This Joy bottle is certainly a curious thing. It is not a genuine Jean Patou bottle. It is a clever fake from the 1940s-1950s. During this time, Joy and Chanel No. 5 were the top two most commonly faked perfumes and various bottles were used to deceive. The counterfeiters often put a small amount of genuine, but highly diluted perfume inside of these bottles. I have seen several different bottles used that are fakes.
As it was billed as "the most expensive perfume in the world", Jean Patou was extremely insistent that Joy be packaged in luxury flacons, hence the reason why he chose Baccarat for the cut crystal flacon, the small black "snuff" bottle for small amounts and the usual crystal flacon which hasn't changed much since the 1930s.
This bottle looks heavy, thick and not of great quality like the usual Patou flacons. It looks like it has some tiny bubbles in the glass? The bottling factory used by Patou would not have used such a substandard bottle in packaging the world's most expensive perfume. It goes against the restraints of luxury and this is not something Patou would have allowed. I have seen other fake bottles of Joy over the years, but not of this shape.
I was even entertaining the idea that perhaps Patou was using a different flacon during a time of bottle shortages, perhaps during WWII, but I just cannot find any evidence to support that theory, nor can I find evidence of this bottle being used by any other company. It is a shame that there are no markings on the bottle.
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