Hello Kitty Baby Perfume
Sometimes when I see new Hello Kitty products, I think that Sanrio must actually be running out of things to Hello Kittify since there is no other explanation as to why some of these things are made. That, and the overwhelming focus that it’s never too early to indoctrinate the child masses into the Sanrio cult, is why you have products like Hello Kitty Baby perfume:
I want to ask “why?” but cringe at the thought of what would happen if I did. Instead of understanding immediately that it’s a question that can not possibly be answered with a straight face or sound mind, Hello Kitty fanatics will spend hours explaining to me in all seriousness and with the minutest details, why Hello Kitty baby perfume is a wonderful idea. They will continue to do this until I agree with them just to get them to shut their mouth or, if I happen to be extremely lucky, an asteroid falls through the roof seriously injuring me and I’m hauled away in an ambulance to intensive care for the next 3 months, but away from the evil feline.
The company claims that Hello Kitty baby perfume is aimed at infants and toddlers with a fragrance of raspberry, hazelnut and violet. That’s like saying that Hello Kitty candy comes with “rich flavors” when everyone knows it will taste exactly like all other Hello Kitty candy: pure sugar. My guess is it really smells like pink bubble gum and contains a virus that permanently alters the brain to crave Hello Kitty (and if it doesn’t, you know that Sanrio is busily working on one that does). Just one more thing to confirm I’m living in Hello Kitty Hell…
Sent in first by Ed (as well as many others via the scented salamander) who should have to wear this perfume on a daily basis for ever thinking that it would be a good idea to send me this photo…
Posted: July 30th, 2008 under Hello Kitty Baby, Hello Kitty Beauty, Hello Kitty Strange.
Comments: 47
Comments
Comment from Indiana
Time: July 30, 2008, 12:34 am
Woah…I think it’s cute. But.. Baby perfume? Babies aren’t supposed to smell. (Exception to poop.)
Babies are supposed to play, eat, poop and sleep! Not be smelling of raspberries, hazelnut and violet. I don’t mind the idea. But…still, kinda weird for a baby to wear PERFUME. Leave it to kids and adults. Not babies. >__>
Comment from Suzanne
Time: July 30, 2008, 12:52 am
Babies STINK. Haha.
Comment from Kitteh!!
Time: July 30, 2008, 12:54 am
I’d have thought that HK air freshener was more relevant to improving the smell of babies.
Comment from ghost
Time: July 30, 2008, 1:05 am
i can only imagine a hello kitty fanatic going too crazy with something like this and getting it in the infants face, thus in the eyes and mouth.
it’d be torturous and possibly fatal if the infant chokes on it. horrible idea.
Comment from Alvrodul
Time: July 30, 2008, 2:01 am
I wonder if, when the kids develop allergies to perfume, Sanrio will come out with Hello Kittified antihistamines? Babies and perfume DO NOT go together!
Comment from darlene II
Time: July 30, 2008, 3:33 am
I hope it’s made from real babies.
Comment from Kitteh!!
Time: July 30, 2008, 5:29 am
No idea, but I’ve got some Girl Scout cookies, and yes they are!
Comment from andophiroxia
Time: July 30, 2008, 5:59 am
Uh…. Baby powder and wash are nice.
Baby perfume isn’t. This reminds me of that story/urban legend I had heard of Marie Antionette. She had bought a farm, after she was on holiday and saw one. She thought farms were “cute” and “quaint”. So, her doting husband had one built on Versailles (I did see it) and I know that they did play at being farmers/peasants (per our guide).
Well, the story goes is that after the farm was made, her whole retinue came over to see it and to experience it. To her dismay, she found that farms stink due to the animals doing animal things; like eating, pooping, being farm animals, you know. So, in order to make it beautified, they would dump barrels of colonge each day in the barn to mask the farm animal scent. Then they would be happy and play peasant family….
This is the same principle to me regarding baby perfume.
Comment from Catherine
Time: July 30, 2008, 6:22 am
The bottle is ADORABLE, but it probably stinks.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with children smelling good. My little men are known for their signature scent’s and they each have chosen their own fabulous fragrance.
@Andophiroxia
Marie Antionette was a wonderful spender!
Comment from andophiroxia
Time: July 30, 2008, 6:35 am
Oh I don’t mind children smelling good at all. At least you know that their parental units are good at the upkeep. However, there is past a certain point of normal vanity that you can get to. It’s to an almost OCD level. We know it’s reality if you have children that you are never going to have a perfectly clean spic and span household. This goes the same if you have a pet. If you do, chances are you have trained your children well to pick up after themselves, you have a very dilligent housekeeper, or you have freakin’ OCD or your significant other does.
