Reviews of 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.

LOL midnight_lulu's review made me
smile at the parallel between Marie Antoinette and Juicy...I had been watching the movie with Kirsten Dunst when I sample came in the mail. Its like watching the movie in smellovision. I love it however.
The movie and perfume are completely decadent and very girlish, opulent, cheery, over indulgent and pink. Now the two are forever synonymous in my mind. A teenage Marie (Kirsten) gambling with pink poker chips, eating cakes, trying on frilly shoes and wigs and masks.

Is it just me? Or is anyone else reminded of Giorgio? Perhaps a Giorgio that has its sweetness cut by something with a "sparkly" tinge to it. This is another scent I wanted to hate and couldn't. I figured it would be a scrubber, but it's very nice, summery, fruity, fresh.

Tuberose is a dangerous, dangerous note; added with a light hand, it adds a subtle warm skin sensation to a fragrance...but ladle it in and you have something in close proximity to a horse rolling in skunk cabbage. Harsh comparison, yes, but heed it as fair warning when applying essence of this carnal flower.

As tuberose is the central player in "Juicy Couture"--tuberose flower and tuberose absolute--I slightly recoiled to the possibilities. However, as whipped-cream rich and powdery as "Juicy Couture" is, it never enters skunk territory. Instead, it gives off the weirdest sensation of many different fragrances layered onto unwashed skin. Not dirty skin, of course, but the sebum-buildup of early morning before a daily shower. Overall, not entirely unpleasant, but really odd--like the smell of a girl accustomed to showering three times a day, who stayed out late one night and had to layer on whatever was in her gym bag to catch class in the morning. That will probably sound unappealing to most but "Juicy Couture" isn't necessarily a gag-scent, just very strong, sweet and powdery. In fact, many of the notes were the favorites of the infamous/famous Marie Antoinette (she was a passionate patron of tuberose): If iris, lavender and neroli were added to this scent, it would probably smell eerily like an 18th century french court...with frugally washed bodies included.

I bought it on the net without trying it first. It was a bit tooooo much on me. I gave it to my friend and she loves it. I had no idea that the swap basenotes existed!!!

well, at first, I thought it was very similar to Poison. But, when I put Poison on, Juicy Couture smells much better! It doesnt have that grape juice in it, like Poison does. Anyway, the bottle is really cute, and it isnt too sweet or fruity and best of all, it lasts along time on me.

Very nice fragrance. First I notice the watermelon, then a nice clean, subtle fruity-floral emerges. Not too sweet either. I just wished the scent lasted longer on me.

I've been waiting for basenotes to add this fragrance; over the past year it has become my 18 year old daughter's signature! It smells fabulous on her...bright, playfully youthful, slightly sexy. And although some of the listed notes include watermelon, mandarin, passion fruit, apple caramel creme brulee, crushed leaves, patchouli and woods ~ it also provides a healthy dose of tuberose which really gives this blend it's floral overtone. It is sweet. Sometimes it reminds me of Michael (Kors). As with all Juicy Couture products, the packaging is fit for royalty! From the chocolate brown ribboned pale pink box to the oversized faceted 'crystal flacon' with stopper/cap (very prettty!) it is truly a vanity treasure! Did I mention the bottle itself is encrusted with the Juicy emblem and wrapped with a cute corded necklace of Juicy charms?! Juicy's juice has excellent sillage & remarkable staying power. The body products such as bath caviar and royal body cream are top quality as well. After all this positive opinion ~ I must confess...when I tried this on myself I couldn't stand it! Yep, gave me a raging headache. With THAT out in the open, let me remind you I never tire of it on my girl! It suits her - ROYALLY!