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Anaeneini – :
Do you need a shower to get rid of this perfume? That is usually the case with Avon.
раш – :
I love it too. Classy, dressy. and I’ve several bottle in my store. A gal’s Mom sold Avon from the late 50s to the early 70s. What treasures, Please bring the elegance and civility back with these fragrances.
ser1976 – :
I quite like this! I bid on a songbird bottle of this on accident, thinking it was Occur, so I was mad at myself when I wound up winning, but it was cheap at least. When I saw that people rate it as smelling similar to Cabochard, I figured I’d hate it, but then again, I’ve only smelled the current formulation of that. My bottle of Unforgettable reminds me very much of the smell of old books, and that’s definitely a good thing! Though it’s not something I’d wear all over, I will certainly enjoy a small amount applied to the backs of my hands or what have you as a novelty. I think it would also be nice layered with a bit of something sweet-spicy.
CTAHgAPT – :
Test 2: This sample is from a circa 1963 dram bottle ( glass cylinder with a brass screw-top) of perfume in the cutest box. The box design shows a woman’s face on a sun/flower shape that wraps half the box with a corner of the box in the center of the face. The box has raised pattern of colored paisleyish embellishments that is very tactile and the whole thing is reminiscent of the art of Mary Blair.
The perfume is much nicer than the 1964 .5 ounce cologne. It is wearable and reminds me of the original Miss Dior perfume (in the Baccarat amphora bottle); a musky chypre. Really nice but I agree with the previous reviewer that it does have a really sharp note. Could it be musk?
Overall really nice. Look for these early 1960’s Avon perfume drams in the glass lipstick-tube shaped cylinders, especially if they are boxed, to get a really good idea of what made these bestsellers. The bottles of Rapture, Occur, and Unforgettable that I got in this line were really nice. Somewhere was also nice but I wasn’t super crazy about it’s piney notes (cedar and balsam).
elompohombofs – :
Something about this perfume makes me feel scared. I think it reminds me of my grandmother.
Very strong chypre that dries down to a sorta powder smell on me. The beginning reminds me of Aromatics Elixir by Clinique, but sharper.
karta – :
I bought a .5 ounce bottle of the cologne in a “snowflake” bottle (circa 1964). I tested it on a slip of acid-free resume paper. I wear a lot of vintage Guerlain, Chanel, and other French perfumes and vintage Guerlain colognes but I am a little shy about actually wearing old Avon cologne on my body.
Unforgettable is a really strong chypre fragrance. It has a real mid-century vibe and I suspect it may be a copy of another popular fragrance from that time. I discovered Avon Rapture is a copy of Mitsouko but I am not sure what other fragrances Unforgettable smells like. I get oak moss and a little peach and some other stuff like sandalwood or myrrh.
I see a lot of vintage Avon fragrances that are listed as “perfume oil”. I am also a little uncertain about buying those since I am not sure about what kind of “oil” was used to manufacture them. I feel more comfortable with vintage colognes since they are alcohol based. I find vintage Guerlain colognes in the montre flacon/watch bottle are reliably good and wearable. Unfortunately Avon made a cheaper product and right out of the bottle the cologne smells pretty awful. Putting a few drops on the acid-free paper and letting it sit a while and dry out worked well for getting a sense of the smell. Reminds me of the 1960’s smell of the ladies at church on Sunday when everyone is crowding the door trying to shake the preacher’s hand on the way out.
kubrik – :
I found this in it’s original box at a thrift store. It’s strong, and I’m not sure it’s exactly to my liking. I love a strong perfume, so I’ll likely try it at some point. Just sniffing the sprayer though, I can tell it does have a strong leather note. It has that vintage perfume smell, in the style that was popular in that era. Reminds me of Estee Lauder Youth Dew, not that they smell alike, but both have that vintage smell to me.
koerm – :
My mother had the pink rubbery bottle in the early 70’s. Just holding the bottle alone made you feel like a princess. Almost like a Fabergé creation. The perfume was long gone but back in those days you kept your Avon bottles as ornaments on your dressing table. The porcelain cat and bell. She still has the bell. They don’t make such creations like that anymore. Unforgettable indeed…
sOSo – :
My Mom bought a bottle of this perfume right before it was discontinued (sometime in the 1980’s?)and we shared it.
The carnation made me sneeze a little, but overall this was a VERY strong, warm, mossy and sexy leather-dominant fragrance, which I think could also be worn by men.
Sillage and longevity were incredible. We only had a small bottle, but when Mom passed away in 1999 there was a little bit remaining, which I used up that year.
vfj787Bessinepome – :
Found a mini bottle of this Cologne at the Thrift store (too bad not the perfume) and it’s actually quite nice. Top notes smell chemical but wait…the dry down is soft, maybe sophisticated, a little mysterious – a warm floral tempered with oakmoss and leather. I love carnation and orange so this works for me. Longevity about 4 hours, Sillage moderate. Use a light hand with this and you’ve got yourself a beautiful little bargain of a fragrance!
grh – :
I never even heard of this Avon fragrance But I Do LOVE The Bottle it looks like something from the Turn of the Century that was Released from the AVON Vault…I would get it JUST for That Bottle ALONE!
Felikson – :
And how stunning is that! This vintage bottle suits to a superb juice. I had in past two so similar to “Unforgettable”, but muuuuch more expensive juices – vintage Miss Balmain and Jacques Fath’s Ellipse. Both with super-strong personality, but I must tell you this fragrance is not far behind. Makes you feel polished, trimmed, chin up and go-ahead look. Mossy animalic leather, unapologetic at the start, as whole lot of 60-70-s formulas, “no-need for giggling” mode. But what happens next is a pure perfumery-magic – darkness dissolves and it is a dance of elegant cool florals, that live and act and breath together with you, yet soft leather touch at the base always remains with you, it is seriously beautiful complicated fragrance.
Another Avon keeper to me, now I really determined to find out what else is hidden at the bottom-time of Avon line.
P.S. Bought another 57 g cologne on next day, not in same bottle this time, yet for this heavenly drydown I might go for every single bottle I will see!
san4os60 – :
My sister loved wearing this perfume. I never understood why and totally forgot how it smelled. I was too enamored with Avon Occur and civet (though I’d never heard of civet). Tonight, I tested from a roll-on with different appreciation from bottle sent by a Fragrantican friend. It is, IMO, a very good scent, but the roll-on version wears too close to the skin. Still, I’m considering an ebay purchase since this is a chypre surprise with leather, which my teenage nose found strange. The leather note is not so strong that it overpowers, at all. Just an all over well blended fragrance.