After the closure of the haute couture business the company has continued to produce fragrances under the Jean Patou brand. Patou also produced fragrances for Lacoste, when Patou acquired the license in the 1960s, [6] and Yohji Yamamoto in the 1990s. [7] When I was a child I didn't like to eat breakfast.my mom made breakfast using different homemade jams and marmalades to make breakfast irresistible for me(I always had and still have a sweet tooth).I remember my childhood breakfasts with rose petal jam,citron jam,quince marmalade,honeyed Jasmine tea and my mom's sweet voice singing an old song while rubbing marmalades on bread.Jean patou Joy is an extract of good old days for me,it doesn't smell old.it smells delightful. I won’t go into details about the crime they made when using it’s name for the new perfume by Dior. What a disgrace!

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. An extremely opulent and carnal interpretation on one specific subcategory of chypre, namely Mitsouko along with a strand of variants, e.g. Miss Dior Vintage, Nina Ricci Temps Vintage, YSL Y and Rive Gauche, Rochas Madame Vintage, Hermes Parfum d'Hermes and Caleche, and even Amouage Ubar. Maybe it's clearer to express in a tree form like: Overall, I'd say...meh. I could have been satisfied with a small decanted sample from STC or TPC. I do still have a thing for Joy. As my younger cousins would say:

Joy EDP isn't wearable for me as a day fragrance. It really needs to decloak itself after about an hour. I went on to buy full-sized bottles of the EDP and EDT. The EDP, I will keep for later and the EDT, I plan to wear. And like others, I get a resemblance to L'Air du Temps, my mother's signature scent ... both have a bright lemon-like quality to me, although L'Air du Temps is airy whereas Joy is creamy. Jean Patou ( pronounced [ʒɑ̃ pa.tu]; 27 September 1887 – 8 March 1936) was a French fashion designer, and founder of the Jean Patou brand. After hearing the tragic death of Joy, I have these parfum and EDT for months, today comes the time to compare them side by side... let's begin.

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.Middle notes : At the heart of the fragrance lies Camellia, Geranium, Lily, Rose, Jasmine, Coriander, Lily-of-the-Valley, Iris and Ylang-Ylang 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. 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. LVMH needs to hire proper marketing people and not, millennials who have no marketing qualifications and little fragrance history.

The structure is similar, but the weight ratio of various fragrance materials is different from the essence. EDT appropriately weakens indole and civet, giving consumers a lighter and easier-to-wear option. I am wearing what appears to be the reformulation of the orignal which my mother used to wear. I never wore that one but smelled it enough times on her to have become familiar with it myself. The original was lauded as a fragrance of "a thousand flowers" but while it was not multi floral it was a floral perfume made up of the most fragrant flowers known to man - rose, gardenia, tuberose, jasmine, and ylang ylang. The base was musky and balsamic, woodsy, green and aromatic. There was a sophistication and Chanel No. 5 type of air to the original, a musky floral for the grand dames of high society. The new formula is a whisper of the original, not bad, but definitely on a leash, sweeter and yet mature enough for me to wear. Of course I had to test this fragrance, too, because I thought Dior would finally be able to dare something new again. While I was out perfume browsing recently, I sprayed some of this on a card, some of it strayed (or rather, crawled) onto my fingers, then I forgot about it as I drifted along the perfume shelves.By the way, my Sira des Indes (which I like) are all P&G. I have never run across a Designer Parfums bottle.