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Nibassummanit – :
I bought this one by mistake when I wanted to order the original Joy(which I LOVE),not a bad mistake as I enjoy Enjoy a lot too and normally I’d never consider buying it as I’m not a chypre fan and the idea of rose-black current-patchouli didn’t seem intriguing to me
Enjoy EDP is an example of a well crafted fruitchouli.it may put you off when first sprayed as it opens with a harsh,bitterish musky-patchouli but give it 5-10 minutes and it will settle down to a cheerful yet refined blend of rose and black current with some green banana and pear creamyness wrapped by a subtle patchouli and just a hint of non-offensive musk.it really is beautiful and charming,not old by any means but sophisticated
Enjoy is wearable year round.lasts for ages and has a lovely sillage
Jean patou is soon becoming one of my favorite perfume houses,it’s a shame that it’s perfumes are so difficult to find here
Give it a try even if you’re not a fan of patchouli,rose and black current like me
By the way don’t blindbuy it if you’re looking for a strong banana scent.it’s not as banana dominant as Cira
یه ترکیب فوق العاده زیبا و جذاب و خانومانه و پرکاربرد از رز و انگورفرنگی و پچولی،کمی هم موز کال و گلابی نرم و مشک بی آزار تو پس زمینه..اصلا از اون عطرهای خیلی میوه ایه کاسه ی میوه طور تصورش نکنید
موندگاری و پخش خیلی خوب،قابل استفاده چهارفصل و مناسب عطر امضا شدن
باعث شرمه ک عطرهای ژان پاتو انقد تو ایران کم یابن
УВА – :
I just opened a 2.5 ounce bottle of the EDP which I found for a steal online and applied it probably too liberally about 5 minutes ago.
Bananas, yes! My hubby told me to come back and get his impression in an hour, it’s presently too strong for him to assess fairly.
I agree with the review immediately prior to mine, about Patou’s EnJoy being a white-shirt at the office, proper scent, though, at least for this initial impression. (But, obviously, as Joy is my sometime-signature, I do NOT agree with Jean Patou scents often being ‘dated’ but more ‘classic’ and ‘vintage’).
At any rate, I’ll add to this review as the scent develops.
Edit, 3 or so hours after initial application: I can’t smell it at all, but others can up close (it’s now dried down to a skin scent on me). Powdery and lighter (feedback from my husband) and less fruity in the dry down, EnJOY is uplifting in a soft, encouraging way with a snuggly, smooth as a silk robe over the birthday suit type of vibe. Still love it!
Edit II, the next morning: I haven’t showered yet and could still pick up light, delicate traces of this frag from my skin when I woke up this morning. Still very powdery, sheer and light/ floral in nature but definitely a skin-scent at this point (like, 18 hours later or something).
Edit #4 10-8-17: Today, it hit me; JP Enjoy is (to my ignorant nose) a fresh, milky-banana cousin of Revlon’s erstwhile Ciara Femme Fatale, which had no peer while still in production (imo). I strongly believe, however, if you enjoyed Femme Fatale, you will love this one as well.
daemongood – :
EnJoy belongs with your best office-friendly, clean-white-shirt scents. The banana note is gone quickly leaving only a soft, mildly sweet rose with a tiny bit of soapiness.
Many Patou fragrances are dated, rather than timeless. This one is a fresh, timeless classic. To my nose, this might be the most easily wearable fragrance from the house.
medvedev94 – :
Enjoy was the sequel to a trio of perfumes from 2001 that launched Jean-Michel Duriez as in-house perfumer at Jean Patou. Pan Ame, Hip and Nacre were all fruity-florals centered on a pear note. Of the three, I’ve only smelled Pan Ame, which was clearly a precursor to Enjoy. 2001 was a tough year to re-launch a traditional house and reframe it as modern and accessible. I doubt it helped that the three perfumes were all in the same genre and shared the same uncommon note of pear. I imagine it was an attempt to create a signature house accord in one fell swoop. An unsuccessful attempt—all were fairly quickly discontinued.
