Vivienne Westwood has launched Boudoir Jouy, a new lighter variation on her 1998 Boudoir perfume, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Boudoir Jouy is a limited edition, and is named for traditional French toile de Jouy fabric.
A fresher note than Boudoir, with a touch of modernity and femininity to allow the woman who wears it to feel feminine and sensual. A fresh top enlightened with sparkling fruity notes of raspberry nectar, mandarin zest and a touch of green lushness with bamboo sap. The heart combines freshly blossoming floral notes, creating contemporary opulence with less volume. The ambery bottom notes are evolved in a clear musky dry down underlined by modern and feminine woody notes.
Additional notes include peony, jasmine and cashmere wood.
Vivienne Westwood Boudoir Jouy is available in 50 ml Eau de Parfum (£41), and can be found now at House of Fraser in the UK. (quote via houseoffraser.co.uk, additional information via vogue.co.uk)
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Whoa. Back on the subject of bottle design, this one sure has a LOT going on!
Yep!
I’m wondering about that Maltese Cross…what are they trying to convey? Isn’t she a punk sort of designer?
And first on the list—the dreaded raspberry.
Yes, she is, and the bottles are generally in this vein.
Indeed, Vivienne Westwood has been credited with being the creator of punk. And that crown, orb & ring is her logo.
I meant ‘cross’, not ‘crown’, of course. (I wish we could edit our comments.)
it reminds me of a crown
Tania Sanchez describes the tops of the Westwood bottles as resembling the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. Thought you’d get a kick out of that!
(I do love toile, but Dagmar, that particular scene does look rather suspect…)
The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!!! I love it! oh no, now I’ll be speaking in a horrible fake Monty Pythonish accent all day! (made worse by the fact that I’m alone here with only cats….and cats, historically, have no appreciation whatsoever for Monty Python!)
My brother, who was 12 when we first saw MPHG (on videotape!), can do an uncanny impression of Brother Maynard: “Oh, Lord, bless this Thy holy hand grenade of Antioch, that with it Thou mightst blow Thine enemies to tiny bits… in Thy mercy.”
We’re so bad, not even talking about the scent. HEY! I’m bidding on a couple of vintage classics on ebay, though – I set my $ ceiling and bid, and leave it alone. If I win them for small bucks, great – if not, someone else will enjoy.
If you win, you’ll have to fess up what you got.
I just won a small bottle of Lucien Lelong Indiscret. Won’t say what else I’m bidding on, yet (that’s a jinx!).
of course you cant’ say unless you win!
between the 3 of us in this house—we can do virtually all the lines from memory–accents included. Poor J. , she knew lines before she had even seen the video! Had to watch it in self defense by the time she was 13….there’s certain key words that will set of a “volley” of lines at our house….never mention coconuts, swallows, shrubs ,witches or the Vicious Chicken of Bristol….and the list goes on…
*considers changing gravatar to bloody rabbit with big pointy teeth* lol
you’re just encouraging us!
Death awaits you all…
Thanks for the laugh!
French tauntings get the biggest play in this household.
but……I just want to…sing!
No singing!
but Fahhhrthaah….
oops, that’s fahhhh-thaaa….but I don’t think “Alice” was a very good speller.
‘erbert, not Alice.
LOVE Monty Python. My dad and I are absolutely shameless about quoting it. I think the phrase “big, sharp, nasty teeth”- complete with hang gestures of course- is used the most, but every once in a while you won’t be able to get through a hallway without hearing “What is your quest? What is your favorite color? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?”
Also, we frequently quote from one of the other Monty Python sketches, “Now for something completely different”. It’s pretty ridiculous.
I won’t even try to pretend that this post is on topic.
yes, we stepped off that path long ago…
The LARCH.
You are silly English knnnnniggits!
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Perfect!
Holy hand grenade? Ha! I love it. It does have a few themes going on now doesn’t it?? But I get a sense of fun and whimsey from her, which is good.
Oh, yes! I remember that. Tania is such a wit.
I like the crazy bottle but not raspberry. I only tried the original Boudoir once when it first came out and distinctly remember it being overwhelmingly powdery, to the point of near suffocation.
I remember being impressed w/ the original Boudoir, but not liking it. Can’t remember why.
I read bamboo sap as bamboo shoots… and then I fixed myself something to eat, figuring I was hallucinating food due to hunger. lol
this starts bad (raspberry) and ends bad (amber) for me….the bamboo sap and mandarin zest were the only appealing parts. And the bottle rather reminds me of Rozie the Jestson’s maid wearing a quasi futuristic WWI helmet…..
ack! Now I’m gonna see that every time I see that bottle
….my work here is done….
Hunger can do that! I think I like the bottle more than most of you…I think it’s fun.
Westwood uses that orb-and-crown thing in her couture line too, on labels and print motifs and such. She took the image from an item of royal regalia to give the Establishment another punk-finger salute. . .
Yep! I love VW and her irreverence and all her clever references. “Jouy,” in addition to being a pun on joy (?), is the name of the French town that became famous in the 18th century for manufacturing printed textiles, especially the ones showing flirtatious couples frolicking in the countryside…
Yes, thanks!
