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Glow After Dark Jennifer Lopez 2006

6.4 / 10 60 Ratings

A perfume by Jennifer Lopez for women, released in 2006. The scent is fruity-sweet. It was last marketed by Coty.
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Main accords

Fruity

Sweet

Floral

Synthetic

Fresh

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Passion fruit

Mandarin orange

White cherry

Heart Notes

Jasmine

Orange blossom Peony

Peony

Rose

Base Notes

White woods Musk

Musk

Oakmoss

Patchouli

Perfumer

Gabriela Chelariu

Ratings

Scent

6.460 Ratings

Longevity

6.638 Ratings

Sillage

6.036 Ratings

Bottle

6.040 Ratings

Value for money

8.112 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 10/02/2025.

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Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/15/2012

4Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Icekat
97 Reviews

Icekat

Very helpful Review 4

Screechy Gourmand

I love sweet gourmand scents. Smelling like a delicious vanilla cake always makes me feel pretty and happy. So what is wrong then with Glow After Dark? It is super sweet and definitely gourmand but yet I find it totally unwearable on me. The problem is that there is a sharp and a bit unpleasant edge to the sweetness in this scent. At times I almost feel suffocated by its aggressive character.

Glow After Dark opens with a super sweet and totally synthetic passionfruit and cherry, which are overpowering. The scent turns into sharp floral in the heart. If I can pick the most noticeable note I would say that it is orange blossom. I can smell some patchouli and woods rising from the base and mingling with the synthetic flowers. The combination is edgy and aggressive. I would not call it masculine but more of a girl with an angry attitude. One thing that is really remarkable about this scent is its longevity. It lasts and lasts and lasts.

I was feeling cheap and unsophisticated when I was wearing this scent today. It is definitely not for me. Overall score is 4/10. There are much better pretty gourmand scents on the market. I am not recommending this one.

02/08/2013

JSpines
177 Reviews

JSpines

Helpful Review 5

Glow After Dark

I can really smell the white cherry and passion fruit in this and I quite enjoy it! It's different and unique. I don't have any other fragrances that smell like this one. It stands out. It almost has a masculine vibe to it. I find it deep and dark but not suffocating or too heavy. The fruity tone keeps it alive and from becoming too serious. Interesting and not boring in the least bit. A fun scent that will keep people sniffing you and guessing what you are wearing all night long!

01/09/2012

2.5Scent 5Longevity 6Sillage

Missk
1357 Reviews

Missk

Very helpful Review 3

To Throw After Dark

Glow After Dark wasn't my cup of tea. In fact, I haven't actually warmed to any of the Glow fragrances from J.Lo, I much prefer the Live series because they have much more personality.

I didn't get much in the way of fruity notes when I first smelt this. The passionfruit was there, but it wasn't tangy and exotic like the actual fruit, instead it smelt rather synthetic and sour.

I was rather surprised that the heart of this fragrance, which was primarily beautiful floral notes, ended up smelling quite masculine. I'm guessing it was the patchouli and oakmoss trying to push its way through early on.

Seeing that I'm not usually a fan of masculine fragrances being worn by myself, this wasn't a winner for me. However, there are women out there that I don't doubt will love this scent. I guess everyone has their own personal tastes.

02/26/2024

Exciter76
78 Reviews

Exciter76

2

Fruit To Lure You, Oakmoss/Patchouli Greenery To Trap You

Originally reviewed on February 20, 2012:

I’m always a bit apprehensive about perfumes in rollerballs. I am certainly not above collecting them; I have many and I think they are a great way of possessing much-wanted scents without breaking the bank. However, I do wonder about crushing the top notes due to the way it is applied. Typically, this has not been a problem but I really have to question if rollerball application had affected this particular scent.

I did not get much in the way of fruit with GAD. Secretly, I am glad. I love the occasional fruity floral but this aspect does grow wearisome after a while, especially with J. Lo’s fragrances. Instead, I got the boyfriend-bar-of-soap, Zest. Very “Zestfully Clean” scented. This went straight to greens and woods, which gave a wink and a nod to clean masculinity but not a blatant blast of men’s cologne. I really loved the four or more hours of this.

Then there is the weird drydown. I love patchouli but it is very hit-or-miss with my skin’s chemistry. Here, the patchouli and oakmoss begin “zestfully” clean but turn powdery. Like flea powder for cats, powdery. It’s weird and strong. Longevity is one of this fragrance’s strong points and, like a double-edged sword, a point of contention. I put this on my wrist at 6 pm yesterday and now, at 11:30 am and many hand/wrist washings later, I still smell it. When it smelled like soap, I was overjoyed about this. Once it hit the powdery phase, not so much.

This is definitely a unisex fragrance so do not be deterred by the oft-mentioned suggestion that this could pass for a sex-shop purchase; there is something abstractedly perverse about the bottle. Do not be especially deterred by the J. Lo name. This is all about the juice. Strange as the drydown may be I am willing to look the other way on this one. I think this might be best sprayed on clothing to avoid the flea powder scent.

It's been twelve years almost to the day (February 26, 2024) and I have some thoughts...:

I was obsessed with all things J.Lo when I reviewed this perfume. I had the CDs, the perfumes, the butt-enhancing jeans, the velour sweatsuit, the "Out of Sight" DVD and so on. I held all things J.Lo to a higher standard, including perfumes. Especially perfumes. So imagine the devastation this scent caused me, smelling of notes that—unbeknownst to me—did not agree with my skin's chemistry.

I didn't understand that somewhere along the way in my perfume journey oakmoss became an adversarial note; I was confused because it was once a dearly beheld note. More often than not, my skin amplifies oakmoss and turns it into dust and rotten leaves in a long-forgotten locked attic. I rarely get the dark, inky, and moist facets of oakmoss. I'm older and wiser and further along in my perfume journey to realize a perfume isn't terrible just because it has oakmoss; my skin is terrible for not allowing me to enjoy it for the goth forest note it is. I could feel the beginnings of such an oakmoss here in GAD, but it was hijacked by the musty oakmoss I'm often met with. I didn't get to enjoy fruits or flowers, just a dusty, claustrophobic oakmoss/patchouli combo.

At a time when oakmoss and other unabashed green notes were no longer en vogue, it was brave of J.Lo's team to go ahead and use it here. Oakmoss and patchouli together!? Bravo! Hypothetically, this should've made GAD a wonderful anomaly among the celebrity glut that was out there in the mid-aughts. But, it was a reminder that oakmoss (and sometimes patchouli) are not always friends with my chemistry. And, sometimes, that's okay. For the sake of being a little outside the norm and to introduce these green notes to a new generation, I'm okay with GAD not being for me.

09/06/2010

3Scent 7.5Longevity

MariellaMmmh
215 Reviews

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MariellaMmmh

Top Review 10

Only after a night...

Since I, although I seem to be an exception, am a big fan of the scents from la Lopez, I bought a family pack of this specimen without hesitation. Unfortunately. I must say I like it - but not on me. It smells almost perversely sweet on my skin, "clouded" is the right term. Only the next day did I find the scent beautiful. But I didn't want to apply a perfume 24 hours in advance and walk around with a nose clip until then!
I gifted the fruit cocktail to my mother-in-law. She is happy, loves it - and since it doesn't smell so sweet on her, I benefit from it too.
I prefer to stay true to my original Glow!

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