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Brad Pitt Smolders in Debut Chanel No. 5 Ad

10/15/2012 at 09:00 AM ET

Brad Pitt is engaged to one of the world’s most beautiful women — and now he’s a smoldering spokesman for one of the world’s most quintessential beauty brands.

Pitt, 48, made his debut Monday in new ads for Chanel No. 5. Dressed casually, hair long and mood thoughtfully seductive, the actor appears in a black-and-white video spot that is a philosophical ode to love and longing.

“It’s not a journey, every journey ends and we go on,” Pitt recites in the 30-second ad for Chanel’s signature fragrance. “Wherever I go, there you are,” he adds quietly, looking directly into the camera in a sensual slow burn.

The ad was shot in London in May and directed by Anna Karenina filmmaker Joe Wright, who had previously worked on Chanel’s 2011 spots for Coco Mademoiselle, featuring actress Keira Knightley.

In promoting Chanel fragrances, Pitt, a father of six, becomes the company’s first-ever male spokesman, and joins a glamorous cast of beauties including Marilyn Monroe, Catherine Deneuve and Nicole Kidman. Pitt’s commercial airs globally Monday; print ads combining the star’s portrait and the perfume’s signature bottle debuted on Chanel’s website Sunday evening. Tell us: What do you think of Pitt’s sexy spot? Do you like the idea of a man advertising a women’s fragrance?

–Andrea Billups, reporting by Peter Mikelbank

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barb on

Brad can be so handsome but he loves the grundge look (wrinkled shirt, gray goatee and stringy hair). He has always been that way. He’s beginning to look a lot like Willem Defoe

meinmarrakesh on

that was painful to watch

Simplyjack on

What a dismal attempt at poetry! A horrible Ad campaign by Chanel. Sure, he’s appealing but he sounds ridiculous reciting such trite for a perfume commercial. Just wrong in so many ways

Lillith on

That’s hard to watch. Geez – if some guy said that to me with that cheezy look on his face I’d have a hard time not laughing. (Brad looks horrible – he needs to clean up, he’s just skeavy)

akri on

Uh…why is a man advertising a woman’s fragrance? I would’ve picked Ian Somerhalder..HE smolders with those eyes..Brad unfortunately not anymore..though I agree..maybe a print ad.

Laura on

He used to be so attractive. He has not aged well at all.

Paige on

Bad. He looks and sounds like an aging hippie. Too much whacky weed smoking.

jwdaz on

Fizzles is more like it….don’t see the fascination with the ‘cheater and the bimbo’!!!

Mary on

There is just something about a guy who leaves his wife for his mistress that makes him unattractive for the rest of his life!!

lol on

He looks like he barely takes a shower let alone wears cologne. And the ‘acting’ was just plain weird. Didn’t want to but I thought it was an awful ad.

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