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Thread #72238 Message #1242184
Posted By: Helen
07-Aug-04 - 10:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Name of painting? Tabu ad
Subject: RE: BS: Name of painting? Tabu ad
I found an article which says that it was afake/mock-up of a Victorian painting:
".........perfumes were called My Sin, Soir de Paris and, my childish favourite, Tabu, a deep, rich olfactory stew from Spain, whose ad featured a drawing of a girl boasting one neat horn, if you please, on her otherwise normal head. A bit too taboo, apparently, for she was replaced by a faux-Victorian painting of a brunette in a satin gown being crushed in a passionate embrace by a man holding a violin - shades of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler."