Enjoli

This is a bright floral green aldehyde on me. It opens with a burst of fresh airy aldehydes and slowly settles into a bright floral heart, eventually settling into a woody green, slightly mossy base. I find this to be a cool bright fragrance, with equal doses of flowers and green leaves. I can detect a bit of oakmoss here, but its not heavy, so it never feels too heavy or mossy, but maintains a green brightness. I think it's recognizable as coming from a certain era, as I can't think of any current fragrances that smell like this.

Another blast from the past! My brother gave this to me as a gift back in high school when it was brand new. I loved the ultra feminine but not too floral scent. The fragrance lasted for a long time too. UPDATE: If you are looking for a vintage bottle of this, beware. I was overjoyed because I found one on EBAY. When it arrived, I couldn't wait to smell it. It was really rank smelling : ( I don't know if it doesn't age well or if it wasn't stored properly. I won't be taking any more chances buying "vintage" scents.

Another Gem, that I remember growing up in the 80s because my mother always managed to keep a bottle of this perfume, and I remember always sneaking to spray some of this on, at just 13 or 14 years old. I thought it smelled so mature and grownup ,at the time, and was so excited when she bought me my own bottle. Till this day I will never forget this beauty , and remember some years back I was able to find a small spray bottle on Ebay. I was so excited to see that someone still carried this perfume.

I picked up a bottle today - my local Big Lots had a bottle for $6, so ... I took a sniff, was happy with what I smelled and brought it home. I get a lot of spice - such as carnation, orchid, tuberose, etc. - and of course the amber, and the sandalwood, maybe a bit of the oakmoss. I don't get much in the way of sweet florals, just the spicy ones. But that's the way I like it - on me, then, it is basically an Oriental floral or Spicy Floral or whatever the correct way to put that would be.

This is one of my first perfume loves. I wore the hell out of this one. The green feminine powdery, spicy jasmine is second to none and what sets it apart. Its a little bit floral, little green, little oriental with its ambery spicy musk. Its a little bit rock and roll, but not over done. It just plain works for me. I picked up 1/8 of the perfume and recognized it instantly. I'll put some on and bring home the bacon baby!!! Lol

Reminds me of Forever Krystle, but So much better. That had mimosa and musk. This (regardless of the notes) says spices and musk and gorgeous mimosa. Perfectly balanced. I refer to a vintage cologne formulation. While it is not longer lasting than most colognes, OH if they just released colognes like this at drugstore prices now! Charming. If you want time travel, this is IT.

I loved, loved, loved this fragrance back in college and to the writer Nebraskaloves....You are so right, that damn so stays with you, cause after having read your review, I could hear the song and see the woman in the commercial.

another perfume I wore back in the day in my teen era Iknow that it was very popular too bad they dont carry this in the local stores anymore

This was a real winner back in the day. Men loved the scent on women and women just loved it. Too bad it's gone and no longer available.

Not to long ago, suppressed by the heat of summer, and drenched with the melancholy of lost youth, I began drudging up the past by way of lost olfactory delights. My latest find was a wee-little bottle of Enjoli, marked down to half its stature for a buck fifty. Helplessly drawn to a bargain, I clutched the little guy and headed for the register. Fresh mint tea in hand, I began the forensic search into its contents and origins. While this may seem tediously boring to some, it delights the very fabric of my makeup, and harks into some deep RNA coding for research savvy. Let's leave it here by saying, it's a family tradition - we bleed data points. Now we enter the part of the review that may cause discomfort amongst some. Be advised that this review is not a personal assault on your preferences. It is a humble opinion meant to share and stir thought, just in case you were itching to pop somebody's balloons. Balloons on this site, by the way, are the only form of currency one can purchase an ounce of validation with. So, be kind beautiful people. I am instantly struck with a sense of deja vu with each spray. It is starting to seem as if any given woman wearing perfume in the late seventies and into the eighties, smelled just like this. Minus a few exceptions, we have the following choices: Maternal Powdery slumber scents (think Sweet Honesty), Wildly Spicy Feminist Fragrances (like Opium), and Powerfully Punctuated natural perfumes (pick a chypre - any chypre will do), synthesized with whopping assertions of aldehydes. Enjoli is certainly no exception. Even if their advertisement heralded an eight hour performance. Any woman should be so lucky! That alone had to push them off the shelves - am I right ladies? (wink). Nuances of peach, hiacynth, orchid, and such, are lost under a synthetic blanket. "(blank) notes" in the list of ingredients always inspires me to look around the room. At a particular point, there is no point. The sniffer has gone stale, and one is left dutifully nodding to each note. Orris root (nodding), sure. Tuberose - really? Why not. Cedar (shrugging) I guess anything is possible. Sometimes, I spray and sit myself in front of a fan, just to reach the dry down faster. Like reading the last page of a novel first. What can I say, I'm a glutton for immediate gratification! And... ...Boy oh boy! Does this ugly duckling its way into being quite a beauty! Vanilla, amber, musk and moss, all reach center point in unison, for one distinct final moment that is definitely worth the wait!

