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hmrtmw – :
Found some. Its on the way from the good ole USA. Birthplace of Avon. Theres a cologne mist, splash and 3 rollerballs. ebay delivers again!! Can’t wait. Our late beloved Mum used to do Avon and all I recall is the name of this fragrance. The real earthy ingredients are the prize and added bonus all laid in oakmoss oh my!!
Will update later….
deb1992 – :
My aunt sold Avon when I was a little girl and then some as junior hi started. My mother and I loved this one. Rose was her name and we are Irish on my maternal side. Grandfather’s people came from Dublin.-it smelled wonderful and was appropriate for any age: young girl or older ladies of any age. I wish Avon would bring back some its classics. They are sorely missed. Perhaps it was similar to Tea Rose but somehow it was better. Light and ethereal. Come back to me and do not let linear time stop you.
санек86 – :
I happened upon a small perfume oil at an estate sale. I was skeptical because I remember the white spray bottle with the plastic flower on top. I recall that version to be rather common and trite.
This is not the case with the original perfume oil. It goes on rather heavy with little fanfare as far as opening notes are concerned. Perhaps some fading citrus that grows weaker as the years go by? This another example of Avon demonstrating its talent as the powerhouse of the Mid-20th Century America.
One didn’t have to go out to the department store for these beauties, as they were brought to your home by smiling “Avon ladies”.
America had a middle class that must have smelled wonderful! To a Wild Rose delivers a soapy rich and genuine rose nestled in a woody, mossy bed resting on amber and musk. Its production must have been costly with real ingredients, yet it was marketed at a very reasonable price.
The rose includes the blossom, hip, leaves and thorny stem. There is even a little earthy note present. It is wrapped in vetiver and bitter oakmoss. It rests on a rich amber/musk base with some woody notes that bring to mind the rose thicket surrounding Sleeping Beauty’s castle.
It is truly a daydreamer’s indulgence and perfect to read a good novel or fairy tales to the kids, with a steaming cup of coffee nearby. Its elegant, comfortable and worth the hunt if you can find some. This oil last until your next shower.
lya-lay76 – :
Another vintage Avon baby, that stands out proudly among so many roses. Rose, surrounded by real, pure oak moss,(oh, bliss!) wild rose indeed, from a bewitched forest, dangerous, animalic and smouldering. It intrigues me, how sweet and lipsticky-inoffensive this rose seems to smell from the bottle, yet those transformations on the skin is something completely different. Wild rose with a secret, a daring one.
Zerocool – :
In the 1950’s I was fascinated by American based perfumes like Elizabeth Arden. Being a Brit, I was always seeking more exotic perfumes. I used to read fashion magazines from the US and would always wonder what American perfumes were like. I took a trip in 1953 and 1955 and then again 1957 to buy American products. I went into the Red Door salon on Fifth Avenue. I came across a lady selling Avon products while I was staying in New York. A woman that sold perfumes door to door was not heard of in the UK.
Avon was a line I’d never heard of until about 1955. I ordered various unusual Avon perfumes that were shaped like sea horses, snails, a horse-drawn carriage, and a peacock. To a Wild Rose was shaped like a hand held mirror and indeed it was a mirror. It reminded me of the Magic Mirror in Beauty and the Beast. At the time the only Beauty and the Beast movie was the French live version by Cocteau. I really loved that it looked like a mirror as I’d never seen anything like it. Quite charming! I still have this perfume in my old Avon collection.
This perfume smells of pretty red and pink colored roses. They are not roses in a decorative bouquet or even roses in vases inside a home. They are “wild roses” so they smell more natural and outdoorsy like rose bushes in a forest. This smells of beautiful roses and for days. My nose also detects the scent of a light citrus, possibly bergamot orange and an apple. The Fragrantica editors and administrators have the note listed as “Sweet Notes” but they are fruit notes of citrus courtesy of orange and an apple, both fruit flavored fragrances are similar to the smell of roses. Apples are part of the rose family so it’s no surprise that this smells of apple. The citrus gives it a sweet and refreshing air.
The green notes are greenery typically found in rose bushes and rose leaves. Very green, a garden, or a greenhouse. The green notes and the rose-citrus-apple remind me of Tea Rose by The Perfumers Workshop. However unlike Tea Rose this fragrance had a dry down of puere oak moss. The oak moss was pretty strong at the end and it smelled like burnt moss, warm, resinous, Oriental. I do love oak moss in my perfumes so I enjoyed it immensely.
Such a pity this perfume doesn’t exist anymore. I wish that everyone could experience some long lost perfumes that should find their way back to us somehow. The closest thing to this is Tea Rose by Perfumers Workship and layered with a heavy oak moss scent. Beautiful. It was my first Avon perfume.