Oh Dangerous curves, How I love the OTT perfumery of thee. Instantly smashes you over the head with perfumey, perfume stuff, I describe it as the excitement of smelling the air as you approach a perfume department, which many would think to be the more tenacious, divisive stuff, a cloud of ambrox and woody ambers (which it almost certainly can be) but I have a much more romantic meaning in mind, it's the tingle of labdanum and the heady swoosh of roses freshened with fruits and pink pepper, floralisers and all that shit! This is the stuff that gets me primed with anticipation to smell some new perfumes and probably tricked into buying stuff I really shouldn't, but hey ho! Dangerous curves is a perfume made for Transgender model and socialite Amanda Lapore and it's just as much of a warping of the Marilyn Monroe aesthetic, in olfactory form. This is a BIG perfume but it's not vulgar or too much it's actually very refined for all it's power. I actually get a resinous opening to me, spicy, labdanumish, somewhat sharp, full bodied mildly fruity. Then all the sparkle and effervescent booze of the champagne which I often associate with cognac materials. An indolic sort of civety blast just washes over, the most subtle nod to classic perfumery and then it's gone. The rose is quite powdery to start off but then you get that cosmetic iris feel but it's more ionones than irones, it's nothing like Malle's Lipstick rose or anything of the sort, I'd say it's merely a smudge of lippy. What it did remind me of was Amouage Lyric Man and woman, as she settles in to a lovely soapy, airy rose accord, really lovely but doesn't quite have the same whispy, floating smoke quality (not smoky) because there's some other heavyweight ambery type accords in here but possibly led me to believe there may have been some olibanum which could add to that bubbly, airiness? I think it's fantastic anyway, lots of common themes perhaps but the execution is so different and allows for quite a busy composition to feel like it has breathing space, not an easy thing to achieve. Throw expectations out of the window and enjoy this perfume for the lovely experience that it is. Wonderful.