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The
new perfume follows on the heel of the launch of Glow by JLo last
September. However, a NYtimes.com report says that the immediate
challenge for Lancaster Group, the division of Coty Inc. that markets
scents under Lopez's name, was to drive consumers to Still without
drawing them away from Glow. Glow has been marketed primarily to
15- to 25-year-olds.
Lancaster senior VP marketing Catherine Walsh was quoted as saying
that the challenge is to avoid unplugging Glow while introducing
Still. The company intends the brands to succeed side by side, as
part of its strategy for an assortment of fragrances to reside within
the House of Jennifer Lopez.
The Nytimes.com report adds that the sales of Glow exceeded $40
million internationally last year, according to Lancaster. In the
United States, the scent was in the top 20 women's fragrances by
sales last year and climbed into the top 10 in the first quarter,
according to the NPD Beauty division of the NPD Group, a market
information company.
The ads for Still show Lopez in elegant dresses and poses whereas
the campaign for Glow showed a nude Lopez behind glass. The report
says that the text reads, "In the eye of the storm I am still
Jennifer Lopez," a line that refers partly to Ms. Lopez's composure
under the media glare but also serves as a pitch to potential consumers.
It also evokes a song from her latest album, Jenny from the Block
in which she declares that despite fame, she is essentially still
her old self from the South Bronx.
The US-based Select Communications handles creative duties on the
account of Lopez's fragrances and six other accounts for Lancaster.
Consumers will find the campaign, which will appear primarily in
print and on the radio, in magazines like Harper's Bazaar
and Vanity Fair as well as pop culture bibles like Us
Weekly and People.
According to TNS Media Intelligence/CMR, part of Taylor Nelson
Sofres, Lancaster spent $8.8 million advertising Glow in major media
in the United States last year.
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