Juliette Has A Gun
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The chewing gum note detonates immediately—bright, fruity, almost violently sweet—suggesting bubblegum or those artificial berry lollies, before the floral absolutes begin pressing underneath like a heavier perfume note trying to break through. Within minutes, you're caught between sticky-sweet and creamy-florid, a disorienting collision.
The tuberose and jasmine absolutes fully assert themselves, their dense, buttery character dominating whilst the gum note recedes into a lingering sweetness rather than a distinct note. The florals develop an almost soapy, talcum-adjacent quality, boosted by the synthetic accords, creating that peculiar "expensive perfume" smell that hovers between beautiful and slightly off-kilter.
The ambroxan and amber emerge to catch the flagging composition, imparting a warm, powdery dryness, though longevity issues mean the whole affair begins to fade into skin warmth rather than projecting outward. What remains is a faint, creamy sweetness—more memory than presence.
Lili Fantasy arrives as a peculiar collision between childhood nostalgia and grown-up sensuality, a fragrance that seems torn between gum-snapping irreverence and intoxicated florals. The chewing gum opening—synthetic, fruity, almost bubblegum-pink in character—signals that this won't be a traditional white floral. Instead, Romano Ricci has constructed something deliberately incongruous: the gum's saccharine sweetness acts as a Trojan horse for the tuberose and jasmine that swell beneath it, those heavier absolutes lending a creamy, almost fleshy richness that feels vaguely indecent alongside the candy-like topnote.
This is a fragrance for those unafraid of contradictions—the sort of wearer who doesn't need their scents to make immediate sense. The 76% synthetic accord confirms Ricci's deliberate embrace of artificial materials; the florals never quite smell like actual flowers, instead becoming perfumey and self-consciously "perfume-like," with that gauzy, aldehydic quality of vintage tuberose soliflores. The ambroxan and amber base, though present, never fully anchor the composition into something grounded. Instead, they amplify the sweet, almost medicinal quality that hangs throughout.
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