Perfume or fabric softener?

NY Times' The Moment blog:

Not only is Chloé an uninteresting, clichéd floral — why are houses still launching saccharine, vaguely unidentifiable composite flowers? — it smells like a perfume masquerading as a fabric softener. What’s worse is that there are some good fabric softener scents out there; this smells cheap and slightly chemical. What went wrong?

I've never read a perfume review before, but I think I started with the best one ever.