Le Jardin

I'm so excited to have purchased a 30 ml new and boxed fragrance off ebay this morning. I used to wear this when I was about 14 or 15 years old (in the mid eighties). I am hoping that the smell is just as I remember it and I am sure it will bring back a flood of memories. It's fascinating the way a smell can do that in the way that nothing else (except for music)can. Will post my impressions later. I love this site, it's reminded and re-united me with some long-lost perfume loves! Update 27/9/11....Yep, just like I remembered it. Fresh, clean and floral. Completely innocent and fun-smelling if there is such a thing. Brings and instant smile to my face when I wear it. A definite mood-lifter.

Wonderful, green, woody-floral fragrance with ethereal musky base notes. It leaves a subtle, beautiful musk that stays on clothes for days. I sit at my desk wearing my sweater which I had sprayed on Le Jardin like six days ago and the scent passes by my nose each time I move around. This perfume is actually very cheap for its value.... One day it will be totally discontinued and will hit a high price on ebay, just like Cachet... I was able to find it in the UK by Eden Classics and smells exactly the same as my first bottle by Dana back in Chicago. It's available on amazon.UK. I purchased 4 bottles to make sure I don't run out! Simple and mysteriously enchanting...

I have just received a Procter & Gamble-produced version, with the same bottle design shown here on Fragrantica. I have also tried both the Eden Classics version and the original Hollywood release. To my nose, this version feels like a bridge between the original and the current formulation. It is lighter and fresher than the Hollywood version, yet it retains a more vintage character than the modern Eden Classics release. Fortunately, this version has preserved the identity and charm of the original fragrance, something I feel the current version has lost. I have to say that out of all the versions I’ve tried, this one is my favorite!

I had to get this 60 ml mint online. I wanted to see if it even slightly could remind me of the joy that was Le Jardin. I don't know how old it is but the grey packageing, the flat bottle and the plastic cap with it's cheap looking print of flowers is the same as when it first was released. Well. It's not taking me all the way back, it has of course aged through the decades.What survived is mostly thick aldehydes - the sweetness is the same but the flowers I can separate from this withered potpourri is lily of the valley, ylang and maybe cyclamen. There is something like yellow fruits, slightly acidic. Well, I tried. It was a beauty.

I wore this a lot in the 80s & always got compliments on it. The face of this fragrance was the beautiful actress,(former Bond girl) Jane Seymour. I adored everything about this fragrance, as it was one of my main signature scents in the early 80s. I even liked the bottle, ads with Jane in them... If I could almost wax poetic, if Monet's Garden could have been put inside a bottle & liquified, then this would have been it, IMHO, of course. It smelled of a wonderful French garden, as its name... Love this one!!! 5 stars!!!