Juliette Has a Gun - Sunny Side Up

Sunny Side Up (“Sunny”) is a floral woody musk offering from the think-outside-the-box brand Juliette Has a Gun.  Released in 2017, the perfumer, Romano Ricci seeks to emulate the warmth and effect of midday sun against the skin.

Typically, I’m a Fall/Winter person.  I adore the changing of the leaves in the Fall and Winter’s peaceful silence.  Somehow today as an icy blanket covered my corner of the world, I was looking for something to break from the chill.  As life is full of ironies, I thought the choice of a “sunny” fragrance would provide a little fragrance humor as well as a respite from the grasp of the cold.

Sunny opens with a creamy accord of a floral sandalwood.  The sandalwood is prominent and lush; almost milky.  About an hour into wear I begin to get a semi-sweet coconut vanilla.  The vanilla prevents the coconut from becoming a “suntan lotion” note; instead, the fragrance shifts into somewhat gourmand territory.  The perfume is tinged with a cool spiciness as it continues to develop against the skin.  There is a calm softness to the fragrance as a clean musk wraps like cashmere around the floral wood notes. 

Sunny wears on me as a comfortable, calm, happy scent with soft projection for roughly 7 hours.

Notes: amyris, jasmine and vanilla absolute, sandalwood, orris root, jasmine, coconut milk, ambrette (musk mallow), iso e super

Perfumer:  Romano Ricci