Hey hey Posse Peeps! I’m not sure exactly when Jontue came up in comments recently but there’s been a bottle around here for a while. I probably spritzed it a few times when it arrive and then boxed it away in the Drug Store Delights box. Next year it will celebrate 50 years of production so I thought maybe we could get in early and be ready for a huge party. My bottle is the Cologne Spray.
Whoever it was that mentioned Jontue, thanks. It had seriously slipped my mind. I’m starting my 2025 cull today and was in the Drug Store Delights box. While almost all of them are still very wearable beauties, I never do. So today I’m giving a bunch of them and the hotel soaps/shower gels/body lotions/toothbrush sets collected over the last couple of years to a girlfriend who does the basics bags for women in need. Jontue is having a last glorious 20 spritz wear. I thought you could come for the ride.
Jontue by Revlon 1976
BaseNotes gives these featured accords:
Top: Bergamot, rose, chamomile, gardenia, cypress
Heart: Tuberose, ylang ylang, geranium, mimosa, sage
Base: Patchouli, musk, oakmoss, vetiver, benzoin
The opening is fresh. A little sharp woods, some herbaceousness and a sprinkle of citrus. It’s not long before some lightly breathy white florals and tropical ylang join the party. Even underneath the opening hints of oakmoss are rumbling. That lovely woodsy furriness that it brings comes forward through the heart. There amber does too.
Yes, I can tell this was made decades ago BUT it still smells good. I can’t compare it to its origins but right now Jontue is smelling so fine. As I head toward dry down the base has made itself known. A mossy amber with still some whispers of white flowers.
Nowadays Jontue feels totally unisex, even leans a bit masculine through the heart and base. Longevity is good for a cologne. I can still smell that darkish base hours later.
March and Patty used to do Drug Store perfume throwdowns.
Have you, would you, Jontue?
Portia xx
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I never wore Jontue. It was the scent of the pretty girls at school.
I liked my chypres, so Fidji, Empreinte & Cachet were my go to back then
Alityke,
Maybe it’s the time for you to get that perfume and claim ownership of being a pretty girl. It will be fun.
Your choices were much more sophisticated. Those girls didn’t know s**t.
Portia xx
Portia! You have GOT to stop making me BLLAAART! in public!!
:: it’s verrra unladylike;-)
I would but I haven’t. And in the interest of keeping the number of “It was so cheap I HAD TO” bottles to a minimum I don’t think I want to try..
HA! Fair play to you Tom. That’s how I got my Drug Store Delights box. Now thinned to a very few.
Portia x
I remember Jontue vaguely because it was not “my” perfume back then. Some high school girlfriends used to wear it. I prefered Anais Anais, Eau Jeune, Eau Jeune l’oriental…
OOOHHHH! I’d never heard of the Eau Jeune range Neva. Just looked it up. Did you know they did a refurb on L’Oriental in 2021? New bottle and looks like they tweaked the formula.
Portia xx
I wasn’t even born yet when this was released. So I have never tried it. I was never really a drug store perfume shopper but vaguely remember when Chanel did have some offerings back in probably the later 80’s.
Hey Eldarwen22,
You spring chicken!
There are some very interesting finds in the drug store aisles, or were. I’m not even sure if Jontue is for sale here in Australia anymore.
Portia xx
I have this idea I probably tried Jontue decades ago and it just wasn’t my thing. Might be different now. It’s got some more unusual notes in there, like the chamomile and cypress (vs the ubiquitous cedar).
I wonder if you would like it Cinnamon? Maybe. It’s got a few things in it that I’m pretty sure ring your bell, but done in the drugstore style.
Portia xx
This was never “me” but I have smelled it and think it’s very pretty. I was probably still stuck in my Love’s Baby Soft era. (and Love’s Fresh Lemon). Glad they are going to a worthy cause <3
There was a Loves Fresh Lemon March? I’m laughing so hard. Even have the tag line for you. For the vibrant, youthful lesbian who wants to waft cleanly!
Sorry, can’t help myself. I’m 11 years old in this head.
Portia xx
YESSSS Perfect! And I can relate. Carolyn’s stuck with my inner 11 year old sometimes.
Lucky Carolyn
Portia,
It might have been me that mentioned it. It was my favorite scent in middle school and high school, and I kept on wearing it occasionally through college. I probably went through ten bottles of it over the years. Here in the US the ad campaign for Jontue was very romantic with fields of wildflowers, a girl in a long dress, handsome man, a beautiful white horse — the whole soft filter fairy tale image. Another great drug store scent I enjoyed: Emeraude.
“sexy … but not too far from innocence.” I was close! (sensual, not sexy). The stuff that sticks in your brain.
Just like US March.
Hey DinaC,
Well, thank you for bringing it up. What a lovely scent. I’m not sure if we got those ads here in Oz, they sound lovely and dreamy.
Emeraude, Coty right? I think I had a crown cap bottle of it.
Portia xx
I think there are 3 or 4 of us here who have said that we remember Jontue very fondly. I loved it and wore it all the time for a long time. I was able to find a vintage 2 oz bottle that turned out to be in great condition. I decant it into a smaller spray bottle and use it periodically, which I just did when I read your post. So nice.
So the Jontue did not make it to the cull Maya. It’s too good and I’ve been wearing it a bit.
Bet the vintage is even more gorgeous.
Glad to jog your memory,
Portia xx
I’m glad you’re keeping it and enjoying it. It’s still wafting around me beautifully and I’m happy to be wearing it. Jontue is a bridge to some good times!
OOOHHHH! I’m definitely stealing that phrase Maya, “a bridge to some good times”. Heaven
🙂