Comment from Kitteh!!
Time: July 30, 2008, 7:17 am
I don’t think anyone’s suggesting that there’s anything wrong with “children smelling nice”. What we’re suggesting (or more than suggesting) is that in a World which contains fragranced baby talc and baby soaps, baby perfume is a totally unnecessary product.
Actually, unless it’s a super expensive (chemical content, not sticker price) true perfume rather than a petro-chemical “parfam” then it’s not only unnecessary but potentially harmful, since there are people who have alergies to parfam and allergies are partly caused by repeated exposure to the allergens which cause them in early childhoood.
Comment from mhkitty
Time: July 30, 2008, 7:50 am
Okay, so as long as all the right testing has been done on this then I can’t see a problem other than babies should smell like babies…talcum power and slobber 
I guess if it has been deemed safe and a parent wants to make their child smell like a small adult, then it’s their decision, no matter how bad others may find it.
I personally would not be putting perfume on my child until they are at least 5 and old enough to ask for a little Tinkerbell spritz
Comment from moriyah
Time: July 30, 2008, 8:37 am
What a great idea… start putting the chemicals and crap in our babies bodies early on! Good population control idea HK!
I always thought that babies smelled just fine after a baby bath and some love. This is just sad and I can’t believe that HK actually made this product. Then again, this IS HK we’re talking about and nothing is safe from their clutches.
Comment from Liz
Time: July 30, 2008, 9:17 am
Geeze… with baby soap, shampoo and powder, I see no point of this except to fill up a HK fanatics collection space.
Comment from Jason
Time: July 30, 2008, 9:28 am
I think I would kill my mom if I found out she was crazy enough to spray something like this one my when I was a baby.
That perfume stuff is just plain disturbing, even if it is safe.
Comment from Lucy
Time: July 30, 2008, 9:30 am
I used to use baby cologne… for me….
it smells nice…..
and i have some hk cologne somewhere in my bathroom… its not so stinky.
…. help!
Comment from Aireii
Time: July 30, 2008, 10:35 am
darlene II, are you supposed to be imitating darlene and PRETTY much try to think of what she’ll really say in her brain? Well the simple and short question is “Are you against the real darlene”
If so, then I’m with you, if not and you’re just here to get attention, sigh.
Comment from Ashley
Time: July 30, 2008, 11:58 am
I guess someone would use it if they want to kill their kid’s braincells…
Comment from edward
Time: July 30, 2008, 12:26 pm
I really am not a fan of babies, so I kind of liked the idea of baby perfume… But on the other hand, it kind of squicks me out (which is why I sent it here).
Comment from daughter of darlene
Time: July 30, 2008, 5:00 pm
Ahum. In my mommy’s words:
You have to flaunt how wrong you are, don’t you? This perfume was made for babies to enjoy the sweet scent of Hello Kitty’s joy and happiness made into liquid in a small, cute bottle. Every family with a baby should have one!
Comment from darlene wanabes
Time: July 30, 2008, 5:51 pm
Is it just me or do others find it quite sad and disturbing that people have come to the point that they think it’s fun to adopt darlene’s name to post (darlene II and daughter of darlene).
Comment from Krystle
Time: July 30, 2008, 5:57 pm
What about a hello kitty CEiLiNG fan?
Comment from Krystle
Time: July 30, 2008, 5:57 pm
Comment from HKPepper
Time: July 30, 2008, 6:13 pm
cute! my little girl would like to have one!
Comment from Tamichiko
Time: July 30, 2008, 8:06 pm
PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE “YOU KNOW WHO”!!!!!!!
By the way, I thought that baby powder was enough to keep babies from being stinky.
But then again, Sanrio will do ANYTHING to make all kinds of useless crap.
Comment from Jaime
Time: July 30, 2008, 9:36 pm
i don’t know about this guys. i’m all for hk perfume (i have some for adults) but babies are supposed to smell like babies. maybe some scented baby powder but not perfume. and it’s true that babies get irritated by such things so it’s just not a good idea. it was cute though!
there is already a lot of cool hk stuff for babies. enough for me to create a nursery. i’m psyched! if i don’t have a girl….i don’t know what i’ll do!
Comment from bear_1
Time: July 30, 2008, 11:34 pm
Baby perfume? WORST IDEA EVER! Sanrio’s definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one.
Comment from Heilo Kitler
Time: July 31, 2008, 12:46 am
They are out to gas all of you!
Comment from Kitteh!!
Time: July 31, 2008, 1:04 am
MHK, my sis works in the bio-medical field and has taught me a little about statutary medical and cosmetics testing.
