Judith

I just received a large bottle of this amd a miniature of Bat Sheba from Israel Ebay. I love love the bottle,it's stunning! The fragrance is much lighter than the Bat Sheba, more floral,more delicate. I can smell strong the hyacinth at the beginning. Then changes very quick and I can detect jasmine a lot( a flower I don't really like in perfumes). It's a super nice, floral :-) Very happy to have this vintage bottle:-)

Judith Judith Miller Year 1970 Purchased by sellers on eBay, this is the same fragrance I remember from when I was a teenager. Unlike Bat-Sheba, this was sweeter and more delectable. By today's standards this would be classified as a fruity-gourmand. It's like a more caramelized Femme by Rochas. While Bat-Sheba was like a soap or bath oil for the colder months, this is a spring-summer fresh and floral perfume for wearing after a bath and with cool loose blouses and floral print maxi dresses. It is more youthful than the more mature Bat-Sheba. Judith is feminine and delicate, delicious as a day wear fragrance and at the time could have been worn for office work. My conservative Jewish mother never liked this perfume on me and she thought it smelled too flirty but I wore it anyways to spite her. It never did attract that much attention because it is not a super flamboyant fragrant scent and like the other Judith Muller perfumes, it's quite subtle. Notes in Judith are aldehydes, lemon, bergamot, fruit and hyacinth as top notes, jasmine, orchid, iris, rose, ylang, cyclamen, carnation and iris as heart notes, and base notes of sandalwood, cedar, amber, oak moss, benzoin, cinnamon and caramel. Judith is a fruity floral gourmand. Sweet and playful, flirtatious, charming, a fine intro to perfume. This was not as big a seller as Bat-Sheba but it was just as attractive. It came in a white painted glass bottle. This was pure parfum and not a bath oil. I wore this one mainly in the summers when I was working during breaks from college classes. I always received compliments on this one. Judith is the name of this frag and I thought perhaps it was just named after Judith Muller herself but it seems to be the Judith from the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible. This is in keeping with the Biblical theme of her fragrance line Bat-Sheba and King David. Judith was the beautiful and brave Jewish woman who saved the city of Bethulia from the aggressive takeover by Holofernes of the armies of King Nebuchadnezzar the pagan enemy of the people of Israel. She seduced him and killed him after he became inebriated. She took the head back to the city. This story has been the subject of many Baroque and Renaissance paintings, especially a favorite of artist Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith is a fresh and bright floral, at times it has a waxiness and a fruited delicacy like the aroma of fruit scented candles. The dominant floral note is the hyacinth and the iris, giving it almost an aquatic floral scent, but also powdery. The orchid is also quite lovely and noticeable. In the dry down it lacks the big musk from Bat-Sheba and turns into a more delicious amber and caramel. The sandalwood is the big dry down note and it brings it back to the Oriental Jewish aura of all Judith's perfumes. This is such a lovely scent and I recommend it to fans of vintages. Thanks again to Fragrantica for itemizing it and listing it. Another gorgeous beauty from Ms. Muller.

Thanks, Eliza, for your incredibly detailed and lyrical reviews of the Judith Muller fragrances. I feel sad that I didn't get to own Judith in its heyday. From your description, I would have liked it much better than Bat Sheba which was way too mature for me, at the time. Just one remark about Judith - the book, not the fragrance. Judith, along with numerous other Hellenistic-era works was never actually canonized by the Jews, unlike the Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians, and is not included among the books of Tanakh. I believe that among Protestants it is included in the Apocrypha.