Lust For Sun
Holiday scents are a genre of their own, and Juliette Has a Gun Lust For Sun Eau de Parfum is entirely unembarrassed about belonging to it.
Bergamot gives it a brief citrus snap before coconut arrives, and the coconut here is the creamy, oily sort rather than the shredded, biscuit sort. Freesia keeps that opening from turning heavy. Then the flowers come in properly. Gardenia is rich and slightly green at the edges, ylang ylang is the loud one, sweet and almost rubbery in quantity, and orange blossom lightens the pair of them with something clean and bitter. Monoi settles the whole argument, because monoi is the Tahitian oil and it smells exactly like a beach: warm skin, oil and flowers at the same time. Ambroxan, musk and vanilla hold it in place, the ambroxan dry and mineral against all that softness. Ten materials, and it does not so much evolve as warm up. At eau de parfum strength it will stay with you through a long afternoon, and heat helps it rather than killing it, which is unusual for something this creamy. Projection is generous for the first two hours and then it beds down into the skin.
Wear it in summer, on holiday, in actual sunshine. It will read as feminine to most noses although plenty of men wear this register happily. Romano Ricci is credited with the formula, which the house dates to 2023.
The label is a French niche house set up in 2006 by Ricci, whose great grandmother was the couturiere Nina Ricci, and it works across Paris and Grasse. Its launch took place at the Colette store in Paris with two Francis Kurkdjian compositions named after Shakespearean heroines, Lady Vengeance and Miss Charming, and the range has since grown to include Not a Perfume, Calamity J and Musc Invisible.
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