Beyoncé Knowles is ready to bring her special brand of fire to the perfume counter this winter with Heat, her new fragrance that debuts in February. The singer, who has been involved with campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger True Star and Armani Diamonds but never had a fragrance of her own, told WWD that she named her fragrance Heat because so many of her tours had fiery themes.

"I'm so happy with it," Beyoncé told WWD. "I've been working on it for a while now. I was on tour for a year, and I have meet-and-greets with fans. I've never in my life gotten so many compliments. Coty has their own testing, but that was my testing! The fans loved it. They were like, 'I love that, I'm getting that. Why isn't it out right now? I need it!'"

The fragrance has notes of red vanilla orchid, magnolia and beach, with honeysuckle, almond macaroon and amber. Knowles said she was involved in every aspect of the project.

"Everything, from the bottle design to the name and the ideas for the commercials, that's me," she said. "I always asked myself, 'If I could have my own scent, what would it be?' I wasn't worried about deadlines. It could have taken me three, four, however many years. This was my first fragrance, and I wanted to make sure that it was something I would love forever."

Keep up with the latest news on Heat at BeyonceParfum.com.

As a nation of fans continues to shed tears over news that Oprah Winfrey, the reigning queen of daytime talk, plans to hang up her microphone in 2011, many are no doubt reminiscing over her storied career. Here at BV Beauty, we're looking back all right -- but we're paying closer attention to Lady O's journey through the land of lipstick and false eyelashes rather than her rise as a media mogul. And she's come a long way!

Click through our gallery to see how Winfrey's makeup looks have transformed from the '80s to present day.

R&B singer Usher has a new bachelor life and a new chart-topping single. Plus, he's capping off his year of successes with a flamboyant new ad campaign for his fragrance, V.I.P., which hit stores this fall ($25-$65, Macys.com). In the commercial for the spicy fragrance, a tuxedo-clad Usher and a lady friend are being chased through the streets of Monte Carlo by paparazzi. Something about the clothes, the French Riviera setting and the James Bond-ish theme calls to mind the ad campaign of another music industry titan with a flair for fragrance.

Has Usher gleaned some cologne inspiration from his one-time music mentor Sean "Diddy" Combs? Watch Usher's commercial below, and then check out Diddy's I Am King fragrance "mini-movie," which debuted around this time last year, and you be the judge!