Will Lady Gaga's Blood & Semen Fragrance Cause Vatican Censure?

If you search the term “blood+semen” today, you will undoubtedly learn that Lady Gaga is working on her first fragrance. The pop star has requested that her 2012-release signature scent in development with Coty,  “smell of blood and semen.”

Before we go gaga over the brilliance of the pop star’s thinking, bloggers write that designer Rad Hourani has already created a fragrance for Six Scents with semen as a key ingredient. The six fragrances are promoted as an intersection of art, socially responsible design and smell.

The image above is from an installation at New York’s New Museum. The Six Scents website has a global list of stores selling their fragrances. Here is America’s.

Andres Serrano | ‘Blood and Semen 1’Andres Serrano’s Blood and Semen Series

It’s likely that Lady Gaga is familiar with the work of Andres Serrano, an American photographer and artist who is notorious — although not to me — for his photos of corpses, as well as his controversial work “Piss Christ”, in which a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix is submerged in what is purported to be the artist’s own urine.

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