Jean Patou Chaldee Heritage Collection Eau de Parfumee Spray for Women 100 ml

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With the calming of the citruses, it becomes more warm and enveloping, a fragrant reassurance. Have you ever come across a fragrance that almost seems to whisper "everything is going to be okay?" For me, Sublime is one of them. It's like a hot cup of coffee or cocoa, a warm book, a candle in the window. The creamy amber over time salves my consciousness, while the jasmine and ylang ylang reveal rosier accents and are more muted pastel over time. I bought this because I fell head over heels with Joy and on first impressions it smells very similar. On the dry down this one is brighter, almost like hazy sunshine in a bottle. It has a very addictive edge to it and I can't stop savouring it on my wrist as I delight in searching out its intricacies. It reminds me of a new lover - the frisson of anticipation, the way they dress, and move and breathe. This is pre coitus ; Joy is afterwards when you lie entwined and your body smells are heady and you wonder just what sorcery brought you here. Since writing my first review, I have also had the pleasure of trying out the 1980s version of this scent, from the "Ma Collection" series. I don't know how that version compares to the original 1920s Huile de Chaldee, created as a tanning product, and later Chaldee perfume based upon the same scent, but I can see that this new version remains somewhat faithful to it's immediate predecessor. Both have that crisp, aldehydic feeling, and the freshness, underscored by clean florals (narcissus, jasmine, orange blossom, and the dewiness of a soft rose) and resins (opoponax and something slightly sweet). The older version I tried was a little battered and bruised by age and had that vintage feeling that is so hard to describe, and the two were by no means identical, but there was a clear link between one and the other, in my opinion, particularly in the soft aldehydes I'm convinced I could smell, althogh not mentioned in the notes list.

Louis Süe designed all the perfume bottles and boxes for Jean Patou. [5] 1930s [ edit ] JOY by Jean Patou I wish I could take the opening minutes and sillage performance of the new one and fuse it with the vintage. Then we'd have the perfect Chaldée: the best of both worlds. The first masculine fragrance of the Heritage collection is Jean Pаtou Pour Homme. It has a quite modern equivalent; it is the same age as the Moscow Olympics and it was released in 1980. It may sound strange, but it was the first masculine fragrance launched by Jean Patou. Jean loved women that much—all his perfumes were devoted to women. But Patou Pour Homme was finally devoted to Jean Patou himself: Designer Parfums appoints its first in-house perfumer". cosmeticsbusiness.com. 21 November 2011. Archived from the original on 10 May 2012 . Retrieved 14 September 2012.Edit April 2022: i wore this today on a hot spring day. It was more more than sublime: it was the sexiest frag I've worn in months. Somehow the warmth of my skin and the air were emphasising the sweet apricot and ylang notes. The spices were amped up too. After 6 hours I am still getting wafts of this love potion and am enthralled. The drydown is really soft and creamy in a bright sense. There is no darkness or gothic aspect in it. It is really a bridge between powerful aldehydic perfumes of 70s and 80s and overly sweet and fruity frags of the last decade. Adieu Sagesse: Bright, fun, a bit girly but w/ a sophisticated aura. A posh garden party awaits you. Fragrance for men Patou Pour Homme was introduced in 1980 celebrating men’s elegance. This fragrance is truly masculine—authoritative and layered. Top notes provide us with a blend of bergamot, lemon, galbanum and pepper, which give way to lavender, jasmine, rose, tarragon and violet in the heart. Robustness and crudeness come from base notes of patchouli, olibanum and amber.

I'm not kidding! But I must say this: I have heard much of JOY and 1,000 and that Patou released masterpiece perfumes...but had NO idea! This is a very classic scent, without the usual vintage bombast of aldehydes and oakmoss so prevalent in its contemporaries. Anyone who wants to smell paradise should try this... There's another "two perfume" story here also. I remember this well from when it originally came out. Then the ambers were gorgeous but huge. The greens didn't disappear; they augmented and defined the amber. It was a perfume for a proud confident woman and anyone who wore it considered it a signature. It's not that way anymore. It's still very good but it's like a woman denying she's had a face lift but everyone notices that the eyes aren't quite right. I wish that IFRA and perfumers would quit messing with the wonderful scents; I also wish that they'd at least tell us when they make these changes.Guerlain perfumes are more distanciated, and in that sense more symbolic, than Chanel and Patou. A lot of today's perfumery, if it's any good, and particularly luxury and niche conceptions, is story telling as well. So it seems indebted to Guerlain's artistry. In my rough estimation, the story telling style of fragrance gained traction in the 80s. Mugler a major practitioner. All the French design houses at least put their feet in this water. The house of Jean Patou has recently launched the new fragrance for women Joy Forever and presented the well-known collection in new bottles repeating the form of Ma Collection. Joy Forever was created by perfumer of the house, Thomas Fontaine, who started his work at Jean Patou with various reformulations of the fragrance Sublime, 1000, Joy, Jean Patou pour homme, Eau de Patou and Chaldée.

I'm thinking maybe around May time, when you might still have an overnight frost before the day warms up. One of those simple pleasures in life, where if you are up and about early enough, even in the city, you can walk along a main road and see no other people or traffic, and revel in the fresh, sparkling clean feel of newness and potential. As though the new day was made entirely for you alone. Stewart, Mary Lynn (2008). Dressing Modern Frenchwomen: Marketing Haute Couture, 1919–1939. JHU Press. p.209. ISBN 978-0-8018-8803-8.In 1927, Chaldee was the fourth fragrance released by Jean Patou. It sprang up from another Jean Patou product Huile de Chaldee which was meant to be used a suntan oil, as “sun culture” was just coming into its own in the late 1920’s. Suntan oil in those early days was just castor oil and so Jean Patou asked their perfumer Henri Almeras to add something to the castor oil to make it smell nice. After its launch they found women wearing it even when they weren’t in the sun because they liked the smell and so M. Almeras designed the perfume version simply named Chaldee. Ok, so I got this on E-Bay in a set of Jean Patou minis. I have no idea when it was released, but the bottle is oval instead of rectangular, so I don't think it's the reformulation. I'm not sure if the fragrance has gone off, but all the other perfumes in the set smell fine. I suppose many of these "classics" started to get simplified and cheapened down in ingredients from the 2000s on, so there tends to be a similarity, because they must be using the same molecules.