Le Jardin Max Factor for women

This is a really lovely floral from the 80's, and i remember it standing in contrast to some of the heavy hitters that were popular then. What an era for perfume. Wow! Glad I was there! This is really an underestimated gem. The advertising featured a gorgeous Jane Seymour, and was watercolored and ethereal. This perfume is light and sheer, fresh, soft and clean, but never wimpy. I always loved the pretty florals with the musky drydown, and I loved the bit of spice to it. It isn't loud or in-your-face, ever, but it really hangs in there. Becomes a beautifully sweet skin scent. Sheer bliss.

When I was a child I was given a Christmas gift pack selection of various minatures. This was the first to get used up. For the price it is very good value from what I can recall. Sweet and fresh. Just repurchased from ebay as curious to see whether I will still enjoy it as much.

Wow.. watch the advert. What a treat!! Hahaha. Jane is stunning but its cheesier than a wotsit.

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)

Used to be a nice floral, with just enough complexity to make it interesting. Tried the latest reformulation yesterday. Thank goodness it was only $3. This is almost pathetic. Almost nasty, in a really bad way. But even more shocking is the fact that its STILL more interesting than a lot of the popular fragrances that are out now. I know every generation winds up saying the same old cliche, and now its my turn..... I really miss the Good Old Days!

Swedish girl, I agree! I got the Eden, too, and it's awful. Aquanet and civet...nasty, nothing flowery or anything about it. It's going into my goodwill bag tonight. At least it was under $5

I can only smell a very strong civet, that smells exactly like stale urine.

I was hoping for a powdery soft scent, but no. This scent does NOT match the look of the bottle.

Thankfully this didn`t cost much.

BTW, my bottle was the new reformulated one from "Eden Classics".

This was what I wore in high school. I love it. Very floral.

I still have my original bottle of Le Jardin - a 22ml EDT that looks like the 2nd photo in the gallery. It would have been bought shortly after it was introduced, and it's still half full! Not from lack of use - I loved it then and I still like it now - but because it only requires a single spritz.

I don't get a lot of green in it, just a rampant garden of flowers, heady musk and a subtle chypre-y base.

I am speechless. How can a perfume (actually eau de toilette) so ridiculously cheap (I dare not even tell you!) smell so good, so lovely? Oh, I have a guess, that Le Jardin had the same fate as for example Cabotine: once expensive and appreciated, now only appreciated by such a small group of people, that companies can't afford to loose even those with a heavy pricetag - there is so much competition in these days...

I have a bottle looking like number 3 from the top.

What I get first, is a greenish waft with flowers and coconut. Yes, coconut, which is not listed here at all. This coconutty-thing, whatever it is (I have a feeling that it could be musk combined with a mystical ingredient I don't recognize), goes along with flowers which are pink and light blue and pale yellow and also white - but this time not severe white as they can sometimes be. "Coconut" makes this scent so soft and also so contemporary, that it is very difficult to think how old Le Jardin actually is - from those loud years of 80's. Le Jardin itself is not loud, it is sweet and intoxicating like ummm... a garden, beautifully soft and innocent, as so many previous writers have said. No dirty feeling here even if civet is listed; perhaps it only gives complexity to entirety. But this softness is not weakness, oh no! The air of the perfume follows you like a fairy who wants to make friends with you, insistently and happily, sometimes vanishing in the garden for a moment but popping up from some bush with a flower in her hand...

Little by little flowers start to evaporate and musk (now in it's recognizable form) and some wood and a hint of oakmoss join in. They are as considerate as they should be in this company. Charming. The metamorphosis takes it's time. Le Jardin lingers on skin (at least on my skin) for many many hours.

If making a good add-campaign of this lovely acquaintance with a fresh but known face (as Jane Seymour was in her time) maybe a new generation would find it. What a pity that only a handful of people is familiar with it!

Le Jardin is for those who still have dreams and who still believe in beautiful things in life... No strong contrasts here, no sharpness. Just pure, even shy joy.

