Police — To Be Camouflage Pink
Essence
To Be Camouflage Pink is a 2017 limited-edition women’s flanker from Police, presented in the brand’s signature skull-shaped flacon finished in pink camouflage. It is a floral-fruity gourmand built around a rich, creamy hazelnut-chocolate accord, and it is widely cited as a near-clone of Diesel’s Loverdose Red Kiss offered at a fraction of the price. That combination, a genuinely likable gourmand inside an inexpensive, polarizing bottle, is what makes it interesting.
Scent Profile
The opening is a fresh, fruity flourish. Soft mango leads, threaded with mandarin, green apple, grapefruit and bergamot. It reads juicy and slightly sweet rather than acidic or sour. This bright phase is short, lasting roughly the first twenty minutes before the composition turns toward its core.
That core is a hazelnut milk-chocolate cream, and it is what the fragrance is really about. Orange blossom and rose sit on top of the nutty cream, adding a fresher facet, with jasmine and cyclamen rounding the bouquet so the gourmand never reads as a flat chocolate soliflore.
The base is where the richness pools: tonka, heliotrope, vanilla, milk and a touch of patchouli and cedar give it body and a frothy, milk-chocolate creaminess rather than a dark bittersweet cocoa. The overall impression is creamy, nutty and sweet but not cloying, with more depth and blending than the price would suggest.
Performance
Performance is a strong point for an inexpensive release. Longevity is reported as moderate-to-long, commonly in the six-to-eight-hour range on skin, with good projection in the early hours. It is not an extreme sillage monster, but it carries well and lasts, and wearers repeatedly express surprise at that staying power given the low price. A few sprays are enough; in warm rooms a restrained application suits the sweetness best.
Wearing Context
This is a cool-weather, evening-leaning gourmand. The chocolate-hazelnut-vanilla core makes it a natural fit for fall and winter, and its sweetness and richness suit dates, nights out and cozy occasions more than the office or high summer. It reads strongly feminine, though the gourmand profile is unisex enough that some find it could work on a man as well.
Comparisons & DNA
The defining reference is Diesel Loverdose Red Kiss (2015), which shares the same fruity-to-chocolate-hazelnut arc; the differences are a soft mango opening in place of Diesel’s blackcurrant and a lighter milk-chocolate texture against Diesel’s darker cacao-and-amber. Against Carolina Herrera Good Girl, it shares an orange-blossom-into-sweet-base trajectory and is often described as a cross between Good Girl and Tom Ford Black Orchid. Tested skin-to-skin against Black Orchid, the two read very similar in the opening, with Black Orchid projecting harder and Camouflage Pink showing more overt hazelnut in the drydown. Banana Republic Rosewood is a lighter cousin, with Camouflage Pink running a little richer and nuttier.
Reception
Reception among those who try it is strikingly positive, and the dominant theme is pleasant surprise that a Police skull bottle contains something this good. Wearers single it out as a favorite within the house and praise it as one of the best hazelnut gourmands they have owned. The recurring sticking point is the bottle: the skull flacons are widely considered tacky and put some shoppers off, and a strand of commentary pushes back on dismissing the whole line on looks alone. The more substantive criticism is availability rather than quality, since the limited-edition status makes it hard to find. Value sentiment is overwhelmingly favorable.
Versions & Reformulation
Camouflage Pink (2017) should not be confused with the original To Be Camouflage (2015), a men’s release in a green-camo skull bottle that is an entirely different fresh oriental-fougère of apple, mint, cardamom and amber. The pink version is the women’s gourmand and shares only the camo concept and skull shape with it. Camouflage Pink is a limited edition, recorded as a discontinued or limited women’s release marketed by Mavive, and some listings describe it as an Eau de Parfum in a 125 ml bottle. No reformulations are documented.
Acquisition Notes
As a limited edition, this is the Police women’s release where finding it can be a small treasure hunt, but an inexpensive one. It has historically sold for well under $20, which is central to its appeal as a budget gourmand and a Loverdose Red Kiss stand-in. Because it is limited and has no confirmed reformulation, fans who love it sometimes pick up a backup while stock lasts. Blind-buy risk is low on scent but real on availability and on the large, polarizing bottle.
Notable Facts & Lore
- Police is an Italian house founded in 1983 as an eyewear and accessories brand, with its fragrances licensed through Mavive.
- The skull-shaped flacon central to the brand’s perfume identity was introduced with the 2011 To Be line.
- Camouflage Pink belongs to the To Be sub-family and is distinguished by a sublimation-printed pink camouflage finish with silver detailing.
- It is widely treated as the standout women’s release in the Police line, often cited as proof the house is dismissed unfairly on bottle design.
- The perfumer is not publicly documented, and there is no creator commentary on the composition.