Reviews of Juicy Couture (2006)
by Juicy Couture

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.

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.

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.