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The brand Juicy Couture was founded in 1996 in California by two friends (Gela Nesh-Taylor - wife of John Taylor from Duran Duran and Pamela Skaist-Levy).
It became known for its pink dress outfits and lots of bling-bling, which still gives it the image of the "girly" faction among us. This may be true for clothing, but certainly not for the perfumes!

Juicy Couture perfumes are created in collaboration with world-renowned noses, including Rodrigo Flores-Roux, Honorine Blanc, and Harry Fremont. Almost all of them are filled into beautiful massive, crowned glass bottles with a crystal stopper and a rosette bow, these bottles are inspired by the style of the Victorian era.

Now let’s get to Juicy Couture by Juice Couture: (although I find all their scents very good and unique)

I love the very subtle scent of tuberose here, which is undoubtedly the boss and doesn’t really want to give precedence to other components, however, it blends with the light water hyacinth and watermelon, then follows the passion fruit note. All of this doesn’t last long. In the end, I feel a slight sweetness that might come from the caramel, but it is very inconspicuous and only as a background, as the tuberose is present until the end. However, it is a mild version of it; it doesn’t overwhelm you, you don’t feel like you’re suffocating. Juicy Couture is a close floral composition, but one must consider that it is dense, rich, and long-lasting as a fragrance; it is not an ethereal, green scent.
So you can confidently wear it now, as it is very suitable as an autumn and winter fragrance; for summer or spring, it is too dense and too heavy.

I would also like to mention that the fragrance was created in 2006 by Harry Fremont (creator of, among others, CK One, Lancome Miracle, Armani Sense) and in 2007 it was awarded the best fragrance for women: FiFi Fragrance of the Year 2006.

Composition:

Top notes: Passion fruit, mandarin, green apple, hyacinth, watermelon, marigold, green leaves
Heart notes: Tuberose, lily, wild rose fruit
Base notes: Patchouli, vanilla, caramel, woody notes, dessert crème brûlée

The name is the most provocative and pornographic in the entire range of fragrances from Etat Libre d'Orange, or ELdO for short. So what lies beneath?

A surprisingly charming, contemporary, light-filled, and fresh white floral composition with a clear dominant lily of the valley note.
Antoine Maisondieu laid it on a fresh musk background, added a touch of the bitterness of jasmine, and the sweetness of orange blossom, creating a small floral masterpiece.

For fans of Diorissimo looking for a modern incarnation, "Do not Get Me Wrong" is a delightful surprise.
Even though the scent is not particularly original, with a rather banal theme, overall made with quite ordinary ingredients - it is virtuously staged by a worthy champion!

A very beautiful women's fragrance, although probably not all ladies want to wear a perfume with such an obscene name, which is understandable. ;-)
I think that’s the joke - the combination of this fresh, charming, purely feminine scent with this provocative name.
If a man were to smell it on you and ask what you’re wearing, I would recommend saying: Lilly of the valley (since that’s not really a lie)
That sounds worlds better than: Don’t get me wrong baby, I don’t swallow - at least for the first rendezvous! ;-)

Composition: Jasmine, lily of the valley, orange blossom, amber, patchouli, cocoa, musk, aldehydes, marshmallow

As a world-famous supplier of fine English soaps and toiletries since 1884, Bronnley is well known to many. Bronnley is also the main supplier to the British royal family. Only a few brands survive for over a hundred years in the market, and the success of this company is likely due to the good price-performance ratio and the quality ingredients. High-quality perfume oils, fruit and flower essences, herbs, precious woods, and spices define the formulations.

Lime and Bergamot Eau Fraiche by Bronnley is a fragrance from the citrus family and is for both women and men. So, it is a unisex scent.

The top notes are lime, bergamot, and grapefruit;
The heart notes are lime, bergamot, and grapefruit;
The base notes are amber and woody notes.

The composition is extremely structured here: top notes of bright, slightly bitter lime, bergamot, and bitter grapefruit transition into a bed of warm amber and subdued woods.
The phases of the fragrance last a long time and are extremely easy to extract. There is no chaos among the manageable amount of ingredients.
What remains is a very fresh, herbaceous, very direct, and interesting scent.
Strongly citrusy yet not sour, it leans more towards the bitter direction and feels very balanced and harmonious.
Overall, it is a very puristic fragrance.

At first, it strongly reminded me of L'Eau de Chloé; it generally goes in that direction but is quite different in its later development: more decisive, stronger, more dominant. The later sweetness of L'Eau de Chloé is absent here. Thus, a man can wear it very well too.
By the way, I like it very much. Sometimes less is more, and it convinces here as well! :-)

Odin is a very young perfume brand: the oldest composition dates back to 2009, the newest to 2014.
The fragrances come from NY and are created by various well-known perfumers such as: Kevin Verspoor, Pierre Constantin Gueros, Jean-Claude Delville, Philippe Romano, Jean-Claude Deville, Delphine Jelk, and Corinne Cachen.

These fragrance creations are presented as unisex, and I also read about the brand on a German perfume site that the naming is heavily inspired by Greece and its culture and history.
That confuses me a bit ... ;-) After all, Odin is the chief god in Norse mythology of the Eddic poetry. There he acts as the father of the gods, god of war and death, as a god of poetry and runes, of magic and ecstasy with distinctly demonic-shamanistic traits, and in my opinion has not much to do with Greek gods .....

Be that as it may! :-) I don’t like the name anyway and find it quite pretentious!

But it’s all about the content, and that is truly remarkable, remarkably good!

No 6 by Odin - Anamu (again a name that, in my opinion, suggests something misleading, namely a tropical atoll in the southeast of the Tuamotu archipelago, which belongs to French Polynesia.)

Here, aromas of blood orange, jasmine, magnolia, amber, galbanum, mastic resin, amberwood, moss, musk, and cedar leaf unite into a unique composition.

The scent comes warm and harmonious, green galbanum combines with mastic, the woody rusticity of cedar leaves and the interesting complexity of Arabian jasmine blend together. I don’t sense magnolia, but rather the blood orange that winds around amberwood, moss, and musk, developing softly and always remaining very understated in the foreground.

The scent is in no way sweet; I perceive it as autumn and winter-heavy (although it can also be worn very well in spring and summer, as for example Fahrenheit by Dior) and clearly masculine; on a man’s skin, it appears elegant, captivating, and irresistible.
In a word, absolutely seductive! :-)

I see and hear here that it is rated lower due to its proud price of €130 to €140, which I find unfair; firstly, the ingredients vary in cost, the real ones often cost a fortune (when clearly synthetic ones are used, the scent is significantly cheaper). There are Mercedes and there are, for example, Skoda (which I drove very happily for 13 years), but clearly, these are two different classes, and so it is with perfumes.