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.
