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cleolinda · 1 year

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(It is, in fact, a perfume)

Juliette Has A Gun: Not A Perfume (2010)

(newly-arrived “discovery set” sample)

I’ve wanted to try Not A Perfume for years; it’s supposedly one single base note that smells different on everyone. Thus, the real allure is, omg what does it smell like on me?

I will preface the rest of this by saying that perfume is a special interest for me, particularly reading about it. As such, I have read a lot about components, and I even have a wishlist of aromachemicals I’d like to huff for myself. And in theory, Not A Perfume would be a chance for me to smell Cetalox.

Allegedly, that’s all this is: “A fragrance made out of a single element called Cetalox. Usually used in perfumery as a base note, it plays here the lead role... Another advantage of this particular composition, is that it is entirely allergen free. The result is minimalist, elegant, pure,” says Juliette Has A Gun’s website.

“An extremely powerful and elegant amber note. Usage: Cetalox® gives rich, elegant effects to all areas of perfumery from sheer florals to modern ambers,” says The Perfumer’s Apprentice, a component supplier I stare at for hours like it’s the Sears Wish Book.

But a Fragrantica article claims,

In addition to cetalox, Not A Perfume obviously contains musks (galaxolide and helvetolide), iso e super and hedione. Together they create a slight floral effect, as if you washed the bed linens with an expensive conditioner with a white flower composition and hung it up to dry on a sunny summer morning.

(For what it’s worth, a commenter on that article says, “According to Dr. Philip Kraft (Scent&Chemistry) of Givaudan - Not a Perfume consists - 7.5% Cetalox along with Hedione, Iso E Super, Ambrettolide, Habanolide, Musk Ketone, Ethylene Brassylate & Boisamberene Forte.” Subsequent googling indicates that this seems to be widely known.)

Like, I don’t plan to do an aromachemical deep dive on every fragrance I talk about, but it seems kind of conceptually relevant here, you know? And I’m willing to believe Not A Perfume is something more floral, musky, and fruity than one (1) synthetic amber, because that Fragrantica description is very much what it smells like on me: dryer sheets. A strong but nondescript white laundry floral. Well-behaved yet loud as hell, like a six-year-old in a Sunday dress with the best of intentions. I sprayed this business into a tissue and barely touched it to my wrist; it gave me a headache within 15 minutes. It did not wash off after four hours. (Modern white musks—like, say, all those (-)olides—are used in dryer sheets and laundry detergent. They repel water; that’s why everything but the detergent scent washes out of your laundry, so I already knew I was probably fucked.) On me, it isn’t terrible, but it sure ain’t “an elegant amber.” My guess is that one note yelling at me in particular is the hedione: “An elegant, transparent floral, jasmine note with a citrus freshness,” known for its “radiance.” It’s been widely used in fragrance since the 1960s, and I’m wondering if it’s why “perfume” in general—in the ’80s for sure—gives me headaches. Goddammit, hedione.

So, dryer sheets. That’s my quiz result. What’s everyone else’s? In Fragrantica user reviews, there is a dizzying range: sour, green, “a fairy sweating,” gasoline, antibacterial hospital soap, “crystalline funk,” animal musk, rubbing alcohol, plain water, nothing, rotting garbage, wet cigarettes, wet burnt cigarettes, dried blood, Dolce & Gabbana’s Light Blue, ghosts, sandalwood, wet cardboard, metal, salt, and pears. Among many other things.

It smells like dryer sheets, and I do not want to wear it again.

I mean, I might. Actually, it smells kind of nice now that I’ve washed it off—oh, hey, I’m getting the pears now. Maybe Not A Perfume would play different in hot weather. I’ll pick some day to schedule a headache and see.

#perfume #juliette has a gun #text post #long post #welcome to hell it’s my blog #controversy!#perfume discussion #sparkling headache #note: musk

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strawberry-library · 2 years

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🍓 | my favorite perfumes

fragrance mist perfume

marshmallow pumpkin latte - reminds me of rory gilmore (bath and body works)

strawberry poundcake - so sweet and reminds me of strawberry shortcake (bath and body works)

garden eau de parfum - a nice blend of floral and warm notes (dolce & gabbana)

fresh cream and warm cashmere eau de toilette - a nice warm scent (philosophy)

fairytale - a great floral scent with a hint of vanilla (bath and body work)

ballet rose eau de parfum - if the nutcracker and swan lake barbie movies were a scent, it would be this (philosophy)

warm and cozy (original and sugared ver.) - one of the best vanilla-based scents ever (pink)

basic vanilla - smells like chai tea and vanilla! (pink)

lipstick fever - makes me feel like i’m the main character in a silent film (juliette has a gun)

#berry filled with thoughts #coquette #perfume #fragrance #coquette inspo #autumn #winter #spring #summer #feminine advice #feminine aesthetic #dolce and gabbana #pink #victoria’s secret #bath and body works #philosophy #juliette has a gun #recommendations

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haveusmelledthisperfume · 5 months

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Have you smelled this perfume?