Over the years I've added a lot of perfumes to my collection, unfortunately I'm rather unorganized. I take care to store the fragrances cool, dry and dark, but I've never made a list of what I have. So it came as no surprise to find a bottle of Enjoli parfum at the bottom of the perfume drawer: out of sight, out of mind. In any case, E. is a real find. The parfum is definitely vintage by age and composition, well blended and adult feminine. E. reminds me a bit of Lanvin and even Ysatis at the opening. E. settles in quickly with modest sillage and decent longevity, the 8 hr performance appears to be hype. As much as I like this scent I'll have to use it sparingly. Even partial bottles command a high price, esp. for a vintage drug store fragrance.

I used to wear this in the late 80's. It was a strong perfume. Sort of a classic. All these reviews say it has been reformulated. Sad. Of course it probably wouldn't be quite my thing anymore anyways.

My mom's signature fragrance for years, and my dad was madly in love with her always, but especially when she wore this. This will always remind me of my mom hugging me. <3

orchid, wood, light oakmoss but not totally chypre and bitter, some aldehydes

It was my first teen fragance... no more words, I Love it

i found a full vintage bottle on a roadtrip at a thrift store. (those are some of the happiest words a perfume lover could ever write.) anyhoo, i remember the name/bottle from back in the day, but don't recall if i had smelled it. at first spray it's quite green and smells very familiar. it's green notes, oakmoss and some hyacinth. later on, after maybe 15 minutes, the greenness dies down a bit and i get tuberose and sandalwood along with some of the other base notes. it has changed quite a bit from the beginning and there is a hint of spice from carnation. dries down to a pretty floral with warming notes.

I remember this scent from an aunt. She used to use a lot of the juice and on top of this, she was a smoker at the time(and most likely still is, unfortunately) so we all could smell this before she even walked up. I really wish I had the chance to experience this scent without all the harsh smokers smell. But all in all, I think the notes are very feminine and I'd love to try a sample one day. I sadly dislike this one, as it's just so harsh and I prefer something less in people's faces, if that makes sense.

Reviewing - A vintage ebay purchase, not sure of the year. This is not my favorite thing, its a little to strong with the amber, peach, vanilla and jasmine vibe. I liked it better when first sprayed but the dry down is defiantly a peachy-amber mess that does not work well on me.

I was around10 years old when this perfume came out and I remember seeing the commercials on TV all the time. I was seduced by the strong female lead in the commercial bragging about how she could bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan and never let her man go unsatisfied LOL. It was a powerful message and I wanted to be that woman, she could do it all, have a career and a husband as well all while looking breathtakingly beautiful. I begged to have this under the tree for Christmas. I woke up that morning and when I opened one of the boxes Enjoli was inside. I was so over the moon happy. Then I sprayed the perfume and that happiness came crashing down faster than an avalanche. The smell was not at all what I was expecting, I should've learned my lesson there that I do not like aldehydic perfumes. Alas I was seduced by another ad campaign, that for Chanel #5. #5 was when I got it through my head these types of perfumes are just not for me.

