Juicy Couture (2006)
by Juicy Couture

Don't be scared by Juicy Couture's own marketing angle on this, or by the declared list of notes, which include the sorts of confections you might indeed imagine on Barbie's dessert trolley.

In fact, Juicy Couture is an excellent and wearable sugared, powdered Tuberose.

It opens with an effervescent flourish and develops to a lovely floral without going sickly sweet. It goes through a phase where it wants to be chypre-like, but becomes softer, slightly balsamic, almost amber towards the end.

Tuberose as a raw material is enticing, but I find it challenging. First of all you have to pick a good one to start off with. Some of the ones I've sampled smell of wilted bouquets dipped in soured black tea. Not good. If you, like me, have always been drawn to, but sometimes nauseated by Tuberose scents, give this one a go, you might be able to enjoy it and even love it.

This is a timid chypre in the new-school style, which is to say, tone down the oakmoss, patchouli, and labdanum. (Lord, this is such a boring genre for me. I'm an old-school fan. Chypres use to have so much more character.) Juicy Couture wants to be a fruity chypre, but it cannot decide which fruit to be. And it wants to be popular, which means that it cannot go too far in any direction. So it ends smelling meek, like a carton of juice that somebody forgot in the refrigerator for too long and it is starting to turn to wine. How daring. I'll skip it. Pass the real stuff.

this scent definitely makes me long for my 80's bottle of Giorgio!!! i havent repurchased that scent since but loved it all the same. i didnt b/c everyone was wearing it back then. Juicy doesnt have the staying power or kick. so i need to reapply. it reminds me of cherry fruit cocktail sniffed straight from the can. i like it for summer wear.

Tutti-fruity juice spiked with some citrus. There is no doubt this fragrance is emanating from a perfume bottle and not a punch bowl. Not what you'd call a natural-smelling fragrance.

On me I can really pick out the watermelon and mandarin. I like how it is young and girly, but (used carefully) not oppresively sweet. I would use this for spring/summer.

Without asking I got a sample of this from the sales person working the counter, who was really quite nice. To date I still have the sample that was given to me, as well as the lotion sample.

As Ubuandime mentioned in her review of this fragrance, it's definitely one that'll make you feel like you've just got socked in the nose - my nose was aching for hours on end after smelling this! It's a fragrance that's a bit too intensely sweet, and the warm undercurrent of the fragrance doesn't do too much for me either.

I will agree that the bottle is cute for vanity purposes, but personally the juice within the bottle just doesn't do it for me, and think it would be a waste of money for me just to buy it for the bottle alone.