Juicy Couture (2006)
by Juicy Couture

Silly trashy marketing... I expected a lot WORSE from this. It's a gentle sweet tuberose with a bit of citrus that even the most reserved of individuals would find it pleasing. Instead of a boisterous, loud, cheap perfume, you get something for everyone. One of the first perfumes I purchased for my girlfriend. I found it the most youthful and not-over-the-top perfumes in the store.

What is this? Is it chypre? Is it fruity? Is it floral?
I like it when fragrances use unconventional harmonies, but this schizophrenic fragrance leaves me feeling bewildered. Feels very synthetic, very contrived. You may enjoy this if you like tuberose sans the sweet.

I had to try this because of the obnoxious pink box. It is a cheerful, fruity floral if you like that sort of thing. It doesn't offend and does not reflect in any way that box! I thought that my daughter would love it, but she only gave it an "eh". My nose must be failing me, because I thought this one would have a mass audience. To me it is one of the better new fragrances for young women. Although it lacks the pizzazz of Insolence and the beauty of Tommy Girl, I still think that it is a very, very nice perfume.

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.