Fragrance Review For Enjoli By Charles of the Ritz Top Notes Aldehydes Green Notes Peach Hyacinth Bergamot Middle Notes Carnation Tuberose Orchid Orris Root Jasmine Rose Base Notes Sandalwood Amber Musk Vanilla Oakmoss Cedar Wood The Eight Hour Perfume For The 24 Hour Woman "I can bring home the bacon, Enjoli, fry it up in a pan, Enjoli, and never let you forget you're a man. I can work until 5 o clock, come home and read you tick-ety-tock, and if it's loving you want I can kiss you and give you the shivers, Enjoli" - Fragrance Ad 1980s This was my mother's "secret fragrance". She kept it to herself and never brought it home to be displayed in her dresser table with her Avon and Dana perfumes. She always kept it with her in her handbag and brought it with her to work. At that time she was employed as a maid and housekeeper in some of the loveliest townhouses and penthouses in Manhattan. The fragrance dates from around 1978 but she was wearing it through the 1980's and early 90's. As this was advertised as being the 8 hour perfume for the 24 hour woman, and my mother worked so hard for more than 8 hours, this was the kind of perfume she liked to wear to make her feel womanly and gorgeous, even if she was washing windows and cleaning toilets. This was a casual every day fragrance for a woman to wear to work - whatever work that may be - at the office, a classroom, a court of law, etc, and also wear it when her day is done and she comes home. The lasting power was supposed to be 8 hours but I never confirmed it. My mother eventually told me that it might have lasted for about 6 hours instead. My mother is as big a fan of fragrances and an avid collector as I am. She introduced me to this fragrance recently. They are still selling on ebay although it is largely a discontinued fragrance. I'd already experienced Charlie by Revlon and Rive Gauche by Yves Saint Laurent and to me Enjoli is from the same fragrance family. This is a cheap modern floral for the modern working class woman. It's not fair to call it cheap but the price was always very affordable. The fragrance, however, is absolutely beautiful and smells more expensive. The oak moss gives this scent the aura of a chypre. So if you like chypres and florals, this is very lovely. It's casual and soothing, powdery, womanly, mature, comforting and not abrasive. I was afraid it would be a bit too powerful as it does have all the big whopper notes of aldehydes and lots of flowers, but it's really quite enjoyable as a powdery fragrance. Like Charlie and Rive Gauche, it's an uplifting and easy to wear floral fragrance. At the first spritz of Enjoli my nose picked up on the scent of fresh aldehydes, citrus and peach. It has a traditional fruity floral opening. Sweet, fresh, and very nice. It's not long before those aldehydes have disappeared and the scent turns flowery. There is tuberose but it's bigger on carnation, rose, hyacinth and orchid. I love all these flowers and each are very detectable. It's a bouquet of beautiful flowers. The orris root provides the scent with powder along with the rose which is also powdery. The tuberose is creamy but nowhere near the obscenity of Giorgio Beverly Hill's tuberose. The flowers are sweet, soft, and mellow. It's like floral powder to get you through your day. The dry down is vanillic and woodsy. I smelled vanilla as soon as it began to dry and it's a powdery vanilla. The woods and oak moss are noticeable as well. The cedar and sandalwood take this fragrance back, back a number years before the 70s and 80's, when fragrances were big on woods and chypres were in vogue. It's never too woodsy as to smell of a forest or pine. It's a wood that has to be there to support the flowers. After a while all I smell is pure vanilla with a degree of musk. This is a spring and summer fragrance, it's fresh, it's floral and it's vanilla-scented. It couldn't possibly be mistaken for a unisex fragrance, and it's definitely not for little girls. This is a woman's perfume. I must admit I found the TV commercial to be hilarious as it's so outdated (like this perfume) and almost sexist. "I never let you forget you're a man?" Really? He forgot? And although I admire working class women who can take care of everything: the home, the career, the children, the husband, my modern feminism leans more toward a single woman making it on her own in a man's world. My mother was a very hard working, devoted single mother who raised me and my sister on her own and never remarried after my father ruined the home. My mother's strength, courage, and perserverance always inspired me. I don't think this fragrance has anything to do with the 24 Hour woman, but rather with all women in general. Whethere you're a married lady, single lady, or single mother, this is a perfume for the woman in all of us. We go through a lot and we need not remind men that they're men, but rather remind ourselves that no matter how hard life can be, we are beautiful. I really enjoyed this fragrance and you would too. Wear this if you also enjoyed: Fidji Guy Laroche Femme by Rochas Charlie by Revlon Rive Gauche Yves saint Laurent Estee Lauder Beautiful Every woman is a flower and her perfume is her fragrance.