More marketing to Christian suckers…Virtue® perfume
30 June 2008 by Stardust
When I have writer’s block I can always count on visiting some Xian blogs to find something to make fun of eventually. I ran across this and read thoroughly to make sure that it wasn’t some kind of parody or spoof. Nope…it’s the real thing. You can order your own bottle right here at http://virtueperfume.com
“We created Virtue perfume as a tool to assist people to accelerate their identification with the still, silent part of ourselves, and to assist those who have trouble holding in their awareness, this conscious connection to the formlessness of BEing Still. When we say it’s to remind you of God, we mean it helps a person refer their attention in any given moment, to the ‘Stillness and Presence’ of what we call God”
“I recently received a bottle of Virtue® from a friend. It was given to me in the midst of an inspiring and prayerful conversation. Virtue® has become part of a morning ritual for me, as I get ready to start my day. When I use Virtue® I associate the scent with my peaceful morning prayers that I walk in Faith and know I am in God’s hands. Throughout the day, the scent reminds me of those prayers and helps sustain me.”
Sincerely, Jill M.“The concept is such a good idea, and I look forward to gradually associating that smell with my ‘Spiritual State,’ so that each time I get a whiff of it during the day, I’ll instantly feel that refreshment and reverence.”
Stephanie S.“I wear VIRTUE® because of what it symbolizes in purity of intention, thought and deed. It is a beautiful fragrance with a higher meaning that I believe most human beings aspire to.
I have given it to my loved ones and strangers who have asked “What is that beautiful fragrance you are wearing?” The 6 years of biblical research to birth this fragrance is not only fascinating, but also an opportunity to share testimony with others.
The best use so far has been spraying it in my home, my children’s room or on their pillow before they sleep. To all of my sisters in Christ I say: A mother’s heart is like a deep well that bursts forth in tears when her children are in pain, who prays endlessly for love to guide them to a righteous path and blesses the broken road because their journey will end in strength, faith and a victorious life.
Ultimately, it is my desire to be a pleasing fragrance to God and that is why I wear VIRTUE® and have shared my testimony.”
Joanne A.
What it all really comes down to is money and marketing. Virtue® perfume is not very affordably-priced. It’s $80.00 for 1.7 fl. oz. in a bottle with 24 KT Gold Raised Lettering!
$42.00 for Virtue® Body Lotion w/Pomegranate & Resurrection Plant. 
($99.00 when you buy both together.) Why waste money on feeding the poor or helping the homeless when there always will be poor and homeless and you can spend the money on yourself so you can keep yourself brainwashed while you are away from the rest of the “flock”.
All this expense and effort to maintain God belief. It’s such a struggle.
(There are no Virtue® products for men that I could see.)
30 June 2008, on 2:20 pm
We really need to come up with some products and start making our own money off these fools.
30 June 2008, on 3:29 pm
I can think of other fragrances — available at virtually no cost — that would be equally evocative of their beliefs.
30 June 2008, on 3:53 pm
If God wanted me to smell good how come the stink in my armpits and in my nether area doesn’t smell like Virtuetm? Hmmm?
Dear lord, thank you for letting me know that rather than work hard in the sun and get all stinky, you’d prefer me to spritz myself with your lovingly marketed scent from inside my air-conditioned, gas-guzzling Lexus vessel of godly love.
Amen.
30 June 2008, on 3:55 pm
How about a christian energy drink???
http://www.1in3trinityenergydrink.com/
“Jesus comes in a can/he was put there by a man… “
30 June 2008, on 4:40 pm
No, the Blood of Crips- or the Crip of Bloods
Whenever I’m feeling particularly virtuous, I just rub a little of the magic elixir behind my ears and on my chest where the gold chains hang. It’s called “Merde Du Chien” and I’d be happy to send you a sandwich baggie full for just $19.99. Now, depending on what the chien in question has gotten into lately, the merde can make your eyes water. But it’ll keep you abstinent, even after a long night at the club on Jenny Craig night.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work when worn by women. Men are apparently immune to it’s repellent qualities.
30 June 2008, on 4:44 pm
Why does god smell like feet and jock itch?
30 June 2008, on 5:49 pm
OK, Star, this has got to be a post on one of the most ironic subjects ever…
Perfume for xianity? When the whole purpose and history of perfume is “tainted” (from the xian point of view, at least) with the deliberate invocation of the original sin - sex? The main reason - some would say the only reason - to smell “nice” is to attract the opposite sex for - well - sex, hopefully!
