Jean Patou Joy Eau De Toilette Spray for Women 75 ml

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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. She always kept a lovely black little bottle with red stopper of the pure parfum on her dressing table and would wear it on special occasions. When I was 14 in the distant 1980s, I got to try Joy, and was disappointed by how little it smelled like the real flowers I had expected. flowers are behind the scene, like in the most of other vintage scents, that almost always sounds as an intensive oriental scents to me).

But if you stick your nose right into the heart of the jasmine star and inhale deeply, you will gag in 3 seconds and think a cat peed nearby under the fence.Instead I got a happy, purring civet and the most beautiful jasmine I have smelled in a perfume so far. According to Luca Turin, "the whole point of its formula was to achieve the platonic idea of a flower, not one particular earthly manifestation.

then we are already making a step towards aromatic territory towards Ivoires asafoetida, orris, pepper. The realism of the flowers do not seem to suffer the downgrade that usually occurs when they are cast down from nature to essence, they transition unscathed from shrub to bottle, fleshy and full botanical, the jasmine and the rose are wholly discernible, even insular, living together in isolation like limbs matching in a body.

Infamously, it was once the most expensive perfume in the world - shortly after the Great Depression, which somehow didn't hamper its success. I discovered that you can refill it very easily, with this vintage version I have, (which is slimmer than the one in the photo, and I would guess it is 50ml, but I can't see any sign on the label) -the cap screws off. When I unscrewed the top I expected to be smacked around the face by an angry civet cat then choked by the I doles. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. When the bottle would reach its near end, she would fill it half way with almond oil and pass it down to me.

It had become a much softer mostly floral scent but with hints of something very unique, like nothing else I've tried. He says that he discerns a rubbery note, which might be the "doll's head" element that others have noticed. This was the signature perfume for Vivien Leigh and Jackie Kennedy wore this one often and it was said to be one of her favorites. That makes perfect sense, she was the quintessential English Rose, elegantly beautiful but with a complicated inner self, racked with personal turmoil that grew deeper with age.After about an hour it's just a skin scent on me, but a lovely one: still floral but somehow also an accord of fine Darjeeling tea. the opening of this is a harsh, shrieking angular rose, like a cubist painting of a glamorous woman - by no means unpleasant, just striking and commanding; less a jubilant busby berkeley choreography scene and more a strange surrealistic dream pulled from the pages of hollywood babylon. Some of the biggest names in fashion have carried the brand’s creative torch after Jean Patou's death in 1936. Joy has just the right amount of slight powder, but the main attraction is the way the florals carry that slight edge which you think is going to be something nasty but it turns out it's beautiful mercy.