Fragrance Notes
AmbroxanNot A Perfume
Juliette Has a Gun Not A Perfume Eau de Parfum 100ml is the most unusual bottle in the house catalogue, because it contains one material and nothing else at all. That material is ambroxan. It is dry, mineral and slightly abstract, with a clean warmth that reads differently on different people: some get something close to cashmere, others a faint saline edge, and a few cannot smell it properly at all, which is a known quirk of the molecule rather than a fault in the bottle. There is no top, no middle and no base to follow, so what happens over the hours is not development but concentration, the thing shrinking slowly towards the skin without ever quite leaving it.
Because there is nothing in it to clash with, it layers better than almost anything else on the shelf. Put it under a floral and it adds weight and length; put it over something sweet and it dries the sweetness out. A good number of people buy it for that job alone and never wear it by itself. The eau de parfum concentration gives it staying power, and the lack of complexity means it never becomes tiring over a long day. It reads unisex, it is comfortable in any weather, and it is as appropriate at a desk as it is at a dinner table. Romano Ricci composed it and it was released in 2010.
Romano Ricci started this French niche house in 2006, developing its fragrances between Paris and Grasse, and sold the first two bottles through a single shop, the Paris concept store Colette. Those two, Lady Vengeance and Miss Charming, were composed by Francis Kurkdjian and carry the names of Shakespearean heroines, and Not a Perfume has since become one of the names the house is best known for.
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