

I was inspired to create My Life so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.ĭoes My Life smell like your secret scent? Every time I wore it, women would ask me what it was and I still have never told anyone my secret. When did you become passionate about fragrance?īack in the day, most perfume smelled too strong for me, so I didn't wear any, but I finally found one I loved and stocked up on it. Here, Blige shares her thoughts on signature scents, bowl cuts, and the one beauty trick that still mystifies her. "For years, I had trouble finding a fragrance I liked," she says. Blige, who calls Halle Berry a beauty icon ("her skin is flawless"), says she's an unlikely candidate for perfume mogul-dom.

The fragrance also comes with a special gift with purchase: One dollar from every sale of My Life benefits Blige's charity, Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now, Inc.

Her debut perfume, named after her autobiographical 1994 album My Life, broke sales records during its six-hour inaugural run on HSN–no small feat, considering the 60,000 units were snapped up without a single customer getting so much as a whiff of the juice. Blige is quickly making a name for herself in another art form: fragrance. She may be best known for her soulful, R&B chart-topping singles or her nine Grammy Awards and 13 albums, but New York native Mary J.
