Patou For Ever Jean Patou for women

I bought this blind and hated it when I first tried it. One spray on my skin starts off with a mix of aldehydes and raspberries which smells more like rotten raspberries then rotten pineapple takes over and it just got a little too much for me and I had to run to the bathroom and wash it off. On the second try, I left it long enough for the sugary, rotten fruit to turn into a sugary fruity detergent smell. This 100ml bottle is now sitting at the bottom of my cupboard and I cant even bring myself to give it away for fear of bestowing this stink bomb onto some poor person.

Patou Forever has been sitting in my collection for some years now, virtually unworn. When I acquired this blind purchase on the back of my love of "Joy" I did not possess the capacity to appreciate its fruity sweetness. I originally found it offensively sugary.

Today, after doing the random-reach on my "chypre's shelf", I resisted the urge to return it to its spot and instead sprayed a light mist in the air and walked through it.

Juicy golden pineapple chunks swirling in sticky syrup, subtle rock-melon and sweet raspberry jam getting in on the action. I could actually explain the sugar! Yay! Finally

Lily-of-the-valley features in the evolution eventually as does a soapy jasmine/rose combo.

The base notes evade my olfactive deciphering skills, with the exception of something mildly woody.

My appreciation of Patou Forever has increased beyond belief. This is a rather lovely and cheerful scent. I like it!

I purchased my bottle of EDP based solely on the notes used in this fragrance, half expecting to be a bit disappointed. So many maisons de parfum have abandoned older olfactory delights for "young," light and fruity scents, and I assumed, wrongly, that Procter & Gamble would have taken this same tack, using the Patou name to lure us in.

Instead of being a bit disappointed (as I was with Guerlain Cherry Blossom Fruity), I find myself delighted! Patou For Ever starts out with a burst of powdery fruits. The scent reminds me of the rose or violet pastilles you can still purchase in some sweet shops. The fruit is not overly sweet - this accord is very much tempered by the florals in the middle notes and the woods and amber in the base notes. There is a hint of violet and iris here, which gives this scent its powdery feel.

After an hour or so, the fruity essences fade into the background, and Patou For Ever's florals and base notes take prominent stage while still retaining some fruity sweetness.

I find this fragrance to be sweet, soft and feminine and I can imagine something like this being worn during France's Belle Époque. Sillage is light and lasting power is average. If there is any disappointment, it's that this scent doesn't last longer with my body chemistry; however, I'm very happy with this purchase overall.

I'm confused...isn't a chypre classified as bergamot/citrus, rose and oak moss?

Per the leaflet in the box, the notes for this little "gem" are:
top: raspberry, pineapple, melon.
middle: rose, jasmin, lily of the valley
bottom: sandalwood, iris and violet.
How do you get a chypre out of that?

Anyway, as to this scent...

It's got to be the musty-est and most stale smelling stuff I've ever come across with alot of super strong fruit trying to cover it up. The raspberry is hideeously artificial, saccrine-sweet and overbearing.

I can appreciate a little murky depth (Norell, parts of White Diamonds, Youth Dew) but this is way beyond my comprehension and willingness to put up with. There is nothing I would consider classic or redeeming about it at all.

I see it is the last jus Mons. Kerleo produced and I think I know why...he lost his nose! Just simply horrible stinky stuff!

The bottle I have must have gone off because no one in their right mind could sniff this and think it smells good.

And for those of you who indicated this is a summer daytime scent, Very Funny!

For Ever?? God, I hope not!

I purchased it blindly despite the controversial and for the most part not so flattering reviews, but I went for a bottle of EDP.
Wow, looks like there is a lot going on here. Let me tell you, this is one loud, bold Patou, so much different from the rest of his fragrances.
Its sharpness and loudness very much reminds me of Creation by Ted Lapidus, but Patou smells more contemporary and more wearable. I do pick out the fruity notes, that remind me a little of Volupte by Oscar de la Renta, and the rose note the most. I think it's a very unique and beautiful chypre that makes a HUGE statement.As it is EDP, sillage and staying power are through the roof.
Now way it is girly or suitable for teens. I consider it a mature and refined scent, like all Patous....and you'd better be dressed up wearing it!

I really hope I will be able able to repurchase it in the future without going broke. Since a lot of Patous are discontinued, the sellers are really taking advantage of the Patou fans by ripping them off.

I really am a sucker for Patou. I respect pretty much everything they do, even if it's not to my personal taste. That's how I feel about Patou Forever- if I wanted to wear a rich, fruity, loud perfume, this would be it. And I would wear it with fuschia lipstick and a geometric silk dress in jewel tones.

The fruit melange pervades the entire scent. The opening includes lots of jasmine to create a fruity-powdery effect, although even with this mitigation Patou Forever is almost edibly sweet. Raspberry is the dominant fruit- luckily, because it pairs with the initial jasmine and the later-coming rose far better than either melon or pineapple would. The pineapple places a close second, though, providing a mouth watering sweetness. (To note, this is nothing like the dry pineapple of "Colony"). The melon, well, it must be in there somewhere, but it's hard to find it through those raspberry velvet curtains.

After about 10 or 15 minutes the fruit calms down and a sweet floramarine heart of relative refinement arrives. This could be the melon finally showing its face after raspberry has left the room? At half an hour, the fruit takes a step back, revealing a balanced, almost boring, classic floral heart. It is later joined by vanilla and some obscure woods. Sadly, I never get the "sweat" note others have mentioned.

