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Elenca – :
Ariane is a beautiful very sweet scent
I have both the spray bottle and dab on bottle. I’ve had it in my collection for years and they’re still good. By 2017 standards this fragrance is pretty old fashioned, it’s an aldehyde, floral, powdery and mature but quite wearable if you ask me. This opens with aldehydes that are not overpowering. The scent of cinnamon is noticeable followed by white florals of jasmine and lily of the valley, and iris. The iris is powdery and strong, inky, sweet, and quite fresh.
As it dries it turns woodsier with sandalwood and has some green notes of vetiver. This smells a bit like Shalimar Parfum Initial to me. Not saying that it’s 100 percent the same but it has a similar feel. If you like Shalimar Parfum Initial and wear it this would be just as easy for you to wear. Feminine, powdery, cosmetic, fragrant, and casual, relaxed, cool. Smells of clean flowers. The pink pepper note is also quite nice, spicy but not overpowering.
Feels good smells good and great for spring!
Лизуня – :
Fragrance Review For Ariane
Avon
Top Notes
Aldehydes Bergamot Peach Coriander Rosewood Pink Pepper
Middle Notes
Carnation Rose Jasmine Ylang Ylang Orchid Lily of the Valley Orris Root
Base Notes
Cinnamon Benzoin Sandalwood Vetiver Musk
Vintage Miniature Glass Bottle Dab On .25 Fl Oz Perfume
My impression was that this was a rather unusual fragrance for the 70’s when one thinks about how many ‘green’ frags were out there – Chanel No 19 Charlie and Givenchy III. This was not a green floral but a straight up aldehyde floral. It has a sweet and cool, powdery iris mingling with sandalwood that almost goes into Samsara territory. Some notes they share include peach, jasmine, iris, sandalwood. This is an elegant, polite lady-like perfume; simultaneously refreshing and powdery in it’s aroma, totally a boudoir ‘keep her in your bathroom’ type of scent. Great for after a shower and to wear daily for your work place. It reminds me of those 1980’s (not 70s) perfumes that match up with the make up cosmetic in a handbag smell. I like that from time to time. Smells like nail polish. Very feminine and simple without any heavy greens or musks or incense. A pretty perfume.
Opens with aldehydes which are hard to miss. Aldehydes. Then it seems to smell of sweet passing fruit like bergamot but mostly peach. It’s cool and fresh when it opens. This is my favorite part. Then it does smell of flowers, definitely white flowers like jasmine and a white carnation with little green touches here and there. Iris and ylang that pairs up nicely with the peach. The flowers are inviting and very powdery soft. It reminded me a bit of L’Air du Temps by Nina Ricci so I went a step further and layered it with L’Air and o my what a great match. This is a sweet bath water type of scent. I want to buy more of this stuff for my bath water and to swim in it. Very retro and old school but so lovely.
In the dry down I experienced vetiver and sandalwood, a very nice and quite prominent sandalwood. There are some notes that are quite dominant and some notes that do not appear at all. I don’t get any cinnamon or orchid. I get sandalwood and the flowers over it and the aldehydes-peach. Ariane is perfectly suited to day time business wear like suits and blouses, white dresses. It’s clean and fresh, and sweet. If you like aldehyde florals and vintage Avon, as well as L’Air du temps this is for you.
Ariane is available on eBay.
magiurka – :
I have this fragrance in a rollerball and initially, it is not appealing but once it dries down, it has a very feminine and mature scent. I like it but I guess it’s reformulated already by now based on ther reviews here.
Imidelicimim – :
Poochkeepoo is correct, Avon used cheap ingredients for this and they have turned very quickly. I have various perfume bottles from the 1940s which are fine, the problem is Ariane, not vintages in general. I do recommend anyone to buy this.
murzilka1107 – :
Ariane sure smelled nice back in the day…I was a teen.
My best advice for those of us seeking to find a fragrant piece of the past… is fairly simple. Do not!
And I REALLY mean… do NOT.
You well may ‘find’ this fragrance of the ‘past’ for purchase…online somewhere…somehow…however…
… this fragrance is not currently being produced…. so all you will get for your hard earned cash is…
a very old fragrance…which will prove quite offensive to your pretty little snout… for the shelf life of all fragrances at their peak…are very short…and spoil tremendously over time.
Please ‘remember’ this tiny tidbit…when searching the internet for any and all of those fragrances of yesteryear….for they simply do ‘not’ exist!
HAClinton – :
One of my two favorite Avons, the other being Emprise. Ariane is soft, floral, with a radiance uncommon in today’s perfumery. Is that the aldehydes? I detect no carnation in this, I’m somewhat sensitive to carnation, but there is a slight spiciness which might be the cinnamon? There’s enough other components to keep it from being too floral. I have a cream version of this I bought maybe 13 years ago. It’s lovely, and I like it better than my Ariane edts.
naloxon maksimovich – :
I got the 7,5 ml perfume for christmas from my auntie… its the vintage bottle from 77-80 … such a high quality…still an oldstyle beauty!!!! Wood, carnation, coriander, cinnamon..jasmin… lady like… classy… LOVE from LOUVE
Soldat_80 – :
I remember this one back in the late 70s early 80s. My friend’s mother introduced this to me, I can’t remember if she sold Avon or she was helping a friend who sold Avon, but she was always bringing the brochures over to our house to show my mother and talk her into a purchase or two.
Barb was sure I would love this and she was right I did. She went so far as getting this for me as a christmas gift. I rememeber it being a lovely slightly sharp floral, though I don’t remember much musk to it. I felt so grown up and sophisticated when I wore this.
I can almost conjure up in my mind how it smelled and it makes me think of this kind lady who treated me just like I was one of her own.
justin – :
I loved in the 80’s and would love to find something to compare it to now.
feezz – :
When my sister was selling Avon back in the early 1980’s, I bought a small bottle of this perfume, mainly because it was from France and I was being a snob lol.
I guess I am not a huge fan of lightweight florals/aldehydes, because while I liked Ariane, I had no desire to buy another bottle. When I wore it I felt like I was pretending to be some yuppie chick, and that’s just not me. It was just TOO “classy”. I never detected the carnations, otherwise I would have sneezed.
This was a lovely scent in a cool, refreshing “springtime air” way, and if I found a bottle at a tag sale I might buy it for nostalgia, but I really do prefer my heavy gourmands.
ддедегор – :
Disappointed because I got a bad bottle on ebay and it smelled bad liked it turned.
dyessysipseni – :
How strange. I really used to like this in the 80s. A reviewer below says it’s heavy on the carnation but I couldn’t smell any at all, I wouldn’t have been able to stand it otherwise.
It’s nice to see it here.
Waidostetat – :
It was my favorite perfume by Avon during the early ’80s. I haven’t found any other scent which even comes close to its floral beauty and elegance.
sdrnkq – :
A cool aldehydic floral, very heavy on the carnation. Quite nice.