Katie J  

OUTSTANDING! AMAZING! A PIECE OF PERFUME HISTORY!!! CAUTION: indolic to the max!!! one spritz is plenty!!! Joy (by Jean Patou 1929) has a place in perfume history as one of the all time great perfumes. This version is the Designer Parfums version created by Thomas Fontaine in 2014 and manufactured until 2018. This was a serious attempt to re-create the original Joy using modern ingredients and, also, create a modernized companion version, Joy Forever. Many of the great perfumes made from the 1920's to the 1940's are very intense and highly "indolic" (go look it up). They are made to be used in small quantities. Joy is a very good example of this. If your nose is sensitive to indoles, you won't like it at all. I happen to like indolic perfumes and I still find it to be at the edge of what I can tolerate. But "at the edge" is what makes a perfume fascinating. Indolic perfumes have a "wow" factor, a power to compel attention, that is missing from non-indolic perfumes. I see that FragranceNet is currently sold out of the Designer Parfums version of Joy, which is the nearest thing to the original available today (Dior's Joy is a completely different perfume). I hope they get more as I want to purchase a backup bottle. If you were born after 1990, you have never smelled anything like this before and you never will again, so snatch up a bottle - but remember the power of indoles and don't drench yourself, a single small spritz is very powerful, if you spray half a dozen spritzes, you'll have to take a shower to wash it off.

Donna Lee Jones 

I remember when I was only ten years old and not into perfumes just quit yet. The day that changed all that for me and still only 10 was in the early 1960s. My mother picked up a tiny black bottle, "JOY" in Gold lettering with a tiny red glass topper. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen! I asked her if she would put some on me. She replied, and I never forgot what she said to me: "On no sweetheart, this is "Liquid Gold", but if you are careful, I'll let you smell it. I never forgot that heavenly smell, my mother's love for Joy and after 60 years, I still have mom's beautiful tiny black bottle with the beautiful smell and all the memories that go along with it. I will miss seeing this little treasure and it's creator, Jean Patou, go away. Therefore I will say Thank You to my mom (who passed at age 83) and Jean Patou for making me feel like a princess present, past and please maybe even future again,

Glowing 

I purchased the body cream several years ago, it smells great and compliments the body powder I already own. I'd like to purchase the body powder when it's available.

Grace 

I thought that this fragrance would be right up my alley. I love floral perfumes and after reading the notes it sounded perfect. White florals, rose, musk, sandalwood, ylang-ylang. Some of my favorite perfumes have these notes, so I am really not sure why I dislike this as much as I do. It is so close to being gorgeous, but there is this note of....decay maybe? I can't pinpoint it, but whatever note is lurking somewhere around the heart/base of the perfume just ruins the whole scent for me. Also, this is a fragrance that reads as old fashioned to me, so if that is something that is a deal breaker, I would definitely steer clear of this one. I'm glad that I only bought the travel sample. This is not a safe blind buy.

cec2 

I became intrigued with the history of Joy perfume and was so glad to find the Jean Patou version available here, although of course the formulation was required to change some as with other famous perfumes. (I certainly could not afford the original!) I have since bought both the Joy parfum and toilette and I like and wear them both a lot. There seems to be a very slight difference between the two but not one I could describe, and of course the fragrance of the parfum seems to last longer as it is more concentrated. I rate both of them a 5. On me, the scent of both gets better in the first 30 minutes or so; it can seem a bit strong at first. This is not a super-long lasting fragrance on me but no complaints. I hope the stock doesn't get depleted as it's my understanding the Patou Joy is no longer made. (Shame on the silver imposter! It's not the same at all and should not use the name Joy.)