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SunshineBells – :
I initially bought this to add the pretty pink vintage bottle to my collection, and in the process met another perfume to love! This is stunning, fairly soft but spicy, smoky beauty that smells wonderful right now as the temperatures are plummeting. I want to spritz a big sweater with it and pull it on over my head, and just enjoy it lingering in my hair. This is a perfume that smells like the bottle looks, from another time, almost otherworldly in its style of beauty.
matvei331 – :
I found a bottle of this buried in a thrift shop, my bottle is from 1972 and in a bottle Avon calls Royal Apple. The bottle I have is completely full and the scent, though I have never had the pleasure to experience until last weekend may be a bit thin from age it is lovely nonetheless. I decanted a bit into a spray bottle (the bottle I bought is a splash) and spritzed some on this morning. Five hours later, the scent is still present, the spicy/smoky notes are still there though getting a bit softer. I love this perfume, I’m so glad I snagged it when I saw it!
amemiSkarne – :
This was MY perfume in the early 70s. I sprayed some on my middle daughter today and she said it reminded her of autumn leaves. Someone on a thread I started about Elusive once said they found it to be a ‘woody chypre’ and that’s how it smells to me too.
I’ve found that it smells completely different in warmth or cold. Wearing it outside in the winter, I smell more flowers and it smells sweeter.
edit: Wearing Elusive for the first time in months today, and I’ll be darned it if isn’t spicy. How could I not have noticed that before? All I knew was, it smelled wonderful. A spicy-woody chypre. 🙂
volchok.jr – :
I still love Elusive. It is an elegant light spicy scent, IMO. I would not hesitate to wear it anywhere I wouldn’t dare wear jeans (designer or otherwise).
I just bought a full 1/4 oz of PERFUME in a teeny bottle shaped like a bird or dove. The owner says his mother sold Avon in 60’s and 70’s, and when she passed, recently, he discovered cartons of Avon in a backyard storage shed which for decades had sheltered the bottles’ contents in the searing heat of south Texas. Every perfume bottle I sniffed was still true to the scents as I remember them. Maybe a bit “thinner” version of the original, but definitely vintage Avon. I have fond memories of vintage Avon perfumes.
rabota – :
very strong long lasting spicy oriental aroma which is in delicate small pink roll perfumed oil bottle. at this time – it’s rare thing