Jontue by Revlon

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This review is for the current version of JONTUE.

The first spray hits with that green balsamic touch from Cacharel’s Eden a floral and balsamic explosion. Jontue is very green at first like nature forests honeyed yellow flowers and a menthol touch. Even though honey isn’t listed I sense it. Olfactorily it’s like a freshly cut bouquet with resinous and mentholated touches perhaps from the cypress all very subtle nothing as rough as a men’s scent. To me it smells feminine. It’s elegant but with an unusual femininity for a woman who doesn’t seek approval or to be judged by her scent or clothes someone confident in herself. It’s a country scent for someone living away from gossip and urban noise maintaining elegance and good taste from childhood. Very Old Money the trend of wealthy Americans who see good dressing as a mantra many dedicated to equestrianism; Jontue’s advertising was 100% aimed at that profile: beautiful women in the country with horses. This perfume makes you live a beautiful experience recalling country summers that smell of flowers earth and cypresses that arrives with a fresh breeze. American women in the late 70s and 80s aspired to Old Money for status; they embraced the classic with a modern touch as this fragrance was novel for the era since green florals started gaining popularity because those who wore them knew the olfactive path was for high-born landowners familiar with them like Chanel N°19. It’s a beautiful fragrance and I can say I know it well beyond country summers because I have it in my olfactory memory with my history teacher when I was studying. She was a lady over 60 with a marked and strict personality of good taste spending hours talking about her travels and her hands showed elegant rings with stones; I’d curiously ask about her jewelry and she’d tell me she bought them in the countries she visited Hungary being one I remember. Yes she had the world. A perfume is an experience and if Jontue evoked what I deduced from her Revlon did it perfectly. A perfume created for people of Old Money taste inherited wealth living far from the city. I’ve read it has reformulations and that the old one was heavier the one I remember drying down to is Giorgio Beverly Hills but very far… mind you Giorgio also targeted the Old Money crowd. Definitely in my little experience I discovered something: these perfumes appeal to olfactory experiences like the ones I mentioned. Nowadays I don’t think perfume houses put in the work that used to take years. Today they just seek fashion influenced by Fast Fashion and mass-market the latest fragrance imitating a disgusting cocktail of whipped cream caramel and boozy fruit that gives you headaches. Fast Fashion is the equivalent of low-cost massified and disposable fashion. That’s how I would categorically describe today’s fashion perfumes or celebrity scents. As for legacy? Forget it. Would I buy Jontue again? Definitely yes.

• Green
• Floral
• Cypress
• Fresh