Even though I was a wee thing when it launched in 1985, I remember how enormously popular Calvin Klein Obsession ($65) was in its day. It's a warm, spicy scent that is much heavier than any of Calvin Klein's more modern scents. But in the same way that ckOne feels like a stereotypically '90s scent, Obsession will always be filed away in the '80s to me.
While taking a trip down memory lane, I sought out a few commercials from back in the day. I am so disturbed by this one, I don't know where to begin. Is it the clapping? The confusion over whether our young narrator is talking about his mother or some other grown woman? Oh, the smell of it!
Then again, that's not half as weird as another Calvin Klein commercial from back in the day. Truly creepy. To see it, read more.
Would this make you want to buy fragrance? I say no. No, it would not.
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1Whoa
2This scared the living poops outta me!
3Ok, the the first one promotes child abuse whilst the other promotes pycspathic (excuse my spelling) tendancies.
Oh calvin, get real!
That first one is very creepy, it doesn't help that she looks like a man flirting with a 12 year old.
4The second one is just odd
5Oh good God, Yanni Yanson is going to haunt me in my dreams tonight!!!!!
Benicio del Toro was in an Obsession commercial back in the day. Weirdness, people.
6Oh wow, I had to actually turn off the second one because it was giving me the chills. Who thought that would be good marketing?!
7I am very spooked by the second one.... it's like a horror film. The first one is so silly.
8we're so funny, #2 scared the crap out of me too!!! it looked like angie jolie & her brother reciting a poem together, yikes : x
9eew
10hahahha omg.....
11wtf....creeepy. lol yet another reason to add to my long list of "why I hate the 80s", right underneath "wake me up before you go go". I can't wait to show these to my bf, an 80s kid.
12the first one was creepy, but the second one was downright scary!!
13I agree...
And I hate CK fragrances, especially CK One. Ew.
14omg the second one is truly the most disturbing commericial ever made
15OMG the second one is so creepy....it gives me chills!
16IT'S CRAAAAAAZY! I saw them talking about this on an i love the 80's show. lmao It's funny because it's so nutty.
17I remember this commercial! VERY creepy, yuck I feel like I need a shower.
18OOH, I just watched the second one, even creepier!!
19These were both super weird, the first reeks of insest, and the second, well, let's just say I agree with everyone else. Does anyone remember the SNL skit that parodied the first one?
20THAT SECOND ONE HAD ME ROLLING ON THE FLOOR!!!!!!HILARIOUS! I REMEMBER THE FIRST ONE. AT THE TIME, I WAS TOO YOUNG TO GET IT,BUT I LOOK AT IT DIFFERENTLY NOW. SEEMS LIKE HIS MOTHER ABANDONED HIM & ALL HE REMEMBERS IS HER PERFUME. OK. THE NEXT ONE, HAD ME IN TEARS, I CAN HARDLY TYPE.
21Creepy!
22What is UP with the weird clapping and "will you save me" bit in the first one, among a lot of other things. And yeah, the second one is one of the more disturbing things I've ever seen. What psycho thought that was good marketing? I think everyone lost their damn mind in the 80's.
23Can't believe I can remember this!
24omg that last one is some scary sh*tttt!
25I think they're both pretty interesting
26LMAO statutory rape and extraterrestrial/odd looking he/she...what can be a better marketing techneque? i trully dont know lmao lmao
27This definitely does not make me want to buy the products, haha, not at ALL.
28HEYY, isn't it Angelina at the end of the Yanni Yanson freakmercial??
29ohhhhhh boy. not the best thing to watch before bed!!! im seriously bugged!
30uh. what!?
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