Halle Berry launches own perfume

Halle Berry has joined an elite list of stars by launching her own perfume.

The Hollywood actress has followed in the footsteps of Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears and Victoria Beckham, who put her own scent, 'Signature', on the market last week.

Berry's perfume, 'Halle', took two years for the actress to develop, and includes the smell of mimosa and fig. The actress told Access Hollywood that the time was right in her career for her to develop the project.

"The timing was finally right in my life ... I finally had the time to do it, and it takes a lot of time to make your own fragrance when you're really involved. The last movie I did was two years ago. In that time I got pregnant, had a baby, and this was my second baby," she said.

"Because my name is on it, it was really important that it be something that I chose that I love, and it was a special time in my life to do something like this."