My partner works at the airport and often samples the new duty free perfume while passing through, a nice perk of the job you might imagine. Unfortunately it's me who has to endure some of the awful stuff she just happens to slop on herself...JPG's Scandal is one of those. It's kinda in that vein of recent releases from Marc Jacobs and Mugler, sort of chintzy takes on the black orchid theme. Big, heavy, chunky chemical clouds but this one is an insult to those others I compared it to which actually aren't bad. It smells like very toxic, sickly sweet berries and some kind of god awful 'floral' smell which could NEVER exist in nature, It's pretty hideous but sadly generic because there's loads of tat like this around. I had to tell her to keep away because it was knocking me sick. She commented that the bottle design was very cheeky and pure JPG all over but it's not even an original idea as there's a Revlon perfume with almost the exact same bottle! JPG's line has really redeemed itself for me in recent Le Male releases for example but this is an absolute abomination. I suspect the silage and Longevity are atomic...at least it seemed that way to me. Yeah...I don't like it.
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In the beginning this smelled quite promising but the dry down unveils the Caramel and Honey, which give off a sickly, tangy sweet scent. In combination with this bottle and this name, it feels a bit tacky. It’s a 2.5, I gave it 3 stars for the initial good impression.