Enjoy was an early version of the so-called “nouvelles-chypres” of the time like Miss Dior Chérie (2005) and Narciso for Her (2004). These perfumes substituted a musky patchouli base for the verboten oakmoss of the traditional chypre. The style now seems dated and era-specific, but Enjoy was one of the more successful iterations of the style.
Enjoy builds on Pan Ame’s unripe pear, grounding it in a clean patchouli base. The grainy pear note is balanced by crunchy blackcurrant on one side and an acetone musk on the other. The floral notes, jasmine and rose, have a high-piched synthetic tone that give a tinny quality to the heartnotes. The kicker is an unripe banana note that falls in line with the blackcurrant, tracing a starchy green line through the duration of the perfume. It’s a note that Duriez would set in a tropical floral, creamy woody setting in 2006’s Sira des Indes.
Compared to the syrupy fruity-florals of its time, Enjoy was considered a bit unsmiling and tight-assed. Even from the perspective of 2016, it seems a bit prim, if balanced. There is a sweetness to the perfume, especially in the drydown, but it has a saccharine quality that keeps the fruit from having a three-dimensionality. Enjoy doesn’t hide its artificiality. It molds the high-pitched florals and grainy fruits into a crystalline configuration that suits the perfume’s sharp edges.
Duriez authored the fabled Yohji Essential and Yohji Homme at the end of the 1990s, the same time he made Un Amour de Patou and Patou For Ever. Yohji Yamamoto’s perfumes were made by Jean Patou and his work for both houses were the launch pad for his taking on the in-house post at Patou that Jean Kerléo was to relinquish in 1999.
All of Duriez’s perfumes for Patou have all been discontinued, wiping the Patou pears from the market. Coincidentally, this means that none of the perfumes from Proctor and Gamble’s ownership of Patou (2001-2011) remain in the line-up. After Duriez left Patou, the company took a different direction under perfumer Thomas Fontaine and owner Designer Parfums Limited, recomposing nine Patou perfumes originally released from the 1920s-1980s. The current line-up consists of this Heritage Collection, the seminal Joy, and two perfumes from the Kerléo era, 1000 and Sublime. However it came about, the Patou brand turned away from creating new perfumes and made itself into a museum. It is an open question what direction the brand will take in the future.
hailowerk – :
It’s a fresh floral. High quality. If you like this type of fragrances go for it. I would say it’s too fresh or green for me. Pretty and boring. Like some young women can be.
awgaw – :
This was a cast-off from a friend who had been in turn disappointed with it as a gift from a lover in whose taste she couldn’t quite invest faith.
For a time lasting months of intermittent use, notably through winter for which it isn’t at all suited, I found it light, innocuous and anonymous. I wore it without registering it much and hoped I smelled clean enough to augment having bathed.
There is still a bit much fruit in the initial notes for me, but now that the weather has got hot, that acid insipidity thankfully quickly subsides to be enveloped in deeper, richer, rounder notes, and a few nights ago I noticed a warm and delicious scent around me that turned out to be this.
I don’t know what it is; if I try hard I perceive hints of chlorine [clean again], cornflour or maybe paper, and maybe leather. It is still airy, but also aridly woody, deep and warm, and not at all powdery, thanks.
Very nice for summer. I am very glad to be the recipient of this lovely fragrance.
Наталё – :
Enjoyable through and through, classy and elegant but at the same time smiley and playful, this floral chypre has that signature touch of Jean-Michel Duriez that I adore so much in old Yohji Essential, – fruits and berries with fresh juicy sour twist from citrus soaked in patchoili. It makes me swallow…and I want more of it. So wearable and chic.
abdul – :
I just ran across a full bottle of EnJoy EDP by Jean Patou at, of all places, a large antique shop, with many different dealers, and was quite surprised to find this gem. I thought the perfume might be a knock-off, but upon a careful inspection, and then a quick spritz, I knew from the first whiff that it was real Patou.
It was a bit heavy at first, then within a few minutes dried down to a beautiful scent on me. I’ve just read the other reviews, and, without going into any more details about all the notes that have already been written, I can just say that when I paid for the lovely perfume at the counter, they all remarked on how wonderful it smelled, and what was it, never heard of it before, etc. etc.
