Shiseido Ma Chérie Air Feel Shampoo Review

I still have a few things from my last Japan trip I want to show you (all my hauls!), but I thought I'd throw in another review to catch up with all the things I already have before I can move on to new things.

I love Shiseido's Ma Chérie line a lot and if the stuff wasn't so heavy I would probably have bought all of the products available. 

Something I didn't buy on my last trip, but had bought along with the Ma Chérie Air Feel Conditioner some time ago is the Shiseido Ma Chérie Air Feel Shampoo.

Just like the Air Feel Shampoo the Ma Chérie Air Feel Conditioner is available in a small 200ml bottle, a 500ml jumbo size bottle and a illogical 380ml refill pack that fits in neither of these versions.

I got the 200ml bottle, even though I would really like to get my hands on the 500ml bottle (not of this product in particular, just any of their conditioners/shampoos) one day as it has a really handy dispenser cap (but is waaay to heavy to put it into the luggage).

When I look up descriptions of these products online I find pretty much the same descriptions as for the conditioner and one should really think that it was a very similar product to the shampoo, with the same look, smell and function.

Unfortunately this isn't really the case, which disappointed me a bit:

The shampoo, which unlike the conditioner is liquid and see-through, does not have the same pleasant characteristic floral Ma Chérie smell as the conditioner or hair fragrance.

I think the smell of hair products is quite important because it usually sticks to your hair and you have to smell it all day. And while the other Ma Chérie products I know all smelled very pleasant to me - sweet, a bit floral, but not tacky sweet - the Ma Chérie Air Feel Shampoo has a sour smell, very unlike the other products.

Of course smells are really a matter of taste and there are many people who like sour smells, like for example citrus smells, but I really detest them and think the shampoo smells rather unpleasant. Sour smells make me think of milk gone sour, or - frankly speaking - of vomit. Now the shampoo doesn't smell like vomit, it's more a sour grapefruit smell, but it makes me think of it and I don't really like it.

I don't have any complains about the functionality of this product -  does the job like any other shampoo. But with this smell, washing my hair doesn't really turn into a pleasant experience.

This is the first Ma Chérie product I am not too fond of. If I ever decide to buy another Ma Chérie shampoo I will go for the Ma Chérie Moisture Shampoo, unless someone has tested it and  tells me it has a sour smell too.