Sadly, in the case of the Pope’s Cologne, the past stinks! For one, there is nothing fresh about the verbena and citrus notes. In fact, there is a strong fromaldahyde nose that is only made more nauseating by its persistent lemon-grass and sugary sweetness. Although the lemon grass, verbena and citrus subsides…the fromaldahyde and floral sweetness does not. My best association with the smell is the smell of a funeral home. Strong fromaldahyde mixed with wafty sweet floral scents conjure images of decay.

Please keep doning what you do! xxx

I think if the scent was drop-dead wonderful that it would be absolutely great if lovely young Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, atheist etc. buyers bought it and attracted fabulous partners who made their lives fantasticallly happy, helped them fight the stench of bigotry, and maybe even made lots of babies with them. (If you do know anything about Euro history you'll well understand how Pius IX laid incredible groundwork for future Nazi sympathizers in the church as well as for future supporters of the pig-ignorant casting of Jews as a “race”…)

But if the perfume is so-so, who cares? And if you are Catholic and devout you can make your life so exemplary that people will want to spend their future smelling like you–in your fantastic Ouarzazate or Gris Clair or Whatever Pleases, because it's a new world now.

The murders, the nepotism, the orgies…and illigitimate kids!

A: Does the pope wear a funny hat?!

LOL! Sorry, could help myself!