J LO Glow Perfume: Make This World A Fresher Place

Although fragrance enthusiasts tend to scoff at products that carry the name of people from the show-biz (“Celebrity perfume? Yuck! Gross! My Shalimar, quick!”), it would be unfair to judge Jennifer Lopez Glow perfume a priori, and for three reasons at least:

First: it is considered very well-done for a “commercial fragrance”

Second: the perfumer who made it, Louise Turner, also has her name with Christian Dior perfume Fahrenheit 32 and Eau de Star by Thierry Mugler among the others

Third: commercial success – and Glow by J LO had and still has a huge amount of that – won’t be everything, but it must mean something

Now that you’ve seen how open-minded I am about perfumes built around the image of a pop singer (they can be as good as any other), I can start trashing it with a lighter conscience.

The main idea around the fragrance was probably that it had to smell fresh and clean (was it the brief the perfumer received?) and… mission over-accomplished I would say: the first impact on the nose was quite soft, with a gentle jasmine, which almost had a tone of ash at first.

Very interesting and still promising at that stage, but then, in five-ten minutes, Glow by JLO perfume started to become even cleaner and more flowery and I thought that maybe there was a chance that someone may smell a relatively expensive air-freshener there. And then the general wondering became a statement as it developed and got worse, more intense and radical on the same line, that is.

So, all in all, slightly disappointing. The official notes of perfume Glow – neroli, pink grapefruit, rose, sandalwood, amber, musk, jasmine, iris and vanilla – suggest at least a little bit of complexity (fresh opening, a fairly elaborated bouquet in the middle and a warm finale), which, frankly, I couldn’t smell at least during the first five hours.

The dry down is better and it’s a pity that it didn’t start like that: musk and vanilla kick in, giving more balance and depth to jasmine. A tad too late though, and it may have already done the damage: your working day would be almost at the end, and during the meeting the colleague sitting next to you will have curled her nose and said “the cleaning lady must have just left the room.”

Or, if you had the bad idea of wearing this for a romantic date, he would have already made up an excuse (a fake phone call informing him of a relative that was hospitalized after a car accident, for example) and left hurriedly.

OK, I’m going a bit overboard here, the truth girls is, if you’re not too much into your thirties and/or you want to smell like the girl next door, clean and unsophisticated (and in a good way of course, that is what all girls next door are like, right?), believe the hype, and give this one a try. It may as well be that your skin will reveal a depth that the blotter and my nose were unable to find (chances are high, believe me).

If this perfume was a color it would be this

Glow by Jennifer Lopez

JLO GLow perfume