Givenchy Pi
On the various perfume boards, whenever ladies request ideas for good men’s fragrances, a flurry of mainstream and niche creations are suggested. But when ladies ask other ladies for the SEXIEST fragrance for men… well, Pi usually wins the popularity contest handily. In the vaudeville variety show of perfume, other entrants are awarded with a polite showing on the applause-o-meter, but Pi tilts the needle over to the breaking point in an avalanche of clapping, hooting, hollering, and more than a few lusty whistles.
I think Pi gets some guff and occasional scorn for the view of masculinity it represents. It’s sweet and warm, which earns descriptions of Pi being “feminine” from some folks. I can see where they might be coming from, but can’t bring myself to agree. The best men I have ever known are all sweet and warm people. Why should there not be a perfume to exemplify these characteristics? What an awful state the world would be in if, like most men’s perfumes prescribe, half the world’s population were nothing but musky he-men or aquatic sea-creatures.
Pi is a rounded woody scent, decorated by florally herbs. However, the big appeal (or cause for criticism) lies in the way Pi’s vanillic layers are drawn across the subtlest of musks. The vanilla tumbles around, over and over, like fluffy pillows circling in the dryer. This is not the scent of a man who tries to seduce with easily bought flowers and by showing off in an expensive restaraunt. Pi is the smell of a man who will make you fall in love with him because he has the best conversation, and because he’s just an all-around good guy. And nothing is sexier than a man who at his core is decent and kind.
Of all of Alberto Morillas’ creations, this is the one that most makes me feel as if I personally owe him a thank you card of some sort. My husband, who had never liked perfume much for himself, found himself in this scent. Maddeningly, he refuses to wear anything else now, but that’s okay. He’s discovered his version of olfactory happiness, and I am happy he wears it with abandon.