I believe it a responsibility to support independent businesses that do their job well, and I failed to fulfill said responsibility. Top notes of this perfume include peach, green notes, rose, ylang-ylang, aldehyde, which provides a lemony-soapy accord and tuberose. Read more about the condition New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging is applicable).

Like Poeme and L'Heure Bleue, it reminds me of a younger version of myself who wanted to feel enveloped in a scent like I do when standing by a lilac bush and breathing deeply. One of the main differences is the presence of aldehydes that really lifts the indolic jasmine cutting its banana jam note and enveloping the composition like a crisp cellophane wrapper.It was with this fragrance, that my mother taught me, fine things come in small packages and she taught me how to apply perfume on my neck and wrists. Again, similar to the original but muskier, and the aldehydes, green notes and florals are softened slightly. For all complexity of the formula, which arrived sealed and perfectly preserved, this is a stunning jasmine simply warmed by the real civet and musks inside.

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.EdJ is so very different from the fruity/fresh/candy scents which are currently popular that younger consumers may perceive it as dated. I sometimes open it up and wondering about fabulous romantic stories of old perfumers and aldehyde experiment. There were no testers or samples available of Joy so when I first opened the bottle it was a huge disappointment. It's the kind of big, aldehydic floral that screams "old-lady" to my middle-aged nose, and just "vintage" to people a little younger-- with that fizz that wafts above so many of the 20th century greats, and the sensation people hate when they say they "hate perfume. She's experienced a lot, knows even more and she is simply happy and at peace to be in a place she is now.

Joy was created as a reaction to the 1929 Wall Street crash, which had diminished the fortunes of Jean Patou's wealthy American clientele. It literally makes me euphoric when I get a whiff of my inner elbow--a wild concatenation of rose, jasmine, iris!I was sitting alone at a rooftop bar and sprayed a bit one while feeling a bit tipsy and waiting to meet a date. When I received it the only enjoyable part about it was the first spray, super fresh and clean like I remembered. One YouTube reviewer suggested that one dab is enough but I have hit all my pulse points and I am surrounded in a warm bubble of tropical air in which the jasmine and distant roses set the scene.