I know!!! Let's get loads of otherwise masterful (if not commercially minded) perfumers together and stifle their relative creativity so they can come together to make something far less than the sum of it's parts. JPG Scandal is yet another massive, camel shaped horse, designed by committee. That's what Scandal is. I thought it was terrible that women had to suffer the abysmal original incarnation, without the marketing execs at Puig going... I know!!! Let's make scandal for him!!!! Are we going to make it good this time? ahahahah! oh course not! The packaging is going to be even (Jean Paul....) gaudier (LOL thankyou, thankyou) and the best part??? It's gonna be really expensive too!!! Like 90 quid!!!! OK enough of the drama, I wore this and Phantom by Paco Rabanne side by side as two new releases I'd not tried, and they are similarly, drab, modern, overly complicated (but ultimately shallow and hollow) rubbish. Which don't resemble what men's perfumery should be about, but rather what sells which is bubblegummy, over sweet, nonsense. However, I vastly prefer this to Phantom. It has a fig (not really but watery, fruit ish) like top note which I actually liked about the perfume and it's more aerated and less dense than the Paco, but that's me being very nice to it. I still don't like it at all. Quentin Bisch incidentally is a top, top guy at the height of his career and making his mark with a signature, fruity incense style which he has dragged into about the 24th Century, with how spangly and futurist it is. He also takes the time to read critique and reach out to naysaying, scumbags, like me, which is really appreciated. What I also appreciate is to be a working perfumer you have to give the people and consumers more of what they want, affording you go off and do more meaningful projects in between. I get it.