Finally, for the Yankees fan who has everything, including the St. Patrick's Day scrum t-shirt and the ovation earrings, now they can smell like the Bronx Bombers. more ›

One day Lady Gaga will have no choice but to shock us by simply being regular, but today is not that day. She has a new perfume coming out with top notes of an expensive hooker. She says, “I wanted to extract the feeling and the scent of blood and semen from molecular structures. [Blood and semen] is in the perfume but it doesn’t smell like that—you just get the after feeling of sex from the semen and the blood is primal. The perfume smells like an expensive hooker.” Last year she noted that it would smell like New York City, but it sort of seems like she got more inspiration from the last season of Dexter. more ›

According to MTV, Lady Gaga is in the lab formulating her own scent! What will the pop star's perfume smell like? All of us, maybe. The site theorizes that "Lady Gaga’s Perfume Will Likely Have A New York Feeling To It. The Big Apple is where Gaga’s from and from where she draws a lot of inspiration. So it stands to reason that Gaga’s perfume would have a New York element to it. Let’s just [hope] that element isn’t the Lower East Side. In August. Before the trash gets picked up." But she does have roots on Stanton Street... and Yonkers. [via Bowery Boogie] more ›

With countless mounds of trash piling up in the Middlesex County Landfill in NJ, local residents have found their olfactory systems under constant attack. And since it's been tried it in the Bronx and in Queens, the county will try to combat the smell with perfume. A flatbed truck equipped with special nozzles stalks through the garbage, releasing hundreds of gallons of a fragrant, soapy, slightly citrus-scented spray. In 2007, the county tried attaching deodorizing sprays to the landfill's fence, which didn't work, and gives added pressure to this scheme. Local resident Jerri Shink said, "It’s terrible...We go to the grocery store and my son tells people, ‘We live in the stinkiest part of town.’ You can’t open a window. At times it will permeate the walls." more ›

A noxious stench is oppressing Astoria, but it's nothing a little eau de toilette can't fix. In response to complaints, the DEP is spraying a chemical perfume over a wastewater treatment plant across the East River from Astoria, on nearby Wards Island. "It smells like Chanel Number 2," one DEP worker quipped to CBS2. It's believed that the pervasive odor has blanketed Astoria because an aeration blower broke down at the plant a few weeks ago. And when the heat soared earlier this week, locals say the stink became unbearable. more ›

About 24-hours after the Times Square terror scare, firefighters and the NYPD bomb squad rushed to a storefront at 1133 Broadway after getting calls from people who thought they saw a bomb inside. What they found, however, was an art display that included a fog machine, a fake time bomb and vials of liquid (turns out it was perfume) that looked like pipe bombs. more ›

Residents of the Sister Thomas Apartments, a low-income building in the South Bronx, are so disgusted by the combined odors from a sewage plant and trash transfer station that they're considering a plan to pump perfume into their building. The idea is the brainchild of environmental justice advocate and MacArthur "genius" Award winner Majora Carter, who enlisted the help of Parisian perfumer Pascal Gaurin to create a new fragrance for the Bronx Building. It's called L'Eau Verte du Bronx du Sud, which means "Green Water of the South Bronx." more ›

One of the NYPD cops who took part in a botched million dollar perfume factory heist last month pleaded guilty today to conspiracy in connection with the armed robbery. Brian Checo, 24, of the 34th precinct in Washington Heights, faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced in June. more ›

After three days on the lam, four-year NYPD veteran Kelvin Jones was arrested by FBI agents in Yonkers yesterday; Jones was wanted in connection with a million-dollar perfume heist at a warehouse in New Jersey last month. Jones and two other officers allegedly entered the warehouse brandishing guns and badges, yelling, "NYPD! Hands up!" After tying up employees, investigators say that day laborers helped them load the high-end goods in rented trucks, and then they drove off. And they might have savored the sweet smell of success, had they not made one crucial mistake: feds tell the Post the scheme "fell apart when the officers used their real IDs to rent the trucks." more ›

Federal prosecutors in Newark will arraign two NYPD officers and one former officer today in connection with an armed robbery of about $1 million of perfume from a New Jersey warehouse. According to the AP, the cops are among five people charged with robbing In Style USA’s warehouse, which distributes high-end fragrances, on February 9th. According to the complaint, the officers, Richard LeBlanca and Brian Checo, entered the warehouse brandishing guns and badges, yelling, "NYPD! Hands up!" more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] All the single ladies (and whoever), Grammy-award winning Beyoncé Knowles has a new perfume out! Exciting, right? Anyway, in order to get you to buy it, DNA Info reports that she's playing a free show for the people tonight, right in Union Square. But is she? Every other listing has simply stated that "the visionary artist is illuminating the central destination with fiery red light and smoky fog... an unprecedented, spectacular display will vividly capture the spirit of Beyoncé Heat." That is significantly less exciting. We'll get to the bottom of this, in the meantime, she is having a private launch party tonight at 15 Union Square, where sister Solange will be deejaying; and tomorrow she's making an appearance at Macy's Herald Square at 5 p.m. In any case, if Union Square looks like it's on fire between 6 p.m. and 12 a.m., don't worry, it's just the glow of marketing. more ›

Andy Warhol once said, “My favorite smell is the first smell of spring in New York," and now someone has stepped in to capitalize on the scent (good thing he didn't say summer in New York). Along with the Gap now using Warhol's "hot dead celeb" status to sell khakis; Laurice Rahmé, creator of Bond No. 9, launches her latest neighborhood fragrance (in collaboration with The Warhol Foundation) this month: Andy Warhol Union Square. more ›