'Dôme épais, le jasmin à la rose s'assemble'. If a perfume could be a song, Joy would be the 'Flower duet' from Lakmé by Léo Délibes. As my vintage bottle of Joy parfum is finished, I decided to buy the new Edp version.
The Edp maintain the same Joy's minimalist DNA. A quite indolic jasmine and non-sweet lemony rose of mai form the heart of the composition but in a very transparent way if compared to the extract. The top note is quite clean and fruity, maybe a fleshy peachy aldehyde with abstract flowers. On me it lasted no more than a couple of hours. I cannot smell sandalwood, civet or musk at all in the base notes, just a rosy, sour-and-sweet, salty, soft animalic note of ambergris.
I expected something stronger for an Eau de Parfum but I understand that a fragrance like the original Joy could not survive in these days due its high cost. Joy is also very daring for today's tastes due its indolic (should I say quite fecal?) qualities. You really must dare to wear the extract of perfume in public. It is my signature scent and will be forever in my collection. A classic fragrance which deserves as much respect and love as Chanel No. 5 and Arpege.
From the same era in fact Joy comes from the same time women were first shopping for No. 5. This fragrance contains mostly florals of roses and jasmines but biggest on tuberose. This is the first truly famous white floral fragrance. If you're familiar with how tuberose smells in a fragrance you'll know whether or not it's for you. I love white flowers and it's always a pleasure to smell and to wear. The tuberose here is a woman who wears her hair up and who is sedate sweet and has her life together.
She is never late for anything, she goes to Church, she behaves. I don't fit that personality but I do like my fragrances to smell the opposite of who I am. The scent is slightly reminiscent of more modern frags like Madonna's Truth or dare which itself is an homage to Fracas and this one is also a bit like Fracas.
The dry down is pure musk but it's cozy and warm and very wearable. I was afraid of this one when I first got it thinking it was old lady ish but there is no such thing. I repeat there is no such thing as old lady perfume.
To my nose it's rose, vanilla and patchouli. My scent palette has been slowing favoring rose over the past couple of months. I remember a couple years back I smelled Miss Dior 2012 EDP and I hated it, and gave me a headache. I used to hate anything with rose in it, but now I have really been enjoying rose. As long as there's a sweetness it in then I like it.
Miss Dior EDP is a sweet, woody rose with a slight powdery quality to it. Somewhat "maternal" like our beloved Mon Guerlain. The dry down is a very woody vanilla(even though there's no vanilla listed, it must be the rosewood + patchouli), so in love with the dry down! I usually don't like patchouli heavy fragrances like LVEB.
This patchouli is very well blended here. This is so luxurious and comforting, cozy and elegant. I put it on my wrist before bed and when I woke up I could still smell it. So if you like jammy roses, or if you just like rose. You may want to put your nose in the sensual Miss Dior EDP 2017. Joy eau de parfum is enchanting, I have a full bottle that I was fortunate enough to acquire, and I use it sparingly.
It definitely is a bold fragrance, intimidating even, it opens with a sharp citrus note, an almost fecal Jasmine, and a very beautiful rose. It has similarities to No.5, but this is a little more fleshy and less powdery. As it settles, the Rose gives the fragrance softness, the rose here is very detectable, almost as if you held rose petals in your hand and you crushed them, they release a warm, fresh scent. The jasmine here is dirty and gives Joy a seductive allure, tuberose is very understated. Not for the faint of heart, I'm only 21 and I don't wear this out, mostly at night before bed. Rich floral, with an almost animalic touch, warm, fleshy, sinful.
The pepper and citrus is bright and prominent in the opening then settle in to blend beautifully. The citrus is sweet, such a nice blend. The millions of roses with a bit of jasmine are lush and creamy. The patchouli isn't too strong, it enhances the whole thing and holds it together deepening it ever so slightly. I dont know if it's the rosewood reacting with the lingering pepper, but I swear I get a hint of anise, like star of anise, but maybe that's just me. Feminine, soft, creamy, bright, with a hint of spice.
Not my favorite by any means, but it smells ultra natural, ladylike, sweet, and expensive. First of all I need to point out that I have never tried the old version of Joy. I know the latest reformulated version in the white package.
I am always curious on civet scents as I love civet as a note. Joy starts as an explosion of aldehydes and animalistic civet , I really enjoyed the opening . After a while the flowers join in and civet is tamed . I could clearly smell jasmine and a hint of rose. That's the stage when it starts to smell like it urine for a few minutes .
The dry down is light flower slightly musky while civet is almost absent . The lasting power is quite good but the silage is hardly there. To me Joy is a skin scent , beautiful and sophisticated . I've read about how many people rave about Jean Patou's 'Joy' and '1000' and today I finally saw it on display and got to try it.
'1000' didn't move me but 'Joy' was love at first sniff. Oddly, I got no rose at all, on me it's almost a lily-of-the-valley soliflore with some yang-ylang and jasmine. It dances on my skin with white floral exuberance. It's amazingly realistic as if I'm surrounded by evening scented flowers releasing their pollen fragrance as dusk approaches.
Although 'Joy' is a classic fragrance from a golden era of perfume, this does not smell vintage or dated. It's gone straight to my favourites list and may become my signature once I own a bottle. It reminded me of 'Diorissimo' but better. If you like 'Carnel Flower' you'll love this.