I recently have become of lover of Joy, Sublime, and especially 1000, which all also bring rave comments from whoever is around me. All of these scents are so different from each other, but all have that extremely special base that makes this line so gorgeous. They aren’t for the very young or yuppy-types who all act, dress, talk, and, yes, scent themselves the same with the latest boring bottles lining the dept. stores, Sephora, Ulta, etc., shelves. These are class perfumes, and I even keep the beautiful boxes they come in.
It has been about 4 hours since my first fine spray of EnJoy on my wrist, and it smells even lovlier, is lasting beautifully, and is making me feel very sophisticated and glad I happened to take a chance on this one. Jean Patou — class perfumes all the way.
Xeroxnxtbv – :
Glamorous, seductive, confident, secretive and classy is the kind of woman I’d envision wearing this fragrance. I am a fan of mostly clean citrus floral fragrances, and when a friend gifted this to me I read the notes here and was convinced it would be a disaster on me. I mean, bananas in a perfume would be a notion difficult to conceptualize for most women who haven’t worn Enjoy yet.
But boy, does it surprise you! Agreed it was overwhelming for me for the first 30 minutes, but as it begins to develop I realize I’ve never felt such a perfect blend of fruity and floral accords with vanilla, musk and amber! I love the blend of musky rose, vanilla and patchouli with a whiff of banana and black current towards the dry down. Lasts for hours together (10-12 hours on me) and creates a beautiful fragrant aura around me. I prefer to wear it on cooler nights and have been complemented frequently by absolute strangers about how lovely I smell.
A sophisticated perfume indeed from the classic house of Patou, I’m happy I enjoy its complexity. Would definitely buy again since it makes for a welcome break in my collection of fruity/floral/ citrus fragrances.
snn33 – :
Regular Joy is too sweet for me. I love this however. I pretty much hate most of the “new” perfumes out now, and find myself returning to things I loved 15 or more years ago. I hate anything that gives off what I affectionately call the “crazy cat lady cat piss” smell ( I would include things like L’Air du Temps in this category; along with bargain drugstore classics like jean nate, and many many Estee Lauder ones except I do like the original Pleasures and some of the modern variants). I prefer sophisticated, complex perfumes, and Enjoy is exactly that. No one will mistake you for someone who ever bought Ed Hardy tee shirts, nor will they instantly know what you are wearing like with certain popular perfumes like Clinique Happy, all of Burberry, or even Marc Jacobs lately. I find most current fragrances very very young, sweet, and this emphasis on the uber CLEAN crisp notes is boring. I want perfume that is exotic, nuanced, and even a little dirty. My favorites are usually from thierry Mugler- Alien/Star/Angel/Angel innocent. Enjoy is feminine without being cloying, pretty without being immature or “safe,” and unique enough to feel like your own special find.
gerard – :
ok that’s the first time i ever try any Jean Patou fragrance, i can sense a strength of harsh character in the over all concept though, i can feel it, it is present even if in this intended to be mild scent,
now at a first sniff, ENJOY has a classy edge that is undeniable, it really is classy .
Moreover it instantly gives you a feeling of an engineered perfume, worked out, with a concept, a strong concept.
when you first spray it on, it makes you feel luxuriously nice, after the lure is gone i found
only one DOWNFALL for all the beauty above………BANANAS, i am not sure i want to smell like bananas, who would want to smell like a banana? not me………….
it was a nice experience, having purchased the 30ml cute little bottle. i will use this sometimes, but really when i am in a very uplift mood.
i really cant imagine it as my signature scen, nice work though, i can already draw in my head images of the characters of women who would love this kind of smell, and i am happy it is there for them
sshishonkov – :
A lovely every-day-scent. On my skin I can smell the banana-note for about 30 minutes, and it does not go along with my skintype. After 30 minutes its a wonderful and elegant scent. Maybe not for teenagers, more a parfume for the grown-up woman. Worth trying!
Not modern sugarsweet, but some sweetnes from flowers and fruity notes.
En ljuvlig varje-dag-doft. På min hud kännerjag en banannot i ungefär 30 minuter, den funkar inte på min hud tyvärr. Efter en halvtimme blir Enjoy en elegant och underbar doft. Kanske inte för tonåringen utan mer en doft för den vuxna kvinnan. Värd att prova! Inte modern sockersöt men det finns ändå söta noter från blommor och frukter.
