Folle De Joie

On me, I get an immediate hit of fresh gardenia flowers, followed a half second behind by grapefruit and lime and tea rose. Then the jasmine comes to play, but it stays in the background. The iris is so light, it's hard to find...I think because it's blended so nicely together with the rose. No cognac on me, but the orange peel part of the citrus comes out more after drydown. It may be late to the party, but it's lovely! As for the spicy note, on me the "spice" is more a blend of tea rose and orange peels rather than a foody spice. The tearose and orange mix is most apparent after drydown, and it's very nice, with the jasmine still present in the background. At one point I caught the tiniest whiff of clove, but it quickly disappeared behind the orange, tea rose, and jasmine. As I smelled my wrist yet again to try to find the leather (I couldn't), I realized what Folle de Joie smells like on me, and what it reminds me of: It smells exactly like summer evenings in the Florida neighborhood where my grandmother lived when I was little: Orange, grapefruit, and lime trees laden with fruit that had been warming all day in the sun. The gardenias in her yard. The next door neighbor's tea roses. The night blooming jasmine...all of it mixed together in the breeze, with each thing becoming slightly stronger or softer depending on where you were walking at any given moment. I love this as a departure from my usual favorites. This floral is not sweet at all, yet it doesn't have that strange greenness my chemistry hates. My only complaint is the bottle: it looks more like an early 20th century bottle of gentlemen's cologne than a woman's fragrance. I ended up buying another fragrance I loved equally well but whose bottle looked nicer on the vanity tray. If I buy this, it will live in the drawer. (Better for the fragrance, but not as fun!) Allergy note: no migraine or nausea trigger for me!

For the new formulation: Absolutely beautiful perfume. This is the type of perfume that you think of when you think of perfume. A perfumey perfume. Citrus, floral, musk, and slightly woody. The opening was sparkling, the mid was all floral, and the base is a skin musk and cedar. I love it. I wouldn't pay $120 for it, but I found it on clearance for $16 at TJ Maxx. I have had my eye on it for over 2 weeks, playing the dangerous game of waiting for more markdowns. I'm happy I finally picked it up, it will be great for the Florida summer. I haven't smelt the 2014 rendition, but this is great on its own. Current notes: Top: green pear, Japanese yuzu, Morrocan blood orange Mid: peony petals, Egyptian rose, French jasmine sambac Base: sheer amber, skin musks, Virginia cedarwood

Loved this scent since getting the sample in my birchbox back in 2014. I just love something about the citruses and roses mixed together. I still have 1/4 of my bottle and it smells great still. When I learned it discontinued I was so disappointed and it has been a mission of mine to find a similar perfume. I finally found it a few weeks ago and as I was following this lady at a kid's birthday party. I asked what she was wearing and she said Montale Roses Musk. Montale is a bit more musky, but I still get the top notes of being roses and citrus. Hope this helps for others that are looking for a similar perfume.

I was obsessed with the 2014 version. It was the closest thing I've ever found to what I'd choose as a signature scent -- it felt fresh, feminine, but also dried down a bit earthy. I would've purchased this over and over again, even though, like other reviewers have noted, the sillage and longevity are low. Joie recently relaunched/rebranded the fragrance, but the more recent version is nothing like the original. I've been searching for a close match to the 2014 Folle de Jie for almost a decade now and have not yet found one.

The 2014 version is burned into my brain as one of the best smelling perfumes of all time. I still have about 1/4 of an inch left in the bottle. The newer release is lovely, but doesn’t smell the same. The older version has more of a fresh delicate rose with a musk dry down. It smells like how you should feel on your wedding day. The closest comparison I’ve found so far is the Khloe kardashian perfume oddly enough.