Julia

Because this was labeled "fruity floral" and eschwed by bloggers, I avoided it until I received a sample with my Teo Cabanel order for some other scents (which I adore, love the house). This genre may be done to death, but this perfume is lovely! While the advertising and indeed bloggers and reviewers identify this as young, fruity, fresh, floral, I found it different enough to whip out my credit card again. It is not a sweet fruitcouli, but rather the younger version, more iris, rasberry, violet (but not candied sweetness) of Lace Garden. I literally had an image of a mother wearing her Lace Garden, while daughter wore Julia--but also saw mother and daughter swapping scents. As Oha is to a formal mature occasion, Early Roses is to a summer day, more casual. So Julia provides a counterpoint to the more overtly formal and classical Lace Garden. This is a classy, piquant and effervescent scent for the summer, perfect to wear to weddings (including one's own) and garden parties. The rhubarb adds tart greeness and the florals smell distinctive, with the violet quite noticeable. Rather than a musky fruit-berry sweet generic smell, the rasberry has a lip puckering quality. I also feel like I pick up rasberry leaf, not just berry, and I could swear there is rose in this. Overall this has presence. I found this considerably better than the mall frags and dreck out there. This would make a lovely gift. I highly recommend finding out for yourself if you'll like it and advise a discovery set. This one is an overlooked gem. I'm an incense, resin, wood "Shalimar"type of woman and was pleasantly surprised.

Beyond the embarrassing crudity and age-ism of “old lady” rudeness lies an ocean of ignorance. This is an exquisitely balanced fragrance. It takes perfect advantage of the sweetness of raspberry and orange to highlight the sweetness of the hyacinth (so often lost in bitter green), violet, and jasmine. But Julia also uses the subtle tartness of currant and rhubarb to both balance the sweetness and pull freshness from the orange. This isn’t a freshie , but it’s fresh. It isn’t fruitie, it’s an elegant floral lifted by fruit notes. The base?... a very soft touch of incense. Also, sandalwood and the violet combine into a light waft of powder. There isn’t a single part of this composition that’s either too much or too little. Ageless, timeless, always perfect. Approachable yet elegant. It smells like a light, classic waft of deliciousness, floral, clean, a beautiful bubble of time. Genuinely delicate powder and incense ground a classic violet/jasmine/hyacinth floral accord, a light scarf of fruit keeps everything perfectly aligned. Wow. Bottle lovely too.

Mixed feelings about this perfume when I purchase it almost a decade ago.. barely even used it! But nowww fast forward 2026... I was pleasantly surprised that the fragrance was not spoiled by the warm tropical weather I lived in. Adding to this, Julia smells even more lovely, like a pretty girl who is completely unaware of her natural beauty. Julia would smile warmly at you, when you dropped your pen or paper and she voluntarily picked it up. That opening smell caught me off guard, bright tangy and sweet~ rhubarb and hints of blackcurrant. Orange barely there, if it was , it’s quite weak and overwhelmed. Hyacinth, Jasmin and violet blended so well that none dominated the other. So overall a pleasant and unpretentious beauty. Perfect for summer evenings and a glass of refreshing fruity cocktail

Absolutely beautiful to me... it has a sweeter component, but it’s so light. The raspberry adds a green tea-ish note. No incense, no musk, and not much sandalwood until later. Very mellow, easy to wear. Natural, not synthetic. Quietly elegant. Downside, longevity is poor, unless on clothing.

