Juliet

[ScabbyLucy]

Sweet pea with stargazer lily, calla lily, heliotrope, honeysuckle, white musk and a touch of fresh pear.

: sighs: Heliotrope. Honeysuckle. Sweet Pea. Calla Lily. Several of my favorite flowers and favorite floral scents. Pear is one of my favorite fruits. I choose to blame the white musk again, because this is soap on me, and in the imp.

Not "soapy" as in a little soapy smelling, or a little artificial smelling. This smells like a brick of Ivory soap. The kind we used to carve in Girl Scouts.

[ringmaster-red]

In the bottle: sweet pea, a little fruity, other florals

 

Wet: Sweet pea and other florals. It’s warm, but it’s quite soapy. I think I recognize the heliotrope note from Lolita. I think it might be the white florals that are pushing it into soapy land. I can smell the musk coming out now, but I don’t get the pear at all so far. The sweet pea gets buried under everything else. The honeysuckle is sweetening it a little, but still soapy. It’s just soap with a bit of musk. This is disappointing. I was hoping to like this one.

 

Dry: Still soapy. Like, a bar of Dove soap. It’s just soap. After 30 minutes, the musk warms it up and brings it back to warm slightly-soapy musky honeysuckle, and it’s suddenly very very light.

 

It’s not like it smells bad, but it’s really not what I was hoping for.

[Deliciousness]

In the imp: Slightly sweet floral. I think I'm smelling a sweeter rose, but there isn't rose listed in the is scent.

Wet on skin: Pretty much the same as the imp. except this blend gets a little sweeter and juicer ... that must be the pear coming thru. Very nice.

Drydown: Hum, this ends up slightly powdery. Not overwhelming so, but enough for me to think of soap, but it's not bad. The florals are dying down and the scent seems to becoming lighter.

 

Although the wet stage is quite nice, the dry down, at least on my skin, is a little lackluster. It becomes a little dry and slightly soapy with a background of sweet florals. It's a pretty and feminine scent and not overpowering. Give this a go if you like lighter florals.

[JuliskaMarie]

In the imp: Musky, fruity florals! It's hard to pick the florals out individually, but I can juuuust spot the sweet pea & honeysuckle. The pear is quite easy to find though.

Wet on skin: The lilies are the first to show up here, but the honeysuckle, sweet pea & what I assume must be the heliotrope aren't too far behind. The musk is working as a soft coating over everything, blurring the flowers all together. There's a hint of pear in the background, but only if you're looking for it. It's a very light & sweet scent.

Dry on skin: Very soft & sweet flowers! Again, the sweet pea & honeysuckle are easiest for me to spot, but there's lillies & heliotrope in the background. The musk isn't really it's own note here, it's still just softening the flowers. Likewise, the pear doesn't seem to be standing alone either, it's very light & blended in with the flowers... like a few slices of pear floating in a vase of flowers, rather than a whole pear seperate from them. Very clean, fresh & lovely.

After a few hours: The pear is a little more noticeable now, but it's still blended with the flowers. Very pretty & sweet. For such a light scent, it lasts pretty well!

Verdict: I love this one & I suspect that I'll be buying a bottle of it when my imp runs out!

[Veronica]

Wet, this is SO lovely--lilies and heliotrope sometimes go haywire on me, but I truly hope it will not be the case here. A pretty, bright and sweet floral. White, but not cloying.

 

EDIT: This dries off to a creamy, slightly spiced floral (carnation-like to my nose). Very pretty still, similar to what I imagine Alice smells like on many.

Edited March 27, 2015 by delighted

[Trinacria]

Granted, my nose isn't very educated, but I couldn't detect sweet pea or honeysuckle, notes that I love. I couldn't detect anything in particular- it just smelled cheap, synthetic, and horrid.

[dementia_divine]

In the imp: It's difficult to pinpoint the notes in this, but the sweet pea, lily, and musk notes jump out at me the most in the imp.

 

Wet: The lilies reign. The pear note adds a bit of sweetness. I love the Lab's honeysuckle note, but alas, it's not one of the main players in this blend. Sadly, the sweet pea note isn't very prominent on my skin, either, and those were the floral notes to which I was most looking forward. The pear note begins to emerge more as the scent starts to dry.

 

Dry: This is still a lily dominant scent, but I'm getting more sweet pea and pear in this stage.

 

Verdict: It's pleasant, but I don't need more of it. There are other lily dominant scents (such as Tiger Lily, which was discontinued from the Mad Tea Party line) that I enjoy more.

[Casablanca]

Bottle: White lily and musk soap.

Wet: O soapiest of scents I have tried! It's also a pretty white floral and musk. I don't pick out heliotrope and I don't know sweet pea, but I can get faint honeysuckle and pear. I'm not sure where the soapiness is coming from. When I smell this, I feel like an unpalatable film of white soap has coated my mouth, even though my mouth isn't involved. It seems this Juliet is tragically clean.

Dry: On me, honeysuckle and musk gain strength as this dries. The soapiness subsides, so I guess that was associated with a top note. Still... the rest fades quickly.

This is a nay.

[Christine Daae]

In the imp: Soapy! Which makes sense, I’ve avoided this until now because sweet pea can go soapy on me. My interest in a honeysuckle scent outweighed the worry though!

Wet: Yes, that’s a bit soapy indeed! It’s not the “oh I can taste this in the back of my throat” soapy that I get from some other notes, though (peony, anything vaguely lemony).

After that, though, it’s a beautiful clean, green floral. I get mostly lilies with a “clean” hint of sweet pea, and the heliotrope tempering the soapiness of sweet pea with its vanillic qualities. I don’t get much pear, unless the pear is lending the “green” note I’m getting here - in other words, it’s not a sweet or syrupy pear.

It is a little green and "clean" smelling but mostly just pretty, and it's clean in a nice way that I think will wear well in hot weather! It’s not the honeysuckle scent of my dreams, but it’s quite pretty and I’m glad I gave it a chance.

[LizziesLuck]

Wet: sweet, almost candy-like pear. Lily (aka wet cardboard, on me). Not pleasant thus far.

 

 

Dry: Once the lily settles, it's quite nice for a bit, but fades really quickly to just a faint pear scent. Not really for me, but it has it's charm, for sure.

[lizabelle]

This is definitely soapy, but sweet soapy, like a laundry detergent with way too much scent added. It feels soft but also somehow heavy, maybe because of all those flowers. Maybe it's the blend, but they smell artificial to me instead of like real, living flowers. This is especially sad because there are few things I like smelling more in the world than sweet peas in the summer--they absolutely cover several fields near where I live, so I'm very familiar with the scent. This is not it. I do get something like pear skin, which is lovely, but the rest of it can't seem to get out of soapville even once it settles.

Edited February 8, 2017 by lizabelle

[Soupy Twist]

Lily? and honeysuckle in the bottle. Goes on as a generalized floral with touches of pear. The honeysuckle returns, paired with sweet pea, and as it dries the sweet pea becomes more pronounced and then sadly powdery and soapy. "A bar of soap" is a good summary, as others have noted.

This is what I thought RPG Good would smell like: innocent. While this is a pretty, nondescript floral, I think people forget that Juliet was the stronger of the two star-crossed lovers. She moved a good chunk of the action forward. She decided to take the fake poison, and then when Romeo died she briskly stabbed herself and didn't take all day wibbling about it. I'm sad that there's nothing to represent that fierceness here.