Perfume Created For Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI smiles during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 7, 2012.

Sarah Jessica Parker and Jennifer Aniston may be the type of public figures expected to roll out their own signature scent. But that hasn't stopped Pope Benedict XVI from having an eau de cologne created for His Holiness, the Telegraph reports.

Created by Italian Silvana Casoli, the cologne is infused with lemon tree blossom and the smell of spring grass, conveying the Pope's love of nature and wildlife as well as peace and tranquility, according to the Irish Times.

Other celebrities the master perfumer has worked with include Sting, Madonna and King Juan Carlos of Spain.

Unlike other perfumes, the scent won't be sold to the public and is to only be worn by the Pope, explains Italian newspaper Il Messaggero.

This isn't the first Catholic scent to be created by Casoli. According to the Telegraph, she previously created two other colognes called "Water of Hope" and "Water of Faith" for the Roman Catholic Church.

Comments

[Rabblesnort]

06:43 PM on 03/26/2012

I wonder what Jesus would pick for his scent, perhaps some of the dust on his way to Golgatha, a little fresh blood from his wounds and maybe a touch of bile as he's crucified. Sad, sad, sad, and you wonder why we refuse to go to church......

[Momklok]

03:06 PM on 03/20/2012

Funny how priests and nuns take the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Of course we know that those are only enforced on the women. There is basically no hierarchy for women, other that Mother Superior in a particular convent, but just look at the ladder the men can climb, and all the pretty red trim that gets added the furthe rup you go. Just like Jesus told them to do.

[Momklok]

03:02 PM on 03/20/2012

And how much money did the Vatican spend on that which should have gone to helping the poor.

[Clevella]

02:55 AM on 03/18/2012

The pope has perfume. That's very 'worldly'.
Is it for masking the stench?

[hobo62]

05:22 PM on 03/17/2012

Ain't nothing made that can make the Catholic Church smell good.

[raker]

03:14 PM on 03/17/2012

Infallible, by PBXVI. Available at CVS.

[DougSmith]

02:43 PM on 03/17/2012

Looking more like a zombie every day.

[xenubarb]

02:41 PM on 03/17/2012

“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”.

[Djelem]

01:56 PM on 03/17/2012

In keeping with his childhood interests it has the scent of burned bodies.

[Dieter Zerressen]

11:01 AM on 03/17/2012

Does it smell like little boys in lederhosen?

[funkwhip]

08:16 PM on 03/17/2012

Infallible Leather.... For men (and young boys).

[Jack Knowlton]

09:53 AM on 03/17/2012

Let's call it: Eau de Moleste

[Norcal2]

08:15 AM on 03/17/2012

No thanks!

[farmilyman]

06:16 AM on 03/17/2012

My guess is a musty decaying smell.

[CSNC]

04:10 AM on 03/17/2012

"Perfume Created For Pope Benedict XVI"

Named... "God's Golden Shower."

H

[OtayPanky]

03:16 AM on 03/17/2012

Call it INQUISITION.

From Wikipedia: On 25 November 1981, Pope John Paul II named Ratzinger as the Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly known as the "Sacred Congregaton of the Holy Office", the historical Inquisition.