Jean Nate

Discussion in 'Preshave and Aftershave' started by gorgo2, Jun 13, 2018.

  1. gorgo2

    gorgo2 geezerhood

    Yes, it's long been marketed for women but the breakdown on Basenotes looks more or less within the range of something a man might wear.

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    I'll have to sniff some next time I'm at the store. Anyone familiar with it?
     
  2. richgem

    richgem suffering from chronic clicker hand cramps

    My mother used to wear it back in the '70s and '80s... iirc it smelled very "fresh" but also definitely feminine. I don't remember the scent being particularly long-lasting. I think there's also a rule now that you have to be into your "senior years" in order to purchase it.
     
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  3. gorgo2

    gorgo2 geezerhood

    Figured something like that, but then, some think "old people" when they smell Shulton. Doesn't sound like the final drydown would be THAT feminine...will have to find out.
     
  4. PickledNorthern

    PickledNorthern Fabulous, the unicorn

    Yeah, but until that final dry down, you are going to smell very much like a chick.


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  5. gorgo2

    gorgo2 geezerhood

    Not if I don't leave the house. :happy088:
     
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  6. richgem

    richgem suffering from chronic clicker hand cramps

    You'll still smell like an old lady. It's just that fewer people will notice.:p
     
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  7. PLANofMAN

    PLANofMAN Eccentric Razor Collector Staff Member

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    The Lily of the Valley and Tonka Bean are going to leave you smelling very feminine and floral.
     
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  8. gorgo2

    gorgo2 geezerhood

    I'll give you Lily (not Munster, she's mine, hands off) but isn't tonka bean used in men's frags?
     
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  9. Enrico

    Enrico Popcorn

    One suggestion .... Tabac!
     
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  10. Frijolero

    Frijolero Well-Known Member

    It is. Just maybe not with lily of the valley. By itself, it's a sweet scent, in the same direction as vanilla.
     
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  11. PLANofMAN

    PLANofMAN Eccentric Razor Collector Staff Member

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    Yep. It's a projector, and will lend a powdery note to the perfume.
     
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  12. gorgo2

    gorgo2 geezerhood

    Well, no store I've checked today has had it. I guess the target market has been dying off.
     
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  13. PickledNorthern

    PickledNorthern Fabulous, the unicorn

    Honestly, this is a quest like something from an Adam Sandler movie, and I am eagerly awaiting the results.

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  14. gorgo2

    gorgo2 geezerhood

    Several interesting observations in the comments here... according to some it's now more unisex than it used to be...


    https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Revlon/Jean-Nate-9025.html
     
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  15. gorgo2

    gorgo2 geezerhood

    Mystery solved.

    Was in CVS this morning, they had it ($13 a bottle?!?). Bright lemon up front, quickly followed by vague, synthetic florals and bergamot or something like it. Drydown didn't change must, just a residual lemony/powdery scent that projects one mm from the skin. Bottle dated 2014, made in Mexico.

    Resale shop, a gigantic bottle with no date but apparently older, made in the U.S. Much the same right off the bat, dried down to the bergamot/florals but now with much more (but still not much) of that sweet vanilla-ish tonka and the faintest hint of cedar.

    Conclusion: both are innocuous and decidedly feminine. Maybe on some people (including men) it turns into something woody and spicy but not on me, not a bit.

    Here's the weird part. It does bear fairly close resemblance to 4711, only sweeter and more lemony. To my nose, imagine a cross between Florida water and Heno de Pravia, that's about it as some have already figured out...

    https://www.google.com/search?num=5....64.psy-ab..7.2.407...0j33i21k1.0.ynSC_2tF3Mo
     
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  16. urrlord

    urrlord Well-Known Member

    I picked up a quart of this stuff 6-7 years ago for my mother in law .I tried it once or twice.It is reminds me of a lemony sweet female clubman vanilla.A little too femme for me.
     
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  17. Sara-s

    Sara-s This Pun for Hire

    I use it and mostly notice the citrus scent. As we’ve said many times, scents do not have a sex. If you like it , use it.
     
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  18. Paul Turner

    Paul Turner outside the quote(s) now

    My dad used to call it "Jean NAYTE"...but just as a play on the name, not the fragrance.
     
  19. Latherin’ Luddite

    Latherin’ Luddite Well-Known Member

    The FIRST (actually only) thing I think of when hearing that name is Marie Barone. :D
     

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