Celebrity scents? They're usually a bit meh, let's be honest. Slap a celeb name on the front, design a crowd-pleaser with DNA stolen from whatever is popular on the market at the moment, and flood high street shops with bottles in hope of attracting the eye of the casual fragrance buyer.

Occasionally, a really good one somehow slips through. GIRL was formulated by Comme des Garcons with heavy input from Pharrell Williams, and packaged in an eye catching bottle designed by KAWS. And then it bombed. Far from the ten millon it was hoped the perfume would generate, it was available through online discounters at a fraction of the original asking price, faster than a dud single slips down the charts.

Their loss is your gain. It's really rather good, if not crowd-pleasing (therein lying its downfall).

At first, this is mostly violet, intensely peppery , coupled with lavender to give it an additional boost. That opening is very strong: it's the most violetly violet scent you could imagine, as though Farenheit had coupled with Grey Flannel and produced a monstrous, mutant offspring.

The violet lessens in intensity but always remains present, though gradually other notes join the mix: primarily iris, vetiver and cedar. What it lacks is the lighteness and airiness I mentally always associate with a CDG scent. It's also fairly linear, though you presume that, when you have Antoine Lie as one of the perfumers, this is a deliberate choice.

Would I have paid the full asking price for this when it was first released? It's difficult to say. But it is a perfume I wear often, and with pleasure. At the vastly reduced cost that this can be picked up for though, it's a bit of a no-brainer.

Wondeful perfume, embarrassing affiliation to a lame celebrity who wears a giant, glans-shaped hat. Who cares though, I'm still wearing it! It's violety and smooth with a sort of hot chocolate undercurrent (patchouli?), but not at all sweet. Very strong too, even after showering. It's very similar to Fahrenheit, but stands up on its own.