Patou For Ever Jean Patou for women

Unlike a few other people here, I like both the box and the bottle, though it's a little hard to spray in my tiny hand. I think both the bottle and box fix the opulent yet slightly bohemian, artsy, well monied but gypsy woman sexiness of this perfume. It's not trying to be like every other perfume, much as the woman who wears it is not trying to be like every other woman. It has a subtle fruitiness and some slightly bold florals. It speaks of a self confident woman with a bold sexiness that is smoldering under a not so obvious surface. I like that my bottle came with a choice of tops, a sprayer or a stopper if you want to use it as a splash. I don't go in for the breakdown of notes, like "oh I don't smell the pineapple or rose, etc, blah blah" The notes are meant to come together for a concerted impression much like a song. Who listens to a song and says "I can't really hear the c flat etc" no, we listen to and enjoy the song as a whole. Perfume should be the same. It should be ageless as well.

EDT
My bottle is old, the pineapple note has kinda disappeared, so it is mostly rasberry and ambery base. I would describe it as grown-up fruity. Performance is still very strong.
I was reminded of this today as I was testing something else: Fruity (Olfactive-O). I did a side by side comparison. They are very similar (even the hint of pineapple).
PS: bottle is very badly designed, which is unusual for this house.

God makes a nest for the crow stork... or sends a fairy , otherwise there is no explanation for my meeting with a bottle of Patou's For Ever , directed by Jean Kerleo. According to the cosmetic calculator , it is the batch from the year of launch, that is, 1998. So far it was easy, now comes the hard part: to tell you about it. I would describe him primarily as avant-garde: in a period in which opulent florals predominated, he is a fruity floral. Who doesn't shout at the top of his lungs because he's discreet and gets noticed that way too. It has ingredients that clearly feel different from the current ones: more natural. The fruits are extremely well presented, juicy and sweet pineapple, fragrant raspberry, and a little watermelon. It also has a bouquet of flowers, it is just a little powdery and as a base a woody accord. To be clear: this perfume is from another dimension, one where the perfume is PERFUME, not something else
The name is perfectly chosen, it is forever.... or so it would be...

This is an interesting one. I can’t decide if I like it or not but I definitely don’t dislike it. Its one of these slow scents that you need to keep coming back to, something unique taking place here that keeps you interested. I don’t think the presentation (box & bottle) was particularly successful but the scent itself reads as green and fruity to me. There is some dryness at the base, a woods/musk combination not to dominate the fragrance but to give it a foundation, with a green/floral centre (reads like the stem of muguet rather than the flower) and the fruit (medley not so much individual fruits) on top. I think its still a little too cold to enjoy this one fully but once we get into spring I’ll see where this story goes. Intriguing.

@LSAUG someone else that “understands” my passionate hate of melon stench in both life and fragrance. I recall the same annoyance in the 90s. I just have to ask why (damn melons)? To my nose it’s pungent, sickly sweet bordering on rotten and fusty/musty with that drool and old earth smell mixed together (laughs). Aquatics are also a no. As they tend to throw “melon” imo. Anyway. I’ll attempt to sniff this fragrance as I’m in a vintage bender but have been warned, so to speak :)

I bought a sample bottle of this thinking maybe the great house of Patou could cure my hatred of melon in perfumery. Alas, it did not happen. I hated what the 90's did to the fragrance world w/ it's sickly sweet melon or harsh obnoxious aquatics and or cucumber salad smells permeating in every department store in the mall (back when we went to the mall) I understand why they attempted this but melon really is a note that doesn't belong in perfume in my opinion. There is just something wrong w/ the smell of melons. When my parents would eat them in the summer time my brother and I would run out of the house just to get away from the smell. I will say this has a better dry down then most melon perfumes but it just wasn't for me. My sample bottle will find a home w/ my sister or maybe her daughter.

this is such a beautiful classic scent...........its subtle but stands out......i call this a green floral or some may say a woodsy floral :) on me i get lily of the valley & the woodsy notes (smells more green than woodsy on me )

the florals are blended really nice - some of the florals in this scent (lily of the valley , jasmine , rose ) can be strong contenders in other perfumes but in this scent they are blended so well they have a soft quality to them which is nice :) maybe the fruity notes soften the florals but i dont get any fruit from this scent......just a classic green/woodsy floral :)


ps - i noticed a lot of other reviewers mention fruity florals - pineapple being dominant etc - but on me i just dont get fruit at all lol - it just goes to show how chemistry on each person can be different or maybe my nose just isnt picking up on fruit lol.........but if u love lily of the valley or green florals give this a try - its really beautiful & fragrancenet or other discount sites have it at a great price :)

On first wearing it is ripe and juicy in the top. The melon is definitely there combined with the raspberry and pineapple. None of these fruits shine through but meld to give the fragrance a juicy quality like that of a peach. Then the florals walk in and say hello. The florals, too, are blended with rose and jasmine combined with the tart berries to create almost a freesia or orchid sharpness. There's a little wood here and some musk that is not listed. Not a modern fruity floral but giving a nod to the vintages.

I really like this scent with its fruity,sweet and sour notes.It is pleasantly surprising,very different to anything else i own.It was a blind buy and i am very happy to have this in my collection.Rating 8/10.

I love Jean Patou creations. I have a few of these-Joy, 1000, Sublime etc and this one.
This is straight beautiful jasmine on me, with very little sweet toppings. Well made and deserving of the Patou name.

