Description
Julia is a subtle fruity floral fragrance, spontaneous and vibrant, for a romantic person.
The composition begins with pure and innocent fruity accords of mandarin, rhubarb leaves and aromatic and mouthwatering black currant. The heart is blended transparent floral notes (jasmine, violet and hyacinth), which is rounded by light base notes which is slightly powdery and woody, with a hint of fruity sweetness, features sandalwood, incense, citruses, raspberry and musk.
The fragrance is available in 50 and 100ml of eau de parfum, a parfum extract of 15ml, and a solid of 2 gr with refill. The perfume was created by Jean-François Latty in 2005. The nose behind this fragrance is Jean-Francois Latty.
anton00075 – :
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.
sasha979 – :
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.
xbr331Unlogrere – :
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.
kawern – :
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.
HomPeemetarof – :
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.
tyhonoleg – :
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.
bab32 – :
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).
харек48 – :
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.
qwer123 – :
You can smell that the perfume is really good quality but too sweet for me; especially in the beginning.
tfl471Bessinepome – :
way too much yasmine in the middle note… at least for me. Suppose those who like it will appreciate.
kyabelfubon – :
a good quality perfume but too sweet and nondescript for me,too many elements together and rather confusing.
markovp – :
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.
kgy844intitytek – :
Very maiden, virgin, tender fragrance of white flowers. A bit naive like a young girl’s dreams and delicate as if the girl’s smile… Honorable and feminen.
Nesin2011 – :
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.