Dove Cameron is a woman of many talents - and now the singer and actress is looking to add 'Expensive Taste Test' to her resume. Cosmo tests Dove on items she knows best, and singing into microphones, performing shoe ASMR, and channeling her 'Gossip Girl' era is at the surface of experiments she conducts to ace this test. Watch along to learn about Dove's texting habits, tastes cheap and expensive ranch dressing, and sips not-so-good iced coffee.
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00:00Reverb?
00:03This is the strangest social experiment.
00:11Fifteen people!
00:13Hi guys, this is Dove Cameron and I'm playing Expensive Taste Test with Cosmo.
00:21I think I'm going to be pretty, pretty f***ing awful at this game.
00:25Let's do this.
00:31This is when we find out if we're girls or women.
00:36Okay, let's see.
00:38No laughing.
00:40This is serious.
00:46What did I just say?
00:47She's laughing.
00:51What are you smelling?
00:53Well, my smell is limited today.
00:55I don't know if you can tell.
00:57This one doesn't smell very strong, which actually makes me think it's the expensive one.
01:03But this one smells so nice.
01:05This glass is frosted.
01:07This glass is not frosted.
01:09Also, this is poured really badly, which normally happens with expensive candles, because they don't care.
01:15I forgot one of the most important parts.
01:20Oh!
01:22Rubber stopper.
01:23This is the cheaper one.
01:24This is the cheaper one.
01:25This is the more expensive one.
01:27I just think most expensive brands would never use a rubber stopper.
01:37Okay, this is a really big day for me.
01:44We have what looks like some nice coffee.
01:50I'm so scared.
01:52Full bend over.
01:53To me, it looks like a Diet Coke.
01:56But that's just because I see that in my dreams.
01:58I see that everywhere I go.
01:59Like I said, expensive taste, not here, honey.
02:09Okay.
02:10What does it taste like?
02:11Well, it's got a really bitter aftertaste.
02:12So, I feel like normally iced coffee that is really well made doesn't have that sort of bitter kickback with a really nice iced coffee.
02:24This one's the more expensive one.
02:47I can't tell if I have no sense of smell today or if there's no smell.
02:51I feel like you can tell by the smell sometimes.
02:53Is that crazy?
02:54I'm going to open these a couple times.
02:55So, bear with me.
02:57The packaging on these.
03:00See, now this has like a slightly sweet smell.
03:04But some brands just stick with like that chemical-y smell and they like the smell.
03:09Why am I explaining this?
03:12So, this could feel like a drugstore buy.
03:14It could.
03:15But it also could very well be like a sort of a classic staple design.
03:19At first glance, I feel like they're misleading you.
03:21Like this looks more expensive because it's cleaner packaging.
03:25And this is more like a sort of a vintage-y throwback, like a sort of a 90s drugstore packaging.
03:30But it also could be a Heritage brand that like they just never changed up their design.
03:34This is their classic design.
03:35This feels more modern.
03:36Like this packaging is very, doesn't really tell us much.
03:39They could be trying to throw us off.
03:41This formula looks expensive.
03:43I don't want to put it on and f*** up my...
03:46You know what?
03:47You know what?
03:48This brush looks cheaper.
03:50But they could be doing that on purpose.
03:51You guys are so f***ing sneaky.
03:54This is crazy.
03:56This is my job.
03:57I think this one's the more expensive one strictly based on the brush.
04:00But I could be totally f***ing wrong.
04:14Alright.
04:15None of you are my friends.
04:16I'm not going to let you in on my process at all.
04:19See, this one's the one they want you to think is cheaper.
04:21I think.
04:22But I don't know.
04:23But I don't know.
04:24I'm starting to feel a little crazy.
04:27They want you to think this is cheaper because this looks slicker.
04:29This is heavier.
04:30Normally you would think the heavy one is the more expensive one.
04:33There's more things going on.
04:34Also, it just generally looks more expensive.
04:37But also sometimes cheaper companies will use that as a tactic to make it look more expensive.
04:43You know what I'm saying?
04:44Check, check.
04:45I mean, I turned it on.
04:47So cheap.
04:48Welcome to use Bluetooth microphone.
04:51Bluetooth mode.
04:54Bluetooth mode.
04:57Bluetooth connected.
05:01In the white room with black curtains.
05:07Check, check.
05:08Okay.
05:09It's not great.
05:10It's not bad.
05:11It's not great.
05:12Reverb?
05:15This is the strangest social experiment.
05:23Fifteen people who can't talk back and I'm doing this.
