Jules was released in 1980, composed by Jean Martel for Dior, fourteen years after Eau Sauvage. A green, animalic fougère, it borrows its name from the slang term for a boyfriend. The house now brings it back to galbanum from Iran, black pepper from India and cedar from Virginia. Francis Kurkdjian restores it on October 1, 2026.
Lauryn Beer holds Jules to be an extraordinary green fougère, one that changed the way she hears men's fragrances.
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Lauryn Beer, ÇaFleureBon, July 2, 2021
She recounts having held men's fragrances to be matters of leather and citrus until Jules, and says she fell in love with it.
She describes it as green as a jungle by Douanier Rousseau, animalic and elegant like the stride of a great cat, urban and composed. The floral heart, rose and peppery carnation, tips it, in her view, outside any genre.
She sets aside the sporting imagery of the campaign, which does not match what she smells, and ends up wondering whether Jean Martel had not intended from the start that women wear it too.
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