Jules appeared in 1980, composed by Jean Martel for Dior, fourteen years after Eau Sauvage. A green, animalic fougère, it borrows its name from the French slang for a boyfriend. The house today brings it down to Iranian galbanum, Indian black pepper and Virginia cedar. Francis Kurkdjian restores it on 1 October 2026.
Lauryn Beer holds Jules to be a green fougère out of the ordinary, one that changed the way she hears masculine fragrances.
Olfastory’s review
Lauryn Beer, ÇaFleureBon, 2 July 2021
She recounts having taken men's fragrances for matters of leather and citrus until Jules, and says she fell in love with it.
She describes it as green as a Douanier Rousseau jungle, animalic and elegant as the prowl of a great cat, urbane and composed. The floral heart, rose and peppery carnation, tips it in her view outside any gender.
She sets aside the sporting imagery of the campaign, which does not match what she smells, and wonders in closing whether Jean Martel had not intended women to wear it all along.