Scented Review: Katy Perry Killer Queen EDP (EN)

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Today’s scented review is all about a budget-friendly scent which you can find literally everywhere but no matter the price it smells ah-mazing – it has intense development, great sillage, expensive feeling and it’s non-comercial. Are you interested?

First time I tried Katy Perry’s perfume was back in  2014 where my favourite youtuber Shannon pointed 2 of Katy Perry’s perfumes as her favourites here Perfume Collection & Favorites! ♡ Shaaanxo - YouTube I was immediately intrigued so I had to give them a try and I ended up really liking them, so since then I always make sure to keep in touch with Katy Perry’s perfumes.

I’m not a fan of her but I do think she knows how to make great perfumes. I have a review on another of her fragrances here – INDI. Her best smelling perfume for me is no doubts the one I’m writing today a review on: Killer Queen. Tangy forest fruits, plums, jasmine and patchouli, doesn’t this sounds like great combination to you?

History:

Killer Queen by Katy Perry is a Floral Fruity Gourmand fragrance for women, launched in 2013. The nose behind this fragrance is Laurent Le Guernec. The scent is called Killer Queen by the song written by Freddie Mercury, and apparently it is totally different from its two predecessors.

“Killer Queen has been in my vocabulary since I was 15, because of the song ‘Killer Queen’ by Queen,” said Perry to wwd. “Freddie Mercury painted the lyrics of this woman who I wanted to be. She seemed very powerful, and she captivated a room when she walked in. I named my company Killer Queen after those lyrics. I feel like, after all this time, it was appropriate to use that name in association with something I did. I feel like I’m falling, finally, into that woman Freddie painted.”

Announced as a playful, sophisticated, powerful, edgy and delicious fragrance, it reflects the rebellious spirit of the singer.

Description:

Top notes: forest fruits, plum, bergamot

Middle notes: frangipani, jasmine sambak, celosia

Base notes: pralines, patchouli, cashmeran

Development on my skin:

On my skin Killer Queen EDP is thick, fragrant and sweet forest fruits & plum jam – tangy, juicy and ripe fruits, accompanied by strong and overwhelming jasmine with very few creamy frangipani petals around and animalistic earthy-woody patchouli overlay ❤

Initially after spraying scent is super sharp with a lot of sour and tangy bergamot, it even reminds me of aftershave 😀 Masculine notes are quickly disappearing and juicy and tangy forest fruits are appealing: blackcurrant, blueberry, blackberry, all kind of tarty and tangy fruits, accompanied by juicy plums.  All of my favourite perfumes are having this exact type of tarty sweetness – either from sour cherry, forest fruits, rhubarb…I don’t like simply vanilla-ish sweet perfumes, I like my perfumes to have a tangy feeling in it. Bottle suits the perfume perfectly – if I had to associate Killer Queen with a shade, it will be exactly this type of bourdeax red, the shade that forest fruity jam has.  Base releases dominant jasmine – you either love or hate jasmine, there is no in between. The scent is often too strong, too specifique and even headache causing. I consider jasmine as the most recognizable “white flower” so if you aren’t jasmine fan, then you can skip Killer Queen. The jasmine here is in huge doses, it’s dominant and detectable and it’s lightened up just a bit from few frangipani petals. Frangipani has light, soft and creamy-soapy scent, it’s often used as scent in the shower gels. Strong patchouli note is present as well – dry, earthy, slightly animalistic one so if you’re not a strong patchouli fan, you can skip this perfume. Patchouli adds a significant depth to the scent, it makes it more mature and sophisticated.

Killer Queen isn’t linear scent, it has intense development and it’s changing throughout the day. After the initial sharp and masculine beginning, you can feel tangy forest fruits, accompanied by juicy plums, topped up with jasmine with a touch of frangipani and a strong dash of dry and earthy patchouli.

I love the combination of tangy fruits and patchouli and it is present in most of my favourite perfumes:

❤ Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire – here the tangy fruits are sour cherries and again, it has tons of patchouli, but it’s much sweeter than Killer Queen. You can read full review on it here

❤ Nina Ricci Ricci Ricci EDP – here we have tangy rhubarb sweetness and the patchouli isn’t as earthy as it is in Killer Queen, but Ricci Ricci is much musky and sweeter compared to Killer Queen. You can read full review on it here

❤Roberto Cavalli Paradiso Assoluto EDP – here we have jasmine and patchouli as in Killer Queen, but Paradiso Assoluto isn’t sweet at all, it’s a huge white floral bouquet with a dash of coconut. You can read full review on it here

Killer Queen is complex scent with intense development and it has dominant forest fruits, plum, jasmine and patchouli notes. Killer Queen is decadent, overwhelming scent that has excellent sillage and leaves a trail after you. It’s sweet but not in a immature way thanks to the patchouli & jasmine note. It’s definitely not your typical celebrity fruity scent, I think it’s worth the test and it’s somehow underrated. For the price you get perfume with intense development and not boring mainstream feeling.  

Packaging:

Beautiful ❤ Bottle is ruby shaped from massive glass which is ombre colored and gradient comes from beige to bright red and bourdeax to black. There is red stone placed right at the sprayer to match the bottle, sprayer itself plus the cap are designed in golden and the cap is also crown shaped and has a KP stamped. Bottle is super beautiful, in fact everyone who get the chance to take a look at my perfume collection grabs first either this bottle or the Marc Jacobs Decadence Divinе one (review here) so I consider these 2 bottles as the most eyecatcing ones in my collection.

Storage:

Killer Queen is available in 30, 50 and 100 ml bottles as well as in sets with shower gel and boty lotion. Mine bottle is the 50 ml one.

Season appropriate:

Killer Queen develops best in cold weather – such as in late fall and winter. In the cold weather forest fruits and plums are sweet, tangy and fragrant, jasmine is softer and patchouli is sophisticated and fine, while in hot weather the fruits in Killer Queen are getting bitter and sour, jasmine is heavy (like in Alien by Thierry Mugler) and patchouli tends to get try and too earthy. I prefer to wear Killer Queen in temperatures below 12 grad Celsius.

Time appropriate:

I love wearing strong perfumes that have heavy trail so I wear Killer Queen as daytime perfume too, but most of the people accept it more as night time appropriate, because it’s heavy, strong, has metric sillage and it’s really noticeable.

Longevity:

Really high! With 2-3 spritzes in the morning this perfume lasts on my skin for the whole day. It does not require any additional spritzes throughout the day once applied in the morning.  

Killer Queen is forest fruit fantasy (blueberries, blackcurrant, blackberries), juicy plums, decadent jasmine and earthy patchouli ❤ Bottle suits this perfume so well – decadent, luxurious, red, eye-catching scent, which is far from mainstream. In the last couple of years the combination of fruits and patchouli is super popular and even turned into a new olfactive category – fruitchuli (fruit + patchouli). Killer Queen fits into this category but what makes it more different is that it’s not that sickly sweet as the most popular fruitchuli perfumes tend to be. It’s sweet but not in  a sickly sweet or gourmet way, it’s tangly sweet.

I recommend Killer Queen to those of you who are looking for a budget-friendly, strong scent that leaves fragrant trail after and has the modern fruitchuli vibe but it’s not mainstream and plain sugary-vanilla-ish.

Which is your favourite budget-friendly perfume?

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