Glistening Amber

Juicy Couture Major Refresh with the Regent Line--'Glistening Amber'. The Regent Line (Regency? Not Sure) is an aggressive effort to get major Niche quality back. This is a ground up change. If you left Juicy Couture and had a scent memory from the brand, please erase and come back!!! Glistening Amber: Top Notes: Raspberry Frangiopani Middle Notes: Incense, Vanilla, Orris Base Notes: Amber, Cashmeran, Musk. The experience reminds me of Agua di Colonia Patchouli for some reason. My skin is so absorbent, the dry down of the Raspberry and Frangiopani is a fleeting delight. The middle notes of incense and vanilla linger and the orris does add a powdery aspect but not overdone. Powdery can be chokey for me, and this is a wonderful blend--a really neat powdery. (Powdery is so hard to get right--usually hyper baby powder mixed with a saccharin candy lollypop. ) On another front, the Base is just Astonishing!!! The amber, cashmeran, and musk create a kind of chocolatey, oud effect. This is not really a feminine scent in the strictest sense. The bottle is more feminine than the scent. OK--don't have your guy friends over to work on that Saab, and spy the ornate bottle. Unless they know you, of course. This has some fullness to it. It has a really nice amber with some substance to it. Again, my skin is so absorbent--it is weird. Two squirts on each arm with a great atomizer. This scent is now a skin scent in less than one hour. I probably need to spray more. Barely detectable with my nose just four inches from my arm. It is worth decanting and toting because the blend is superb. I like to wear different fragrances over the course of a day. I guess I like 'em to come--and then go. This is an elegant party guest that does not stay too long. So elegant

Oh. My. God. I'm so upset that this is discontinued, but I'm happy I bought a 3.4oz bottle of this!! Imagine if Bonbon by Viktor & Rolf found its sense of identity, and times that by a million. It's smoky, woody, incensey, a little sweet, and a little soft. Glistening Amber is the answer to all my fragrance wishes. It's that girl you see walking down the street dressed in all black with a scowl on her face, smoking a cigarette, wearing dark glasses. When you approach her though, she's extremely warm and kind, and you can see she's really a soft person, but she puts on a front. That's Glistening Amber. I love Juicy Couture fragrances for their simplicity and their sweetness, but this one isn't your typical Juicy scent. She's grown up, she's got her shit together. I wouldn't believe this was a JC scent unless I bought it myself. I'm wearing it for the first time today and I have a tendency to edit my reviews a lot, so we'll see what changes! So far, it's a major win for me. Edit: It started fading, but I've gotten a solid performance from it for almost 6 hours. It's still noticeable, but it's intimate. The scent has gotten softer and sweeter as time has gone on. I'm shocked, because all other JC frags I've had are COMPLETELY gone after 3ish hours at most. Edit 2: Just pulled out a shirt from my dresser I haven’t worn in a few months and I noticed it still has some Glistening Amber on it! Even after washing! I smelled it all day when wearing my shirt without ever having to actually spray the fragrance on. She’s a keeper.

Addictive warm, smoky amber, delicately sweet- the incense is potent to me at first and gives a subtle arabesque/oudy quality to me rather than an old lady 'powdery' scent, so this is great, and fades down to reveal the delicate and sweet frangipani and vanilla notes more. The raspberry is very subtle at the beginning but fades quickly. After several hours the incense settles down and the iris / amber / vanilla soften it. Although this very much has its own character as an ambery scent, it would layer well with sharp fruity fragrances as it has a warm, earthy and resinous scent profile. I love it. Stereotypically it would be perfect for autumn and maybe winter, but I think it is a mysterious scent for the summertime too, adding a sophisticated bohemian touch to a daytime outfit. Especially if you layered sharp berry/fruity perfume with it too. Gender: I would call it unisex, although it is more feminine to me than masculine. If men are a fan of the smoky sweet scents they may enjoy this too.

Additional Review/ Correction The line for Glistening Amber is 'Regency' Correction on Projection: Just SPRAY IT!!! The projection is made much greater by more spritzes of scent. I did three sprays just on my flat of the arms, and my wife came in the front door and smelled it just as she passed by me!!! New Info: Glistening Amber projects nicely and can be smelled at one foot from arm over one hour later. Just spray it. Just Hit It. It is very well priced. Just buy more, and more, and more. So nice. Hope This is not a no-no to mention other peoples comments. Anyway, here goes: Curly Fragrances star recommends the following. One each side of neck, one at base of skull, two across chest, one each side of long hair, and I think one each wrist. Michella of Curly Fragrances (You Tube) often requests 12-16 sprays which seems like alot. However, I think the host is dealing with re-formulation of many scents into weaker. She is smart. I believe this is where we are heading.

I agree with most of what Shushkin has said about this scent. I find the top notes incredibly sweet and syrupy, but I do agree that there is a strong burned raspberry note which I find agreeable and unusual. I definitely don't smell toast, but the dry down has shades of oud and a lovely powdery amber. This perfume is a cozy, winters day. Perfect for Christmas with its oriental spiciness and warm, sweet tones. This plays beautifully with my body chemistry and seems to waft around all day. My husband keeps on commenting that he's getting whiffs of the perfume and that he really likes it! Thats amazing as he NEVER comments on any of my perfumes. I find the longevity is brilliant! This fume clung to my skin like a limpid and it stayed on my clothes as well, emanating a delicious aroma of sweet perfection! Definitely full bottle worthy.