Juicy Couture Dirty English Toilette Spray 3.4oz

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Juicy Couture Dirty English 3.4 oz EDT Spray Men

Dirty English has been identified by Nash-Taylor of Juicy Couture as a cross between the influences of her own Anglomania (she is married to John Taylor of Duran Duran), Skaist-Levys’ “CZ Guest Style”, a dash of punk (Sex Pistols) while its style (the bottle's?) borrows from their flagship store located on Rodeo Drive. She also promised that, "Any self-respecting bad boy will want to wear it." (Women’s Wear Daily)

The name of the perfume is immediately catchy and if we were to start drawing a list of The Best of 2008, it would have to be nominated under the category "Best Fragrance Name". It actually makes you want to create the category. The first whiff from the bottle promises the scent to be less than pale. It is sweeter and more heavily resinous than average.

The perfume turns out to be a noteworthy twist on a traditional woody-leathery-tobacco scent for men with fresh fougere accents. It demonstrates how you can play with the idea of excess without being excessive in reality. Its most traditional facet suggests the suave after-shave of a gentleman frequenting the requisite club with all the necessary trappings of leather furniture, books and polished woods with beeswax that one would expect. This is deemed an ideal by many and it is a comfortable one. Its more adventurous facet is a humorous and sensual play on the notion of human foulness and extreme bodily exhalations as it plays with the notion of dirtiness but ultimately and paradoxically in a clean and allusive way. This Englishman is indeed a bit dirty and it is not just a play on words but really a play on olfactory sensations......

The packaging is typically Juicy Couture offering two charms attached to the bottle. And to end on a practical note, it reads on the packaging: “Do not spray directly onto light colored clothing”.

Top notes of peppered mandarin, blue cypress, Calabrian bergamot, caraway and cardamom pods; a heart of marjoram, black leather and the proprietary Santal Fatal accord, consisting of sandalwood, atlas cedarwood and vetiver roots and a dry-down of agarwood, ebony wood, black moss absolute and amber musk