I think one of the reasons I am not so big on designer fragrances is that A) I’m not into the whole designer-clothes thing, and B) a lot of the aesthetic branding just seems silly to me. I understand the reasoning for it, in terms of market position and brand coherence and the like (hey, I have a business degree!) but I’m not buying a scent because I like a designer’s clothing line. Not even Chanel.
(They’re not going for me as a customer, anyway.)
…(looking down at my kohl’s $10 tee shirt, black sweatpants and crocs) nodding in complete agreement…. I’d blame my attire on the fact that I’m working on opening the pool today (in between comments) but really, it’s not that much better on any day!
oh, I AM however, wearing a strand of freshwater pearls interspersed with multi-colored swarovski crystals…does that improve my outfit at all?
Don’t lose it in your Koi pond.
I got my eye changed. This is my Orchid “Ada”. She didn’t turn out so well, might have change her too.
I was about to say “WHERE’S YOUR EYE???” I saw it was an orchid right away—kinda miss the eye…but I’m sure we’ll all adjust. Actually I was scooping some ‘glop’ out of the bottom of the koi pond earlier….can only scoop a couple times before I start coming up with fish. That’s the down side of them ‘loving’ me…everything I do where they can see is verrrrry interesting to them….like nosy little children. But the necklace is pretty secure with a 3000 gauss magnet clasp—if I lost it—I’d just make another exactly the same!
True, but I wouldn’t avoid designer scents either.
If you made a vow to avoid designer scents you’d have about 3 left to pick from!
True! I didn’t mean I avoid designer fragrances – I just don’t buy anything BECAUSE it’s Gucci or whatever. I know the Big Noses (wow, that came out weird) create at the behest of the designer houses, so the odds are actually pretty good that designer stuff would smell decent.
I’m just cranky about the whole designer name-recognition upmarket “buy this because it’s expensive, so people will admire you” carousel. As I sit here in my Dockers twill trousers and JCPenney sweater and Rack Room shoes… My Lord, I’m getting curmudgeonly. Heck, you people know I haunt ebay like Nearly Headless Nick haunts Hogwarts.
I’m actually glad I hated Juicy Couture when I tried it because I am seriously sick of their logo everywhere and really would rather not have it in my house!
I bought the original in Paris in 2000, I’m guessing. It was totally out of my usual fragrance preference category. I like aquatics, not orientals. But something appealed to me and I still like it. The staying power of this EDP is huge! A friend has an enormous perfume bottle collection and she showed me the pure perfume bottle with the faux gemstones on the top. The quality of the glass is first rate. A really lovely bottle! Alas, Vivenne Westwood fragrances are not available here so I won’t get to smell this new one unless I go to another country.
They’re not easy to find here either.
i bought a bottle of the original, from England, when it was new. It was very powdery, but smelled like it was made of good stuff. I later sampled the US version and it was cheap and yucky. The glass is exquisite, but the “Hand Grenade” is cheap gold plastic!
Maybe it got reformulated — seriously doubt they did a separate version for the US.
I have a sample of the original Boudoir and can’t make up my mind. It’s kind of slutty, but in a good way. I can’t imagine wearing it during the day.
I’m not as queasy about raspberry as everyone else here but not sure if this will be going on my “must try” list. Maybe if I just run into it somewhere…
Yes, slutty in a good way is a perfect description.
I have to giggle at “slutty in a good way.” My husband doesn’t like Bal a Versailles, but I don’t think it’s the slutty bits that bother him, it’s the traditional very-French, very-perfumey florals.
I have vowed to acclimatize him. I like BaV.
are you planning to hold your BaV spritzed wrist under his nose whilst he sleeps???
Um… yeeaah. That’s what I was planning to do. Right.
I was TRYING to be nice…..howzabout you spritz it all over your person then make all sort of racy promises to him….and then follow thru on every single one…..by morning it’ll be his favorite perfume.
There. that’s what you get for pushing me.
Loved Boudoir the original… this sounds more… Spontaneous than the original did, although i agree with that it was LUSCIOUSLY powdery, (I adored that aspect) and Highly Volumetric in the Floral composition of it! so i can only think of this as a Lightening up of the original Juice, (the original had no Raspberry Nectar, but it sounds Yummy!) so am looking forward to this a lot!
Don’t know how widely it will be distributed…
Maybe I just had a long work day (I did), but reading this thread was sort of like stepping into a Dali painting — or a Monty Python movie. You are all SO funny!
And sorry, I can’t get past the ugh-worthy bottle. And the raspberry.
$ saved then…
I kind of like the crown, but the pink picture on the bottle WITH the crown is toooooo much. Now about that advertising copy:
“The heart combines freshly blossoming floral notes, creating contemporary opulence with less volume.” Shouldn’t this therefore come in a, say, 5 ml bottle max?
LOL…perhaps.
it is yummy. it is also very ‘pink.’ in a good way, as in, the juice is a pale but by no means sweet or sickly pink. it smells pink, but is neither too girly nor ‘in your face.’ i think the Lancome Magnifique was meant to personify the colour red, but this personifies pink far more effectively. perhaps more sugared almonds and rosewater. the peonie note lasts a long time too
as for the bottle, you can easily turn the ‘Chase-Me’ lady to one side and that simplifies it visually. what you can’t tell from the photo is how the bottle feels. it has the satisfying weight and smoothness of a favourite pebble that you enjoy holding in the palm of your hand