I will always have a soft spot for Joy, but 1000 is easily my favorite. Previous posters are calling it a gender bender, and of course, to each their own! Their experiences may be different from mine. But to me, I find 1000 to be unabashedly feminine. I would love to acquire the vintage perfume in the green flacon, but fear if I don't act soon, it will only be a matter of time before it becomes out of reach. Creamy white florals round out the honeyed rose beautifully after a little while. Sweet ylang ylang adds a slight tropical edge, while smooth, waxy tuberose adds its carnal richness. The jasmine note is slightly indolic, adding a hint of dirt, and I get iris or orris root during the later stages of Joy, giving a nice powdery start to the drydown. In this fragrance, jasmine, rose, and tuberose are expertly blended with a hint of mint and galbanum. 3 Fleurs is a little soapy, but not traditionally; it is undoubtedly a unisex fragrance with outstanding performance. The polarized experience reflects the characteristics of JOY itself - it has a dual character, or it is straight and rude, or it is beautiful and grand.

I had been habouring a 10 ml travel size of Joy EDP for a few years. I cannot recall how I got it. Several days ago, I sprayed it on to test it. Stand aside modern Chanel, and make way for Jean Patou. Joy stands up there alongside Chanel No.5. What once was, no longer is. Unpopular opinion, as I’m thankful for being able to witness this fragrance, but it has no place on the fragrance shelves any longer.

Base notes : At the base Amber, Coconut, Civet, Vetiver, Leather, Incense, Musk, Patchouli and Oakmoss JOY was created with a lot of care, just like the most expensive Haute-Cotture dress, and thus it was extraordinary and timeless. It was presented by Jean Patou as \'the world\'s most expensive perfume\' right at the time of The Great Depression in 1929, when the market of luxury fashion crushed and Jean Patou\'s house could survive only through the perfumes. As with all Patou fragrances, the impact is circular, radiating in. Joy's abstraction is like iridescent crystal bubbles of fragrance. Big bubbles, river peddle size. I find it neither expansive, nor calming or comforting. Soapy yes. There is nothing Guerlain about this experience. It evokes a spent beauty, in the dry down, on some days and it's not doing it for you, rather just because it's Joy, after all. In 1925 Patou launched his perfume business with three fragrances created by Henri Alméras. [4] In 1928, Jean Patou created "Huile de Chaldée", the first sun tan lotion. Times changed and suddenly tastes changed, advertising faded and somehow despite it’s similarities to other classics like Chanel N5, sales dropped.

Joy" was voted "Scent of the Century" by the public at the Fragrance Foundation FiFi Awards in 2000, beating its rival " Chanel No. 5". [10] Joy was an unexpected love for me.It's gorgeous,very well-made and super feminine.It's easily wearable in modern days in case you like rich floral scents wrapped by a warm,voluptuous musk.I really need a bottle of joy in my life. LVMH needs to hire proper marketing people and not, millennials who have no marketing qualifications and little fragrance history. After three minutes, the scent suddenly disappeared, making me wonder if the olfactory system was disrupted by high-intensity indole. Within an hour, there's a little sourness too. Two and a half hours later, and my idyllic stroll around those spectacular gardens may have been a day dream. On my skin, Joy becomes increasingly metallic. There's still a little powder there, but it's staring to smell like a wet, wire scourer. Are all my joys over? As time presses on, my skin brings out the absolute worst of Joy, it makes a mess of the lasting base notes.The original bottle, designed by French architect and artisan Louis Süe, was designed to have a simple, classical feel. [6] Awards [ edit ]

Joy is composed primarily of a combination of jasmine and rose; 10,000 jasmine flowers and 28 dozen roses are required to create 30ml of the parfum, contributing to its high retail price. [4] Joy also contains other flowers such as ylang ylang, champak, and tuberose. Given its many ingredients, Joy does not smell like a specific flower. According to Luca Turin, "the whole point of its formula was to achieve the platonic idea of a flower, not one particular earthly manifestation." JOY is created of rare flowers in unique concentration of 10600 flowers of jasmine and 28 dozens of roses which adorn the exceptional heart of this perfume. 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). Ode is similar to Patou's Joy but creamier, with a tinge of fruitiness that almost tastes like a plum.We were disappointed by the name alone, not only by the classic "Joy" by Jean Patou, but also by the fact that the "J'adore in Joy" by Dior already exists. Nevertheless, there was still such a spark of hope that the scent might tear it out after all. Designer Parfums buys Jean Patou from P&G Prestige". CosmeticsBusiness.com. 5 July 2011 . Retrieved 14 September 2012. Joy was different from the previous Patou perfumes. First of all, unlike all the precious releases from the house, this bottle was very simple, austere and geometric, much in sync with the Art Deco style, and following the footsteps of the hit of Chanel Nº5. Second, the composition was for all women, more universal and not directed at a specific skin color or a particular event. It was a simple name, but very meaningful for everyone, everywhere. Joy was also jumping in the floral rose-jasmine trend initiated with Chanel Nº5, but whereas Chanel's take depended on artificiality and illusions, Patou's approach was mainly about naturalness and tradition. Something I was fearing has happened. The house of Jean Patou is now dead when it comes to fragrance production.... The acquisition of the brand by LVMH was the final sign that things were coming to an end, and when they released a perfume called Joy under the Dior umbrella, it was clear that nothing good was going to happen with the original Joy, launched by Jean Patou in 1930. Roses. Instantly, I am surrounded by roses, and drenched in sunlight. I must be carrying a half-eaten pear, for there is the faintest note. As if I can only catch it when the breeze blows in a very particular way. Oh, and there's beautiful Jasmine too. The whole thing smells like a slow stroll in a luxurious garden. Warm, clean, floral.