Vika1989 – :
Being a fan of Patou fragrances I was excited to try Enjoy. Alas I have found this to be a difficult fragrance to wear. My tastes tend to run toward powerful scents, but even so the opening and the first 5 hours of wearing Enjoy were just overwhelming.
The fruitiness of the opening lasted about 45 minutes. For the next 4 or 5 hours the combination of overly sun ripened Bulgarian roses and patchouli created a musty miasma all around me. I have previously found Bulgarian rose difficult to tolerate, so I was anxious to see how it performed in this perfume. My bottle is EDP.
After that it did settle down into a lovely mix of rose, musk and vanilla. Sweet as the finale is, I can’t envision tolerating the first two stages to make this a keeper. It is possible that I applied too much, so I will give it one more chance with a smaller application. This was my second attempt, but I like to give any fragrance three tries.
Even if Enjoy doesn’t work for me, I’m thrilled that this scent has so many fans and that the house of Patou is continuing on through another generation of perfume lovers
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SinedWalyn – :
I woke up this morning wondering, “Wow, what is that beautiful fragrance I’m smelling?” Then I remembered spraying Enjoy only on 1 wrist several hours before bedtime. This was 12 hours earlier! Before bed I remember thinking that it smelled like a musky rose scent, the only banana I got from it was a slight smell like green banana peel…now it reminds me of the best part of Ellen Tracy by Ellen Tracy. Don’t think for a moment it smelled like that during the first hours though. I would have laughed at anyone who even suggested it. Only now, after 12 or more hours is that what I get. A beautiful fragrance from beginning to end. Very grown up and classic scent. I can’t imagine one of my daughters wearing this…yet!
Valerasha – :
absolutely amazing..unique and very original!
frecypype – :
I wonder if my sample bottle went stale. All I got was hideous chemicals and rotting fruit.
markiz2029 – :
EnJoy is classified as a fruity floral which conjures to my mind sweet perfumes designed for teenagers. This perfume is definitely fruity but not the sweet sickly jammy kind of fruitiness that is filling the perfume shelves on the high street. It is a creamy, heady, sophisticated sweetness that is more fitting for a mature elegant woman. The sweet start to this scent is a mix of mandarin, bananas and pears to my nose but it soon starts to mellow after a few seconds giving way to a heady floral heart. From this floral heart through to the ambery vanilla dry down EnJoy presents as the fine perfume it is, made up of high quality ingredients and composed with a lot of care. Apparently EnJoy was created for the younger crowd and it would be fantastic if the young can appreciate its grace and individuality. This is an elegant, unique scent with plenty of sillage and excellent longevity. It’s a shame that it has been discontinued, a great loss of a hugely underrated scent.
deyjphanbtg – :
I love this, it makes me feel so glamorous and sexy. Great for both day and night and for all seasons. Only downside is it didn’t take long for it to go stale..
kovinenko – :
Oh, my goodness! Imagine Shirley Temple saying that in a movie where she’s an adorable little girl. This expresses my impression of the fragrance in a nutshell! This scent is aromatherapy of joy! It functions like an antidepressant for me- a really good one! It is energizing, uplifting, and fun! When I put this on, I smell memories from childhood- roses and jasmine, a hug from a beloved free-spirit uncle, old books, cat breath, blackberries, banana fruit salad, fresh potting soil, something camphorous, and grand-ma’s kitchen. All that…and yet this scent manages to be sophisticated as well! Somehow it gives me a feeling of being younger than I am, on vacation, in a warm and sunny place. I’m sitting at the prow of a yacht, as forward deck as I can get, holding onto the silver railing, with a roll of rope for a seat. A strong sea breeze is blowing and the boat is throwing up sea spray that is hitting my face as we slap into the heavy swells. I’m laughing as I put my legs out to dangle over the ocean. Life is good, Daddy is at the helm, Catalina Island is just ahead, and dolphins are swimming right beside me!
