Jean Patou Joy Eau De Toilette Spray for Women 75 ml

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While I will always crave a variety of fragrances, I have recently discovered Eau du Soir and am feeling *most* everyone else is either left in the dust or at least looking a lot less versatile and cumbersome for not being such workhorses or good performers. Joy inhabits that rare space of being an excellent floral that should be unisex at this point, and I suppose one could convincingly argue that it is. Patou Joy is a beautiful, straight down the middle blend of rose/jasmine that gracefully just works.

In the 70's and 80's, My godmother always drove a big, white Cadillac, and the joke was that when the carpet got dirty, she would get a new one. I mainly sensed lily of the valley off the bat, but once it began to wear down I got a green fresh grassiness, e. On paper, It was mostly rose, With a bit of dirty musk, But on skin all the notes come to life, Lots of indolic florals (mostly Jasmine?

Read more about the condition New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging is applicable). This, as stated, the second best perfume in the world (in my opinion THE best) after one whiff froze me in time to create my everlasting youth written all over my face.

Joy is the only Patou perfume, as far as I know, and I've been a Patou fan for years, that it is not intended for a strong woman, maybe because it was designed until the brand revolt and until it starts creating just for for "revolutionary" women. It was the favorite of many divas such as Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, María Félix and many others. Bal a versailles cologne is a contemporary only Bal runs more civet musk and the florals take a back seat. Sidney Toledano has appointed Guillaume Henry to the artistic direction, entrusting him with the task of relaunching his women's ready-to-wear lines. I remember this perfume in very fond way as this is kind of fragrance that makes one willing to embrace oneself as one is.

With the time JOY attains enormous success and became the second best selling perfume of all times (the first best-selling is the legendary Chanel N°5).

The small golden, circular label on the bottom of the bottle says: 90 (or 90%) and looks exactly as the one picutured here on Fragrantica. I'm currently soaked in it while reading Nightwood (1936), Djuna Barnes' decadent, modernist tour de force, and it couldn't be more fitting: both celebrate life through death--in the scent's case, feline glands, rotting flowers, and plastic. I don't need another pure floral for days when I'm feeling my romantic dreamy side, 'Joy' by Jean Patou does the trick of transformation back to innocence and femininity.Joy" was voted "Scent of the Century" by the public at the Fragrance Foundation FiFi Awards in 2000, beating its rival " Chanel No. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Again, similar to the original but muskier, and the aldehydes, green notes and florals are softened slightly. I will say that as far as packaging, the attention to detail of the older versions is extraordinary. I will say that the pure parfum is richer and seems to be of slightly higher quality overall, while the (more affordable) EDP is brighter, but extremely similar and still very pretty.