophisticated," she said. "And that's exactly where I'm trying to be now with my music. There were two different aspects in creating the fragrance. It's almost like [using] two different parts of your brain - the packaging and bottle and marketing, but essentially all that doesn't matter unless you have the juice."
Katy also opened up about the work that went into creating Killer Queen. "It took us something like 30 or 35 tries to get it right," she said. "I wanted some floral [notes], like jasmine, but I also wanted red velvet flower, which is incredible - it gives it the edge that makes it Killer Queen. It does have a bit of a gourmand thing to it - but gourmand like high tea at Claridge's.
"I wanted the scent to have a little bit of ambiguity. I was attracted to scents in the last couple of years like Alien by Thierry Mugler and Black Orchid from Tom Ford. They're too strong for me to wear all the time, and I didn't want to them to be [copies], just to have a hint of ambiguity like they do. It's sophisticated, but it's not alienating my main group of people. The patchouli heart gives it ambiguity and this thing called cashmeran is really cool. It has this real curve ball in it that I think is sophisticated but still supersexy.
"You can't buy anything that makes you who you are, but you can highlight what you've already got inside you. I want this particular perfume to highlight the power that's already inside of you."
SOURCE: WWD
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