Scent of a man

Johnny Depp, the new face of Dior’s fragrance

Hollywood actor Johnny Depp gestures before getting into a helicopter to leave, following a day on the film set, in Redland Bay, some 35 kms southeast of Brisbane on June 4, 2015. Depp has been in Queensland state to film the Disney movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales", the fifth installment in the blockbuster series, which has raked in more than 3.6 billion USD at the box office. AFP PHOTO / Tertius PICKARD

Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp is about to chart a new course into fragrant waters by agreeing to be the face promoting Dior’s line of men’s scents.

The French luxury fashion house confirmed that the 51-year-old American actor would soon be fronting its new cologne.

Dior declined to say how much the contract was worth, but it has pockets deep enough to afford him while also paying Natalie Portman and Charlize Theron to endorse its products.

Depp, ranked among the top-paid actors in Hollywood, has amassed an estimated fortune of $250 million (220 million euros), much of it thanks to the Pirates movie franchise, the latest of which he is currently filming in Australia.

His star status has been fading of late, though, with a string of box office bombs over the past four years, including The Lone Ranger , Transcendence and Mortdecai .

He ran into trouble last month in Australia after smuggling his two pet terriers into the country on his private jet, bypassing strict quarantine laws.