[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I met Juliette Has A Gun founder, Romano Ricci, a few years ago – he’s very dapper, very French and exquisitely charming. It was at the time the brand was launching into the UK so it was all new and shiny and not nearly the famous fragrance name it is now. Romano comes from a long line of fragrance entrepreneurs…he’s the grandson of Nina Ricci. Interesting that now the brand has taken on investors so it’s probably only a matter of time before it belongs to a conglomerate.

I have no idea where I got this little sampler from but it’s plenty to get an idea of the nature of the perfume – the clue is in the name! Lipstick Fever is an ode to historic notes used in lipsticks – mid-lifers will remember that sweet, waxy and powdery smell of their mum or granny’s lipsticks or as I remember, powders too, especially rouge pots. The 1920’s, apparently, was when sweet violet notes emerged but a rose accent has been associated with lipsticks for much longer.

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Lipstick Fever opens on a powerful iris – to the point I had a quick cough. The dry down, however, is exactly vintage lipstick, full of sweet powder and parma violets with a little kick of fruit provided by raspberry. I’ve kept an old silk scarf of my grandma’s and for ages it smelled like this – a joyous nostalgic olfactory ping for me. Lipstick Fever changes again much later and becomes more sophisticated and woody with leathery notes to echo those Miss Marple style handbags that lipstick was kept in. My nose is finding traces of Chanel No.5 in there too and all in all it’s pretty and charming. It’s £100 for 50ml (with a free gift of a candle is on offer at the moment) HERE.

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