Moschino Funny! (2007)
by Moschino

Funny’s blaring and blatantly synthetic tropical fruit top notes do not bode well for the rest of the wearing experience, but they are partially relieved after fifteen minutes or so by a crisp and pleasantly bitter edged green tea note. Jasmine is next to appear, but before the heart can settle into a fruit-sweetened green jasmine tea accord a loud peony races in and tosses handfuls of bright sequins atop the structure. Depending upon your tastes, you will find this either A: bold, knowingly ironic, and appealingly campy, or B: insufferably gauche.

You won’t have that much time to make up your mind, because within a half an hour Funny’s focus shifts again – this time toward a sweet, green, and somewhat powdery violet, where it remains for most of its remaining lifespan. Which isn’t all that long. Funny’s time lapse development skips ahead after another hour, this time fading precipitously to a very quiet drydown of mild amber and clean white musk. From a raucous shout to a whisper in under two hours.

I can’t say I’m sure what to think of Funny as a fragrance. There certainly is humor in the way it careens from one disparate accord to another, like some sort of olfactory pinball. On the other hand, I don’t find the bumpers that it bounces off of all that interesting, and when the ball falls back into the slot the bland, timid drydown isn’t much of a payoff. As an olfactory joke, Funny could do with a better punch line.

I gave a bottle of this to a friend of mine, and she was thrilled. She said it was fresh and lively, and that it made her feel like the air around her sparkled. She said it's not sexy or intimidating, but bright and vivacious, instead -- a kind of "Let's kick up our heels and I promise I won't flirt with your husband" scent. It starts off a little soapy, but quickly brightens into citrus and light pepper, then mellows out into a warm, welcoming note. She said it smelled like youth and invigorated her day. She also said the bottle is totally adorable, and whoever designed it was a genius.

Bitter orange & pink pepper...hmmm...sound special enough but delivers more like Lawry's lemon pepper food seasoning. The bitter orange/cinnamon combo in L by Lolita Lempicka is a far more compatible pairing! Once past the top notes, the green tea is clear and bright, fresh like Bulgari's Au The Vert. After the green tea, this one goes straight to the cedarwood. It is not as pungent a cedar note as in Moschino Couture! yet overpowers the remaining base notes. Most definitely for the younger crowd...I'm not lovin' it OR hating it...thus a neutral rating from this middle aged finnicky nose!

It´s very fresh and fruity, but for me the bitter orange overpowered the other notes. It wasn´t set off against the other notes to create an interesting perfume. It also isn´t a very long lasting scent as I wore it on a cloudy day and it was gone only after 4-5 hours, I also never noticed any of the base notes which is a shame because I think it needs the balance of those to make it a little bit more interesting. Now it smells like many others on the market.