Алекс Бакум – :
I must add to my previous review, that this really is a lovely scent which I find is a great all rounder. In fact, if you are getting fed up with the synthetics of Escada or celebrity scents, as I have, this is THE fruity floral to buy. It costs less than anything else in its class (and less than most dross, too) and is great on those days where you want to smell fresh and pretty, but want a fruity floral with more substance than most. Bye bye, Escada, I’m stocking up on this little number for days (and nights) by the sea.
Slava 73 – :
Why do I get menthol from this at first? Perhaps it’s blackcurrant with a twist.
It is quite strong at first and it mellows into more suitable composition.
Fresh and vibrant. I just don’t get cheery and happy from it.
I am not sure is it for day or night use?
Anyway, I do ENJOY it.
But somehow i feel disappointed, it’s not that great, to me, as many reviewed.
Chiara Mastroianni is really beautiful enJOY-“spokeswoman”.
P.S. It’s stayingpower is quite moderate, 4 hours. But with bodylotion it’s endless!!!
safo – :
A nice, clean patchouli-heavy fruity-sorbet chypre on me, combining the tartness of blackcurrant with a fresh sweetness.
I have Nahema on the other wrist which I tested, and while there is no contest, I have bought EnJoy at a bargain price and think it’s a good, classy all rounder. I don’t think the pallor of the bottle quite conveys the message of the scent, which is quite exuberant. The name is a bit naff, and this scent is NOTHING like the original Joy (which I can’t personally wear at all)
Note: I’ve had to review this review after re-spraying, (must learn, never judge by the first spray!). It really is very pleasant and feminine and would make a great summer evening scent. This one will sit in my wardrobe ’til the spring when I think it will be in its element.
astominna – :
Classically beautiful, like the perfumes that made us all fall in love with fragrance in the first place. The topnotes of EnJoy are fruity-floral on me; more floral, but the reason I love this fragrance is the chypre drydown. I use “chypre” because this has a slightly citrusy, green base. This isn’t at all like “classic” chypres, i.e. Ysatis, Coriandre, or Knowing, but it develops notes that, on me, smell mossy, and slightly camphoraceous. There’s a lot of rose, (maybe because of the color of the liquid I think of purple roses), and definitely sweet jasmine. I don’t detect banana as a note, but upon first spray something “feels” tropical to me, so something in my brain must sense banana. This goes away very quickly and the fragrance becomes energetic, uptlifting, and, best of all, unique. It seems EnJoy never got the “press” it ought to have had, and it’s awfully underrated. The musk notes call to mind another wonderful, highly underrated Patou, Sira des Indes, but this never gets gourmand or animalic. It’s a lovely, elegant fragrance that evokes summer.
evelina1986 – :
ENJOY is a casual floral fruity fragrance, not a kind of sweet teen type but a more mature one. It strikes me with a medium-high nauseating kick in the first 5 minutes. But you know that you shouldn’t give up on this perfume yet because it carries hidden promising scent.
I can detect the bittersweet orange and blackcurrant notes which soon transforms to all time favorites; jasmine-rose combination. At this point the middle notes took quite some time to develop, which I enjoy so much because I’m more of a floral fanatic than a fruity lover. Then minutes after, this floral notes is slowly wrapped by a very light musk, creating soft and warm scent perfect for all day use.
ENJOY works from the beginning of the day with jeans and plain white shirt or lunch break with friends in a classy modern dress, up to formal occasion with your favorite little black dress. Although it’s suitable for any women, I think this perfume would do best for women of elegance. I’d pictured Kate Winslet or Rachel Wiesz wearing this perfume. Above all, ENJOY is truly enjoyable all day long and just classy as it can gets.
PrivratniK007 – :
Kind of pleasant at first and then turns exteremely sour. Don’t enjoy it at all.
Heldegard – :
Oh dear, I can’t say I EN Joy this very much, maybe it’s just at war with my chemistry. The funny thing is, I have been gifted with two bottles since I once expressed my wish to smell (the original) Joy perfume. Both givers were so excited to find the perfume I’d been lusting after, right there in the drugstore, lol! (and so reasonably priced, I wager, lol!)
AlexS74 – :
The first thing that came to my mind when i sprayed it on my wrists was “wow, this is some quality stuff!”