Smells strongly of fermentation. I usually steer clear of sour and citric perfumes, especially when I know I will be sweating a lot, because sour BO smells so much worse to me than just BO, but the fact that this already smells like a fruit soured by fermentation means I can only assume that the smell of sweat and rot would only becomed more amplified when mixed together. The only nice connotation would be that the smell somewhat resembles wine or champagne.

One of my best blind buys! I have the EDP version and love the fragrance.
There is some kind of rich, indecent sweetness of a forbidden fruit in it that I can't resist. What I was looking for and did not find in JOOP's All About Eve - is well and alive here: a ripe and juicy beating heart of a fruit orchard. Welcome to Paradise!
The projection is not impressive, but the smell remains on my skin for many hours and I feel its presence somewhere around me from time to time as well.
Excellently blended fruity potion!
9/10

A unique smell. So the pineapple is really a dominant note, but it is here not to talk about fruits and exotic cocktails on the beach. It is here to tell us about a bit dirty dress of a very sexy lady after a night out, all in champagne and pineapple juice and her personal scent. Probably she had sex and the dress is on the bedroom floor now. That is what I see here.

Oh, how I treasure this perfume. I bought one 3.4oz bottle 2 years ago on-line. When it arrived and I tried it on, I immediately went and ordered another. Good thing too, because now it appears to be hard to find. Love this beautiful scent. It strikes me as one of the richest, expensive smelling fruity florals I have ever smelled!

At it's best, this is a beautiful jasmine-raspberry accord, a floral on a deep ambery base with a sweet fruity top. The only pineapple note in perfume that I really enjoy, and mercifully no melon to my nose. Fruity and sweet at the same time that it is a greenish chypre. A sweet, floral, fruity chypre if possible, which indeed it is. It actually does not read that sweet on me, and never becomes cloying, due to the freshness of the pineapple. This is not canned, Del Monte pineapple in syrup. This is freshly cored on the spot in it's own juices pineapple.

However, when it combines with the very clean greenish LOTV, slightly indolic jasmine, and deep, civety raspberry, it gets a sweet/sour effect that some folks might dislike, but which I find endlessly compelling. There is a polarity between sweet and sour, fruit and floral, that has a slightly earthy, astringent or bitter quality. No oakmoss listed, but a distinctly mossy chypre.

Unusual. I get none of the sweaty, sour, or body odour note some describe below. None, but I am sure that if your skin amplifies the melon, trouble could ensue. I get a beautiful ambery drydown, not much vanilla, not sweet, a little animalic from the raspberry and jasmine.

Good longevity on me, anout five or six hours, wears close on me, I get wafts all day, but others have to get close before they can smell it. Great professional scent, a good "power scent" that is simultaneously fun, fruity and informal. Glinda the Good Witch might wear this one.

Well, I'll be the first to admit that there are a few rare times when I'll come back to a dreaded bottle of jus to give it another chance and come out the other side pleasantly surprised...Such is the case with For Ever.
I formerly lambasted Mr. Kerleo and this concoction as a synthetic rasberry disaster, but today, in the chilly sun of winter, it seems to have a refreshing quality that appeals to my yearning for Spring. The sugary top notes remind of the jammy fruit bouquet of EnJoy but are tempered with the oakmoss rich chypre earthiness that I have come to appreciate, thanks mainly to the lovely YSL "Y".
So, while it is still not destined to be a favorite go-to scent for me, the little mini I have will not be destined to an eternity in the back of my perfume drawer...it will see the light of day, if only once or twice a year.

I would love this fragrance if it were more floral, less fruity ~ but it's still a great composition. I guess Jean Kerléo may have been paying tribute here to the iconic Colony, originally launched by Jean Patou in the 1930s, one of the unforgettable groundbreaking perfumes first introduced in the pre-war era. It featured predominantly pineapple, masterfully intertwined with some really lovely chypre and floral notes. Whereas Colony is a warm perfume, evoking tropical sunsets, secrets and romance, Patou For Ever is a bright, lighthearted fragrance, reminiscent of a brisk walk in the park, where the air is redolent with flowers, deliciously betraying a lingering hint of the pineapple cocktail you've just had (well iced), inadvertently spilled on your new summer dress. No secrets, no mystery, no romance, just innocent, youthful anticipation of happy times to come.

This is quite sweet for a Jean Patou fragrance but I like to wear it for a change.It is long lasting & not too heavy for daytime wear.

I bought this blind and i was pleasantly surprised abt the beautiful complexity of this parfum. It has sweetness, but is not sugary. On me and on my husband smells different, but great. On my husband the predominant notes are melon and lily of the valley and on me are pineapple and jasmin. As a general ideea is a cameleonic fragrance, with a lot of personality.

I'm not so sure about the lukewarm reviews that some have given below, but my wife has the EDT of this one and I can tell you that it's a really nice and classy fragrance that's well worth the esteemed Patou name. It's always sugary sweet in a 90s way, not cloyingly so, but in a sunny, fruity, fun and uplifting way. The delightfully fruity raspberry is always at centre stage, giving it the overall impression of a raspberry jam, accompanied later on by jasmine and other flowery notes that keep it smelling bright and very girly. An excellent all round choice for summer I think, as well as for an informal office setting. I also think it suits all ages, and may be a hidden gem for younger girls to try. You can't help but smile when you smell this.

By the way Nuppu, I agree with your comments about the marketing but I'm baffled as to why you find the bottle so ugly.

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.

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 cocktail (reminded me a lot of Miss Dior Cherie), but luckily this sugary phase lasts not longer than 0.5 hour. After sugar fades away and leftovers of fruits together with flowers makes very nice, sophisticated and comforting fragrance - adore it! Good choice 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.