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Jennifer Lopez Live & Live Luxe ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 5 October 2006 21 Comments

Jennifer Lopez Live advertJennifer Lopez Live Luxe fragrance

Jennifer Lopez launched Live, her fourth fragrance, last year. Live was developed by perfumer Dominique Ropion, and the notes include lemon, orange, pineapple, redcurrant, peony, violet, caramel, tonka beans, vanilla and sandalwood.

Not surprisingly, Live is a fruity floral — hey, almost all celebrity fragrance releases these days are fruity florals, and despite what I keep reading about how the trends are changing, it sometimes seems like at least 90% of all fragrance releases are fruity florals, and sweet ones at that. It isn't my favorite category so it doesn't exactly strike joy in my heart, but if it is yours, I don't think you have anything to worry about for the near future.

The ad copy describes Live as an "upbeat fruity floral" inspired by J Lo's love for dancing, and that is exactly what it smells like: young and energetic and fun. It starts with citrus and pineapple, and the top notes have a kind of tropical cocktail feel, but the dry down is deeper and sexier, with warm woods and lots of musk, and the caramel-vanilla is pleasingly subdued.

Despite the warmth and sexiness, it is still more clean than not. Unless I'm mistaken (sorry, running late and no time to Google it) this is the fragrance that J Lo wanted to smell like baby's heads and cake. I'm not sure I get either, but there is something like clean skin in the dry down. At any rate, Live is nicely done and very wearable. I don't adore it but I don't hate it either. I have read complaints about the lasting power but I had no such trouble with it myself; a kind of indistinctly fruity musky-woods lasted nearly all day on me.

Live Luxe, the first follow-up to Live, launched earlier this year. It is yet another fruity floral, this one created by perfumer Claudette Belnavis. The notes include pear, peach, melon, apple, muguet, amethyst freesia, honeysuckle, diamond musk, amber, vanilla and sandalwood.

Live Luxe did not impress me nearly as much as Live, although of course it all depends on what you are after. The top notes are again sweet fruits: mixed at first; later, I smelled mostly apple. They are followed by sweet florals and then a rather pale, thin base: there really isn't anything to temper the sweetness as there is in Live; there is little warmth, and I didn't find it particularly sexy. It smells like perhaps it is geared towards a younger market than the original, or perhaps it is simply meant as more of a summer fragrance? Either way, it is not my cup of tea.

Possibly of interest

Jennifer Lopez Promise ~ new fragrance
Jennifer Lopez JLust ~ new fragrance
Jennifer Lopez JLuxe ~ new fragrance

Filed Under: perfume talk
Tagged With: celebrity perfumes, claudette belnavis, dominique ropion, flanker, fruity floral, jennifer lopez

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  1. Anonymous says:
    5 October 2006 at 2:18 pm

    Yes, if one loves this sort of thing, there are plenty of options to explore. :)

    Celebrity fragrance reviews are so difficult to write for me these days–I find myself saying the same thing over and over again.

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  2. Anonymous says:
    5 October 2006 at 5:07 pm

    After today's review, and looking at tomorrow's line up, you should be getting hazard pay.

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  3. Anonymous says:
    5 October 2006 at 6:56 pm

    Live wasn't really so bad I felt, but god, am I sick as ever of the fruity-floral fad. I just don't get it – how on earth is the market not completely oversaturated at this point is beyond me. I agree with Angela, with what's coming tomorrow and the next day, you should be getting some sort of extra recompensation. That is a lot of fruity-floral for one person to have to take ;)

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  4. Anonymous says:
    5 October 2006 at 8:06 pm

    LOL — maybe its easier to just say the same thing over & over ;-)

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  5. Anonymous says:
    5 October 2006 at 8:06 pm

    LOL — somebody's got to do it…

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  6. Anonymous says:
    5 October 2006 at 8:08 pm

    Well, I'm sure the market is oversaturated, and that is why so many of these fragrances disappear so quickly. But J Lo seems to have good staying power — none of hers have been discontinued yet, so far as I know.

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  7. Anonymous says:
    12 October 2006 at 11:18 pm

    Her Glows get discontinued. All except the first glow. The other glows are just limited editions. Kinda like ELizabeth Taylor's white diamond expansions. I looooooooooooooove Live jennifer lopez. I got tired of Live Luxe after 3 days. It started to make me wanna throw up. I took it back to Macy's.

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  8. Anonymous says:
    13 October 2006 at 9:20 am

    Well, yes, the flankers are mostly LEs, but what I meant was that they haven't cut any of the originals.

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  9. Anonymous says:
    1 December 2006 at 12:06 pm

    Well, My Macy's said Still Jennifer Lopez was discontinued :(. I'm tired of it anyway

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  10. Anonymous says:
    8 December 2006 at 5:07 pm

    I brought Live and I experienced buyer remorse almost immediately. Thank goodness it was a Christmas gift set that I've never opened and I returned it the day after. Live smells pretty good at the beginning, but it didn't impress me nearly as much after it dried down. Live Luxe reminds me too much of those Escada seasonal perfumes. In fact, Live Luxe smells very much like one of them! Miami Glow is the only J Lo perfume I brought even though I've considered a lot of them. I also got Miami Glow at a huge discount so I didn't feel so bad about buying it. :p

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  11. Anonymous says:
    8 December 2006 at 9:06 pm

    My favorite is actually the original Glow. We'll see how she does with Glow After Dark, but it sounds pretty Escada-ish too.

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  12. Anonymous says:
    29 December 2006 at 10:53 pm

    This is the first J-Lo fragrance that I've liked. THe others to me were just okay. But I loved this one. It was bold and fruity!

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  13. Anonymous says:
    30 December 2006 at 10:31 am

    Do you mean the Live or the Live Luxe? I need to try the newest, the Glow After Dark.

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  14. Anonymous says:
    30 December 2006 at 1:35 pm

    Oh, I meant the Live Luxe.

    Is the Glow After Dark out yet? I'd like to try that one too.

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  15. Anonymous says:
    30 December 2006 at 9:10 pm

    It is out. Boscovs has it, and assume other department stores probably do as well.

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  16. Anonymous says:
    1 January 2007 at 8:48 pm

    Okay! I smelled the Glow After Dark today! (At Dillards). It's very fruity, which I didn't expect. My 6-year-old sister said it smelled like candy, which made me laugh… but she's not completely wrong. It's not too bad.

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  17. Anonymous says:
    2 January 2007 at 1:09 pm

    Fruity candy is exactly what I'd expect, LOL…hope to smell it soon.

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  18. Anonymous says:
    7 January 2007 at 7:47 pm

    When you FIRST spray it, it smells good! After like 20 seconds, it starts to smell bad! I dunno whats wrong! LOVE the bottle!!!!! And the lotion is soooooo cheap! Theres these flakes in it. Not exactly glitter, but when you shake your hand, the flakes flake off, lol! I HATE body glitter anyway

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  19. Anonymous says:
    7 January 2007 at 11:20 pm

    Still haven't smelled it!! Hopefully this week…

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  20. Anonymous says:
    13 January 2007 at 3:36 am

    Live Luxe is huge in my store right now, fruity fragrances are all the rage in the 15 – 30 age bracket. Its soooo strong and peachy, but personally it does make me nauseous after a while and I don't think people love it forever.

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  21. Anonymous says:
    13 January 2007 at 10:49 am

    They certainly do seem to be all the rage — and they just keep coming out with more of them :-)

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