All it does is determine whether or not the product causes objectionable side effects in a typical population, and in the case of medicines, what all the possible side effects are. It doesn’t test for “likelyhood of causing or exascerbating an allergic reaction in someone who is already sensitised” largely because doing that incurs a “danger of death”, and that’s generally considered unethical in the Western world (yes really 
).
Comment from mhkitty
Time: July 31, 2008, 5:53 am
Exactly… which is why Sanrio stores in the US will most likely NOT be carrying this… and I bet if you asked a Pediatrician, they’d gasp and call child protective services.
(Well maybe not, but I bet you’d get a big red mark on your file.)
Anyway, as cute as it looks, I really do not think considering how sesitive children’s skin is, that any sane person would want to put this on a child… my childhood friend has a huge scar from something her mom put on her when she was little (she was an AVON lady). Try telling her that this stuff’s safe 
Comment from britty
Time: July 31, 2008, 7:11 am
@darlene wanabes.
correct, i definitely agree with you.
people should just be posting by there name, as then we will all learn to recognize who you are with consistant posts.
darlene isn’t cool, and we don’t need more of her.
just be yourself and say what you want to say with your name.
——
on note of this topic..
it is really said that we are going to try and put chemicals and fragrances that could be harmful into poor babies who have no say. :[
Comment from Barrie
Time: July 31, 2008, 7:58 am
Never in a million years would I do something so horrific to an innocent child!
Plus, I was reading the lastest Macy’s catalog and there was freakin HK clothes in there! Is nowhere safe? Can I not escape this dark evil? My sister needs lunch made for her and I agree to make it and then she hands me a HK Bento box! I’m thinking that I was totally set up and yet, having already agreed, I cannot say ‘no’. Everywhere I turn the Cat of Evil is staring at me, taunting me, waiting for my will to break. I will not succumb, the Dark One will not consume my soul! Be strong HKH and know that you are so not alone in this.
How are you doing on the toy drive by the way?
Comment from mhkitty
Time: July 31, 2008, 9:54 am
Oh snap… I’m off to Macys.com now!
Comment from andophiroxia
Time: July 31, 2008, 12:29 pm
@mhkitty
Dang, what the hell did your friend’s mom put on her from AVON? The sulfuric chemical peel?! Geez? I’ve used their products before and they seemed all right;;;
Comment from mhkitty
Time: July 31, 2008, 2:45 pm
I’m not sure, but she’s got a scar kinda like those people with the reddish-purple birthmarks… she was out of school for weeks… I’m not sure what it was but she was like 5 or 6 when it happened… I rememebered because my mom refused to buy any more Avon from her and she made the newspaper and was let go from Avon…
Comment from Kitteh!!
Time: August 1, 2008, 1:05 am
And people wonder why I don’t use cosmetics, just soap and shampoo!
Comment from andophiroxia
Time: August 1, 2008, 8:33 am
@Kitteh!!
I know what you mean. As a girl, de facto, we use more stuff. XD However, there are some women I look at and go WTF!?
Comment from mhkitty
Time: August 1, 2008, 11:19 am
@andophiroxia:
I know exactly what you mean… my ex’s mother was a distant ‘relative’ of Mimi off of the Drew Carey Show… it was embarrassing to go anywhere with her! Once she had her gastric bypass though, she did a more natural look.
Comment from Mandie
Time: August 1, 2008, 11:32 am
Well the bottle is uproariously cute to me, but baby perfume? It may be cute for like you know special occasions like weddings, birthdays, anything a baby would be invited to that was an important thing, but not on a daily basis o.O
Comment from andophiroxia
Time: August 1, 2008, 1:39 pm
Ironically, baby perfume would be good for some people because they generally have a milder scent, but too much for babies. XD
Comment from sanriobaby
Time: August 2, 2008, 12:57 pm
The perfume is marketed for babies, or more realistically, children, but anyone who wants to smell sweet and not use anything heavy can wear it.
Comment from ariel
Time: August 3, 2008, 1:34 am
What is baby perfume? Does it make you smell like a baby?
Comment from Puppy
Time: August 3, 2008, 2:27 pm
uhm… i don’t think baby + perfume mix…
Comment from Alfred
Time: August 4, 2008, 7:46 am
If I had a baby I would buy it HELL I might buy it anyways!
Comment from Cyn
Time: August 6, 2008, 1:38 am
Baby perfume is not a new concept, when I was a kid they used to be Barbie perfume and other brands.
What most parents who fall under the spell of buying such crap do not realise is that they are paying cheap cologne almost the same price as their designer perfume just because it’s Barbie, Hello Kitty, and god knows what.
The bottle might be cute, the stuff in it is way over priced!
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