Joop! Femme

Joop! · Eau de Toilette (EDT) · 1987

≈ $42 · 75ml · approx. retail

Joop!'s founding fragrance, launched a couple of years ahead of Joop! Homme. A dense oriental-woody floral built on aldehydes, jasmine and rose over a warm, musky amber-oakmoss base, in the classic 1980s power-perfume mold.

The scent

Top notes

The opening · first 15 minutes

Heart notes

The core · the next few hours

Best for

FallWinterEveningSpecial Occasion

Perfumer

Michel Almairac

French · 54 in collection

Born in Grasse in 1953 and trained at Roure Bertrand Dupont, Michel Almairac is a master perfumer long associated with Robertet, credited with shaping the olfactory signature of Chloé. He later co-founded the family house Parle Moi de Parfum with his son Benjamin.

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