Lady Cool

Lady Cool, what a downright terrible name. I am generally a hater of all things pear. Blame it on Victoria's Secret Pear Glace & every other girl I went to middle/high school with. I do like Lady Cool though. I think it's the generous helping of sandalwood which is slightly incensey and adds a certain richness / Oriental quality to this fragrance. Quite a lot of cardamom in here as well and the tonka + rose combination makes for a pleasant gourmandish vibe. I appreciate that I get a similar vibe throughout all the Dueto fragrances I have tried. Although note wise this couldn't be more different from City Oud & City Love they seem to all be working from the same base.

128) Lady plague Eurgh! Paco Rabanne go out of this bottle! But what is doing this deodorant in a niche brand bottle? This is extremely bad, syrup patchofruit as we unfortunately smelled ... Million! We must paint the bottle in gold, stick on it a graphic style tribal tattoo that girls wear above the line of the buttocks, lower the price in half and it will sell to the chain in all perfumeries. All the perfumes of this brand are bad (Golden Boy is ok), it must absolutely be avoided. Eurgh! Paco Rabanne sort de cette bouteille!! mais qu'es que vient faire ce désodorisant dans une marque de niche? C'est extrêmement mauvais, un sirop patchoufruit comme on en a malheureusement senti des ...Million! Il faut repeindre la bouteille en doré, coller dessus un graphisme style tatouage tribale que les demoiselles portent au dessus de la raie des fesses, diminuer le prix de moitié et ça se vendra à la chaine dans toutes les parfumeries. Tous les parfums de cette marque sont mauvais (Golden boy est passable), elle est à fuir absolument.

Ugh I hate that fake pear accord.. Smells like cough syrup

Dueto Parfums, a new house from France, appears to be capitalizing on a number of trends simultaneously: city names, oud and, in the case of this fragrance, Lady Cool, the appeal of celebrity scents. Well, except that this is a universal celebrity scent: a celebrity scent without a named celebrity. We're all celebrities in the cyberage, so this fragrance is tapping into the consumer's inner celebrity. How does it smell? Well, it smells like an above-average celebrity scent to me. A somewhat sweet and abstractly fruity floriental fragrance. It smells fine, for what it is, and the MSRP, at around $100 for 100ml, is not totally outrageous. If this were a true niche perfume, then it would be a bargain. Instead, it's more like a mainstream designer launch poured into a bottle on which the names of many famous cities of the world have been inscribed, and then marketed to all of those ladies out there aspiring to celebrity. I see this as a perfect signature scent for the amateur talents competing on television these days for possible future stardom later on down the line. This seems like a Twitter launch to me.

I wanted to like this, because the design element of it was cool. But there is zero hipster edginess to this at all -- this is about as cool as a grandmother setting up her tea table for a tea party. At first, it seemed to have a bright, loud youthful sparkle. But that faded into grandmother. I could never wear this thick, cloying perfume. On me, it is completely pear and orange blossom, really thick and heavy, strong, and so feminine that you should be required to wear pink or black lace when wearing this. The combination of floral feminine heavy old-fashioned-ness crashes on the floor for me. I'm sorry, but this fragrance is a disaster, which is rare for me to say.