Joyeux

I'm on my second bottle of this and adore it. The fruit, the florals, a bit of muskiness to make the sweeter bits interesting. I love it on first spray and then as it develops. A warm, spring/summery scent that I keep coming back to.

MISLEADING-NOT NATURAL. I was excited to support a natural perfume brand and ordered the discovery set. They generally smell like what you'd expect from any commercial perfume brand and they're not bad. However, all the marketing gear the consumer up for some absolutely gorgeous natural botanical fragrances, and what a serious let down it was when I could smell copious amounts of synthetic materials. I'm not against synthetics (if biodegradable ones), these fragrances are just not like the way the marketing suggests! The ingredient lists all the botanical names of plants supposedly in the fragrance, which would make you think the whole thing is natural. Unfortunately this is simply NOT TRUE. Most consumers just wouldn't have any idea what a genuinely natural perfume smells like and can only go by the marketing/ ingredient list from the brand. Unfortunately for the trained nose, it is quite obvious that these are not natural fragrances, they may have some naturals in there but the majority of these formulas are made up by a back bone structure of synthetics. The fragrance price of these also does not reflect a genuine natural fragrance, the price of such precious naturals is astronomical! Furthermore, some of the naturals stated in the other fragrances, such as gardenia are actually impossible to obtain at a commercial level. Genuine vanilla is an incredibly expensive material to work with in natural perfumery and is almost always substituted with vanillin which can be natural so I would suspect this has been used and not Tahitian vanilla tincture or absolute- that's only a guess but highly likely. My pet-hate is lack of transparency, why avoid misleading customers by listing only the botanical names in the ingredient list. Where it says blend of 'nature-identicals' this is a whole heap of synthetics! Honesty is my policy and it's obvious that this brand does not match that same ethos. This brand ruins it for truly natural brands out there trying to do good things.

I have a discovery set 2.5 ml spray of this. It doesn't last very long. This isn't what I would usually wear. It's a pleasant, fruity, millenial floral. Not babyish and synthetic like the more trendy fruity scents. It's sophisticated. No headache inducing, sneeze inducing element. I'm not doing a good job of describing this, because I don't wear cool, bright florals very often. I am a musk and gourmand girly, my florals have to have that sour tuberose for me to tolerate them. And this has the sour tuberose to cut thorugh the floral. A win. I can tolerate it. I wouldn't purchase this for myself though. As a gift or rehome, yes I would wear this. I'll use the rest of my little tester and see if it grows on me.

I purchased the Recreation discovery set and I enjoy every single one. I have a very sensitive nose and the older I get the more I find some perfumes causing nausea and headaches, and none of these Recreation perfumes are bothering me. Joyeux is a blend of familiar scents. Nothing new from a chemical factory in New Jersey. This is a grounded floral. Not fizzy. Balanced, blended. Calm, livable. I don’t think anybody would chase you down the street to see what you’re wearing, but I can well imagine someone in close proximity thinking well of you for smelling like this. Doesn’t last a very long time, which can be a good idea sometimes.

opening was really nice! i can smell pear and jasmine in this. this is sweet, light, fresh, pretty and creamy, but in my opinion a bit boring. smells reeeally close to juliette has a gun's lust for sun