On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Kevin Kelly wrote:

But the chinese names of Shampoo, Mousse, and Cologne are all pretty 
much agreed upon as Xian Pu, Mu Tsu, and Khu Lon. I can't imagine 
pronouncing Mu Si as Mousse, and it would have probably come out 
"Mushi", which is Japanese for beetle.

"Xian Pu" at least is *wrong*.  It was deliberately done wrong, and then a
thousand fanfic authors picked it up until everyone started to believe it was
real.