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!!!

I wore this as a signature daytime fragrance in the '80s and and have purchased some of the original version over the years on eBay. I just received a small bottle today and immediately applied it. I still love it! It is sort of pungent and very sweet "out of the bottle," but settles down on the skin and becomes a more subtle, delightful floral, not too heavy. I have never tried the newer versions (didn't even know there were any), but rarely does a "remake" live up to the original!

I just got a vintage bottle, the one with the flowers on the cap. I do understand why some people say its very ‘old lady’ like, because you really get a vintage vibe while wearing this one. But for me its also very mature and womanly. Its dreamy, soapy and romantic. I can absolutely picture teenagers and young women wore this back in the 80s. Today this is more for nostalgia and collection, I guess. One of the best vintage scents in my opinion. A true guilty pleasure!

I remember Le Jardin ... back in the 80s when I could not afford my favourite Anais Anais. It was wonderful and really suited my phase of wearing long floaty flowery dresses and pastel high heeled shoes!!! I haven't tried any recent versions so cannot comment but this was probably one of the best "budget" fragrances and it lasted and lasted. I certainly got a lot of compliments while wearing it and it made me feel very feminine :o)

This is my all time favorite fragrance. So much so that I contacted the company when they quit making it to find out how to purchase and found another company that had started making it. I purchased 20 bottles when I found out they were going to stop making it. I am still trying to find another fragrance I like as much as this one. The dry down on this and longevity is everything.

It was my first parfume. My mother bought for my sister and for me as we weren't more than 14. I understand - seeing the ingredients - how it determined my later parfume decisions and how good taste she had. I am pleased to find it here finally, because I looked after it earlier in this site without result. Now I am thrilled and in nostalgic mood. Thank you!

My all time favorite fragrance. Was made aware I could find it a few years ago after a long time without it. Purchased some of the original from eBay, so great to smell it again! Purchased body powder also, which my cat spilled. I swept it into a little pile on some paper and smelled it for a long time in my space.

This was my first perfume I picked out for myself when I was about 10 years old. It made me feel so grown up! I recently bought myself a bottle to feed my nostalgic cravings... still just as good as I remember it :)

This is a bouquet of joy, spring in a bottle, it reminds me so much of Anais Anais de Cacharel and the longevity is excellent. It is so affordable, really worth having it. One word : Lovely.

My sister had this when we were around 12 and i remember thinking it smelled lovely. Just bought 2 vintage bottles online and am very excited to smell it again❤️

@ntabassum92 The Woman in the garden wrapped in flowers is actress Jane Seymour! She totally embodied the fragrance Le Jardin absolutely beautiful!

A teenage romance for me will always remember the sweet floral scent it brings back so many memorys all of those years ago

For me, this is really about the cyclamen, oakmoss, sandalwood, musk.

Gifted for Christmas. Had forgotten how lovely it is.

I recently stumbled upon this in a very outdated pharmacy, it is like going back in time to this said pharmacy they carry products I haven't seen in years including old lentheric and Revlon scents that have been long discontinued in my country. Tucked away on a little shelf were about 8 bottles of this, not the Max Factor or Dana edition, and not the new flower shaped bottle by Eden perfumes - mine is strangely by 'health and Beauty Focus' the box is straight out of the 90s, as was the price tag and it is sun faded. They had a tester but it was long dried up and had turned but I could smell civet and powdery florals so took a chance it was only $19 for 30ml cheap as chips. I remember the D'Amor version of this by Max Factor from childhood and have always wanted to track this one down. First spritz is definitely reminiscent of Elnett (Aquanet) hairspray, intensely green and full of aldehydes - for a few seconds there is something almost ammonia/urine like but it quickly fades into civet and becomes a musky cold-cream aroma, and develops into a wonderful soft powdery green floral scent with a soft powdery sweetness which reminds me of honey and tobacco that wears close to the skin. I get a hint of something minty and herbal which reminds me of Halston and I can definitely smell tarragon at the start, once it warms a little it becomes a little like Anais without the screechy notes and leather also a wee bit like my long lost Valentino Vendetta - a powdery dusty floral which holds close to the skin and quite a lot like Vanderbilt, but less screechy antispetic floral and more skanky powdery floral one could say. Almost a poor man's version of Beautiful, green, floral and more florals. The carnation and ylang ylang meld together beautifully on my skin once it warms up. I well may go buy the lot of them as I can see myself wearing this often. My bottle is the classic shape of the Max factor but has a slightly wider/narrower cap and the design is different - reminiscent of the classic foil decal on the original but is just a pink printed and very pixelated version of the original floral design with the same frosted glass with 3 stylised what appears to be stems raised on the glass bottle beneath the lid. The box is silver grey with the original stylised typeface 'Le Jardin' and a cross between the original packet and the new one perhaps? Obviously a reformulation of the old classic bought out by another company but I really quite like it. Hmm I don't think my partner likes this one. Such a shame as I am really liking it..

I am on a hunt for perfumes my mom might have worn in the 90s to see if I can find a scent that reminds me of her. In my search I ran into a photo of this perfume and I was immediately taken back to my childhood. I had a bottle of this that I kept among my special things. I think I rarely sprayed it but would hold it and feel special. Once I remembered this perfume existed I had to get a vintage bottle. It’s lovely. It starts minty and sweet. Then the florals come in and it starts to smell soapy. I associate it with a clean smell but I can see people disliking it. Then the sandlewood comes in and it’s so beautiful. There is something really comforting about it though that might just be my association with it. This is my first perfume, truly the blueprint for my preferences, and it will always have a special place in my heart.