# Police — To Be Tattooart

> To Be Tattooart for Man is a 2017 Police skull-bottle cheapie with a clean blackcurrant, lavender and ambroxan profile. It is simple by design: fruity-fresh, aromatic, lightly sweet, easy to wear, and

## Essence
To Be Tattooart for Man is a 2017 Police skull-bottle cheapie with a clean blackcurrant, lavender and ambroxan profile. It is simple by design: fruity-fresh, aromatic, lightly sweet, easy to wear, and built around a tattooed blue skull that does much of the selling.
## Scent Profile
Blackcurrant leads the scent. It gives the opening a tart, juicy freshness, supported by lemon verbena and a small cardamom spice. The effect is bright and immediately legible.
Lavender and clary sage form the heart, turning the fruit into a clean aromatic scent rather than a sugary one. The lavender is especially important: it adds a familiar masculine grooming feel and makes the scent easy to understand.
The base is modern tonka, ambroxan and amberwood. Tonka softens the finish; ambroxan and amberwood give it clean woody projection. The fragrance stays fairly linear, but that linearity is part of its usefulness.
## Performance
Performance is solid for the price. Expect moderate projection at first, then a quieter skin scent with enough persistence for casual daily use. It is not a beast-mode fragrance, but it does not vanish instantly either.
## Wearing Context
Tattooart works best as a casual spring and summer daily scent, though it can stretch into mild fall weather. It is office-safe, beginner-friendly and easy to share across gender lines despite masculine packaging. It is more useful as an inexpensive everyday bottle than as a signature or formal scent.
## Comparisons & DNA
Versace Pour Homme Dylan Blue is the clearest modern reference. Tattooart is much simpler, cheaper and more blackcurrant-forward, with less polish and depth, but the fresh ambroxan-aromatic frame is related.
Fierce-style fresh aromatics and youthful body-spray masculines are also part of the context. That is not an insult here; Tattooart is built to be easy, accessible and low-risk.
## Reception
Reception is positive for a cheap daily scent. Wearers praise the blackcurrant freshness, easy wear, value and bottle. Criticism is equally clear: it can smell generic, inexpensive and unremarkable. The fair verdict is that Tattooart has dignity as a simple cheapie, not distinction as a serious composition.
## Versions & Reformulation
No documented reformulation surfaced for the men's Tattooart EDT. Do not confuse it with To Be Tattooart for Woman, which is a separate pink-skull EDP with a powdery floral-gourmand profile.
## Acquisition Notes
Buy at discount pricing and verify the masculine blue-skull EDT. The full bottle is usually inexpensive enough that decants are rarely necessary. Counterfeit risk is low; the more common issue is accidentally buying the women's version or expecting more complexity than the scent offers.
## Notable Facts & Lore
- Tattooart belongs to Police's long-running To Be skull-bottle family.
- The 2017 Tattooart pair used tattoo imagery and rose-decorated skull bottles.
- The masculine version uses a blue skull and a woody-aromatic EDT profile.
- The feminine version is a separate fragrance, not a variation of the same scent.
- The bottle is the most memorable and most praised part of the release.