Paula Abdul’s Sweet Smell Of Success

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (July 2, 2007) — Paula Abdul is a busy woman.She’s starring in her own reality show for Bravo, she’s a judge on the FOX juggernaut “American Idol,” and now she can add one more item to her resume: professional fragrance creator!“When I wear my fragrance, its the strangest thing. I look around for Ashton Kutcher,” Paula told Access Hollywood. “I think I’m getting ‘Punk’d’ for real!”The pop icon joins the ranks of other famous entertainers, like Britney and J. Lo; Partnering with perfume lab Fermenich to create her sweet scent, “Sexy Thoughts.”“It’s something that happens when people smell me,” said Paula, referring to the fragrance’s alluring name. “It provokes that! Its fun, its flirty, its chic. Its sexy.”

But expect more than one Paula when you get your hands on her signature smell!“There are times when I’m shy, there are times when I’m playful. There’s times when I’m very powerful,” Paula remarked. “It totally captures the spirit of who I am.”And Paula was definitely in “playful” mode when she said she took the time to create something special for her “American Idol” sparring partner, Simon Cowell.“In the middle of coming up with my fragrance line, I asked the question, ‘by any chance do you have anything that smells like cat pee, and cow poop and like farts?’ And all three, as a matter of fact –’yes, yes, and yes,’” Paula joked. “And I want to put those elements — the cat pee, the horse poop and fart — in a bottle, and call it ‘Ode to Simonella.’”Paula told Access that she has specific plans for her Simon-inspired concoction. “I’m going to put it together and I’m going to surprise him next season,” she gleefully explained, “and douse it all over the chair!”