It gives me the same feeling of luxury as Allure Sensuelle, but i will be able to process and finalize my feelings about it by the end of the day. It’d better be good, because i got in the habit of buying large bottles of fragrances that i believe i would potentially like.
Updated review: This is a gorgeous fragrance! My first Patou and it well lived up to my expectations. Once you apply it, completely ignore the harsh notes that fly in your face as they dissipate within a couple of mintutes. You can tell after 5 minutes by its deepness that the sillage and staying power are going to be through the roof( which is always a good thing as long as you and the people around you enjoy the scent. 4 sprays for me and i can enjoy being enveloped in the veil of this beautiful scent without constantly sniffing my wrists for an extra boost. Enjoy is a very elegant and sophisticated scent. So French and complex…it makes me feel like a million dollars. I see a lot of fruit notes here, but they are blended with the flowery accord so well that it’s hard to recognize them. It is more flowery on me, with vanilla, amber and musk joining in the drydown. It is definitely a scent for colder months as it is very warm and might be too overpowering in the hot weather. I would say it is more suitable for evenings or special occasions, but can be worn during the day as well…..as long as you are not dressed too casually, then it will definitely “smell” out of place. I would classify Enjoy as a mature fragrance, meaning it’s definitely not for the teens. i think it would be more appropriate for someone in their late twenties and older. But again, if you put it on while wearing jeans and sneakers, regardless of age, i can assure you, you will stick out like a sore thumb everywhere you go. And one more thing, make sure you don’t test it on a paper card and apply it properly on your skin….or it won’t develop, and I have a feeling will be more along the lines of a bug spray. Highly recommended!!!!!
Meverdierks – :
I am very confused about Enjoy, part of me really likes it the other just will not.
Through the freshness, light chypre and sophistication there is one note I do not understand. Although it could be down to chemistry (or lack of it maybe) this turns into a leather/animal kind of odor… could it be the amber/musk? I’m not so keen on them. This surprises me as I can not see any notes in the composition that I really dislike.
I detect synthetic (not as in today synthetic notes!) that is perfectly integrated/blended and gives another dimemsion to the fragrance… Quartz de Molyneux is suddenly coming to my mind…
Enjoy is playing Jeckill/Hyde with my mind here. I think Jean-Baptiste Grenouille’s creation in the movie would smell exactly like that!
I have decided to love it for its uniqueness! Because it is unlikely that I will cross the path of another woman wearing it.
Perfect accessory to go with the LBD as another reviewer said, when one wants to feel special for nightime. Enjoy possesses that very Elegant/Classic/Retro touch, very French, very unique, not so innocent, not for the playground, grown up scent, if that make any sense?
yuriy763 – :
I read somewhere that this was supposed to be a modern version of their classic Joy fragrance which I unfortunately never had a chance to try. But I completely get how does classic meet modern here although I am not a big fan of this perfume. At the beginning it was very harsh and I thought it would be absolutely awful but it softened after a while and I smelled this weird mixture of something that seemed to be very ‘old-lady-like’ with a mediating, fresh hint of fruit and flowers that ensured me I’m in the XXI century. Both sides of this fragrance seem familiar but I do not think I have ever smelled them side by side in one perfume what makes it quite interesting. The ‘modern’ face of this fragrance makes me want to keep sniffing my wrist but the ‘classic’ part is too heavy for me so unfortunately this fragrance does not really work for me. Still worth trying though and I am not a smallest bit surprised that so many ladies seem to like it!
viskonzas – :
Lovely chypre floral with good lasting power, without being offensive or headache inducing.
I can’t smell much banana or black currant when I’m wearing it, but don’t mind since I prefer floral notes over sweet fruity ones.
I think Enjoy is more suited to warmer weather, like Spring, but could also be a nice pick-me-up in cooler weather.
It’s both a modern and classic scent, definately worth a try if you’re curious.
aniuta80 – :
I bought a sample of this during the winter thinking the fruity notes would cheer me up on gloomy days. But I totally hated it. There was a note, maybe musk, maybe patchouli, not sure that was very irritating. I was disappointed because it sounded very exotic & unique and because I know that Patou’s scents are generally very high quality.
