Juliette Has A Gun
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Bergamot and lavender create a brief aromatic shimmer, almost soapy in their clean brightness, before the hedione kicks in with its bracing, almost plasticky magnolia effect. The roses are already there, but they're backlit and hazy, not yet in focus.
The roses bloom properly now, rich and slightly jammy, but the Iso E Super creates an insistent woody buzz that makes everything feel like it's vibrating at a slightly higher frequency. Patchouli grounds the composition with its chocolate-dark earthiness, whilst the spicy accord emerges as a peppery warmth threading through the petals.
Ambroxan takes over with its salty-mineral skin-scent quality, turning everything soft and diffuse, whilst vanilla and white musk create a powdery sweetness that clings close. What remains is a velvety, slightly detergent-clean memory of rose, warmed and abstracted beyond recognition.
Lady Vengeance plays a clever trick: it presents rose as if seen through a fog of modern aromachemicals, each element pulling the flower in a different direction until it becomes something entirely other. The lavender and bergamot opening feels almost incidental, a brief citrus-herbal throat-clearing before the Bulgarian and Moroccan roses arrive wrapped in hedione's metallic sheen and Iso E Super's woody halo. This isn't your grandmother's rose soliflore—Kurkdjian has surrounded the blooms with such insistent synthetic musks and that particular cedary buzz of Iso E that the florals feel abstracted, almost pixelated. The patchouli adds a dark, earthy undertow that keeps the composition from floating away entirely, whilst vanilla in the base provides just enough sweetness to soften the angular edges. This is rose for people who claim they don't like rose, worn by those who appreciate perfumery's fascination with making natural materials feel futuristic. It smells knowing, slightly detached, with a powdery-spicy quality that reads as deliberately androgynous. The name promises drama, but the scent itself is more quietly assertive than vengeful—like someone who's moved past anger into cool confidence. It works best in that liminal space between seasons, when you want something substantive but not heavy, floral but decidedly modern.
Add fragrances to your collection and unlock your personalised scent DNA, note map, and shareable identity card.
3.5/5 (155)