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MidlifeFashionPrincess

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I am not familiar with Jean Patou, but it seems that many of you love Joy and 1000.

There is an option for me to purchase Adieau Sagesse Eau De Parfum or Heritage Vacances Eau De Parfum. The descriptions sound nice, but I have no access to give a sniff.

I know it is all very subjective, but can anyone offer thoughts on these fragrances?

More importantly, do they tend to be heachachey?
 
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MidlifeFashionPrincess said:
I am not familiar with Jean Patou, but it seems that many of you love Joy and 1000.

There is an option for me to purchase Adieau Sagesse Eau De Parfum or Heritage Vacances Eau De Parfum. The descriptions sound nice, but I have no access to give a sniff.

I know it is all very subjective, but can anyone offer thoughts on these fragrances?

More importantly, do they tend to be heachachey?
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Hello! I’m a little late in responding to this and the option to purchase these may have already passed. Nevertheless here are some thoughts.

The house of Jean Patou is famous for their iconic Joy perfume and their 1000 is well known too. However they had several other perfumes that were very high quality and smelled wonderful. These were carefully recreated and released as part of the “Ma Collection” (sometime in the 80s if I’m not mistaken). I have a few of these Ma Collection EDT miniatures including Adieu Sagesse, Normandie, Chaldee, and Moment Supreme (the last one I own in extrait and it’s simply wonderful).

The Ma Collection was discontinued and the Heritage collection featuring some of these perfumes seems to be a relatively recent release. I have not sampled any of these Heritage Collection Patou fragrances. But it seems strongly likely that they have been reformulated and I believe differences have been reported by reviewers between the Ma Collection versions and the more modern Heritage Collection versions.

I’m wearing Adieu Sagesse today from my mini and it’s lovely — getting a whiff of carnation as I write this. Unfortunately it’s not the more recent EDP, so I don’t think that helps much. If you’re getting them for a good price and willing to take a chance with a blind buy, you could consider it. I am not quite sure what you mean by headachy but if you’re concerned that it might be heavy or dated, I don’t think that would be an issue with the Patou Heritage collection fragrances since these appear to have been updated and are more modern releases. Hope this helps.
 
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Anjelica Huston's ode to "1000" for T Magazine:

"Joy never did it for me. My friend Joan Juliet Buck, then the rédactrice en chef of French Vogue — and what’s known in the business as a very good nose — showed me Mille when I was visiting in Paris and said, ‘‘This would be great for you.’’ From the moment I smelled it, it was mine in a way that no other perfume had been since Blue Grass, which my mother first gave me when I was a child. It’s round and floral and warm, with just a hint of spice without being too hippie, and just floral enough without being too sweet. It smells like midnight in the Bois de Boulogne — sexy and mysterious. I think it creates a mood. It’s alluring. It says, I’m interested in life, in olfactory senses as well as visual ones. It says, I’m in the mood for something. It also says, I’m feminine, I’m complete. It stands to exist with my mother’s perfume, Shalimar, which haunts me to this day. I even wear it to go to bed: I spray it behind my ears, old style. (Unless I’m wearing pearls.) People really like it.

Even when I was a smoker, they told me I smelled good — which is saying something! When you find yourself in an embrace and someone tells you that you smell good, it’s wonderful and unexpected. Mille is rare, hard to find, which I like about it. It means I don’t bump into many people who smell like me".

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