Make Page Six a Preferred Source 5 Kevin Costner is entering the fragrance business. Getty Images for Airbnb Great news for anyone who’s ever wanted to smell like Kevin Costner: The “Yellowstone” star is now a perfumer, having developed a trio of scents with Milan-based fragrance house 19-69.
Costner discovered the company almost a decade ago, when he used — and promptly became infatuated with — its Rainbow Bar body wash during a hotel stay in Germany.
The 71-year-old Oscar winner tracked down not only a case of the product for his own home, but also the contact info for the brand’s co-founder, Johan Bergelin.
Over the course of the following two years, Bergelin and Costner collaborated on After Hours, Pacific Coast Highway and Heritage. Available now, they’ll set you back $80 for a 0.25-ounce bottle, $300 for 1.01 ounces, or — if you’re really smitten — $800 for 3.21 ounces.
The cypress, bourbon and nutmeg blend After Hours is the signature scent of the collection, with Bergelin telling GQ that it “evokes the image of someone in a glass house in the Hollywood Hills at sunset, surveying the city.”
Costner paints an even more vivid image, bringing it back to his May 1989 cover of Vanity Fair, shot by Helmut Newton.
“So, I was in a tuxedo but my tie was off and my jacket was on the couch,” he told GQ. “It was supposed to be a sexy shot with a glass of whiskey. And Helmut kept saying, ‘take your shirt off, just leave the bow tie on or something’… I said no. I’m not an exotic dancer!”
Apparently, After Hours is also like catnip for expectant mothers; Costner told the outlet that while field-testing the fragrance during one of his son’s volleyball games, a pregnant woman approached him with an inquiry.
“She walks all across the gym towards me,” he said. “And I wasn’t sure what this was going to be about. And she just turns to me and says, ‘Look, I’m married, I’m not [trying to bother you]. But what are you wearing?’”
Pacific Coast Highway, meanwhile, features notes of notes of clementine, juniper berry, and jasmine, with Costner saying the “easy” scent reminds him of Tommy James and the Shandell’s 1968 song “Crystal Blue Persuasion.”
Heritage, with its mix of cherry, violet leaves, amber and vanilla, is deeper and darker; per the actor, it’s reminiscent of “a place that’s very masculine, carpets and wood and guns.”
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