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RETRO - Jean Desprez Bal a Versailles EDC

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All sales are final, we are a perfume sampling company - letting you try perfume before you invest in a bottle. Unfortunately, we cannot refund any product that you do not like. If you are new to perfume or wanting to break out of wearing the same scent, try our starter sampler packs so that you can find the perfume that works for you.

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Jean Desprez Bal a Versailles used more than 300 of the purest, most expensive natural ingredients when he composed his masterpiece in 1962. Three separate rose species were used - Bulgarian, Anatolian and May - however the rose note is not pronounced and mixes with the other top notes while letting the dark jasmine heart shine.

Meaning “Ball at Versailles”, the incredibly gorgeous and decadent French Palace with the Hall of Mirrors, this fragrance recalls dances held in the ballroom. 

It is an incredibly sexy animalic fragrance bursting with civet under a blanket of creamy flowers and resins. If I can describe it this way - it is probably the most naughty fragrance I have ever worn. Sexy in every way - made to be worn in the nighttime for a special evening.

An interesting note about the fragrance is that apparently Michael Jackson wore this as his signature scent at one time. 

Bal a Versailles is still available through Genesis International Marketing Corp only no where near the gorgeous vintage scent.

This is the original pure perfume version of the fragrance. It comes from an unopened bottle. 

 

 

 

Manufacturer:

Jean Desprez

Fragrance Name:

Bal a Versailles

Year Introduced:

1962

Gender:

Feminine

Strength:

Eau de Cologne

Notes:

Top notes of rosemary, orange blossom, mandarin orange, cassia, jasmine, rose, neroli, bergamot and lemon; middle notes of sandalwood, patchouli, lilac, orris root, vetiver, ylang-ylang, lily-of-the-valley and leather; and base notes of tolu balsam, amber, musk, benzoin, civet, vanilla, cedar and resins.

 

Slogan:

 

Lorsque le parfum est une oeuvre d'art (When perfume is a work of art)

 

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  • Helen - 13th Jun 2020

    5
    Jickyesque to me.

    I’ve sampled all the concentrations of Jean Desprez Bal a Versailles on here: edc, edt, pdt, and parfum. It’s well-known in fragrance circles that I’m not the skank-loving type, so it’s no surprise the edc version is what I’d purchase a boxed bottle of. I know this fragrance has undergone an earlier reformulation because I read about someone saying how she didn’t like the urine opening. I like it in this iteration because I’m rewarded with a Guerlain Jickyesque drydown that is absent of detectable lavender, though I think I saw it listed among the scent’s many notes, and lavender is a note I don’t like at all - whether it fits the profile of medicinal or flowery - unless we’re speaking of liquid hand soap for the bathroom. I can see myself wearing and enjoying the edc on occasion, and I absolutely love the fragrance packaging. Ahem. :I “Yes, I do care about the bottle and the box.”

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  • Helen - 13th Jun 2020

    5
    Jickyesque to me.

    I’ve sampled all the concentrations of Jean Desprez Bal a Versailles on here: edc, edt, pdt, and parfum. It’s well-known in fragrance circles that I’m not the skank-loving type, so it’s no surprise the edc version is what I’d purchase a boxed bottle of. I know this fragrance has undergone an earlier reformulation because I read about someone saying how she didn’t like the urine opening. I like it in this iteration because I’m rewarded with a Guerlain Jickyesque drydown that is absent of detectable lavender, though I think I saw it listed among the scent’s many notes, and lavender is a note I don’t like at all - whether it fits the profile of medicinal or flowery - unless we’re speaking of liquid hand soap for the bathroom. I can see myself wearing and enjoying the edc on occasion, and I absolutely love the fragrance packaging. Ahem. :I “Yes, I do care about the bottle and the box.”