OK, so maybe Jimmy Ho's choice of cologne wasn't the smartest, not with Britain's airports on alert for terrorists seeking to spoil the Olympic party.

But the 25-year-old London insurance worker found himself surrounded by cops at the airport near Scotland's capital, Edinburgh, all because of his chosen fragrance.

You see, perfume maker Viktor & Rolf packages its cologne Spicebomb in a bottle that deliberately looks like a hand grenade.

Ho says security staff scanned his bag, took it away for several minutes, then asked him straight up: Did you pack that grenade yourself?

"I was totally shocked. The next thing I know I am surrounded by police and I just really panicked," said Ho. "I had no idea what they were talking about and then I realized it was my fragrance."

Ho says security staff didn't believe him and took the bottle away for a half-hour technical examination, presumably involving sniffer dogs, before giving his body musk the all-clear.

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