Description
The popular edition, characteristic and recognizable by name and illustrations of yellow sunflower on the outer packaging – Sunflowers from 1993, Elizabeth Arden is refreshing by a new summer edition, successor called Sunflowers Dream Petals. 19 years after Sunflowers edition, a new, fresh scent of summer in a bottle was presented and is available in travel retail stores.
Sunflowers Dream Petals is composed of fresh and luminous mandarin and green apples notes. The refreshing opening continues with a floral heart composed of gardenia and velvety roses, while a base features a fine trail of cedar and sensual musk.
Sunflowers Dream Petals is available in a glass flacon shaped like the original Sunflowers edition, while outer carton is colored in white and orange – with sunflowers illustrations. The fragrance can be obtained as 100 ml.
Sunflowers Dream Petals was launched in 2012.
RamzesUA – :
A rosy musky floral with no apple scent to it, at least on me. A nice perfume, reminds me of the 90’s floral perfumes.
Prus – :
I guess I forgot to leave a review on this when I bought it last year. I bought this at Winners for $12.99 for a 100 mls bottle. It’s nice and all but that’s about al you can say about it. Which I hate to say because I love Elizabeth Arden-from skincare to makeup to perfume all across the board I love Arden so having a mediocre perfume is sucky lol i mean, if you are looking for something light floral and just kind of Easy for daily work type wear this will due
nejerkos – :
This is probably the least exciting of the flankers…a nondescript floral with the juicy citrus bits cut out…
Hauplispjup – :
Non ero molto affezionato a questo profumo. Ho sempre pensato che fosse troppo muschiato e dolce. Mia madre mi ha regalato l’intera collezione di Sunflowers di Elizabeth Arden. Ho amato gli altri due, l’originale e Summer Bloom, molto più di questo.
In primavera, spruzzerei così tanto Dream Petals per sbarazzarmene velocemente (che logica!). La mia stanza ne odorava. Il tempo in cui ero in una relazione, piuttosto tossica, questo era il profumo che indossavo ogni volta che parlavo con lui. Questo profumo è più del muschio e della dolcezzo, è l’ansia e l’euforia che ho provato quando mi ha detto che lui amava me e quando ero arrabbiato con me.
L’ho spruzzato un paio di volte e tutti i ricordi mi hanno colpito, non ci piove.
Ho imparato ad apprezzarlo di più, anche se non è il mio preferito, penso che sia perfetto da indossare in estate. È un profumo dolce perfetto per chi ama la vaniglia, le rose e il muschio.
Shermi – :
* These are my personal experiences/thoughts with this fragrance. Yours/others may differ. *
Initial – rose + gardenia + citrus
Drydown – musk + rose + gardenia + cedar
Duration – 6-7 hours
Projection – soft
Experiences – Best suited to cooler weather (spring/autumn). Citrus note is of the blink-and-you-miss-it variety. Overall, nice musky floral.
Quick Thoughts – casual, cozy, musky, floral, creamy
IL-IT – :
My review got cut off. Anyway, I’m excited to see that someone had associations to Coty’s Ex.cla.ma.tion (sp?) and someone mentioned Rose Ispahan by Yves Rocher. I’ve tested/borrowed both from others but never owned either, so now I’m really excited to own and begin to wear Dream Petals. I’ve also owned Pure White Linen, I just don’t want to shell out on it right now. So if Dream Petals smells like even a bit like any of those three fragrances on me, then I’ll be very happy
Update: I opened my new bottle this morning and after a 30 second blast of isopropyl alcohol which my EA Summer Bloom doesn’t have, Dream Petals is as fresh in the top as I remember it being when I tested Dream Petals last year. The top is a soft freshness on me, not sparkly like Summer Bloom, but differences is a good thing.
123765 – :
I tested this one last year and wrote a review. I’ll re-post the end of that review at the botttom of this review. Last year I accidentally grabbed Summer Bloom instead.
I finally bought SF Dream Petals. For the most part the fragrance is as I remember but last year it was the apple note and a very crisp apple note that met me in the opening. Today, and it was a sweet mandarin opening but still fresh/creamy, not as sparkly as I remember. I don’t know if it matters that I’d been hot and uncomfortable in a meeting at the bank first and I’d raced over to the store. I’ll update this review if the sparkly opening I remember appears at a later date.
