Yes, the civet is there and in your face for about the first half hour, so if that doesn't work for you, this might not be your jam. If that wasn't enough, the Wall Street crashed, bringing thousands of rich families to ruin and generating the biggest economic crisis in history, the “Great Depression”. In one of my previous reviews I mentioned how I remember this from my youth as being dominated by a beautiful rose, but that it was no longer as pronounced as it once was. Far from commercial scents, Joy is an artisanal-fragrance intended to express the peak of years of refined sensory art by Jean Patou. The JOY I smell is pure and transparent jasmine, which is slightly different from the real flowers in nature.

The opening is an elegant rush of tuberose and jasmine, indolic but in a clean way if that makes any sense--lending a high pitch rather than a dirty note. I don't wear it too often, but it fullfills every desire I could ever have from a fragrance (at this current time). Eau de Joy is less floral than the original Joy and more of an animalic musk w/ florals, where the original Joy is a floral perfume w/ an animalic base.I've become fascinated by the history of Joy by Jean Patou although I've never experienced the original costly formulation. In 1927, tanned skin was the new chic and Jean Patou conceived Chaldea oil, the first sunscreen product – never before seen. Maybe my version is a fake, or this has just been reformulated so as to be completely unrecognisable to the vintage extrait.

I don’t understand what is happening with our world nowadays, but so many bizarre and just plain bad things have been going on the past few years and the discontinuation of this iconic perfume and using it’s name for a new, totally boring and completely forgettable fragrance is definitely bizarrely bad.

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While Jean Patou's "Joy" was marketed as a glamorous perfume, and it does smell glamorous, this is also Goth in all of its glory. The couturier designed dresses to wear without a corset and invented sportswear well ahead of his time, making tennis champion, Suzanne Lenglen, his first muse. Two and a half hours later, and my idyllic stroll around those spectacular gardens may have been a day dream. Ugh it's giving me Amarige vibes, and I don't like Amarige EPD by Givenchy which by the way, is a whole lot more affordable than Joy EPD. Some of the biggest names in fashion have carried the brand’s creative torch after Jean Patou's death in 1936.I found after sniffing parfum EDT is like disappearing, have to sniff EDT first to make it possible to compare with parfum, I believe parfum is pure roses and jasmines, it's heavy in exquisite flowers to the extent with some nature's breath of dirtiness. The florals in Joy are not sweet or cloying like the fragrances we are used to today, but rather raw, like real flowers smelled from a distance. Whether you're seeking a signature scent for everyday wear or something unique and special, we're committed to offering high-quality options to suit your needs and budget. Celebrities of the time, such as Louise Brooks, Josephine Baker and Mistinguett, were all seen wearing his dresses.