To the Stars

Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx Allegedly Gave Each Other Perfume, Still Won’t Confirm a Thing

Could the perfumer to the stars solve this mystery?
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What is love? Crazy question, I know. Let’s narrow it down: what is love made of? A smile? A shoulder offered when it’s needed most? The whisper of a scent on a scarf in winter? If you feel like you are inside of a perfume commercial, then this experiment worked. Because we’re here to talk about fragrance and who might have given one fragrance to another person, and it’s nice to set the scene for these things.

Sue Phillips is the founder and C.E.O. of Scenterprises, a successful custom fragrance company in New York. Jamie Foxx is an actor. Katie Holmes is also an actor. Foxx and Holmes have possibly been dating for several years, but neither has confirmed it, so their legend has grown and grown and grown disproportionately in mystery and intrigue over time. Now, Phillips told Page Six on video that Foxx made a custom scent for Holmes. And that’s not all! Then Holmes came in to do her own consultation. “She came in and we had a nice, lovely, individual consultation, and then I said, well let’s make something for Suri and for Jamie. So that was my gift for her,” she said.

It’s a bold move for anyone who peddles themselves as anything to the stars. Has a podiatrist to the stars ever talked about their gifts and kids? Yes, certainly, but not on video. Has Phillips, who seems perfectly preserved from the White Diamonds era but more Upper East Side than L.A., ever met a celebrity? Page Six included photos of her with Foxx in its video, as well as with Susan Sarandon and Zendaya, but I’m not convinced. Or maybe they’re so close that it didn’t occur to her that talking celebrity business is a good way to lose celebrity customers.

But anyway, that’s not important. What’s important is whether these probably-dating people are exchanging sensual smell gifts. So what’s the truth? Foxx’s representatives have not returned my e-mail. Holmes’s representative said, “I have no clue.”

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