Miss Charming

MISS CHARMING by Juliette Has A Gun Gloriously beautiful fruity rose! Opens with a mouthwatering explosion of ripe, tart, fresh wildberries and strawberries from a new crop just gathered in the fields, fully-ripened litchi, and newly blossoming garden roses in the summertime. Dries down to a clean and subtle musk. Like biting into a ripe, tart berry at breakfast with the juices popping in your mouth! Then devouring a ripe litchi fruit, and sniffing the fully opened blossoms of red roses on the bush near the breakfast nook! This is no wallflower shy rose! This is a woman full of life, joyously running through a summer meadow laughing in delight at the beautiful day, with delicious wildberries overflowing in her basket, roses woven in her hair, and celebrating the happiness of life itself! I find this perfume to be very jubilant in nature and it makes me smile to wear it! There is nothing to weigh down the ultra-fresh juicy goodness here. This is totally delicious from the opening through full dry down on my skin. No added sickening sweetness other than that which is naturally found in the ripe plants themselves. No overdone musk, or woods, or spices to cloud the freshness of the fruit or the clarity of the rose. On my skin I get no soapy detergent notes at any stage in development either. Much richer and fruitier than Paul Smith Rose. Much more berries than Rose 4 Reines. This is by no means a soliflore. No nasty patchouli like Lady Vengeance. No heavy musk like Stella. Denser than Chloe Intense with the fruit mélange. Less smooth but much more tartly flirtatious and fun than Fille de Berlin. Not quite as powerful in pure roses as the Montale Highness Rose, but then nothing else is either. Much more rosy clean and fresh than the Bvlgari Rose Essentielle. Far more beautiful on my skin than Rose The One. All in all, a very unique rose that is opulently fruity and mouthwateringly gorgeous. I have a full bottle and plan to buy more. I find it hard to tear my nose away from my wrists with this one! Absolute Rose Love here!

This is a very juicy rose fragrance, and yes, I think it's very charming and mood-lifting! The dominant note in this is definitely the rose (which I love, because I am a huge fan of rosy perfumes for the most part). It smells floral, powdery, and soft. Now, I'm typically not the biggest fan of berry notes, but I think they are used extremely well here. The blackberry adds a brightness and a "morning dew"-like quality to the main rose note. The strawberry adds a hint of a sweet and sour note that almost makes the rose smell "tea-like" to me, which I also love because I'm a huge fan of tea-based perfumes. Before trying this, I was initially told how sweet this fragrance was-- to the point where I was almost expecting for this to be a gourmand. This is not at all a gourmand. It's a fruity floral ... But a very well-made fruity floral that is happy and youthful, but not at all immature (this is not AT ALL a celebrity-type fragrance). I figure that if you enjoy a sweet and clean fragrance like Nina by Nina Ricci, then you would probably enjoy the heck out of this. I find that this perfume lasts a very decent amount of time for me, as do all of the Juliette Has a Gun Fragrances I've tried out. This isn't a fragrance I'd qualify as a "one spray and you're done" kind of thing either. It's a good middle ground in terms of duration and sillage. I can easily see this being a signature-type fragrance for many people, since it's so wearable and not cloying in the slightest. I think it should be great to wear during the Spring and Summer. Overall, this is a clean, sweet, and feminine rose fragrance that's just delightful. I adore it. I'd say that Miss Charming is the yin to Lady Vengeance's yang (because Lady Vengeance is a fantastic, but a much sharper and a more "va va voom" rose perfume). I've yet to try a Juliette Has a Gun fragrance that I've disliked.

After trying this a couple times in the JHAG discovery set, it didn't particularly stand out to me. It was fresher and fruitier than any of the others, but not particularly memorable. (I know now that that is because I'm impatient and greedy with testing scents, so I probably rarely-to-never gave this a proper chance on it's own and would likely add another layer or two of Lady Vengeance or Mad Madame.) Then I saw a 50 mL bottle for a steal of a price on eBay and figured why not, I could always sell or trade it. I finished up my sample with a proper solo-dousing and OOH YUM what a difference! I would have never chosen this scent for myself, but it's become super addictive and I get tons of compliments on it. The perfect balance of fizzy-sweet and tart with just enough fresh rose vibes to smooth it out and add a little complexity. I find myself reaching for it more and more as the weather gets nicer, and I'm always delighted when I find the scent lingering on my scarf a day or two later. Sometimes I layer with a little more fresh rose (a la Paul Smith or Theme Bows & Eros) for a slightly different effect but that delicious strawberry-litchi fizz always sparkles through and lives up to the name. Utterly youthful, fresh and charming. P.S. This is the third or fourth Kurkdjian scent that I have gone mad for, I think I have a full-blown crush!

A beautiful purple rose is a rare find. That's true in nature and equally true in perfumery. Miss Charming is a purple rose to me... purple, precious and litchi infused. The fruit defines this rose. Francis Kurkdjian's use of a litchi / berry blend to create a rose simultaneously sweet, sour and slightly (and unexpectedly) boozy is too good to go unnoticed. It really is charming. even if a bit tipsy. That might just be where the charm lives. It sounds as if Miss Charming is modern, but strangely it's not. Just the opposite. It's a Victorian rose to my nose. Not stale or overly powdery, but a little dusty. For such a simple, linear composition, it certainly leaves a lasting impression. One of feminine appeal, sweetness, lace, friends, youth, spunk, innocence, wine, and yes, charm. While not cozy and comforting, it's comfortable. I find it especially easy to wear while sitting around gabbing with my girls about nothing and everything. It's that kind of fragrance. Longevity--average Projection--average Charm--enough to spare Though I doubt this darling Juliette has ever even seen a picture of a gun, she's completely disarming.

I am in LOVE with this scent. It is NOT a teenage scent (even though any age will smell good wearing this), but it is actually one of my all-time favorites out of my vast collection of bottles. I have really gotten into the perfume collecting since I quit smoking a few years ago. Now I can smell and it won't smell like I am trying to disguise smoke smell. Anyway, for about the last 12 to 16 months I have been frantically searching for a dupe of my absolute favorite perfume that has been discontinued (Stella Rose Absolute Intense). I must have purchased blindly at least 25 bottles that resemble it but nothing that was spot on. Just this week, I was going through all of the many bottles of perfume that I own already which is enough for 10 lifetimes, and came across this. THIS IS THE DUPE! Not only is it a TRUE dupe for SRAI, but it is even better due to the great longevity on my skin. It projects nicely and smells so fresh that I do believe can be worn in an office setting. I can't believe I had the dupe I was looking for all along! Now to find some backups of this before it becomes obsolete. It is the BEST.