Juliette Got a Gun Not a Perfume Review
I like Juliette Has a Gun. They have succeeded in producing relatively artistic fragrances with good quality ingredients at an affordable price (lets face it £59 for 50ml is practically gratuitous by today's niche standards) and they straddle the line between designer and niche fragrances quite happily. For these reasons I find it utterly baffling that they would decide to launch something as naff as Non a Perfume.
In 2010 the man backside Juliette Has a Gun (Romano Ricci) made the assuming conclusion to milkshake things upwardly with the brand by following the Escentric Molecules school of thought and create a non-fragrance containing only one scent compound, and as the name suggests Not a Perfume is, well, not a perfume.
Ricci opted to utilize the rich, ambery ingredient Cetalox, or Ambroxan equally information technology is sometimes known, for Not a Perfume, stating that: "unremarkably used in perfumery as a back note, I have decided for once that it would play the lead office…because it is one of my favourite ingredients…the result is minalimst, elegant, pure" [one] Oh and it is "entirely allergen free" [ii] too…
…You may not exist able to run across it beloved reader, but my right eyebrow just met my hairline.
The Notes
Cetalox
How Does it Olfactory property?
Non a Perfume starts potent, sharp and diffusive. There is an extended presence of crisp booze over the woody warmth that makes up the heart of the cetalox. It is relatively diffusive & airy in the opening and has a weird nose-tickling quality that nearly makes 1 sneeze.
The principal structure of Not a Perfume is a deep amber, but it focuses solely on the resinous part of amber and lacks the soft, flossy vanilla of the archetype (and best) ambers. This dry out effort at amber may work well as a supporting act but in isolation it leaves one crying out for something plush and cosy to fluff information technology out. To put it simply – it'south a chip slow.
In that location are a few quirky facets lurking within this non-perfume. For the starting time one-half an hour or so at that place is a strong, sour aroma reminiscent of human being breath. It teeters on the edge of condign unpleasant just never quite makes it, thankfully. At that place is also a weird, hot quality to it that makes ane think of the odor of dust on a burning lightbulb but the effect is, sadly in this instance, fleeting. Nosotros shouldn't be surprised though, the fun stuff really is reserved for proper perfumes.
As expected Not a Perfume is relatively linear and it doesn't really go anywhere. It likewise lacks whatsoever discernible texture and feels unfinished, as if it's not quite plenty that information technology smells prissy, it needs the complexity and attention to particular of a real perfume to be considered as something worthwhile. But 1 must not forget that Not a Perfume isn't trying to be a perfume…
Not a Perfume is far from unpleasant, in fact I would become as far equally saying that is is quite a overnice fragrance to scent, and whilst it may only include 1 ingredient information technology does showcase a diversity of scented facets that just goes to bear witness the complexity of the textile. That said I tin can't assistance just experience that shoving ane ingredient in some alcohol and selling it for £59 is adulterous.
The gimmick is lost on me I admit, but I stand by the fact that I can't run across the signal of Not a Perfume and I can't help but wonder why anyone would pay any attention to information technology when in that location are a number of other, much more than interesting REAL perfumes in the Juliette Has a Gun line.
My communication? Choice up a canteen of Calamity J instead.
Availability
Not a Perfume is available in 50ml and 100ml Eau de Parfum with prices ranging from £59-£79.
Disclaimer
Image 1 luxury-design.com. Image 2 europerfumes.com [ane] & [ii] juliettehasagun.com.
Source: https://thecandyperfumeboy.com/2012/07/10/youre-right-its-not-juliette-has-a-gun-not-a-perfume-perfume-review/
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