Parenting & Family Quote by Kate Moss

Kate Moss turns a taboo little domestic detail into brand alchemy: the kid who loves gasoline becomes a springboard for the most Moss move imaginable - treating the vulgar and the expensive as neighboring zip codes. The line is funny because it’s said with a straight face. Gasoline is the anti-perfume: industrial, carcinogenic, associated with forecourts and exhaust. By floating it as a “most preferred scent” and teasing it as research for a future fragrance, Moss collapses the distance between everyday compulsion and luxury desire. She’s winking at how arbitrary taste can be, and how quickly commerce can reframe it as chic.

The subtext is also generational. Lila’s “Mummy” makes this sound like an innocent quirk, but adults recognize the darker cultural baggage: addiction-adjacent pleasure, the thrill of transgression, the scent you’re not supposed to like. Moss has always thrived on that edge - the model whose image traded in grime-as-glamour, the 90s hangover turned into an aesthetic. Here, motherhood doesn’t sanitize the story; it makes it safer to tell, a soft-focus filter over something faintly illicit.

Context matters because Moss isn’t just describing a smell; she’s describing a marketable attitude. Perfume is already storytelling in liquid form, and she’s pitching a narrative of naughty realism: not roses, not innocence, but the seductive hum of the everyday machine. It’s a joke, but it’s also a reminder that in celebrity culture, even a gas station can be mined for prestige.