Last year, 2016 I wrote: Petals is fresh and sparkly on me. Fruity in a fresh,sparkly, not sweet, warm way (which bloom sort of is on me) and I think this one is safe for most to wear and any place, any time. If I find Petals next year, I’ll buy it.
Something in the base is coming off as a vanilla note on me, which I like. I’m just surprised vanilla isn’t in the notes. I wonder which note would come off as vanilla though?
Anyway, reading through other comments I saw that some compared it to Coty’s Ex.cla.ma.tion (sp?) which I only tested/borrowed back then, but never owned and the same goes for Ispahan so for the Ispahan comparison alone, I’m excited that I bought Dream Petals.
It’s a soft, warm, sweetness that I detect for the first 15 minutes now, but nothing that bothers me. The rest of the fragrance is how I remember it.
Within ½ an hour I’ve reached the middle notes and that’s a very cozy gardenia, soft rose scent to me. Safe and for DK Kr.125/Euros16/US$18 for 100ml, that’s very cheap by Danish standards. So it’s worth the money to me.
I can wear the last 40-50 ml I have left of Summer Bloom when it’s very warm, but I see myself wearing Dream Petals for a longer time of the year, from Spring and into early Fall.
alex_nik – :
I just got this at Marshalls and it smells soft and comfy close to the skin type floral. I had to get it upon first spritz.
seriik – :
I thought it was going to be floral but it wasn’t. It’s too generic like so many perfumes nowadays- either too loud and sweet or too deep and creamy. It was one of those creamy types.
MOIRIOPAS – :
Really nice, I smell a dominant musk w/slight crisp fruit and fresh floral/rose. Best for daytime and I use this most in the warmer months. This is an easy go anywhere, do anything, everyday, all season scent, IMHO. A great throw on and get the crap out of the house scent, if you like a sweet floral musk. One of my most worn perfumes of the last 2 spring/summer’s.
This may have actually overtaken Green Tea as my favorite Elizabeth Arden perfume…yeah, maybe tbd…
participator – :
Smells like Lazy Sunday Morning, but better.
It’s less plastic. Apart from that the scent are totally similar
voenpens – :
I think this is nice a powdery rose. Pretty.
Elizabeth Arden fragrances are generally well
liked by me. Most people I ever gifted anything
from E.A. to liked her fragrances as well.
nowlancelay – :
Elizabeth Arden Sunflower dream is not very good for me the perfume .The musk is very overwhelming and very loudly . If we compare with perfume of Victoria Beckham intimatly yours. The musk into Victoria Beckham perfume sounds very tender and soft , realy lovely . The musk into Elizabeth Arden perfume sounds very overwhelming and very sweet .The perfume is very simple for me , it is everything about the musk only . If you like the musk you can to buy it , but I advise for you sample it on the shop first . Do not buy without testing . Like for me , I would never said , it is Elizabeth Arden perfume because it is too simple and nothing special at all . The best perfumes of Elizabeth Arden are Red door , 5th Avenue , Beauty , True love and Splendor . That perfume is not the best from Elizabeth Arden collection . In my mind it looks like house of Elizabeth Arden made that perfume ” in hurry “
umka – :
I tested this one today and I was going to buy it but due to a distracting phone call, I grabbed Bloom by accident, but I got to try this one on one wrist and Petals would probably be my 1st choice. It has a green note that had me worried at first because that doesn’t seem to go with my skin chemistry; no one likes green notes on me, but that quickly faded which is a good or bad thing depending on how you feel about green notes but the same fragrance can also perform differently on different people. I know I keep repeating things like this on all my reviews. I just think I need to put up this disclaimer.
Petals is fresh and sparkly on me. Fruity in a fresh,sparkly, not sweet, warm way (which bloom sort of is on me) and I think this one is safe for most to wear and any place, any time. If I find Petals next year, I’ll buy it. This year, I’ll just sample it whenever I see a tester bottle!:P
david55555 – :
Today I tested this scent, I sprayed it on my wrists, behind my ears and in my cleavage and then I went on shopping.
