Just short of buying a bottle of Ewan McGregor’s urine, we’ll gladly throw down money to purchase whatever he’s sellin’. Is it because we think he smells good? No, in fact his European air probably reeks of armpits and cigarettes.
We buy because he’s dreamy. And we hope in our heart of hearts that either a) the scent will somehow lure him close enough to make out with us or b) just one spritz will magically transform us to Ewan levels of hotness.
To be fair, Ewan isn’t really peddling his own scent, a la Britney’s Curious. He’s just endorsing Davidoff’s new fragrance Adventure.
And doing so probably makes him feel just like the prostitutes from Moulin Rouge after having to sign off on one of the cheesiest commercials ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvldSrhscuo.
(And for the record, do true adventurers really wear ultra skinny, white man scarves while motorcycling through the rain forest?)
But bad advertising aside, we were actually quite taken by this new scent. Its claims of being “woody and spicy with undertones of mandarin and lemon” were true, yet it did so without smelling like Lemon Pledge or a Pine Tree Car Freshener. And unlike pretty much every other man’s cologne, it’s not too overpowering.
So while we’re forking over the cash replaying Ewan’s amply proportioned Pilllow Book performance in our minds (a Netflix must if you aren’t in the know), he’s laughing all the way to the Velvet Goldmine.
Davidoff Adventure
Starting at $36 for 1.7 ounces
Available online at http://www.fragrancenet.com
