I love the smell of napalm in the morning

But perhaps you live in Lebanon and have a yen for different scent, one that reminds you of Hezbollah. How about buying “Resistance Perfume”? It’s unisex, it sells for only $1, and it

comes “exclusively” with a political message and a picture of Hizbullah’s secretary general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Apparently, the scent of resistance is a strong and musky one that comes with a single pledge - “a truthful” one.

“You are the truthful promise … and I have great faith in you and I promise you divine victory,” is the perfume’s slogan, borrowed from one of Nasrallah’s speeches during the July-August war with Israel.

A digitally manipulated picture of a sinking ship, meant to represent the Israeli warship damaged by a Hizbullah missile during the conflict, along with reprints of Nasrallah’s speeches and messages from the “Lebanese prisoners in Israeli prisons” - are all part of the perfume’s package, turning a cover into a political message.

It’s the “green” choice too, by the way:

“We can put popular European brands” in the “Resistance” bottles, he said. “Versace, Chanel, Escada, white musk, floral scents, whatever scent you want, you can get.”

You can read all about it here: “New Perfume Smells Like ‘Divine Victory” ***

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*** The headline refers to Hezbollah’s propaganda campaign, begun immediately following Israel’s smashing of Hezbollah strongholds to smithereens. The ad campaign proclaimed, in French, Hezbollah’s “divine victory” over Israel. I wrote about it here, and I’ll be writing more about propaganda and PRopaganda(TM). They go hand in hand with infotainment.