Sublimity-Joy By Jean Patou
As I have been preparing rose-related posts in honor of my Rose decant giveaway , I keep meaning to review the great quantity of fruity roses that I have in my sample collection, but something keeps stopping me. I guess I just can’t get enthusiastic enough about them—or disgusted enough with them, to write anything at all. So I thought I would write about something that inspires me, and has done the same for many others, since its creation in 1930— Joy by Jean Patou. I’m talking about the EDT in this case, since I think it is more rosy than the super-jasmine edp. I don’t think you can find a classic floral more sublime than this very often. The top-quality bulgarian rose and jasmine sit on top of a sparkling—but not overwhelming—aldehyde cocktail, which is much more delicate and less pronounced than other classic aldehyde-riddled fragrances like Chanel no. 5 . It is a rich floral accord, neither jasmine nor rose, but like the best of both blended into a superflowe...