Queen of Hearts 2010

Queen of Hearts by Queen Latifah
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6.9 / 10 23 Ratings
A perfume by Queen Latifah for women, released in 2010. The scent is oriental-spicy. It was last marketed by Parlux Ltd..
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Main accords

Oriental
Spicy
Woody
Sweet
Smoky

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
CinnamonCinnamon PlumPlum BergamotBergamot Citrus fruitsCitrus fruits Green notesGreen notes
Heart Notes Heart Notes
JasmineJasmine Red fruitsRed fruits White blossomsWhite blossoms
Base Notes Base Notes
FrankincenseFrankincense MuskMusk PatchouliPatchouli AmberAmber VanillaVanilla

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
6.923 Ratings
Longevity
6.817 Ratings
Sillage
6.416 Ratings
Bottle
6.522 Ratings
Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 18.01.2019.

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions
5
Bottle
7
Sillage
7
Longevity
7
Scent
Oriane

133 Reviews
Oriane
Oriane
Helpful Review 1  
A Nice Floriental That Smells More Expensive Than It Is
Top Notes: Citruses, Bergamot, Green Notes, Cinnamon, Plum.

Heart Notes: Jasmine, White Flowers, Red Berries.

Base Notes: Musk, Patchouli, Amber, Incense, Vanilla, Oilibanum.

I am pleasantly surprised by this fragrance. I smell all of the top notes of citruses, bergamot, cinnamon, plum, green notes, and they smell delicious. Upon initial application, this parfum smells much more like an expensive parfum to me than an inexpensive celebrity scent.

The top notes disappeared fairly quickly and revealed the heart notes of white flowers and red berries. Once again, I am surprised to be able to detect both heart notes as I do not have a very well tutored nose, but these two notes were unmistakeable.

This parfum settled into a deep dry down in about thirty minutes which was somewhat disappointing as it would have been nice if the heart notes continued a bit longer. I mainly detect incense, vanilla, and patchouli in the base notes. I am not a big fan of patchouli, but in this parfum, it is blended quite beautifully with the incense and other base notes. I really like the patchouli in this fragrance. This is patchouli done very well indeed. "Warm," "smokey," and "spicy" are all very apt descriptors of this parfum's dry down. It is a very pleasing fragrance to my nose.

With only one good spray, Queen of Hearts exhibited excellent projection (it pretty much filled my entire bedroom) and sillage upon first application through the first thirty to forty minutes, but it does quieten down pretty quickly thereafter. Longevity is about three to four hours on my skin. After about five hours, it disappears altogether. This is a nice quality parfum for the price point. Both Queen and Queen of Hearts have been discontinued, unfortunately, so purchase them whilst they can still be found on eBay, Fragrancenet, Scentedmonkey, etc.

Fragrance: 7/10

Projection: 10/10 upon initial application. 8/10 after an hour.

Sillage: 10/10 upon initial application. 8/10 after an hour

Longevity: 6.5/10
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2.5
Bottle
2.5
Sillage
2.5
Longevity
2
Scent
Sorceress

213 Reviews
Sorceress
Sorceress
1  
Queen Of Hearts-Chewing Gum Cinnamon
I enjoy writing positive reviews, not negative ones. I like to give accolades based on the successes of perfumers hard work. This was a blind buy based on reviews. But I couldn't find or match any positive reviews to what I found when I tried Queen of Hearts. This perfume disappointed me so.
There was only one note I could find after hours of wearing it and it took my nose to the crook of my elbow to locate it. I finally smelled cinnamon-similar to the chewing gum cinnamon, albeit briefly, fleetingly. The only mystery I found is in trying to locate the different notes in this scent.
The sillage is just not there on me after testing it numerous times in warm weather and air-conditioning. After testing it for a few days, I finally sprayed it as I would a body spray on my arms and body, just to see what what happen. Still nothing. Perhaps my body chemistry doesn't allow for this scent to materialize into something bodacious as others have described. I literally could not get enough of a scent to declare this perfume worthwhile enough.
Eventually, after dousing myself (literally), I detected in the drydown a powdery incense with some plum. But I'm not willing to douse myself with this because it's not a body spray, it's a perfume, or so it says.
The bottle reminds me of a man's after-shave decanter save for the heart in the glass, not one of my favorite designs. Very masculine, heavy and cumbersome.
Some have compared this to Elixir des Merveilles, which I have also tested. I could not see the comparison.
I will re-visit this fragrance in the very cold weather out of curiosity. Many seem to enjoy the notes in it and I also seem to like them. I'm just wondering and will up-date.
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5
Bottle
7.5
Sillage
7.5
Longevity
5
Scent
Sherapop

1239 Reviews
Sherapop
Sherapop
Very helpful Review 3  
A follow-up similar to Fancy Nights (by the same perfumer...)
Upon donning Queen Latifah QUEEN OF HEARTS for the very first time, I was struck by its superficial similarity to Jessica Simpson FANCY NIGHTS. This is because both compositions seem like an attempt to counteract the over-the-top sweetness of their namesake. Both QUEEN and FANCY (and FANCY LOVE) are big-time sugar festivals created in the usual celebrity scent mold for the typical teenager who loves Jessica and Britney and all of the others and thinks that perfume is supposed to be sweet.

QUEEN OF HEARTS, like FANCY NIGHTS, dials the sweetness way down to the point where I feel that there may actually be an idea hidden somewhere in this perfume's design. It turns out that both QUEEN OF HEARTS and FANCY NIGHTS were created by the same nose, Steven de Mercado, who seems to have tweaked the same recipe and satisfied two different clients in one fell swoop. Of course, both of these perfumes are Parlux produced, so they probably contain much of the same materials, and although papyrus is not listed among the notes of QUEEN OF HEARTS, I sense it in the background. It's a metaphor anyway, so the chemicals which create the "papyrus" in FANCY NIGHTS are probably present here as well and just called something else. I find the two perfumes quite similar, so if someone likes one, they should like the other, and if they do not, they will not. Patchouli appreciation is a prerequisite.

One difference I noticed in reapplying both QUEEN OF HEARTS and FANCY NIGHTS today for the purpose of writing these reviews is that QUEEN OF HEARTS smells much worse upon immediate application--a kind of chemical soup scent--but dries down much more pleasantly to my nose than does FANCY NIGHTS. The spiciness of QUEEN OF HEARTS really livens it up by the drydown, pretty much drowning out the papyrus-like quality. Both compositions are efforts to do something new in the celebrity scent category, and for that they are worthy of praise, though I suspect for the same reason that they are market flops.
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