Edit: Now I am rather convinced that this "coconut" is actually musk with something else. All you musk-lovers, here is another gem to your collection!

Had it a couple of time as a child and teenager. I guess in the 80's, it was the bomb! :D Remembered as very flowery, feminine...it made me feel grown up.

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!!!

They don't make 'em like this any more, but I wish they did. This is a fresh, green, slightly soapy floral, with a hint of powder in the drydown. I really like this. I can smell only florals and soft green notes, nothing aggressive. I don't smell any civet or tuberose, two notes that are potential dealbreakers for me. Although it's a drugstore scent from the 80's, it doesn't smell dated or cheap to me. This is an elegant soft floral and is a very welcome change from the currently popular sweet vanillas. After reading these reviews I see that it has been reformulated. I shouldn't be surprised. I have no idea which version I have, but it smells wonderful! As Misenchanted said, its a moodlifter. I agree.

Edit: About 4 hours later, a bit of civet is coming through.

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.

'The Garden' Received this as a Christmas gift when I was 10 or 11 years old. Part of a sample pack of minitures to try. It was the first to be used up. Agree with Angel10, it's a fresh, natural and innocent scent (without being saccharine) that takes me back to childhood.

This was one of my 5 fragrances I wore between 8-13 years old. I still like it very much! Very sweet & kind.

This was the first perfume I ever received, when I was 8 years old...it made me feel so special and grown up. I used to spray it on my Barbie dolls :D Can't believe it's still around.

i absolutely loved this scent and wore it often. just a nice, clean, everyday floral. i always felt so sweet when i wore this. such a pretty scent. lots of compliments with this one.

This perfum for ever put a smile om my face, is simply awesome and beautiful, let me know when are you finally are ready to sell it... Christi... Argentina

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

My mom's perfume, extremaly powdery and gentle. I like it not just because of my childhood. It's unique, calming scent.

One of the perfumes of my youth, a beautiful dainty floral...I used to like it then, but then drifted to orientals.

But this one would always be memorable for me.

remeber it slightly from the early eighties. It was a lovely floral,i remeber , sutiable for both young and old flowerlovers. A little like anais anais shy little sister.

amo este perfume , pero no lo puedo encontrar en chile , me trae miles de recuerdos si alguien sabe donde lo puedo conseguir me avisa por fa

So 80's and again sooo feminine! and again can't be found, a refreshing floral,suitable for everyday use.

I used to wear this a long, long, long time ago, ha,ha........
All based on the advert that had Jane Seymore??? ( think that was her name??)She looked so demure and beautiful i thought i wanted to re- create that scene/look and for a while i did. In my own special way.
To me this is what a Perfume is all about. Dreams ,hopes desires and most young women all aspire to that.

There's not much "green" in this one. I wore it quite a bit when it came out and it is "the garden". All flowers, all the time. since I'm a floral person, it works for me. Definate daytime/office frag. No diva here.

Only an original Le Jarden by Max Factor is wonderful. It was produced by 4 different companies and only Max Factor version was good. Great floral. I`m not a floral girl and this is the only one I like.
So, if you are buying it look for *by Max Factor*.

I need to buy Le Jardin perfuM and I'm living in Malaysia.Does any body know the email address of supplier?

I smelled it again after some years and it was awful. Perhaps the bottle was too old, but it smells like an outdated perfume to me now. Alot like Revlon Charlie.

80s style floriental. Clean and fresh, but also extremely sheer. Seems to last okay, considering it's very inexpensive. Daywear only, I think, as it's a pale floral.

This was given to me as a present when I was twelve- it made me feel so grown up!
I notice a lot of white flowers when I wear it,the lilly for example, but the note that strikes me as the one of cyclamen,a wonderful smell of a forest filled with pink cyclamens.
This fragrance is still fresh and wearable,very suitable for everyday wear,office wear.
You will get a lot of positive comments wearing le jardin!