Fath de Fath Jacques Fath for women

A golden peach liquor perfume! GORGEOUS!!

To my nose the well behaved and pretty vanilla sister of the original Dior Poison formula. It's bearable, but too close to wear it.

I guess, the current Fath de Fath is not the 1950s formula, but a 80s reformulation. This simply doesn't smell 50s; no way, that it was worn like this in the 50s. That's the smell of big hair with perm, shoulder pads and Aerobics. Not that I would think, that that's a bad thing... the 80s were an important decade for perfumes. But if you expect a 50s vintage feeling, you might be disappointed.

EDP, not sure of vintage, received sample in a swap

Sweet, honeyed, vanilla floral. It's not horrible, but it's the type of perfume that holds no interest for me and I can't properly judge. It's like trying to review a type of cheese when you don't like cheese or any other dairy products.

Joan Holloway would have worn this. Underneath the sweetness you will experience something "dirty" going on here, in a ladylike retro 1950's naughty way. Not modern, but sexy in a skin colored pointy bra and garter belt with stockings under a mink coat kind of way.

I have the pure perfume and the higher concentration has a powerful vintage 50's feel. Can't speak for the lower concentrations.

Review for a pure extrait: It is something different from all the parfums on the market. A positive surprise, because it was a blind buy. This is similar to Van Cleef Van Cleef, but million times stronger than that one. It opens with sweet and boozy blast of mandarin/peach/plum. After 30 min. I get the fine, creamy, sweet tuberose. If Cacharels LouLou is a cold fragrance, this one is a warm one in the same genre. Smooth, rich, with moderate sillage, on me it has poor staying power - maybe 2 hours but then I can still notice it close on the skin for the whole evening. On the end I detect some generic whiff with some vanilla, but I does not disturb me. I have the feeling to be very familiar with this scent. Happy to discover this! It is the mother of all parfums. Gorgeous. Test it first, it is specific.

I'm not sure what's going on with this one...

It started out with a root beer like smell that reminded me very much of Gucci (brown bottle) but after half an hour or so, I can think of nothing except garlic!

It's not that it really smells like garlic but there's just something about it that's a little off and out of sync. I don't get peach or syrup like everyone else, just a soft sweetness with a bitter/garlic-like sharpness to it.

Maybe it's the changing weather or maybe my nose is just on the fritz but I don't think this is something that I will be wearing anytime soon.

It's a pass for me.

This fragrance was never on my wish list, it was a totally impulsive blind buy.
OMG, this is so gorgeous, it really awakened my olfactory senses with its beauty. It is really hard to believe it was launched so long ago in 1953 because it smells so modern.
Just like the previous reviewer said, it is not too sweet, not too loud. Very rich and elegant with a prominent metallic note.
But I would never call it generic, this beauty is definitely fit for special occasions.

The first impression is of a soft, light floral-oriental-chypre hybrid, with a vanilla base and some greenish notes. The green quickly fades away leaving tuberose and undifferentiated fruity notes, not too strong and not too sweet, all fairly conservative and generic, but nice. After a couple of hours it dries down to a powdery scent. It lasts all day, with moderate sillage.

F de F is a good, basic, floral-type fragrance that can be worn even by people like me who hate many florals. However, it’s not compelling enough to make me want more than the small sample that I have.

I have tested FdF time and again with vials, and it is definitely growing on me.
It starts out with a delicious top note, then settles warmly for a long while, with a very discreet sillage, you barely know it is there - and yet, it is.
I studied the description of notes, of which there are many, too complex for me to decipher. The heart keeps on lingering in a fruity way ... (A unusual comparison with my little kitten's fur comes to mind, when I burried my nose into it...). The dry-down is ongoing soft and lingering.
Thumbs up.

I'm honestly surprised at the cloying peach syrup analogy, because I don't get anything like that, and my chemistry is frequently uncooperative with fruity sweet notes. I think the key with this fragrance is to go for greater concentrations - I've got the EDP and the pure parfum, and the EDP is a sparkling cocktail, while the pure parfum is sooo smooth, dark, and mysterious! (I had the same experience with Magical Moon by Hanae Mori - it only works in greater concentrations.)

I actually bought Fath de Fath as a day-to-day replacement for Alchimie, no less! (I got tipped off by fotolux - thanks a lot!) They're not the same, of course, but they share a creamy smoothness that I really like. It's not a flowery fragrance, but the combination of the top and bottom notes - in equal amounts, w/o the emphasis on the peach - is a good representation of what it smells like on me... Maybe I got lucky just this once ;)

Oh my god. My teeth hurt just from sniffing this. I've been around many sweet fragrances, but this is something new. This is the most sweet, cloying scent I've tried. Really. At the first seconds of the opening I get fruits, I get peach and plum dipped in syrup. The next thing I'm having is the tuberose, which is extremely sweet and extremely creamy and makes this all more gourmand, because it does actually taste edible. Little bit too edible I must say.

Ok, so hear this - if you are ok with sweet scents, but not Pink Sugar kind of sweet scents, if you're ok walking around smelling like peach syrup, then it's for you. But watch out. One spray too much and everyone around you will run a way screaming and gassping for air.

peach that melds with black currant and plum into a cedar + vanilla musk as others have mentioned. Yes, not much of an oriental. A bit dated feeling, almost too much of a pretty followed by pretty followed by, you guessed it, pretty...
Except in my case, I get this plastic kind of quality at the end that I don't enjoy.

This is review for EdT:
It smells just like peach with syrup in a tin can. Not very heavy, not very oriental but very sweet with that sticky feeling.
Very rich looking pyramid, but I detect only peach and some light vanilla-musk base.

A heavily fruity floral in an oriental way, but over an old-style base, like a Jean Patou. It lacks the overpowering weight of many orientals while somehow remaining an oriental. A clear cedar/musk base on dry down holds up well and makes this a definitely evening scent.

Terribly sweet, even cloying. On my skin it's a fruity-floral for several hours, to be more precise - fruits in syrup. Only then some oriental traces can be felt, mostly musk. If you like it sweet, it's for you. I say - no, thanks.