Miss Charming (2006)
by Juliette Has a Gun

Miss Charming is very pretty. It would be a nice fragrance for someone who wants to have some training wheels for roses, or who doesn't like stronger rose fragrances. It is a very powdery patchouli and fruit style rose that has a lovely soft and slightly woody drydown. At the opening, it smells very much like others in the popular family of amber/patchouli roses like Stella or Bond's Bryant Park. I think Miss Charming would be a nice more spicy step up for those who's favorite rose is Lancome's Mille et Une Rose. Miss Charming is indeed very nice, powdery, pretty, and easy to wear. For me, I'll stick with those rose-patchoulis with a little more oomph, or my favorite aldehyde, rose, sandalwood - Annick Goutal's Heure Exquise. (Everyone will think I'm crazy until they would have the opportunity to smell the extreme drydown of HE against the middle notes of Miss Charming...very much the same with soft, warm, powdery rose with a hint of woods.)

Miss Charming has minimal sillage and medium lasting power. It would be very appropriate in situations when a light fragrance is good, and the right guy with the right attitude could totally wear this. Conversely it would also make a nice special event or wedding fragrance for a gal who doesn't like to go overboard with her frags.

It is really young and charming with the misty rose and fruits. Very enjoyable but i prefer lady Vengeance which is strikingly bold and gorgeous.

A rose is a rose is a rose? Not in Miss Charming, which opens as a soapy, slightly sharp, mildly dusty rose. Once it settles down on the skin, the sharpness softens, though it stays soapy, like roses suspended in very thin and tenuous bubbles of dishwashing liquid. The strawberry is muted, not overly sweet, and gives the fragrance a bit of pucker, as does the lychee. I love the contrast among the soft powdery Moroccan rose, the juicy strawberry, and the sharp/sweet lychee. It works beautifully, and the three notes dance on my skin! Just lovely.