One critique of this perfume is that I wish the fruity top and the floral heart were more harmonic and less competitive. I wonder if, during production, Kerleo said "Quick! Dump some tropical punch into that Joy so we can enter the fruity floral market asap!". Another concern is that the introduction is so outrageous that most people won't wade through it to get to the more tolerable and refined heart and drydown.

Strength even in the EdT has not been compromised, and per Patou's usual standards, is quite strong. Longevity is excellent and sillage is dangerous for the first 15 minutes. This perfume manages to be both young and old at the same time...strangely, I see it on an old woman who was once glamourous, maybe almost famous, but who now runs around town with her feather boa on day and night.

My 30ml EdT came in a nice splash bottle of excellent quality glass and an optional atomizer top. Very pretty and nicely dated to the late 90s. I also purchased the coffret which included the raw absolutes of Rose, Jasmine, and the Fruit Base. This was fun as it allowed me to experience the notes individually as well as within the entire composition.

For the first time a Patou fragrance opts for the irresistible sweetness of a fruity accord: pineapple, raseberry, melon - which give the perfume a fresh and contemporary note (why did they discontinue it???). The midde-notes consist of an opulent harmony of rose and lilly of the valley. The radiance of this wonderful perfume is prolongued by muted woody aspects of sandalwood, iris and violet. Wearing this, I feel adorned with a "silky aura" - and the sillage is truly enchanting. 8 out of 10 points on my personal scale

I just purchased this one blind, and I am still trying to make up my mind about it. I've had it on my skin for about two hours and it has gone through several very different phases.

I happen to love the bottle. I love the little glass stopper, and find it quite elegant. The whole aesthetic has a very Memphis feel, which I enjoy, but it's clearly not to everyone's taste. I once recall hearing a MoMA curator say that you will NEVER see Memphis in their permanent collection, so I can see why some may dislike the bottle.

Here's a chronology of the scent on my skin:

0 min: Abstract tutti-fruity blast! Aldehydes. White flowers. Johnson's baby shampoo. Luminous. Very 1990s.

1 min: The powder on marshmallows.

2 min: Iris root. Carrots. Quinine? Hint of vanilla.

3 min: Something sweet. Tutti fruitti. Cedar? Pine? Shoepolish? Faint powdery vanilla. Violet?

4 min: Sweetness becoming rounder and reminiscent of cherries.

5 min: Rose, fruity with raspberry which seems to vibrate in and out. Very faint violet background.

6 min: Dry violet at forefront. Something vegetal. Holding steady. No fruit. No rose.

10 min: PINEAPPLE! Sweet baked pineapple like in an upsidedown cake. Vivid, beautiful, weird. This lasts about 10 minutes.

20 min: Seawater. Green. Violets. Is this calone? Cedar or possibly sandalwood. I'm ambivalent.

25 min: MAN SWEAT! Salty, sweaty. Not BO, instead like a clean athletic sweat, but not what I want to smell like at all.

40 min: Much better. Marshmallow powder, abstract fruit, carrot, violet, musk like behind a clean cat's ears, faint vanilla, occasionally hints of a coppery metallic sweaty scent if I look for it.

Very odd! It has radical transformations, and seems to vibrate between fruit and vegetable, sweet and dry, violets and salty sweat. Occasionally the beautiful pineapple returns, and then flickers away.

It feels like watching a montage following someone else's stream of consciousness, with a weird dream logic and a palate of cool pale slate grays, dusty blues, creams and taupes punctuated by bright fuchsia. For some reason it reminds me of Krazy Kat. It's a fascinating journey.

Nope. I guess it is my second blind purchase mistake after Gap The Visionary.I really wanted to like this one, however I simply cannot. I usually object to any attempts to qualify scents as "teen" or "old lady-ish" etc., but here I definitely cannot help it and must admit it seems suitable rather for older women or those who really, really like this kind of smell. I love old school fragrances like Opium, Femme, Miss Balmain, Arpege, Red, Charlie Blue and so on, but Patou For Ever is a disappointment to me. As much as I like chypres, this fruity chypre tends to produce a strange smell on my skin, which is rather unpleasant in the long run as it evolves literally into an impression of unwashed, sweated body. One thing can be said, its staying power is very good, there is definitely some "Frenchness" in it and old elegance. Unfortunately, it does not work for me. It is a scent you should try before buying as it is not a universal, all-rounder.

Reminds me of lightend chypre-"Miss Dior Cherie with"+lots of spring-flowers & a big handfull of nigt-blooming jasmine - mixed 1/4 "YSL Paris" & 2 hands of raspberry. An interesting fragrance indeed. Now discontiued. Amazing lasting power. It comes in a big bottle that has a stopper in it. On the side of the bottle there is a spritzer included.

This fragrance do opens with sweet fruit coctail (reminded me a lot of Miss Dior Cherie), but luckily this sugary phase lasts not longer then 0.5 hour. After sugar fades away and left overs of fruits together with flowers makes very nice, sophisticated and comforting fragrance - adore it! Good choise to brighten grey autumn day:)

It's a sweet, definetly "Patou" aroma, i wouldn't recommend it for teens, because it has a very classy base, but it's good for those who love heady fruity fragrances.

Sweet, fruity, funny and girly, YSL Babydoll is very close to this (and this is older). This coud have been one of teens and young spirited new favourite, but no.

This is good example of nice, potential perfume gone wrong. One of the ugliest bottle of all time, name that is quite opposite of intresting and missing marketing (I haven't heard this before I did see it on onlineshop). What a shame. And we all know how good things go on Babydoll.