My sample of this says: Mandarin, Rhubarb Green, Tart Blackcurrant, Jasmine, Hyacinth, Violet, Sandalwood, Incence, _Cistus_, Raspberry, Musk. Labdanum is not listed for Julia by Teo Cabanel. As for the scent: This is quite a heavy scent to my nose! It's also exactly how my grandma smells. I love my grandma! She loves Hyacinths, blue is her favourite colour. She is an old lady now, in the sixties looked like Marylin Monroe with her style and posture, big blonde curls and white shift dresses plus high heels. Berlin in style! :) But I'm not sure I can wear this now. It will have to wait! It is definately a perfume for a lady, not a child. Hyacinth is strong in this, the combination of strong sharp fruity notes and then the flowers is well done and blended. There's quite the dose of musk, cedar and incence in this, so it's the last smell on earth I'd call "young" or "naive". Violets, hyacinths and jasmine fill the centre with an almost almighty power. This isn't innocently sweet, it's sweet-sour and powerful! I would place this in the winter and spring category, it's refreshing but not cold. Neither does it exactly need the warmth of winter spices to work. I could imagine that it might blossom nicely in summer weather, but it's not light enough for that; it could be overwhelming. Certainly a scent that knows itself well. To be worn when you're sure of yourself.

Julia, created in 2005, is very on trend right now with her tart green rhubarb and black currant opening. Different and vastly superior to most current fruity florals because this seems very natural and not overtly synthetic. Julia dries down to a powdery aldehydic raspberry-floral softened with clean musk and violets. This is delicate, classy and understated but when I spray on clothing it lasts a while. Has a Chanel vibe. Julia is an underrated gem. If you’re into all the current tart fruity florals like Dior Absolutely Blooming, Dior Joy, Chloe and even Delina (and so on) you ought to give this a shot. My bottle is original so I’m unsure if this has suffered reformulation though. This is such a classy little number.

My first reaction was the sour skin of an unwashed old lady/the smell of sour milk. I love rhubarb scents but the rhubarb and hyacinth combined were a rough ride. Then the other pretty florals start to rise and it's kind of like the sour skin of an old woman wearing powdery barely-there florals as if she is carrying a little tussie mussie or sachet with her or put something in her underwear drawer to scent it. The hyacinth and violet develop a nostalgic feel. The fragrance is very musky. I disliked this on first sniff in the summer then wore it in the winter and loved it. It's a vintage floral aldehyde. This lasted one to two hours in summer but is still a skin scent 15 hours later in winter.

A nice floral fruity perfume for spring and summer. Not so original, I can smell rhubarb, white flowers and musk. More for a delicate and fun young woman, the sillage and the longevity are correct for an "Eau de Toilette". We can wear it for work, week-end, etc. This scent completes well the range of this brand (Méloé with citrous & lavender; and Hegoa with citrous & green tea). * Hegoa = relax fresh moment with a green tea for hot days * Méloé = fresh and clean fragrance for the middle of summer * Julia = More girly and fruity perfume for spring and summer 7/10

It is as weak as a kitten. So weak I can't imagine anyone being offended by it. It does have a fruity freshness about it that is unusual in having that touch of rhubarb and blackcurrant astringency. I've got to admit I can barely make out any hyacinth in this. You can just about detect the natural sweetness coming from the orange and rose. A pleasant casual scent for a sunny warm day. I'm starting to recognise French scents. They are never very strong. You have to keep applying every couple of hours. They are mostly gorgeous.

At first I didn't like Julia and thought it would be a pity to part ways with Teo Cabanel's sample set on such a note - I liked most of the perfumes very much. But after the opening had faded away, a very subtle mix of sentimental powderiness and feminine florals came to the front. Again, this isn't very long-lasting and I wish it were...

You can smell that the perfume is really good quality but too sweet for me; especially in the beginning.

Alas - another Teo Cabanel fragrance that just doesn't seem to sit well on my skin. On me its more floral than fruity and there is too much Hyacinth which I generally find to be a cold, odd floral. I can detect the sharp blackcurrant if I inhale deeply but the other fruits are lost? Likewise I don't detect much Jasmine or Rose? It reminds of a scent my grandmother wore back in the 80s and as such I probably just associate as a more mature lady's classy fragrance. Pleasant enough I guess - its just not very remarkable (on me).

I mean, it is the very definition of a pleasant fruity floral, and that's it. I have smelled this a million times and I will smell it a million times more.

