Scentzilla!

Here’s a random sampling of but a few things I don’t understand:

• “Natural Cheetos.” Once you remove all the unnatural parts, what does that leave? A bag of air?
• The retail phrase “pre-order.” I am paying now, in an arrangement to receive the item at some later date. Sounds suspiciously like a plain old “order” to me.
• Why Samourai bears this appellation.

I imagine some noble or even brave fragrance when I hear “Samourai.” Or something uniquely Japanese. This scent is… none of those.

It’s a watery cousin to Givenchy’s Xeryus Rouge. Xeryus Pink?

Now that’s not to say it isn’t nice. It is. It’s cuddly and sweet. There’s a pepper here that starts red, and then goes all baby pink, with layers of jasmine, bland ghostly bergamot, musk, cedar, and a drydown that is slightly vanillic with lots of sandalwood.

I’m not keen on most celebrity fragrances (the exception being Alan Cumming’s Cumming.) Still. I was hoping for something less middling from Alain Delon’s company since they have been at the perfume business for some time now.

I recommend this fragrance for fuzzy teddy bears who are just too durned cute to commit an act of hara-kiri to atone for the shame they bring upon the name Samourai.