05:28This is a horrible mic.
05:30Okay, I think this one.
05:31Bye, bye.
05:32Bye, bye.
05:35Bye, bye.
05:36This has EQ on there.
05:39I don't want to go with the obvious one, but I do think this is more.
05:43Power on.
05:46Hello?
05:47This is the more expensive one.
05:48Has to be.
05:51Yeah, thanks.
05:53Jesus Christ.
05:55God.
06:07I can't do it.
06:08Don't put any of that in there.
06:09Bye, bye.
06:10Bye, bye.
06:11Bye, bye.
06:12Bye, bye.
06:14I feel like I need like a little zoomy monocle for this one.
06:19I'm looking at the finishings.
06:21I'm looking at the stitching.
06:23The way the leather bends.
06:26This is now shoe investigation ASMR.
06:30They took off all hint of branding.
06:35Shh.
06:36You don't get to know what I'm thinking.
06:38They are awful.
06:39This one's the more expensive one.
06:41This is real leather.
06:42It bends.
06:43The stitching and the scallops around the edges here.
06:45No lower end shoe brand would ever take the time to do that.
06:49They don't care.
06:50They have to get it out.
06:51Whereas this, at the very end, you can see it's fraying, which means it's only leather on one side.
06:56And this stitching is very bare minimum.
06:58Also, this is reflective, which means it's probably like some kind of low end covering.
07:03This is the expensive one.
07:08Ding.
07:11Thank God.
07:18Okay.
07:21Okay.
07:22I mean, I feel like I have an obvious impulse, but I've been wrong.
07:27This one is pretty flimsy.
07:29I think this is a pretty dead giveaway.
07:33This is definitely glue gunned.
07:35If this was my design and somebody was making it,
07:40they'd be getting harsh words.
07:42I think if I were still in my OG gossip girl era and I was really loving Blair,
07:48I was always a Blair girl,
07:49I would maybe try to make this work, but I would take off more than half the gemstones,
07:54because this is just, it's a lot.
07:56That, trash.
07:57This, gold.
08:00No, but I think even the gemstones feel like they're higher quality for sure,
08:03and it's weightier, which means it's more expensive to ship.
08:06This is a more expensive one.
08:12Comeback.
08:13Comeback strong.
08:14Oh my God.
08:21This is ranch dressing.
08:22Ranch dressing.
08:28This is jiggling a lot,
08:29which makes me think it's got some extra preservative-y fat things,
08:35but then this has got some oil rising to the top, so same thing.
08:39Oh.
08:42Okay.
08:45Okay, so that smells of almost nothing,
08:47which is probably a sign that it's more expensive,
08:49because they probably add scent.
08:52Oh.
08:58Okay.
09:00This is wasteful, but I have to switch, because I'm wearing gloves.
09:02What does it taste like?
09:04Preservative-y.
09:13But that tastes like a classic drugstore ranch.
09:15I'm just going to go with my gut here,
09:17and say that this one's the more expensive one.
09:22Okay.
09:29This is my winning season, you guys.
09:37Okay.
09:41Same weight.
09:42Oh.
09:45See, I don't know what this thing means,
09:47this crop circle on everybody's phones.
09:50I see it in the nicer section of the phone cases,
09:52like when I go to Best Buy for some camera or something.
09:56And this reflective thing is not super chic.
10:00Huh, okay.
10:04It's really the gloves that is making this so stupid.
10:06I'm like...
10:09My monocle is so f***ing dumb.
10:13This one's the more expensive one.
10:15This has the toggle to turn your sound on and off,
10:19and this is blocked.
10:20And so it makes me feel like it's off-brand,
10:22or like it was made incorrectly or something.
10:24So this one feels like it's the higher-end one.
10:31Oh my god.
10:33That was really tense for me.
10:38I feel like that was sent by the FBI through my friends.
10:41They were like,
10:42are you someone who never f***ing texts me back,
10:44or are you a good person?
10:46No, I do take forever to text back, typically.
10:48I have to clear my brain, sit down,
10:51text you 32 things in a row.
10:54I'm like, sonnets and f***ing videos of children
10:58running around and playing and emotional moments
11:00and things I thought about throughout the day.
11:02And that takes time.
11:03But then my friends are always like,
11:04I always know it's you because I get 32 notifications
11:06in a three-minute period.
11:07I'm like...
11:10And that's love.
11:11I think we did pretty good.
11:13Thank you so much for having me,
11:14and be sure to keep an eye out for volume one
11:17of my debut album, Alchemical, out December 1st.