Je Reviens Eau de Toilette

5 reseñas

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• ANA BERTHA

  August 30, 2017

  

  A wonderful perfume with an ancient profile from centuries past. Smells of soap, talcum powder, and incense. One of my great favourites; I was told it’s discontinued. Worth buying a reserve for future decades—it’s very special and elegant.

• Josesan

  December 27, 2017

  

  Review of JE REVIENS by WORTH: EDT. Smells like old-school Chanel No. 5 and Youth Dew, with aldehydes, florals, spices, and hard woods—strong and almost masculine. It’s fascinating how perfumes define eras; these fragrances from the 40s and 50s, created at any moment, embodied post-war women: hardened, fighting to survive, working, and tremendously feminist without knowing it. Today, the woman who believes she has conquered equality is besieged by extra-sweet, nauseating, hyper-sugared fruit choulis trying to turn her into a docile doll so she forgets to realise herself and returns to the arms of Dad or the honey-husband. If you’re obsessed with size 36, vertigo-inducing heels, Californian highlights, and prosthetics, not only are you not liberated enough to understand JE REVIENS, but today, whoever wears it is expected to be called a nanna, a granny, or a musty old thing. The aldehydic opening is a statement of principle: nothing soft or powdery, everything resolute. If there are florals, they seem like bursts of fury; if there are citrus notes, they are sour, wild, sharp, and unripe. There are cloves as in YSL’s Opium, intense musk without compromise, moss and woody vetiver. It’s a marked chypre fougère with a base of sandalwood and gum resins. Sillage and longevity above average. Only for women like Joan Crawford, Ava Gardner, and Bette Davis: they thought, acted, and were feminists. When they said JE REVIENS (NOW I RETURN), you could consider yourself abandoned.

• charlotinable

  March 17, 2018

  

  Another jewel of great beauty and splendour that takes me back to childhood, as my mother used to bathe in it, enveloping the whole environment with that divine trail of a perfume with the class, beauty, and elegance of bygone days, which were only announced and presented, making people ask ‘what is your perfume called’. I still keep a bottle that she cared for like a holy relic, which I occasionally smell to transport myself back to times of a happy past.

• jerry drake

  April 18, 2022

  

  I’m back with the vintage EDP version, a proposal with magical attraction for me, a creation with a soul that impresses me every time I smell it. It’s a perfume that is far too grand, surely different enough to find its place on a modern woman’s skin. Smelling it conjures images of ladies who knew how to unleash their femininity and incite male jealousy, driving gentlemen to madness and earning gifts in exchange for a smile and silent promises of passionate attention. Fairies like those of the Moulin Rouge, with uninhibited sexuality and languid coquetry, masters of the desires of cultured and powerful gentlemen, surrounded by a halo of total uninhibition. That uninhibition wasn’t vulgarity or baseness: a graceful face, a swan neck, dreamy eyes, and an elegant indulgence gave certain ladies a taste of purity that made them more sinful and desirable to suitors hoping to lose themselves in courtship rituals where modesty and malice intertwined vibrant dialogues with uncertain and passionate endings. It’s easy to fall into temptation when aldehydes, bergamot, and jasmine caress your senses, and you perceive a soft, elegant aura of lilac, rose, and oakmoss, with the power to move you by imagining someone deep, seductive yet vulnerable, and nostalgic. Its green note is soft, illuminated from within like light through a jadeite screen. A pinch of clove keeps the fragrance alive, while neroli infuses it with a sinful, youthful innocence, surprisingly so given the launch date. It’s an aroma that I’m passionately in love with, highlighted by a floral, aromatic, and woody bouquet that adds a sensual, calming, and warm sensation, with smoky and sweet touches, almost like a delicate incense accompanying its development to create a natural, warm, and deep essence. Closing my eyes, I imagine reclining on a red velvet chaise longue with that dream woman beside me, soaked in that seductive atmosphere and hypnotised by her beauty while we drink champagne, overwhelmed by her skin that smells of Je reviens, feeling it dangerously mine, like the desire to leave together the next day to start a new life. And then? After sharing sighs with that voluptuous lady who frames the exuberance of the senses and the pleasure of sin, I return to my time and space, to give rigor to the loss, bring order to the whirlwind of emotions, and realise once again that perhaps I was born in the wrong era.

• Eternofemenino80

  November 4, 2022

  

  This perfume caught me completely by surprise. About five years ago, I bought the bottle and felt overwhelmed, as if the scent was weighing me down rather than enhancing me; I felt old and eventually gave it away. This autumn, I finally dared to buy it again. It’s a new reformulation, much softer and ‘watery’, yet it wears with far greater ease and charm. I adore its aldehydic side, the hyacinth, and the violet. Despite being lighter, the trail and longevity are excellent. It feels comparable to E. Arden’s ‘Blue Grass’—they are very similar, though I detect more lavender in the Arden version. I think it’s a brilliant idea to give it another chance this autumn and winter.