Sandalwood and a dash of incense also give it an enveloping and slightly addictive "dry down" . I have every version of Miss Dior known to man and this is probably my favorite one since 2005 Miss Dior Cherie. It opens a bit more sharp and tart than other versions, with the pink pepper, lemon and blood orange right at the forefront. The heart of the fragrance softens into a creamy jasmine and rose affair, with what feels like a hint of vanilla mixing with the luscious sweet orange and bergamot. The drydown is pure heavenly rosewood, more creamy vanilla (even though it's not listed in the notes I am getting it from somewhere) and a hint of patchouli.
This is not patchouli heavy by any means, it's very soft and very much in the background on this one. It dries down a bit powdery, but I feel it's really more on the creamy side still. I truly don't understand the bad critics on this perfume. To me Miss Dior 2017 smells incredible. The trend was patchouli at the time so I understood the fuzz back then but to me it smelled like a perfume a 18 year old girl could perfectly wear instead of Coco Mademoiselle. The new Miss Dior on the other hand starts citrusy fresh but not much later the roses start to appear with a powdery peppery feeling.
If you like powdery and sweet this you will love. At the dry down is such a pleasent fragrance. Perfect to wear on all occasions, if it screams love? I don't know about that, I suppose it can be a little "vanilla" type of romantic, but not extremely sexy.
I believe that the note pyramid on this version is wrong. There is no patchouli listed on either Dior's website nor Sephora's. I fell in love with a sample I got from Sephora a couple weeks ago, a spicy patchouli rose.
To the point where I'm ordering several bottles in case it was reformulated yet again. A new 100mL bottle came today, batch code says manufactured December 2018 and it smells very different. This smells more like Absolutely Blooming than the Miss Dior I tried; I even tried a spray of my sample on one arm and my new bottle on the other.
The sample is almost masculine and smells fresh yet spicy, the full bottle smells sweeter and more generic. I'm so disappointed that I've fallen head over heels for a discontinued scent. I was so sure that I had been sampling the 2017 version because the notes here included patchouli and pink pepper, but now I believe the listed notes are mistaken.
I have a feeling that half of these reviews belong to the 2012 version. I get a lot of oranges and roses, subtlety spiced and fresh, not overly sweet. The patchouli doesn't disturb me here as in some other perfumes, but I wonder if this is the reason why I can't totally fall in love with it.
The projection is strong, people can smell me around feet away and I got compliments everytime I wear it, around 3-4 hours the sillage is softer and then after 6-8 hours it's closer to skin. The longevity is nice, it lasts more than 10 hours on me. Joy also contains a white flower of tuberose which tends to take over toward the end of the middle phase. This is a pretty good tuberose that makes it's appearance as the roses make their exit. It smells like a floral version of a fashion show on the runway, where flowers strut their stuff before they are gone. Intense and luscious with alluring floral composition, JOY was created by Henri Alméras, who made its top notes irresistibly delightful.
The composition starts with fragrant jilt tuberose, luscious rose, ylang-ylang blossom, aldehydes, sweet and mouthwatering pear, and green notes. The heart beats passionately in pure and sweetly fresh jasmine notes, seductive and balmy spicy and darkened iris root. The base whiffs with sensual musk, warm and milky-powdery sandalwood, with mild musky civet tones. I fell really hard for this when it came out - treated myself to a 50 ml bottle on the day it became available in my local department store.
But green, fresh, and unique quickly became generic, and metallic became grating. It's true that this doesn't smell quite like anything else easily available on the market, but to my nose it is clearly composed of commonly used notes. I don't get anything starched or steamy or like a hot iron--just green, metallic freshness with that sharp, dry, woody note in the dry down everything else has these days.
I think many reviews here are affected by attachment to the former 'Miss Dior' . I, for one, really loved this (2017-pink version). I stirred clear from most Dior as they usually smell horrible on me being loaded with orange blossom or other ingredients I can't tolerate, so imagine my surprise when I smelled this beauty. It's flirty, sweet, light and distinctly sophisticated.
It opens with citrusy sweetness with pepper note contouring it. An hour later it settles for a sweet woody rose with a hint of jasmine, which is delightfully sensuous. The projection is moderate, longevity could be a bit better. I can't afford it right now but will purchase it the first chance I'll get. It does smell expensive because it is so well blended and oozes sophistication while being flirty. To me the first spray was just another pink pepper perfume which I have enough of.
This note is dominant and stays that way for a while knocking down any fruity fragrance on my skin. The perfume lays on the skin giving it almost no projection and I prefer a little bolder scent at least one I can get a whiff of. I ended up giving my bottle away about a month of owning it. Just nothing special to me for the price I paid for it . It skipped over the rose scent and went to a soft woody scent that last for about 4 hours then poof it was gone. Joy is a classic perfume that has stood the test of time, it's elegant and luxurious.
At first I get mostly civet and rose, but during the drydown jasmine emerges until it becomes more dominant than the rose. If you don't like civet and animalic scents you won't like this at all. The silage is moderate tending toward the soft side, so I'm sure people close by may smell it, but it's not an overpowering civet bomb that's going to clear out a room.
