Christian Dior Jules (1980) Vintage Hall of Fame Fragrance Review 💪🐏  

I have the more recent Dior Jules thanks to Scentlands reviews some years back. I like it a lot. Never tried vintage Jules. Nice review

Brilliant, thoughtful and detailed review as always Ram. I sadly haven’t tried it but I’m sure I’ll get to. Thanks again for all your brilliant content Ram- always a pleasure ☺️🐏🫡

Thank you for another great review. I never smelt the older version, but I have 2 bottles of the 2016 version. I am sure they are not the same, but I am quite happy with the one I have. I bought them from a French website few months ago around 80 pounds each. Particularly dry down on my skin is so nice and classy. Green and mossy smell is very prominent.

Love the way you describe fragrance man, super interesting for sure. Great review😊

Instantly made it my scent of the night 🌚 Thanks for the content ramsey, youre the best!

I received this for my 17th birthday in 1987 from my girlfriend at the time. It was my signature scent as it happened to be my middle name. It was very thoughtful of her. Thanks Katya

Scents of SOUTH JERSEY said it smells like Denim(the current version of Jules)does that sound about right? I never smell either but i bought alot of old school bottles because his channel(the perk of getting older is you can sport these classics)/STILL WAITING ON THE RAMSEY+SOSJ COLLAB....

Hey brother Ram, haven't been watching for a while but you look great! Glad to see you're doing well. Never tried Jules but my interest is peaked. I couldn't agree more on the boys sweet amber fragrance trend and the lack of actually masculine dominant fragrances(or rather the lack of their use). You should do an EU trip, plenty of scents to share! Cheers!

first!?!?!? there are so many vintage diors I havent tried this is for sure on the list

I have a mini of the vintage and a full bottle of the modern formulation. They basically are two different fragrances but I love them both. The vintage is a classic carnation leather oakmoss masculine and the modern is a beautiful 3D galbanum beast. Probably my favorite galbanum with the vintage Bandit.

Happy Birthday to your Dad! Great thoughtful gift Ramsey. Also, I assume he does not wear the Current formulation of Paco Rabanne PH?

Great review and couldn't agree with you more. I also have the 50ml. splash. I live in Berlin, Germany and saw on Ebay the other day a vintage 100ml. 90% vol. for 239 Euros am so tempted to make the purchase.

Great stuff, I gotta Tester 100 ml this year and it immediately brought me back to my fragrance pilfering days from Big John’s collection lol ,so glad I scored this one for sure, solid review solid scent. Cheers Rams thanks for the memories buddy 🙏✌️👍

Interesting about the American leather association. I used to have the same association with Varvatos and RL since they're mmmmerican brands. But a Dior..🤔 Intriguing.

Glad to have the 100ml bottle and it’s 30ml down already ! Not sad , I enjoyed wearing it 🤩 I’d take Jules from the signature line of Dior all day everyday! And Leather Oud from the private blend !

Do you talk about ADP colonia ezzensa or the original colonia in any of your vids? Couldnt find it with youtube search. Grazie.

Never tried, but sounds perfect for me honestly... Now to find a vintage bottle though. 😅🙏

Jules has to be one of the most "outdoorsy" fragrance i know, this just smells like a walk in a forest, you have your leather jacket which mixes with the smell of moss, trees and herbs... And my god this Artemisia is to die for

I drools for Jules.

Admittedly, it can be challenging to verbalize one’s sensory impressions but there’s quite a bit of projection (in the psychological sense) going on in this review: ‘power’, ‘feels like a man in charge’, ‘when America had a manufacturing base’…these have nothing to do with the fragrance (I know you know that) and instead are purely contextual-to-Ramsey-in-2024 rhetorical flights of fancy that merely reflect certain notions of your (Ramsey’s) idea of ‘man’ and ‘the past’ and could be said of literally hundreds of fragrances from your collection, I surmise. But to be fair, and again as we all know and as you partially cite, most of the fragrance houses entertain this kind of image creation in their marketing. To add to what you say in your review, the 1980 Christian Dior publicity materials for Jules in my possession claim, and I quote, ‘A fragrance that is young at heart: a unique reflection of strength and vulnerability.’ Hmmm. In any case, with regards to the scent of vintage Jules, how can you not perceive the sage?? It’s perhaps the most notable aromatic element of the fragrance. It’s possible that your bottle(s) has lost some of its character. I would not characterize Jules as a green leather-as I gather that you more or less do-for it is definitely more of an aromatic fougere (a fairly wide category in the 70s/80s). Your inference about the ‘musk’ (so called) is a good one. The original CD publicity materials indeed state that Jules is a composition of ‘green and woody notes, of amber and musk’. As for the artemisia, while it’s there in Jules, a much better artemisia note can be found in 1991’s brilliant Romeo Gigli per Uomo. (And I too admire Memoir Man to bits.) I like vintage Jules quite a bit, but the Christian Dior imprimatur unquestionably (and falsely) elevates the market price. Meanwhile, something like the equally accomplished, in its own way, Charles Jourdan Un Homme, also from 1980 (nose: Francois Caron), goes largely overlooked.

I have 3 small bottles of the original Jules that ive been using, it is very potent and exceptionally long lasting these were once part of airline gift packs, I also have 1 small full bottle of the original Eu Sauvage left from airline giveaways (had 3) . The original Sauvage has more depth and is superior to modern Sauvage in my opinion . I will make it a point to save 1 bottle and cut down on use as it looks like you cant get these anymore.