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ivan57 – :
Fragrance Review For Anne of Avonlea
By Ravenscourt Apothecary
Notes
Ylang Ylang Lavender Mandarin
“After all,” Anne had said to Marilla once, “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables.
First of all I want to say I’m a huge fan of the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne of Avonlea is the name of this fragrance and it’s a tribute to that most beloved red-haired Canadian free spirit in all literature. Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote the Anne of Green Gables novels back in the 1900’s turn of the century when it was rare for women to be recognized as novelists and where the protagonist was a female. Anne is a little orphan girl who is adopted by older siblings and Aunt Marilla runs a farm with a little house of green colored gables near the town of Avonlea. This location exists on Prince Edward Island one of the most charming little islands off Nova Scotia in Canada. The Disney Channel TV series Avonlea was filmed there as well as the Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea movies. This was a perfume I had to have being such a fan! The romantic and down to earth sweet Anne who gives up a career in the city in order to live with her beloved Marilla and help her out with the farm and to settle down with Gilbert Blythe. Ah, if only live could be such a sweet novel.
The fragrance to me is more like a scent that would have been common in the 1900 to 1912 period. It’s not complex and has no top middle or base notes. It’s 3 simple nots of ylang ylang lavender and mandarin orange. The notes are all there at once. It’s like a little household product in a little farm house on Prince Edward Island, a little refreshing scented oil in the cupboard of Aunt Marilla’s home or any family home on Avonlea. This is a sweet buttery yellow cream and foam. It reminded me of mandarin orange scented foamy hand soap. The previous reviewer compared it to lemon cream and it does smell like that. It’s exactly like a lemon cream which can be added to a lemon pie. It’s floral with lavender, just a little bit spicy, and yet fresh and cool. It’s also a bit like aftershave. It’s like a good body skin face cream product. The lavender is standing out but all notes are equally as noticeable. I love the yellow ylang flower. It’s like a little ylang blooming in the sun on the island. It’s dainty and not heavy at all as a floral. The mandarin is sweet and delicious.
I am in love with this little perfume. I am so glad I bought it. I’m actually staying at the Dalvay by the Sea hotel in Prince Edward Island overlooking the sea, the hotel that was feared in the Anne of Avonlea and Avonlea series – referred to in the series as the White Sands Hotel. This is a little Victorian household fragrance of absolute charm. I’m going to have to check out the other Ravenscourt Apothecary fragrances. If they are as simple easy to wear and evocative of literary characters then I’m going for it. Can’t wait to try some of the others.
Sillage: Moderate, probably about arm’s length or detected up close to the skin.
Longevity: I wish this lasted longer! It smells great but it’s on me for about 4 hours and that’s not enough time for me. Smells great!
Unisex as these notes are all very easy to wear whether you’re a man or woman: citrus and lavender/ylang. Nothing either aggressively masculine or overly feminine about this scent.
This is also best worn in spring and summer.
Федор Матвеевич – :
The scent from the bottle is a bright citrus with a sweet tone of lavender, notice I said sweet not herbaceous, lavender can tread that very thin line and Anne does it beautifully. On first application the mandarin blasts with a sweet citrusy Ray if sunshine, to my nose it smells like a mix of lemon and mandarin without any bitterness. After a short while a slightly floral note peeks through, making the bright ray of sunshine into a glow rather than being so harsh. The ylang-ylang is really well blended and just makes the composition very creamy, making it almost smell like a slightly floral lemon cream. The lemon cream note doesn’t last that long before the ylang-ylang completely takes over, but even then it treads gently, slowly walking towards the field of lavender. This is when I end up repeating myself, the lavender at the base doesn’t come anywhere close to being herbaceous, it stays sweet and ladylike, read: not saccharine just sweet. Totally worth trying out, Ravenscourt is a lovely company too, with a whole list of literary inspired scents, if you can try out some samples as there are too many good options in their stock list.