Anyway, enough rambling, let’s talk about this Juicy Couture fragrance that goes by the same name.

The notes

The tester was brought to me from Bloomingdales in New York by a friend of mine (where I live it’s virtually impossible to find any tester, and there’s no way a perfume shop is willing to give up a bottle of a Juicy Couture perfume for the general public).
Even if the perfume designer didn’t go to the most secluded corner of the earth to look for never heard of ingredients, it’s nonetheless a sophisticated perfume. There is pretty recognizable stuff like vanilla, patchouli, mandarin and green apple, but what makes this perfume particular is the way these notes are combined together. The opening notes are fruity and rather sweet: watermelon standing out, but it doesn’t last long as the florals (white lily in particular) takes the stage, softening the sweet notes. Yet the final notes are sweet again, thanks to vanilla and caramel, fortunately enough though the designer didn’t want to make a gourmand perfume and made the base notes very light.

To sum up…

There is a phrase used by one of the creators (I think it was Pamela Skaist-Levy) to describe this perfume: “something that Barbie might wear.” It is often quoted and often misinterpreted as somehow inappropriate, considering that this is after all a subtle and sophisticated fragrance. It’s not the gross sophistication of Britney Spears, that Barbie is associated to, but a subtler one. This Juicy Couture perfume is young with the right amount of forvolousness, fresh but not thin as air, girly but not puerile.