Originally written July 3, 2012:
Generally, I don’t take issue with fruity frags—I have some in my collection and I adore them when the mood strikes. I do get frustrated with the genre when it seems an entire industry has run out of ideas, producing scents that seem all too familiar or too sloppy. Live Luxe falls in the ‘sloppy’ category for me, which is a shame since J.Lo fragrances tend to be of a higher caliber in the celebuscents market.
I rarely wear this one and I often forget I own it. I donned it this morning and now I am realizing why it remained unnoticed in my collection. It begins with juicy summer fruits, lending hope and promise of a refreshing warm weather scent. However, minutes later an unsweetened, unripened, and still green melon takes over in a big way. As the day wears on the melon becomes sour and more pronounced, annihilating the presence of any other fruity elements and reducing any florals to near-nothingness. It has been seven hours, and, though it is still going strong, I am left waiting for some kind of a base; the scent has since morphed into the mellowed last strains of a cantaloupe rind.
I can’t help feel like I was promised a summer fruit salad just to have it swapped out from under my nose (pun intended). Fine, take my fresh-cut fruit salad away but don’t replace it with melon rinds! It almost makes for a good spa scent except it’s too bombastic and bitter to induce any kind of calm. I like melon scents but this one completely misses the mark and seems too confused. Look to Bliss or The Body Shop’s Sprit of Moonflower (a great melon 'soliflor') for a far more superior spa scent.
Updated thoughts on August 18, 2023:
Honestly, I have not thought of this scent since I got rid of it. A few days ago I ducked into my local Ross and noticed a large bottle. The vague memory of this came back. I don't miss this.
This is the scent I think of when people say they hate calone or other melon-like fragrances from the 1990s and 2000s. I'd hate such scents, too, if this was my only exposure. But to be fair,
Live Luxe isn't the abomination I set it out to be. It's just that there are far better calone offerings out there. There's something that stings the nostrils, something so unabashedly chemical that it's hard to push past it and enjoy
Live Luxe for the simple pleasure it was meant to be.
@Missk is correct in her assessment: tropical, clean, fruity, shampoo-like. But I can't get past the harsh detergents and forced water-like melon element here.
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