BCBGIRLS Metro (2001)
by Max Azria

OMG! I love this summer scent! Smells chic, flirty and soft! Out of four scents, this is by far the best scent.

29th October, 2009.

The BCBG scents - all four of them, kind of their own little family - were so ubiquitous for a while there that I felt I couldn't get away from them, and since I never really found them appealing enough to pay full price for, I frankly avoided them. Once they began appearing at places like Marshall's, though, I decided to go for it. All four - including this one, Metro - seem to be built along the same constructs as most of Anna Sui's scents. All of a mish mash with no clear defining notes or orientation, not at all offensive or unpleasant but just confused and watered down. Metro is perhaps my least favorite of the bunch; it's a nondescript mixing of fruits (yuzu, apricot, black currant), florals (gardenia, magnolia, jasmine, lily of the valley) and musk and sandalwood. Fine, except it smells like each one of those notes was taken out, dipped in cornstarch to suitably mute its true nature, and then put back in the mix. It just smells - sweet and little musky and more or less like its counterparts Sexy and Star minus the vanilla that makes those two just a little bit better than this. A thoroughly forgettable fragrance and probably just too young for me.

26th September, 2005.