I really don’t think that the makers and marketers of Virtue (TM) are even xian except maybe in the barest nominal sense. Otherwise, why say in the very first line of the perfume’s description that it contains “apricot - the original forbidden fruit?” It’s almost as if they’re revelling in the claim that the scent’s principal ingredient is oh-so-sinful! And the sheeple nevertheless are buying it and declaring it makes them more “spiritual” - truly there are none so blind as those who will not see…
Oh, and another thing: spraying it on her children’s pillows before they go to bed at night? WTF? Poor kids!
30 June 2008, on 8:19 pm
30 June 2008, on 10:19 pm
Mmmmm; smells like Holy Spirit.
1 July 2008, on 12:12 am
Somehow, I just imagined George Carlin…doing one of his incomparably silly faces, and exclaiming:
“Smells like SHIT!”
1 July 2008, on 1:49 am
Here we are now
Entertain us!
Take our backbones
And debrain us.
I feel stupored
Rock of Age-ious
Here we are now
Entertain us!
1 July 2008, on 5:01 am
Damn it, ChuckA! I was thinking about saying that after I read the post. Probably smells like shit and attracts the most vile and disgusting thing you can think of. Women, you can’t attract a man like that if you smell like shit! You would have the same effect if you don’t shower and use the money for something else.
1 July 2008, on 9:55 am
Stardust:
Are not all men, like me, about as virtuous as they need to be already?
I did read about a sort of anti-pheromone sex deterrent that was being marketed. It’s only sold to men, though as nothing will deter a man, except a ball pien hammer to his nether regions.
1 July 2008, on 10:10 am
“Ultimately, it is my desire to be a pleasing fragrance to God and that is why I wear VIRTUE® and have shared my testimony.”
God can smell us? Maybe I should stop taking showers. Take that, god!
1 July 2008, on 10:59 am
I fart in Gob’s general direction!
1 July 2008, on 11:16 am
Speaking of xian inanity, look at what an intellectually inept preacher wrote in my local paper today: http://www.register-herald.com/letters/local_story_182200752.html?keyword=topstory
Snippets: “Even Darwin on his death bed realized that he was wrong.”
“God is not just the creator of Earth. He created the universe. Oh, yes He did!”
ROFLMAO!
1 July 2008, on 11:39 am
Are not all men, like me, about as virtuous as they need to be already?
My husband said the same thing
“Even Darwin on his death bed realized that he was wrong.”
That deathbed conversion bullshit really pisses me off. It’s easy for them to make the claim because the person is DEAD and can’t dispute it. Most Gob botherers are such fucking liars.
1 July 2008, on 11:42 am
InTheImageOfDNA, I see that your paper contains similar letters to the editor as ours’. They publish all these freakin morons’ ramblings, but nearly impossible for an atheist rebuttal to get published (we tried and will keep trying.)
1 July 2008, on 6:16 pm
Great skewering Stardust! You should write in to the paper. They publish atheist letters. For all their brainwashed ultra-conservative editorial stance, they are fair in publishing all viewpoints in their letters forum. I can’t write in, I’d be ostracized at work.
1 July 2008, on 6:17 pm
Stardust:
Surely some of the people out there taking money from xtians are atheists. I mean, if the TV preachers actually believed that god was watching, would they really be having gay sex with prostitutes while high on meth?
Or am I just being rational? I don’t suppose religion ever really prevented hypocrisy or lying or any of the other things it purports to oppose.
1 July 2008, on 7:51 pm
By the way, Mr. Bailey, not to be rude, but for all those scientists that cannot count the number of the stars, tell them that God knows the exact number if they really want to know.
But warn them that He won’t ever tell them that number, no matter how much they really want to know, because - well, because He just wants you to have faith that He knows, not evidence that He even exists in the first place.
Otherwise, He’s just a big giant bully baby sitting on a cloud somewhere who likes to tease people, “I know a secret, and I’m not gonna teh-ell!”
1 July 2008, on 11:35 pm
Surely some of the people out there taking money from xtians are atheists.
jgr4, that is probably very true, and I would go so far as to say MOST of the people out there taking money from Xians are not Xians at all. Like Mel…a fading crazy actor who found a way to make money off the gullible. Sure, he gave a bit to charity…what’s a few million to someone who has hundreds of millions? If he really wasn’t doing it for the money why not just donate all of it away to help people? Because…Mel did it for the money.
Xians are easily Suckerable.
1 July 2008, on 11:36 pm
Otherwise, He’s just a big giant bully baby sitting on a cloud somewhere who likes to tease people, “I know a secret, and I’m not gonna teh-ell!”
That’s a great idea for a new gawd cartoon series.
3 July 2008, on 3:17 pm
“That’s a great idea for a new gawd cartoon series.”
Ruben Bolling’s Tom the Dancing Bug comic strip sometimes has God Man episodes. God Man is the omnipotent superhero.