South Korea’s It Boy Confirmed Off His Labubu and Perfume Collections

Confessions of a shopaholic: South Korea’s boy crush Joshua Hong has an obsession with fragrances and Labubus.

In an episode on “Yoo Bought a Minute,” a Korean-language comedy speak present on Disney+, the Seventeen singer revealed that he has an intensive fragrance assortment.

He stated he owns 110 bottles of perfume, and likes to make use of a singular scent when he embarks on a brand new tour along with his band.

“I believe the scent brings again recollections. I at all times carry a fragrance with me after I go on tour, these scents remind me of the excursions,” the 29-year-old stated.

He stated he has a show case for his perfumes and that trying on the bottles makes him glad.

Hong stated his favourite fragrance was in a bottle with a horse head on the highest. Although Hong didn’t point out the fragrance’s identify, it gave the impression to be a bottle of the Hawajer scent from the Dubai-based Ramasat label. The fragrance is listed on the model’s web site for about $130.

Additionally in Hong’s assortment have been scents from Le Labo, Chanel, Tom Ford, and Diptyque.

Hong additionally revealed different merchandise he’d bought just lately, together with a contraption he stated helped to show common water into fizzy drinks and a sous vide machine for steaks. He additionally confirmed the opposite friends the primary luxurious bag he ever purchased — a Dior saddlebag.

Hong confirmed off a part of his Labubu assortment. He is the proud proprietor of at the very least 9 of the stylish plush toys in numerous colours from the Chinese language toymaker Pop Mart.

“That is ‘Love’ and that is ‘Hope,'” Hong stated, referring to items from the “Large Into Power Sequence.” He added that he prefers to show his opened dolls of their unboxed kind.

This isn’t the primary time he is proven himself to be fairly the Labubu fan. In June, he made an Instagram put up of himself posing in a park and kissing his vivid pink Labubu’s head.

Seventeen additionally collaborated with Pop Mart to make 14 customized Labubu dolls with the band’s branding. The dolls within the Seventeen collaboration, bought on public sale website Joopiter, have been wearing grey onesies by vogue model Carhartt.

On the finish of the present, Hong selected one Labubu doll and his bottle of Tom Ford White Suede to disclose to followers.

Seventeen, which is represented by Pledis Leisure, a subsidiary of Hybe Company, is massively profitable. The American-born Hong is certainly one of 13 members.

In 2023, the band broke the report for probably the most albums bought within the week of launch, with 4.5 million gross sales, per statistics compiled by Goldman. This beat BTS’s report of three.3 million copies.

The group will embark on a brand new world tour that kicks off on September 13 on the Incheon Asiad Foremost Stadium.

Representatives for Hong at Hybe didn’t reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.