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What was the first scent you bought with your own money?
The first scent that I bought was from The Body Shop. I mean, this would have been in the '80s, on a Saturday afternoon probably with my mum in Lakeside shopping center. They used to have body oils or fragrance oils in scents like vanilla and strawberry. They were very uncomplicated, which I liked.
The Spice Girls Impulse body spray from the '90s was my first scent. Do you have any memories of creating it?
This was at a time when there wasn't much that the Spice Girls weren't advertising, after Walkers crisps, Chupa Chups lollies, Pepsi. So, we didn't actually have anything to do with the scent, though maybe we had approval of the silhouette—I think there were five naked silhouettes on the cover of the spray, if I remember rightly. It was a long time ago, but we definitely had a lot of fun. I remember the video campaign where we all looked like we were naked, and we looked like we were walking through a street that was full of people.
Victoria and David Beckham at Nice airport in 1998.
What made you want to launch this fragrance collection?
This is definitely my most personal creative project to date. I’ve been working with Jerome [Epinette, Master Perfumer for Robertet] on these fragrances for eight years now, and this is my version of an autobiography. This has been a big project and there have been a number of fragrances I’ve smelt, and that Jerome has reworked.
I’ve been a lover of fragrance for such a long time, so to use this creative space to tell my story of a very true love story between me and my husband, and our travels and my self acceptance journey, I’ve never felt so vulnerable. But I’m excited at the same time. This is something that feels very honest and organic; it feels like the right time to be releasing fragrance, and it’s been my fifth child. Actually David is my fifth child, the fragrance collection is my sixth child.
I'm exposing myself and showing a vulnerability that I've never shown before
Has it been emotional looking back at your life to create the scents?
You know, it was really emotional. I think the public feels like they've been through the journey with me. They remember me being in the Spice Girls, they remember me meeting David, getting married to David and sitting on the throne at the wedding and having the children, then moving to Spain and to America. So a lot of the public have felt—not just in Britain, but all around the world—like they have been part of my journey over the last 27 years. But they don’t know these stories, I've
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