Somewhat divisive, Not a Perfume offers a strong burst of clean-smelling synthetic ambergris. Read more at Fragrantica.

#not a perfume #designer fragrance #juliette has a gun #sephora #fragrantica #niche perfume #have you smelled this perfume #have you poll #clean girl perfume #clean girl vibes #perfume head #parfum #unisex fragrance #unisex perfume

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suicidesiren · 2 years

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✨travel sizes are a girls best friend✨

#my photo #my pic #coquette #perfume #ysl #juliette has a gun #delina #dior #miss dior #dolce and gabbana #versace

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manifestdestinytarot · 1 year

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119/365 - personal•social•political

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boxingcleverrr · 4 months

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Moscow Mule has been my go-to scent for the last 3-4 years, and I really wanted to try more by Juliette Has A Gun. Lo and behold, sample set for Christmas!

...sadly, almost all of them are wonderful ;_;

Lust For Sun: Only one I didn't like, but only because it doesn't suit me in particular. It smells like a very pleasant, sexy sun tan lotion, lol.

Not A Perfume: VERY nice and simple on its own, does what it says. Woody with a clean musk, a friend described this aptly as "a great way to grow-up a scent". I have a lot of nostalgia for Britney Spears' Curious, for example, but it is by nature a very young, teen girl scent. I blended this over it as a way to test it out and loooooved it.

Magnolia Bliss: I expected something waaaay more cloying and floral, but this might be my new favorite Magnolia perfume.

Vanilla Vibes: ALSO not what I expected at all (it's worth noting, I spent the last five years selling old lady perfumes, lol). Never would have thought of putting Vanilla with Sea Salt for a perfume, it's kind of amazing. Not REALLY a vanilla girl, overall, but anyone who loved B&BW Warm Vanilla Sugar? This is its sexy grown up version.

Pear Inc.: Another one FULL of stuff I liked, fruity, complex, musk, etc. Not enough lasting-power for me, though, which is my one beef with Moscow Mule too lol.

Music Invisible: This one surprised me, in that I didn't like it more? It's nice, I think the issue is those years selling very outdated perfumes, haha. The powdery floral-ness of it just doesn't do it for me.

MMMM...: ....Oh no I might like this better than Moscow Mule D: Like, I could not stop smelling myself once it met my natural scent, ahhhhh.

I love perfumes, they're all too expensive to risk losing money trying out though, which is why I am sooooo happy sample sets are becoming more of a standard in the industry. This was a $35 xmas gift from my mom, the sizes are generous and hey, even if I hadn't liked as many, I got a travel-size of one I knew I loved, and a nice big Not A Perfume. 10/10 do recommend.

#blathering #perfumes #juliette has a gun

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christianaaahhh · 11 months

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#me #mine #ouai #haircare #perfume #juliette has a gun #not a perfume #hm home #grey aesthetic

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aries-meets-scorpio · 1 year

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Tell me your favorite soap, lotion, and perfume.

I’ll go first.

🏷️ The Olive Branch Shower Gel

🏷️ Sympathy for the Skin Body Lotion

🏷️ Pear Inc - Juliette has a Gun

#mine #big 3 #favorite products #lush cosmetics #this was entirely prompted by enjoying myself through some much needed self care #pear inc #juliette has a gun #perfume

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arquettecooke · 7 months

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Fragrances for Vogue Australia July 2023. Photographed by Lauren Bamford.

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beautyscenario · 10 months

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Lust for Sun di Juliette Has A Gun: recensione

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#Juliette Has A Gun #Lust for Sun #Lust for Sun di Juliette Has A Gun #profum di nicchia #profumi #recensioni profumi

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justperfumeasks · 1 year

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Recent purchases I picked up on sale, that slot into the “clean” scent category. Love the Philosophy range and I have loads of them - somehow I never bought this one before. It’s lavender heavy - kind of like lavender bathroom cleaner, but that’s exactly what I want from this range haha. Absolute cleaning products vibes. As for the other - I was a diehard detractor of JHAG (overhyped and overpriced) until really recently when finally Not A Perfume clicked for me and I vowed that if I saw it cheap I would get it. It’s very 2000s, just straight up soapy musk. It was to millennials what Glossier You is for zoomers: cool, clean girl aesthetics. Which were never my jam to be honest at the time. But it has turned into a sweaty summer here so I’m onto my fresh and clean scents where I want to smell of laundry, lemon and soap, and these two were very welcome additions to that genre - especially for the absolute bargain I got them for.

#fragrance #perfume #perfume asks #fragrance tips #perfume advice #perfume tips #juliette has a gun #philosophy

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cleolinda · 1 year

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(It might truly not be a perfume)

Not A Perfume Superdose, Juliette Has A Gun (2019)

(newly-arrived “discovery set” sample)

Point the first: I wrote about Not A Perfume (2010) the other day, so this is a comparative follow-up.

