Jean Patou Joy Eau De Toilette Spray for Women 75 ml

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The Fragrance industry has been fighting for decades a battle between the power of Marketing and the uniqueness of true creations. In difficult times, only great fragrances remain and among the icons of perfumery history there is Joy by Jean Patou. You’ll find Joy’s iconic notes of jasmine and rose in Joy Forever, but the fragrance also features another pair of noble flowers: orange blossom and iris. Joy Forever has been refreshed with citrusy notes, a green pinch of galbanum and a fruity peach note. The perfume evolves towards a sweet, woodsy trail. Perfumer: Thomas Fontaine. It’s turned to have more sentimental value than any economic significance. LVMH bought the house for the fashion, not the fragrance. Like all houses that no longer have the original designer at the helm, they drop their first name, which is why it’s now only Patou.

Of course, there are many more perfumes from the house of Jean Patou that are wonderful, and you can even take a look at our article Best In Show Jean Patou Fragrances. Let's not forget 1000 (1972), Sublime (1992), and Patou For Ever, created by Jean Kerleo. But Joy is, or should be, considered an indelible cultural heritage of perfume history and French culture. An ounce of Joy had a retail price of 40 dollars, the most expensive perfume at the time. As told by Emmanuelle Polle, "What the clients would soon learn was that this ounce of perfume was produced through the extraction of some 10,600 jasmine flowers and 28 dozen roses. It was a gargantuan perfume, requiring huge quantities of fresh flowers. The couturier-perfumer was not one for artifice, be it in the way silk was worked or the walk of a model on the runway, or the ingredients of a perfume. The same line of conduct prevailed in his perfumes and his fashions: the quest for naturalness and the very best raw materials." Patou was discovered unresponsive in his home the night of March 8, 1936 and died less than an hour later. He had been found to have suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage nearly 24 hours earlier. He died 4 months after his 48th birthday. His sister Madeleine and her husband Raymond Barbas continued the House of Patou. So I am going to cover Joy. Joy as you all know is one of the brightest stars in the pantheon of scents, perhaps only second to Chanel No 5 in the public’s mind. Joy was famously “The Costliest Perfume in the World” but didn’t have the stamp of approval of Marilyn Monroe, who claimed it was all she wore to bed. Barbara Hutton wore Joy. Joy is a perfume created for Parisian couturier Jean Patou by perfumer Henri Alméras in 1929. It is considered to be one of the greatest fragrances created and is a landmark example of the floral genre in perfumery. [1] It is no longer produced. [2] History [ edit ]In terms of flacon, it was designed by the Architect decorator Louis Süe. Inspired by Crinoline dresses and was structure under the Golden number, perfection and balance.The flacon by the way did not change since its creation. With an astonishing contemporary design, it became timeless. It is filled by hand and the cap is fixed with the “emery” procedure. This ancestral technique consists of sealing the bottle with a thin, moist membrane called a balloon that solidifies as it dries. The glass is In Baccarat crystal, the gold elements are hand-painted and finally, the gold wire that tops the cap completes the creation of Jean Patou as a signature. Joy By Jean Patou Across The Years Stamelman, Richard Howard (2006). Perfume: Joy, Obsession, Scandal, Sin: a cultural history of fragrance from 1750 to the present. Rizzoli. p.219. ISBN 0-8478-2832-8. I am far from blaming those, but hey, why so? Why does Guerlain find a way to sustain old chaps of their line, why do they find ways to play with temporary withdrawals then reissues of the old gems, still insisting on their importance to the world? 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. So, after almost 100 years, there may be no Joy. Like the original (real) Miss Dior, Je Reviens, or Jolie Madame they are likely best remembered and perhaps not resurrected, no matter how much we would like to.

Jean Patou ( pronounced [ʒɑ̃ pa.tu]; 27 September 1887 – 8 March 1936) was a French fashion designer, and founder of the Jean Patou brand.From 1967 to 1999 Jean Kerléo was the house perfumer, he developed all their perfumes during that time including "1000" (1972) and "Sublime" (1992), "Patou Pour Homme" (1980). [8] What I liked less was its whole concept, from a name pilfered from Jean Patou to the core idea. Selecting a star rating for Joy turned out to be challenge. It’s a solid 3 star perfume as far as technique, but as far as originality, it fails massively. Add to it Dior’s insistence on cannibalizing its classical brands, and I’m at loss on how to grade it to be fair to the perfume and to remain honest to myself. 2 stars was my compromise.