Far be it from me to judge, but I have never understood the appeal of smelling like a famous person, place or thing. In fact I've never really understood the appeal of cologne in general, especially when so few men have any idea how to use it in proper amounts. Of course perfumes, or their less powerful siblings Eau de Toilet, I can understand since women seem to have the ability to not dump an entire bottle of scented liquid on themselves. Still, I'm not so sure how many ladies out there will want to smell like Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII.
Square Enix has announced that they will be releasing a Final Fantasy XIII Eau de Toilet a month after the game is released in Japan. The scent, named after the FFXIII character of the same name, will be full of sweet peach flavors that are followed by rose and a feminine musk (the good kind). 50mLs of the scent will cost 7,140 yen or $83. No U.S. release date is set yet, but if you're walking through the woman's department of your local department store and you suddenly feel like entering into a random encounter battle it means that it's probably arrived and some poor shmuck just got doused with a sample of the stuff.
Did anyone ever get a chance to smell that Cloud cologne that was announced a little while back?
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8:00 PM on 11.28.2009
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They've basically taken old discount perfume bottles and stuck a fancy label on them.
However, this is brilliant because as Brlito said, it will sell. Brilliant from a business perspective only though.
When you really think about it, this thing is either really creepy or really sad. Really sad if girls buy it.
But really, really creepy if guys buy it.
Really creepy. Think about it.
Ugh.
Oh but this is Final Fantasy. Nothing makes sense 'round here. :P
This is a lie. A complete an utter fabrication.
Hopefully not actually in you right now.>_<
What the characters may... taste like?
Yea, you're probably right. Too many girls bathe in the stuff as well. I just find it more offensive when I guy does it I think.
Imagine if they tried that with American games: Now introducing Master Chief cologne! So you too can smell like an emotionless unyielding killing machine stuck in a green suit...that he never takes off.
I have a friend who's really (like, really) into FF and this is totally gonna get me laid.
Hah, that is the most unfunny and pathetic thing I have ever typed up, also not true.
Anyway, on a more serious note, I remember the perfumes from Final Fantasy Tactics being some of the most ridiculous things you could equip on a female character, nothing else gave so many damn positive status effect in one equip slot. I think there was one that basically gave someone permanent Re-Raise since it was a buff given by the equipment and not just a spell. An immortal Agrias? Take that Orlandu!
...then again, my Agrias never actually died, so I don't know if she loses the effect after dying once per battle, but as far as I'm concerned, she does not.
Also, this comment is tl;dr