JULIETTE HAS A GUN
POWDER LOVE
2025
cotton candy
marshmallow
orange blossom
Candied almond
ambroxan
tonka bean
musk
‘Powder Love is the fragrance of a dreamy haze, a soft embrace, a refined accord, a sweet nostalgia. Powder Love is an airy whisper, a cloudy kiss, a fluffy caress. Step into a world of fantasy with a Pink frosted glass bottle. A color that echoes the top notes of Cotton Candy and Marshmallow, making this regressive fragrance an object of desire. Topped with its metallic cap, Powder Love’s bottle encapsulates the essence of the perfume, dreamy and elegant. The trail of Powder Love swirls into the air, stretching into Cotton Candy clouds across an endless pastel sky, morphing into Orange Blossom flowers, and landing on a bed of Marshmallow. In contact of the fragrance, the skin, coated in Sugared Almond, melts with pleasure. An orgasmic alchemy where Powdery Musk lingers, reminiscence of a sweet memory.’ – Juliette Has A Gun
My honest thoughts are that Juliette Has A Gun is one of the most underwhelming and overpriced brands on the market; with most of their fragrances smelling plain simple and cheap to my nose. Coming off arguably their worst release Miami Shake and one of their better releases X Skins, I’d say Powder Love falls in between.
This is ultimately a pleasant scent. It’s just as generic as it gets, which you could pretty much guess just by looking at the notes. It follows in the footsteps of dozes of super sweet, straight-forward powdery ‘marshmallowy’ fragrances with a small floral nudge.
In the opening that floral tint comes through the most; not a strong orange blossom scent, but there is some petal-like quality and even some nods to dewy flowers. This is however, completely overpowered by sweetness. As the name suggests, it’s powdery and it falls somewhere in between the Kayali Yum Boujee Marshmallow/Vanilla Candy Rock Sugar and the slightly coconutty, sun-tan leaning body mists, like Sol de Janeiro Beijos De Sol. Picture a most powdery take on those. I think Glossier You’s feeling is also prominent, which has been the case for several of the Juliette Has A Gun’s. The theme being that it wears and smells like popular, common smelling, much more affordable releasess.
After a few minutes the florals start to take a backseat and you get a pleasant, but even more generic, full-on vanillic, tonka bean powdery skin scent. I’ve seen comparison to some of the Kilian releases like Love Don’t Be Shy, but if memory serves me correct, that has a clearer orange blossom throughout.
What Powder Love has going for it most, it that it performs reasonably well; at least better than most of the body mists. Still, I can’t help but to feel like you’re essentially getting scammed with it. Jumping on trendy marketing, without a trace of originality or elevated quality. Who is this for? Are the Kayali, Sol de Janeiro, Zara, Victoria’s Secret, Bath & Body Works, body mist etc. wearers paying €140 for Juliette Has A Gun? I guess they must be…
