Well Howdy Perfume Posse, Portia from Australian Perfume Junkies with one of my all time favourite stars, Queen Latifah. Be it as Matron Mama Morton in Chicago or Motormouth Maybelle in Hairspray, as Penny Escher in Stranger Than Fiction (the only movie I can watch Will Ferrell in, he rules this one) or as herself in The Queen Latifah Show I love her. I have warmed to her beauty, her seeming sense of fun, her size in an industry of women trying to look like 11 year old boys and her varied role choices. Her classy way of handling the press and maintaining her private life as exactly that, private and that she is a successful woman in a mans world also makes me cheer.

Queen Latifah: Queen of Hearts by Steve Demercado 2010

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Fragrantica gives these featured accords:
Top: Citruses, bergamot, dewy greens, spicy cinnamon, purple plum
Heart: Egyptian jasmine, red fruits, white flowers
Base: Amber, musk, patchouli, vanilla, olibanum, smoky incense

So plenty was written about Queen Latifa’s first fragrance Queen, it was and is a lovely fragrance that I wear quite often. Sadly Queen Of Hearts gets very little attention. It’s a shame because the frag is good. Especially at this ridiculous price point. Here is a way even the most strapped for cash can smell like they spent a good amount of money on their fragrance. Maybe a bit of Queen Latifa’s cool will rub off on you too. I always feel like I’m lifted high on her fragrant wings.

How does Queen Latifah: Queen Of Hearts smell on my skin?

Citrus, plum and resins are the main protagonists at first spritz smelling both luxurious and casual, there is spice but it is so wrapped up in the resins I lose it till thinking about them. I can imagine Queen Of Hearts on both men and women. It could be worn to a super elegant ball with up do hair and armpit length gloves or to take the kids to footy and then pizza after. This is a comfortable, comfort fragrance that is sweet and refreshing with a beautiful balmy backdraft.

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Just like my image of Queen Latifah, Queen Of Hearts is beautiful, bold and sexy. Not challenging or niche smelling but I have smelled things a lot less lovely that cost more than 10 times as much. I think in the end though I love that there is a place in the world for weird, interesting, outrageous fragrance that I am a love-to-smell-good fragrance wearer. Queen Of Hearts is a balmy, resinous fragrance after the first half hour. All those lovely flowers that I’m supposed to be smelling are the merest whispers of a pretty bouquet, what my skin throws is a lovely soft, sweet, resinous, fragrance both cool and smooth. I don’t know if you own or ever touch the big bobbles of amber beads, the big round and creamy ochre that are completely opaque? If they had a smell Queen Of Hearts would be it.

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Longevity is excellent, the base sings softly well into next morning just fading and fading into my skin. For the first hour projection is big, I have to be careful not to overspritz and the sillage at this point is more than excellent. After an hour Queen Of Hearts quietens down to a very comfortable, office appropriate murmur. Great date frag, promise.

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Are you a fan of Queen Latifah? Have you tried her fragrances? What did or do you think?
If you liked this then come swing by Australian Perfume Junkies. We’d love to see you and continue the conversation there too.
Portia xx

Brandy, MC Lyte, Yo-Yo and Queen Latifah Reunite on The Queen Latifah Show