At first I loved the smell, it was a fresh rose scent and I love roses! But after an hour I couldn’t smell it anymore. I had an appointment at my skintherapist and I asked her if she smelled anything, but she didn’t smell anything either, so this weak longevity is really a huge dissapointment. I am so glad that I tested this scent, because buying it, would have been a waste of my money.
I am already on my fourth bottle of the original Sunflowers. That scent has superb longevity and a huge sillage and smells totally different, so Dream Petals really reminds me in no way of the original.
kolobokSV – :
As soon as I sprayed this, although I had never tried this scent before, it reminded me of something I had been wearing recently. It took me a while to figure out, but now I realize it has a lot of the same notes as Pure White Linen, which I love and wear pretty regularly. Both have top notes of green apple and mandarin orange; both have heart notes of rose and gardenia; both have cedar as a base note. Pure White Linen is a more complex scent with many more notes, and it does not have the musk base note, apparently, that Sunflowers Dream Petals has. I’m enjoying Sunflowers Dream Petals; it is much less expensive than PWL too ($10 at a discount store for 3.3 oz. EDT).
apol340 – :
If you love the discontinued Yves Rocher Rose Ispahan, this is a lighter version.
55374755 – :
This is a pleasing enough, as Mooniq say’s envelopingly nice as harlight in Swedish means nicely around, like the sun one’s skin when it’s cold out and the warmth feels ever so well ‘harligt, sorry I haven’t got the right a letter here on this keyboard. It’s a skin scent and I agree not loud, just caressingly soft.
THe gardenia is linear and ever present, the musk faint, the rose very faint, the apple faint but juicy crisp. For and EDT this lasts quite long on my skin. The overall impression I receive from this is like being in a garden in Autumn, mid to late autumn. The flowers all doing their best to eke out the season. The colours and fullness of Zinnia’s and Dahlia’s planted alongside Black Velvet Roses.
This was worth the effort in searching this one down, it is nothing like the original, but this I see and smell as a good thing. I paid 20. aussie dollars for this 100 mill flacon which is the same design as the original. I agree with it’s namesake. It is dreamy. Just like a lazy autumn day full of yellowing sunshine and moist petals from fat flowers filling a colourful garden bed in the afternoon.
Cheers T.
cepreu – :
For those who love musk, it’s the right fragrance for you. Musk is soooo dominant here. I can smell rose a little bit. My husband love it.The lasting power is about 4 hours in my skin. I like it, but not my favorite from EA house.
Vinchenso777 – :
I was so disapponted with this one! I love the original Sunflowers and expected something more from Dream petals, since Sunflowers is so unique- but it was completely plain with no originality whatsoever…It’s very light, with no character, and even so-it’s not “nice” or pretty enough for keeps…Reminds me of Pure from DKNY- but as a sort of much lighter,not- fully- there-version.
Delis – :
01. november 2012
Tested it, while was on a trip to London and i even didn´t know it existed before.
Thanks God it is not the same as the original, which i can´t stand (very different by the way, it´s just the name they have in common), but on the other hand it is a very ordinary scent as well. To me is smelled more as a gardenia with musk and light rosy undertone. So you see, the pyramide that my nose smelled is a different one from what a user Mooniq below detected. It is indeed a great one for an everyday use, very easy to use even for those ones who can´t stand gardenia much. It has a soft sillage and the lasting power is poor, but for the price it is ok. You can´t go wrong with this one, but i am not sure i would use it during the summer, more on a chilly autumn day, that´s when it “sounds” better, i think.
PetyMighteye – :
This is a very fresh rosy & musky scent. Great for every-day-use. Stays like a whisper around you, not loud or sharp or edgy at all. I can’t detect any applenote nor citrusnote here, but its a great scent with lots of musk with roses and a small splash of Gardenia.
Superhärlig och väldigt fräsch ros & muskig doft. Perfekt som varje-dag-doft. Som en viskning runt dig, inte högljudd, inga skarpa eller tunga doftnoter alls. Jag kan inte urskilja någon äpplenot, inte heller någon citrusnot. En suverän doft med rejält av musk och rosor och en dutt Gardenia.
fial16 – :
i want to try this.hope it is different from the original one-with floral notes.