Juliette

This one doesn't get so much love here but I love it so much! This doesn't smell anything like Valaya but if you like perfumes in the realm of Valaya, I think you'll love this. To my nose, it's a classy (probably even classier than Valaya), clean fruity-floral perfume. There's some warmth in it too, and some soapiness probably from the cherry. The cherry is there but it's not prominent, although it stays during most of the wear. I can smell the spice but I wouldn't classify this as a spicy perfume. I smell the strong cashmeran from the beginning, it smells like soft amber to me (note that anything ambery is always prominent to my nose). I almost cannot smell the tonka bean. The jasmine is there but it's not heavily indolic jasmine. It's clean jasmine. Everything blends out so well it's hard for me to pick up any note really. What I love most about it is although it's clean and well-put-together like Valaya (I love Valaya 🩷), it's more sensual, more darkness, but at the same time, more discreet. Valaya is very loud (and you need very clean skin to pull the scent off). I have capricorn rising and scorpio venus, and this scent is that to me: a woman who looks like she has her life all together and most of the time, she wears black. She looks like a million bucks and you want to be with her but you can't afford her. Longevity is not bad, around 6 hours but projection is very intimate even from the start. Pretty sure people can only smell me when they hug me but they will not be able to tell which perfume i'm wearing, not even the note (like sometimes i can tell if people are wearing yellow flowers, or musk, or caramel,...), which I love. I feel that this perfume suits every occasion and every season, just maybe not very hot summer.

I'm not and never have been a big fragrance person, but this perfume smells so delicious. Picture this: me, a teenage girl, randomly walking into Sephora one day out of sheer boredom and deciding to try out perfumes for fun. The bottle immediately caught my eye, so I obviously decided to spray it. It smelled warm and spicy. It weirdly reminded me of a steaming hot cup of chai. I decided to let it sit on my skin for a bit and walk around, and the dry down was floral-y and sweet. It somewhat reminds me of Good Girl by CH (probably the tonka bean?), but I love it more than Good Girl. I really don't get how this is a cherry perfume, so if you're into cherry, I wouldn't buy this. But OML, if you want a spicy-floral-warm perfume, this is perfect. It does smell "grown-up," so probably not exactly a teenage perfume, but I'm actually attached to this. I look like a weirdo because I keep sniffing my wrists lol.

I have a sample of this which I tested yesterday. I sprays two sprays on my arm at around 3pm and I could still smell it at 1:30pm today. I don’t know if that’s a common thing or just how it reacted on my skin but either way, I’m more than happy with the longevity. On a card strip, I wasn’t overly impressed by the scent BUT I decided to try it on skin anyway. The way this scent transformed from something mediocre to something beautiful really surprised me. I’m new to fragrance collecting so I don’t yet have a “trained nose” but in this, I can smell every single note! I can smell them separately and blended together at the same time. That’s the only way I can really explain it. It’s a perfume that I could wear all year round, day or night and for any occasion. It’s an easy pick for those days when I don’t know what to wear. This is definitely full bottle worthy for me!

I know that this perfume disappointed a lot of people. But I am not one of them. I got her as part of a travel size set along with Not a Perfume. And I LOVE her. This is a signature scent worthy fragrance. It starts out as a realistic sour cherry and then turns into a beautiful, delicate white floral scent with a bit of sweetness. I have worn this fragrance to weddings, as my signature scent on vacation, and just day to day. I have dreamt about this perfume! I will absolutely be picking up a full bottle and hope to always have it in my collection. Projection is light to moderate and it lasts on my skin for about 6 hours, but goes to a skin scent after about 2-3 hours. Update: Bought a full bottle, still obsessed. Performance is better than I remember it being when I had the little travel size.

I got a sample of this and some other JHAG scents a while ago and I just keep on coming back to this one. It's nothing special; a sweet, tart cherry with a jasmine base, but it's just so smooth and pretty. Sits close to skin but lasts quite well and turns into a warmer floral with a hint of cherry, remaining fresh/light throughout. It's young but not juvenile, basic but it has some personality, girly and sweet but not in an overly cutesy way. It lacks depth but layering, especially with its sibling Not A Perfume, can surely assist with that. I'm trying my best to criticize it but even with its faults, I adore it so much I had to order a full size.