Point the second: I think this time it really is just one aromachemical, probably. Maybe two, tops. Three?

The whole premise here is that Not A Perfume was “just” cetalox, and so Not A Perfume Superdose is “just” “more” cetalox. Going back to that Fragrantica article, the one talking about how Not A Perfume is in no way One Single Elegant Base Note and is, in fact, three white musks in a hedione trenchcoat:

Let’s say, if in Not A Perfume, the focus was on the smell of the ambergris block, then the Superdose version pushes it aside and instead of the flying and rather invasive white-flowered hedione, it offers us an even more invasive ambrocenide — a cold, even burning ambergris material. Our bed linen is hung out on the street not in summer, but on a winter morning.

Over to the Perfumer’s Apprentice, ambrocenide: what it do?

Powerful and long-lasting top to base booster; lends power to woody and ambery accords; gives radiance and enhances citrus and aldehydic notes at low use levels; propels musk notes to be perceived in the top notes; gives volume and strength to floral heart notes.

(istg someday I’m just gonna order a vial of Cetalox [or Ambroxan, or WHATEVER] and some perfumer’s alcohol and find out what the Single Elegant Base Note would actually smell like)

So, in practice, what Juliette Had A Gun did was remove the secret additional notes and call it super. Reading the reviews for Superdose, however, you start to understand why the original Not A Perfume was sweetened up with some user-friendly laundry musks in the first place. Over at the Fragrantica user reviews, gone are the pears and the fairies and the ghosts and the blood. Now we get (deep breath)

ambergris, a woodshop, sea salt, animal musk, iso e super, lemon, laundry, spice, pencil shavings, Le Labo’s Another 13, paperbacks, rubbing alcohol, plastic bags, a heater turning on, damp fur, cat urine, vodka, whipped cream, body odor, burning plastic; it’s “peppery and harsh”; it’s “mouthwateringly juicy”; it’s “so disturbingly evil”; “this perfume smells like what doing whippets feels like.”

On me, Superdose smells like dryer sheets. Again. But this time, a used dryer sheet, gossamer thin and clinging to a fluffy towel, so it’s not as overwhelming to me as the original was. Yes: I am possibly the only person on earth who feels less whelmed by Superdose. (This is why I don’t try to officially “review” a fragrance and say it’s definitely good or bad, this or that, because it’s clearly so dependent on skin chemistry, before you even get to personal taste. I can’t judge my dryer sheet against your garbage fire.)

Ironically, it wasn’t the cetalox that bothered me the first time around, but the hedione; Superdose doesn’t have any, so it took a whole hour for the headache to set in this time. Honestly, I would be more likely to wear Superdose again than the original Not A Perfume, I think. I don’t know what it says about me that I got the blandest, goodiest-two-shoes results possible, but… no, actually, that checks out. I almost wish my skin chemistry had produced something edgier, but that’s a monkey’s paw wish if I ever heard one.

(Actually, what I have heard is that Superdose really earns its keep as a base for other perfumes you actually like, especially if they’re weak or wear off quickly. Time to get out the Demeter Fragrance samples, sounds like.)

Also in the Juliette Has A Gun set I got: Vanilla Vibes, Magnolia Bliss, Lipstick Fever, MMMM, Pear Inc., and Lili Fantasy. I’ll intersperse writeups of those, long covid willing, with other fragrances as we go. (I’ve already given Lipstick Fever a quick test, and it was unexpectedly fruit forward.) It’s a total toss-up as to what I’ll post about next, but maybe I’ll switch it up with something I actually wear regularly.

#juliette has a gun #perfume #text post #long post #welcome to hell it’s my blog #perfume discussion #sparkling headache

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strawberry-library · 1 year

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my christmas wishlist, 2022

a bunny themed phone stand

Victoria’s Secret pajamas

TONYMOLY face masks

strawberry-themed phone case

The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura

pink slippers

Yankee Candle in “Frosty Gingerbread”

three lace tops in black, white, and brown

philosophy’s Ballet Rose Eau de Parfum

Victoria’s Secret Getaway Glam bag in “Iconic Stripe”

Gone Girl by Gillian Field

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

a Macbook Air (maybe as a graduation gift)

Wet n Wild Perfect Pout gloss in “Sweetest Pick”

white cross knit sweater

#berry filled with thoughts #winter #christmas #coquette #christmas list #winter holidays #fashion #bath and body works #victoria’s secret #juliette has a gun #the woman in the purple skirt #natsuko imamura #wishlist ideas #miffy

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haveusmelledthisperfume · 3 months

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Have you smelled this perfume?

Nina Ricci, grandmother of the founder of Juliette Has a Gun perfumes, is known for gorgeous bottles with fun, youthful scents inside. Most iconic are her apple-shaped bottles, starting with the eponymous Nina from 2006.