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It was just a couple weeks ago that recently-rehabbed actress Eva Mendes appeared in Vogue Germany -- for the most part without her clothes. And now, word 'round the Internet is that the star's latest ad campaign is similarly scandalous.

The TV spots are for a new Calvin Klein fragrance called Secret Obsession, and apparently clearly show Eva "having illicit thoughts." So illicit, in fact, that they're making network TV sensors very uncomfortable -- which means the ads will likely never see the light of day.

I woke up this morning and thought to myself "You know what the world needs? Another celebrity fragrance" because really there aren't nearly enough of them. Right.

Add Halle Berry to the celebrity fragrance roster as she has joined the Coty family. Halle will be creating at least one (yes, there could be many) fragrance. This gem of a fragrance will be sold at, it pains me to type this, J.C. Penney and probably some other horrible places like Rite Aid and CVS.

Halle won't be alone in her perfume venture. Other members of the Coty family include: Jennifer Lopez, David and Victoria Beckham, Kimora Lee Simmons, Sarah Jessica Parker, Celine Dion, Kate Moss, and Gwen Stefani.

Halle is definitely grouped in there with some hits and misses. What do you think, Halle the fragrance a success or another fragrance flop?

If I thought Clive Owen was an odd choice as a skin care line model for Lancome, I don't quite know what to say about Ewan McGregor as a fragrance model. Sure, he cleans up pretty when he needs to in movies like Moulin Rouge and Down With Love, but I've always thought that he was most himself on his 20,000 motorcycle trip with Charley Boorman. That dusty and bearded Ewan was definitely not the cologne type.

Nevertheless, Coty has announced that he will be the face of a new male fragrance from Davidoff which is set to launch in early 2008. He will appear in both print and television ads. I hope this helps him fund his next adventure.

Kim Basinger's personal life has been in the news more than her professional life lately, but the actress did recently sign a deal to be the face of a skincare line. Coty Prestige has chosen Basinger as the face of Lancaster's new skincare collection for Fall 2007. Basinger, who started off as a model, has never been the face of a skincare line before. The Lancaster philosophy is "Add life to age and not age to life" and they chose Basinger for her attitude toward aging as well as her good looks. The first print ad campaign for the skincare will appear in October 2007 and the ads will appear around the world but not in the United States.

I suppose that it was only a matter of time before Lindsay Lohan got in on the celebrity fragrance action. At a launch for shoe designer Brian Atwood, Lindsay revealed that she is currently in talks with Coty Cosmetics about her own perfume line.

Lohan insisted that she had not yet decided upon a name for the scent, as the deal with Coty had yet to actually be signed and sealed. So until we hear officially, is there any speculation out there on what Lindsay's perfume might be called?