Im a Harajuku Lover! (Gwen Stefani: Harajuku Lovers Music, Eau de Toilette)

Member Name: TheWriter

Product:	Gwen Stefani: Harajuku Lovers Music, Eau de Toilette
Date:	23/06/09 (47 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Smells nice, cute packaging

Disadvantages: Doesnt smell THAT nice, the extra stars are for bringing harajuku into the UK limelight!

Harajuku is a Japanese fashion style and im a big fan! There's a district in Japan called the harajuku district and kids hang out there dressed up in various styles. There are different elements to it but all are a unique mode of expression in the form of make up, clothing, piercings, tattoos...

One style of harajuku is called kawaii style (meaning cute like these dolls on the perfume bottles are). Things that are kawaii are adorable and often childish. Pikachu (orange furball from the cartoon series Pokemon) is classed as kawaii and in Japan kawaii is very popular (even their serious signs like road signs include kawaii characters! Pikachu is even on the side of an aeroplane!)

Other styles include gothic Lolita (a weird mix of childlike and dark goth style), ganguro (think extremely tanned with white circles around the eyes, lots of jewellery), anime (like the cartoons), kogal and more.

I like Gwen Stefani anyway, her style has always been weird- a mix of quirky and beautiful. She's the only person I've ever seen really pull off tomboy and beauty queen in one. Whilst I usually avoid celebrity perfumes (sorry but because you're famous we're supposed to assume you automatically have a better sense of smell than the rest of us mere mortals? Heehee.) But this entire range is nice with different fragrances. Each bottle features a doll, modeled on Gwen's four backing singers and dancers, the harajuku girls, as well as one fragrance represented by Gwen herself.

This one is music (dressed with big hair and sailor suit- so adorable!)

The fragrance is deliciously fruity with floral undertones to it. It includes pear,jasmine and honeysuckle. It comes in two sizes, 10ml for £12 and 30ml for £20. I personally think the smell is ok. Its very fruity but also fresh at the same time. I think its great for younger people, but when you're in your twenties a deep, husky Boss Red or a light floral Noa (my two faves) are better than fruity, citrusy smells like this, so not for me.

Another problem is durability- aquick spritz of Boss Red and im good to go with this its faded by the time I've walked down the street! (Exaggerating of course, but ive never had to top up during the day with other fragrances)

The bottles are very cute and its kind of a collect them all type thing. I like the fact that they were modeled on the "band". Although this range might appeal to younger people if you're harajuku fan you know its kawaai (and therefore cool!) to have a miniature doll on your dresser!

Summary: Being a fan of the genre, I like this