Have you seen its bottle?! It's the most disquieting perfume bottle that's ever been mass-produced. A clear columnar bottle with pewterish metal capping shaped like melting Aztec heiroglyphics, a chain connecting a collar for the spray cover, and tacked on like an afterthought-- a woman's face?! Creep-y! And, get this, the juice.... is pink! The columnar form plus face tells me Thierry is on his Sci-Fi repurposing twist again, 'cause it looks like the bad guys in this little B-movie that we've all seen too much of on USA Network during summer break... (No? OK, maybe it was just me...)
So the packaging is ballsy for a mainstream perfume, got that. So how's it smell?
Eh... it's pink.
Yes, yes, it's fig & salt& musk & coconut & tropical flowers & that freshfruity-melonwater thing that everything's got in it nowadays. It all adds up to meh, really. Take a base of his Cologne, add a few (small, tiny) drops of Alien, standard-issue "fig" scent, and a dollop of Hermès Eau des Merveilles and you basically got it. Not bad, but not remarkable either. It doesn't live up to its own bottle.
You could do worse, but Thierry could definitely do better. Hey look! It comes in a ring...
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