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Juliette Has a Gun Oil Fiction
Juliette Has a Gun

Oil Fiction

Citrus
Fresh
Floral
White Floral
Aldehydic
Woody
Patchouli
EDP · 2013 · womens

Juliette Has a Gun is a niche fragrance brand known for bold, unconventional scents with irreverent names. Founded in 2003, the house has built a reputation for challenging traditional fragrance tropes with distinctive compositions that don't play it safe.

Oil Fiction opens with a classic aldehydic flourish, pairing bergamot and mandarin with geranium and jasmine for a bright, slightly sharp floral top. The heart leans heavily into tuberose, a creamy white floral that adds body and sweetness to the composition. The base reveals the fragrance's sensual side, grounding everything with benzoin, sandalwood, and patchouli, alongside woody and musky notes that give the scent warmth and skin-like quality as it settles.

This is a well-composed floral oriental that works best on someone who appreciates classical femininity with some depth and complexity. It performs well in cooler months and evening wear, where its creamy florals and woody base can develop properly. If you gravitate toward fragrances like The Homesteader, The Tactician, and The Romantic, Oil Fiction deserves your attention.

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Main Accordsreported by community
Citrus
19%
Fresh
19%
Floral
100%
White Floral
100%
Aldehydic
90%
Woody
80%
Patchouli
23%
Earthy
23%
Musky
70%
Balsamic
60%
Vanilla
23%
Sweet
32%
Creamy
23%
Fragrance Notesbrand verified
Top · 0–30 min
Aldehydes
Aldehydes
The chemical family that created modern perfumery, aldehydes were first used prominently in Chanel N°5 (1921), adding a soapy, abstract, almost metallic sparkle that lifted the fragrance above anything previously possible. They don't smell like anything in nature; their effect is more textural than aromatic. Aldehydic fragrances feel luminous, sophisticated, and distinctly 20th century.
Bergamot
Bergamot
A sun-ripened Italian citrus with a brightness that goes beyond lemon, simultaneously tart, floral, and slightly spicy. It's the defining note of Earl Grey tea and the backbone of countless fresh colognes. Perfumers love it as an opener because it lifts the entire composition without overpowering what follows.
Geranium
Geranium
Green, rosy, and slightly minty, geranium is one of perfumery's most useful ingredients, sitting at the intersection of floral, herbal, and green families. Rose geranium adds a natural, slightly ragged freshness to rose accords that synthetic rose can't match. It grounds floral compositions in something earthy and real.
Jasmine
Jasmine
Intoxicating, heady, and slightly animalic, jasmine is one of the few flowers that smells as rich in a bottle as it does climbing a garden wall at dusk. It has an almost fleshy, indolic quality that stops it reading as purely 'clean.' Jasmine is a workhorse in both feminine and masculine perfumery, adding depth and soul.
Mandarin Orange
Mandarin Orange
Heart · 30 min – 3 hrs
Tuberose
Tuberose
One of the most intensely floral natural ingredients in existence, rich, creamy, and almost narcotic in its sweetness. Tuberose is polarizing by design: it's meant to be enveloping, not background. It has rubbery, vanilla-like facets that make it feel both sensual and slightly retro.
Base · 3–12 hrs
Benzoin
Benzoin
Sweet, warm, and balsamic, benzoin resin smells like vanilla mixed with incense, with a powdery, slightly medicinal edge. It adds a comforting warmth and fixative quality to oriental fragrances, and blends beautifully with spices. Often used to smooth and round off sharp edges in complex base notes.
Musk
Musk
The base layer of almost every modern fragrance, a soft, warm, skin-like scent that extends longevity and bridges other notes together. Natural musk was once derived from deer (now banned); today's musks are synthetic and range from clean and soapy to dark and animalic. The right musk makes a fragrance smell like 'you.'
Patchouli
Patchouli
Dense, earthy, and darkly sweet, patchouli is the scent of damp soil and dried herbs with an almost chocolatey richness. It polarizes people because in high concentrations it's overwhelming, but as a supporting note it adds depth and longevity that almost nothing else can match. The backbone of countless oriental and chypre fragrances.
Sandalwood
Sandalwood
Creamy, smooth, and milky with a soft, skin-like warmth that clings beautifully. True Mysore sandalwood is one of perfumery's most precious ingredients, simultaneously wood and skin, never cold or sharp. It rounds off sharp edges in any composition and makes the wearer smell subtly, irresistibly warmer.
Woody Notes
Woody Notes
Who Wears ThisScent DNA matches
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The HomesteaderBest match88% match
Rooted, warm, and entirely self-sufficient.

Warm skin musks, sandalwood, soft cedar, clean vetiver. Grounding, intimate, unhurried.

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The Tactician86% match
Precision over excess. Always.

Crisp, dry, clean, worn close. Citrus, aromatic herbs, light woods, soft musks.

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The Romantic84% match
Your fragrance is a love letter you never stop writing.

Warm roses, vanilla, amber, creamy musks. Soft, evolving, intimate.

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Scent Profile
Citrus19%Fresh19%Floral100%White Floral100%Aldehydic90%
Fragrance Family
Floral Oriental
EDP
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What does Juliette Has a Gun Oil Fiction smell like? +
Juliette Has a Gun is a niche fragrance brand known for bold, unconventional scents with irreverent names. Founded in 2003, the house has built a reputation for challenging traditional fragrance tropes with distinctive compositions that don't play it safe. Oil Fiction opens with a classic aldehydic flourish, pairing bergamot and mandarin with geranium and jasmine for a bright, slightly sharp floral top. The heart leans heavily into tuberose, a creamy white floral that adds body and sweetness to the composition. The base reveals the fragrance's sensual side, grounding everything with benzoin, sandalwood, and patchouli, alongside woody and musky notes that give the scent warmth and skin-like quality as it settles. This is a well-composed floral oriental that works best on someone who appreciates classical femininity with some depth and complexity. It performs well in cooler months and evening wear, where its creamy florals and woody base can develop properly. If you gravitate toward fragrances like The Homesteader, The Tactician, and The Romantic, Oil Fiction deserves your attention.
What are the notes in Juliette Has a Gun Oil Fiction? +
Top: Aldehydes, Bergamot, Geranium, Jasmine, Mandarin Orange. Heart: Tuberose. Base: Benzoin, Musk, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Woody Notes.
What fragrance family is Oil Fiction? +
Juliette Has a Gun Oil Fiction belongs to the Floral Oriental fragrance family. It is an EDP.
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Grey market retailers sell authentic fragrances sourced through unofficial distribution -- typically excess inventory from authorized distributors. The product is real and identical to retail. FragranceNet (est. 1997), Jomashop, and MaxAroma are well-established with millions of verified reviews.

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