I was going to give the sample spray away to a friend that I figured might like it. But two weeks ago when I still had not gotten rid of it I decided to spray it on my wrist again to see what note it could possibly be that bugged me so much. But this time there was no annoying note. I was ecstatic! I finally get to “enjoy” this scent, no pun intended. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but, I love the banana note. I absolutely abhor banana candy, so this is so unusual for me to find this scent so pleasant. I don’t think I’ve ever smelled a perfume where this fruit has been integrated so well with the other ingredients, or not smelled artificial. It smells very natural, but not like a really ripe banana, as has been stated previously. It does smell like a slightly green banana that has just a tinge of sweetness.
The blackcurrant note is the icing on the cake for me, blending so well with the banana & floral notes. I can’t believe that this fume smells so different when applied in warm weather. It’s so lovely. I highly recommend to any floral lover, or anybody that wants to smell beautiful & stand apart from the rest of the crowd. Very elegant & original fragrance.Very ladylike. I’m definitely buying a bottle asap, as this will be my signature fragrance until the weather gets cool again & its tempermental personality comes back to haunt me.
Update: 12/21/12: I’m still loving this & wear it often, so glad I found it, the quality is excellent and longevity is easily 6-8 hrs. on me.
The fruitiness really stands out to me, & I would almost argue that this should be considered a Chypre Fruity instead, but I think it may depend on skin chemistry and perspective.
5/5 stars
Jacky313 – :
In the beginning – before I stopped smoking – this was a lovely summer perfume, fruity and flowery but still with that Patou-esque base that made it an ultra elegant classic.
There was a little musk, but it wasn’t especially horrible or animalic.
I really, really do not like bestial musk.
Fast forward, to a year after I stopped smoking, and all the pretty, elegant bits where overwhelmed by the musky note, and I couldn’t give it away fast enough.
So, lesson learned, not only do seasonal and hormonal changes affect one’s reaction to scent, smoking/not smoking seems to have a huge influence too.
Pity, I really did seem to like Enjoy, I had used up about 30% of the 100 milliliter bottle in 2 years, which, considering my ever growing collection, is a lot.
I simply cannot abide EnJoy anymore, and if, like me, you are not fond of that bestial musk note,you may want to make sure you sniff before buying.
I will say EnJoy has lovely, strong sillage and lasts forever – a pair of pajamas I had on when I last wore it still smells of Enjoy after 2 washings!
aboniyaa – :
A soapish beging but in a few seconds
dries to a scent of black current tart
and suble sweet banana it’s refreshed
with cassia and orange to make it zesty
and the pear makes it smooth. for me
in perfumes i’v always have a hard time
detecting eather the rose or the jasmine
notes. the drydown is with the usual
mix of amber and musk with an occasional
vanilla.
DJ.ALLIGATOR – :
This is an elegant little black dress perfume to me.
A wonderful changing symphony of fragrances and complexities, more floral at first, but then on me, it dries down to a sharp green–not overripe–banana/green mango scent that is never cloying.
Love it.
hvh998speagoessenda – :
This is a review of Enjoy EDP.
It seems a bit out of character with the other classic Patou scents I know and love (Joy, Sublime, 1000). If you have expectations that Enjoy will be similar to those, you may be disappointed. If you’re willing to consider it on its own merits, you may be surprised to find how interesting, impressive and wearable Enjoy really is.
Enjoy begins with a blast of tart fruits. Very juicy, very green and moist. There’s a lot of black currant in this phase and it’s almost too much, but it settles quickly into a nice fruity-floral that lasts for an hour or so. After that, it morphs to a beautiful modern chypre. The florals are not sweet at all and are nicely tempered by the musk and patchouli. When it reaches the chypre phase, it stays there a good six hours or so.
I admit, I had to give this one a few wearings before it clicked with me. Try it when you will have an opportunity to sniff frequently and observe its amazing evolution.
Garik69 – :
I liked the top notes – citrussy and very classic, but it soon became Commes Des Garcons 2 mixed with Coco Mademoiselle, which means too sweet for me – sugared almonds dominate my perception.
ur_vlad – :
a great