Now, I smell absolutely gorgeous and so do my armpits!

Not that I didn't already smell gorgeous you understand, but after deliberating for ages about which new scent to coat myself in, I chose Jean Paul Gaultier's Fleurs du Mâle. I've tried it previously but after rejecting it as too floral for me, it's grown on me over the last few months. Here's some PR guff:

Jean Paul Gaultier keeps gender-bending and revisiting past icons — most recently with his new fragrance, called Fleur du Male, due out this spring. The scent breaks conventional codes of men's scent. Most radical is its juice, containing notes of white, orange blossom flowers instead of geranium and lavender, staples in a traditional fougère men's fragrance. Second, Fleur du Male's bottle is completely white — a rarity for the fragrance industry, particularly in a marketplace awash with black fragrance flacons for men.

Its "revisited fern accord," with notes of petigrain leaf and coumarin, was created by Takasago's Francis Kurkdjian, also Le Male's perfumer. For Fleur du Male, he used a healthy dose of orange flower notes, generally found in women's fragrances and in colognes. BPI claims it to be the first time orange flower has been used in a men's scent."There is a new dimension to the Jean Paul Gaultier man," said Kurkdjian. "Orange flower is an ingredient that sticks in the memory more easily than most other top notes available," continued Gomez, who explained the white flowers are historically used in crowns for French brides, for instance. Added Kurkdjian, orange flower scent also evokes memories of childhood and innocence. "It is a flower Jean Paul adores," he said.

Gaultier adores movies, explained Vignal-Kenedi. She said that for Fleur du Male, he had in his mind the image from the film "American Beauty," in which actress Mena Suvari soaks in a bath full of roses. So, he signed photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino to shoot model Andres Valencoso in a milky bath chockablock with white flowers. Print visuals will appear as single pages. "He wanted to show a happy man, like a pasha, something as simple, with a certain pleasure," she said. Sampling will include Sophisticates, among other formats.

I love the orange scent in this cologne, it's always been one of my favourite scents for candles. Plus, what I really like about Fleur du Mâle is that this fragrance really lasts for longer on the skin than others I've tried. It's doesn't just fade away in minutes, but subtly lingers on you and your clothes. Oh, and since I got mine in a gift set, my armpits smell gorgeous too as I've got the matching deodorant stick. If you ever get close enough to me, you're very welcome to come and take a sniff!