Avril just released her first fragrance called Black Star.  She celebrated the launch with a party at Punk in Oxford Circus, London.  The perfume has notes of hibiscus, black plum, and dark chocolate.

“I wanted to make sure the fragrance was really me — me in a bottle,”

Black Star won’t launch in the US until the fall season.

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Rumors that Avril Lavigne and her rocker husband, Deryck Whibley, were on the verge of a split have been derailed by the songstress herself.

After a nearly three-month tour in Asia, Avril, 24, is finally relaxing at home with 28-year-old Deryck — and she couldn’t be more content. “We’re best friends. We have so much in common and get along all of the time. He makes me happy,” Avril tells In Touch.

Friends of the couple add, “While she was on tour, Deryck joined her for two months. He performed on stage with her every night and they sang her hit song ‘In Too Deep’ for an encore together.” The couple hasn’t left their Hollywood home since returning from Asia. “They’re hanging out together and having fun,” says a source. “And they’re also recording songs in their home studio.”

“We have fun together,” Avril says.

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Avril Lavigne and her rocker husband Deryck Whibley are on the verge of a split, according to new tabloid reports.

According to the National Enquirer the pair – who wed in 2006 – has been troubled since Lavigne embarked on her world tour earlier this year (08), often leaving the couple thousands of miles apart.

A source tells the magazine Lavigne and Whibley “have been growing apart for months”, adding, “Deryck isn’t motivated in his own career, so he’s been drinking and partying.”

Rumours of their split were fuelled when Whibley was reportedly seen at an event on Thursday (02Oct08) at a Los Angeles nightclub “huddled at a private table” and holding the hand of an unknown woman.

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Malaysia’s conservative Islamic party has said it will mount protests at Canadian rocker Avril Lavigne’s concert here Friday, after failing to have it banned.

The concert is an insult to Islam as the fasting month of Ramadan is due to start just a few days later, said Nasrudin Hassan of the Pan Malaysian Islamic Party PAS.

“A concert of this nature is not conducive to teach the younger generation to become good citizens, upright and competitive, but instead would weaken them morally and mentally,” he said in a statement.

“If the concert organizers do not heed this warning to cancel the concert, PAS youth will order all Muslim youth to turn up and protest the concert in order to prevent it from taking place.”

The Canadian singer is scheduled to perform in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.

Malaysia’s official news agency Bernama reported that the application to hold the concert was originally rejected by the government on the grounds it was submitted too late.

However, it said the cabinet last week agreed to let the concert take place on the condition that the performance was “not a bad influence, especially on the young”.

Last year, Beyonce scrapped a planned concert in Malaysia due to fears of protests, when Gwen Stefani went ahead with a performance but was forced to cover up after complaints about her outfits.

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