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C: Rose is a key ingredient in your new fragrance. Is
it your favourite flower?
ST: It is. It's such a complex flower, but also very diverse. From
rose to rose, there's a different fragrance. I love the sweetness of a
rose. Roses smell like, depending on the colour and the variety, a
candied fruit. I particularly like the grapefruit-smelling roses. And
that's what we ended up with in this fragrance - real fruity-smelling
roses. There's something extraordinary about roses. They are so
feminine and beautiful, and yet they have thorns.
C: What fragrances did you wear growing up in Timmins?
ST: I didn't really get into fragrances very much as a teenager. I was
very Tom Boy-ish. I grew into fragrances more when I thought it was
time to treat myself.
I didn't fuss over myself much as a teenager. I didn't wear makeup.
The odd time I'd put mascara on for a school photograph. I didn't play
around with makeup much and I wasn't really a girly-girl as a
teenager. I was into music and sports. I don't know at what point
along the way that I thought, "Wow, it's actually kind of fun." Maybe
I just matured late too. It's really quite fun to play around with all
these little accessories and to treat yourself to a nice fragrance.
C: What song best represents your new fragrance?
ST: That's a good question. I think it would probably be "The Woman In
Me." Although a lot of my up-tempo songs are very strong female type
songs. I think "The Woman In Me" says the most lyrically. It's the
most descriptive and something I'd write alongside the perfume. The
song would describe what I feel about the perfume.
C: Did you test out your fragrance with family and friends throughout
the process?
ST: Well everyone liked it, which is really surprising because I have
two sisters with completely different tastes. They don't like each
other's perfumes at all. And they both really liked it a lot. There
were only three variations because we narrowed it down quickly. I gave
Coty a list of my all my favourite scents so it wasn't this "smell
fest". They wanted to know what I wanted to smell. I gave them my list
and they reduced it into six - which isn't a lot. I lived with three
for a while and they were quite similar. Just a few stronger notes in
one or the other. But it didn't take long. This was always my
favourite from the beginning.
C: What was on your list of favourite scents?
ST: Oh, well grapefruit is one of my favourites. And
grapefruit-smelling roses. I like the smell of green things - like
when you scratch a leaf and smell it. I wanted really earthy smells. I
put herbs in there - rosemary, thyme and sage. Needles from evergreen
trees. I'm not really big on spicy smells.
C: Tell us about the bottle shape?
ST: It's based on a glass vase in my house. I looked at it one day and
took a Polaroid. I thought, "that is such a simple design. It would
make a beautiful perfume bottle." I wanted something strong yet
feminine and it just popped out at the right time.
C: I understand your sister works for Shoppers Drug Mart?
ST: My sister Carrie-Ann has worked at Shoppers Drug Mart in
Huntsville for 12 years. Yes, she's been there a long time.
C: What is your beauty regime?
ST: I do the same thing everyday. I use essential oils. And I will use
very basic things on my skin when I want to get away from the
complicated things. One of the most basic things I do when I want to
bear down and take a break from any kind of product, I use Bag Balm,
which is udder cream. I just put the Bag Balm and exfoliate it off.
You don't have to do anything else beside that if it's summer. In the
winter, I'll put some moisturizer on. I'll also use an eye gel and
sometimes a balm at night. I don't use moisturizer because I find they
tend to dry my skin. I just use water. Once and a while I'll do a deep
cleansing mud mask.
C: What beauty necessities when you travel?
ST: I like my scrub. I use Decleor. And I use an eye gel, eye cream
and face cream. And I don't do a night regime every night. I don't
know why, maybe I'm just lazy. I just take my makeup off and use some
moisturizer. I need mascara, an eyelash curler, an eyebrow pencil,
blush and concealer.
C: What type of woman will wear Shania?
ST: It would be someone who is feminine, and at the same time someone
who has a strength. It's a funny thing. Some perfumes are more girly.
Some are stronger. What I feel when I smell it is confident. I feel
good when I wear it.
C: What is the single most-important thing you've learned throughout
your career?
ST: I think just not to be so hard on yourself. And the fans taught me
that. They are so accepting. And you can go out there and do a really
bad job, and you didn't hit that note, and the fans loved it anyway.
And I questioned that for a long time. It's a searching thing you do
with yourself. I thought, "I'm not worthy of all this praise. But
these people are accepting and so forgiving. For a while I didn't get
it. Then I thought it's just my perception of it all. I have to accept
that they like what I do, whether I like what I did or not. And that's
challenging. It's a very challenging thing when you're a performer.
That just really helped me a lot because I enjoy myself more by
accepting that. And that's a very good lesson in life and I'll take
that with me in everything I do.
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