Hot Couture is a Givenchy perfume launched in 2000, composed by Alberto Morillas and Jacques Cavallier, whose name plays on haute couture. The eau de toilette, which the house classes among the floral fruity fragrances, opens on a raspberry accord, blooms on a magnolia accord and rests on Damask rose essence from Bulgaria and Turkey.
Jessica, of Now Smell This, finds the eau de toilette linear and a little flashy, a vanilla raspberry that rounds out into woody amber, but considers it endearing and ahead of Flowerbomb and Pink Sugar.
Olfastory’s review
Now Smell This, July 2011
Jessica, discovering Hot Couture in 2011, wonders at its place in the house: neither Audrey Hepburn nor Liv Tyler, neither L’Interdit nor Very Irresistible. She finds the name an easy pun and the official description more or less meaningless.
For her, the eau de toilette opens on a vanilla raspberry closer to the late 1980s than to the 1950s, before rounding out into a woody amber brushed with honeyed tobacco. Linear and a little flashy, she nonetheless finds it endearing.
She sees it as a perfume for fans of Flowerbomb or Pink Sugar, which it predates by several years while remaining less sweet, and compares it to an overdressed woman who, as the evening goes on, takes off her dangling earrings and some lipstick.