You see her at the library, the table in front of her is littered with study materials. Her brows are furrowed as she scans her notes. While she reads her hair keeps falling and draping her face, she tucks it behind her ear each time, only to have it fall back again. She’s dressed sensibly for the season in a faded t-shirt and soft cardigan, in that kind of “effortless yet chic” loungewear style. she’s fully immersed in the material in front of her until a friend walks up and they start to chat. The intensity melts from her face as she lights up and grins. She tosses her head back and laughs before clasping at her mouth once she remembers she’s in a library. As the evening approaches you catch her grab at her gum and stick it under the desk before she packs up to leave. This is Julia, pleasant, average but authentic. Not one to stand out but you can tell there’s a strength in character, she’s not trying to be anyone else, she’s just doing her own thing. This fragrance is a pretty fruity floral, it’s nice and there isn’t anything you can point out as being “off”. Teo Cabanel played it safe but did it well and with genuine attention to quality. Unlike other fruity florals, there isn’t any underlying synthetic property, the fruits and the florals come out as natural. As with many natural-smelling fragrances, the performance is quite weak.

Julia combines notes of orange, rhuburb, blackcurrant and jasmine, violet, hyacinth; it starts with fruity notes, the flowers join in shortly thereafter and intensify over the next 30 minutes or so. It has a youthful, fresh appeal with just a hint of seductness. Even so, unfortunately, I found it to be slightly too sweet for my taste. I mean, it's nicely done, even if it is not my sort of fragrance, I rather liked the top notes, which were sparkling and nicely tart (the rhubarb and the blackcurrant seemed to be rather freshly picked fruit leaves than the fruit itself) and the violet - hyacinth combination was really impressive, but there was the raspberry accord in the drydown that was sweeter than I would like. While undeniably well-made, it is exactly the kind of fragrance that does not appeal to me personally - candy-sweet and fruity.

I'm not generally a big fruity-floral fan (the only ones I love are Petite Cherie and Ines de la Fressange), but this one is just lovely. The fruits seem tart and fresh to me, not candied, and they flow gently into a fresh, young, innocent rose-hyacinth scent. The violet adds sweetness here, it's not dusty; I can't identify the jasmine but it's probably there in small quantities to round out the floral stage. Drydown too is pretty: woods, and a light musk with a slightly-fruity aspect (that raspberry). The overall effect is youth and freshness, the sweet innocence of a girl on her first date ever. It feels too young for me, but is captivating on my teenage daughter. Lovely.

Frutti floral bomb at the first spray with lots of rhuburb. As the first 2 minutes passes the musc begins to show up as if it's showing the other dirty face with the help of jasmines violets, and the colder it goes the nastier & filthier it gets with some smoothness soapy effect to hide that nasty face as if it is cleaning a nasty skunk creature! so you can smell the cleanness of the soap and the skunky creature at the same time, as if a black heart person is trying to praise something he hates, but you can feel he is lying! This is mixing, soapy, musc, with slight animalic, and some sweet fruits.

I was apprehensive as I am not so keen on hyacinths and this is a fruity floral... let's face it, they have a bad reputation these days! This is gorgeous though, crisp and fruity without the syrup or sugar, innocent but slightly naughty due to the musk underlying it! Lots of blackcurrants with a bit of a floral feel in the background, nice musky dry down with hints of blackcurrant still. I have this and Oha and both feel well made with good ingredients, I am definitely going to try to keep my eye out for others.

To me this is very soapy, very floral, very old school hyachint with lots of aldehydes and sweetness. Not getting any of that rhubarb or tart fruit, just a sugary sweet vintage aldehyde floral. A little powdery on the drydown. For old souls i reckon! ** 200+ UK samples up for swap - check my custom shelf, get in touch! **

Elegant, sweet fruity-floral. Another great delivery from Teo Cabanel. Somehow they managed to mix currently in fashion fruity-bubbly juice with some classy notes and make it sophisticated. Great for warmer weather.