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troy789159 – :
How my perceptions and opinions have changed since my youth. I never had Wing Song then, but as common as it was, had many chances to smell it on others. In the 80s in extreme rural Minnesota, you only had so much to choose from, so this became one of the few scents I’d regularly be following a trail of through the hallways at school. Every time back then I thought to myself “Bugspray!” I thought stinkier perfume probably did not exist, at that point. So I went out of my way to avoid it, and usually ended up making fun of it when I couldn’t get away from it. Anyway, I grew up and thankfully put it out of my mind, always chuckling a bit when I was in Wal-Mart and see it sitting there way down on the bottom shelf of the perfume aisle. I thought, how can they continue to make this stuff year after year, no one really buys it, much less wears it, right?! Fast forward to 6 months ago, after reading someone’s very well-done positive review on the cheap little perfume I called Bugspray. That review made me curious enough to plunk down a few dollars next time I was out, and picked up the Wind Song body spray. Once home and preparing to head for the shower immediately if needed, I spritzed just on the wrists to get my bearing. I took a sniff, blinked, and sniffed again. Hmm, what’s going on here…it seems like a lot, it’s complicated, but I notice some spice in there that’s really interesting: carnation and cloves. I realized I was smelling the same exact thing I’d smelled a long time ago, but my perception of it was changing. Now that I see what the individual notes are, read the history of it, I’d go as far as saying it’s rather pleasant now. I’ve come to appreciate vintage perfumes a lot, and in spite of whatever reformulation it’s had, it still puts me in that vintage state of mind. It’s been a long time since I’ve been this pleasantly surprised about a perfume!
FoxMaxnet3 – :
I think I am the only person that doesn’t think this and L’Air du Temps smell alike. I have L’Air du Temps but would trade for a nice bottle of Wind Song.
To me, Wind Song is fresh, feminine, and a lot more youthful than L’Air du Temps.
Wind Song is right up to date to my nose. It doesn’t smell vintage or old, but of todays time. I love it! I even think the name is dreamy.
I must fulfill this desire to have this since fall is on its way!
saw – :
Wind Song: it’s an ill wind that blows. Sharply chemical, it’s thin and a touch sour. Very cheap smelling. On me it started sharp and stayed sharp for hours. It stayed on, period – I had to scrub to get the smell off. And yet there’s still a hint of it left on my skin, a memory of the sharpness but maybe also a hint of musk? According to the ingredient list there’s orris root in Wind Song. Maybe that accounts for the unpleasantness I detect, I’m not fond of orris. I couldn’t find a hint of sandalwood – a personal favorite.
I don’t get this fragrance. It may be wonderful on others but on me it reeked. As much as I dislike calling some scent “old lady” like, the term fits for Wind Song.
Weeks after I wrote this review I received a tiny bottle of the pure perfume. The concentration of the scent does make a difference, it’s not as sour but still not great. If I absolutely had to, I’d wear a few drops of the pure stuff, but the edt is right out.
drug_N – :
I can’t seem to forget you …your wind song stays on my mind… and in an enclosed room for hours…on my skin for days… and on my clothes for weeks. And man is this stuff rank. Like powdery floral scented embalming fluid created to disguise that funky smell that reminds us this is a formaldehyde based preservative used to pickle corpses. BLECH!
Ольчик22 – :
The scent that this perfume projects is much different than how it smells close to the skin. On me, it projects an overwhelming hairspray type smell. When I wear this I feel like I’m walking around in a cloud of hairspray. However, when I hold my wrist to my nose, it’s a beautiful floral bouquet. If it projected the same smell, I’d be in heaven. Unfortunately every time I have tried to wear it I end up showering within a few hours. I just cant handle the hairspray smell. Maybe it’s just me? Anyway, I have a full unboxed bottle if anyone wants it I will send it to them for free.
de_gizard – :
After trying both the cologne and the body spray, I have to say I prefer the body spray. For those who feel the cologne is too strong or medicinal, I suggest giving the matching body spray a try if you can find it.
Tyoba – :
Oh, how I remember this one from my childhood in the 70’s, and the commercial..”I can’t seem to forget you..Your Wind Song stays on my mind..” ..I used to make a little joke of it and say “your wind song stays on my mind because it is so stinky!!” :p 😉 Fast-forward a few decades, and knowing my tastes have not only changed, but many of these ‘vintages’ and ‘classics’ are not as potent and powerful as they once were..or pehaps has my nose gotten immune to strong scents..?
At any ate, yeah, I decided to purchase a bottle of this. I have in the past bought $200-$300+ bottles of perfume (just a few!!!), but oddly, I was balking at plunking down a mere $15.00+tax for a bottle of Wind Song. But plunk it down, I did. The boxes in the big box store do not even have cellophane wrap. Boo. But I opened that box soon as I got into my vehicle in the parking lot, and spritzed a spritz or two. At first I thought..nice trip down memory lane (my mom wore Wind Song a few times back then, and when you lose your mom, sometimes trips down memory lane mean more than anything). I did not think much of it, thought, well, a nice memory to remind me of mom, but not something I will wear….BUT….I got home, not even 10 minutes later, and when I was walking into the house, the light wind set off a lovely scent, I found that I could not stop sniffing my arm that I had spritzed with this! It softened greatly in those mere 10 minutes.
For me, to me, on me, this is more about the accords than the individual notes. Yes, this is definitely “different” in today’s world of candy yum-yums, fruitcholis and fruity florals. Definite vintage, unique scent. Probably won’t appeal to most young ‘uns, and that’s okay..I did not appreciate this, either, in my youth. But this is a nice change of pace for days I want something ‘different’ and vintage, and best of all, a reminder of mom..❤️❤️❤️
Mapkyc1 – :
Starts off smelling like fancy, slightly dusty soap that’s been sitting unused in a guest bathroom. Or perhaps vintage face powder. Then dries down to lovely subtle musk on my skin. Both comforting and comfortable – good for a lazy Sunday afternoon spent in bed.
ек жека – :
@Jillita: O.O is all I can say!
Pcgg – :
Wind Song, aka: The Second Time I Tried to Get My Grandma A Perfume.
I was a teenager and couldn’t afford to buy L’Air du Temps for my grandma, though I knew it was one of her favorite scents, along with Chanel 5, which I certainly couldn’t afford (and wrote about, here). And so I was very excited to sniff Wind Song in a drugstore because to seemed to be very close to LDT and yet was comfortably affordable. Just a couple of weeks of baby and dog sitting did the trick.
I bought the Wind Song and eagerly awaited giving it to grandma for her birthday.
Day came, and grandma opened the box and she looked sad. Because she was old school classy, and with a constant and genuine gratitude for the small things, learned from her Great Depression experiences, she simply said, “That was very thoughtful, dear, thank you.”
We said nothing more, being the types of people who pretended something uncomfortable didn’t just happen, but months later, I saw the Wind Song on her bathroom shelf, bottle full, gathering dust. I had to say something, solve the mystery.
I went to grandma and wrung my hands and rambled self consciously, “I’m sorry, I thought you loved L’air du Temps, and thought Wind Song smelled just like it.”
Grandma said, “They are very, very, similar.”
Me: “I really wanted to get you L’air du Temps, but I couldn’t afford it.”
Grandma: “Oh, I know dear, no, it was so sweet of you to buy me perfume and think of me!”
Me: “But you don’t like the Wind Song.”
Grandma looked sad again and said softly: “Oh, it’s not that. It’s just that it was the perfume your grandfather’s mistress used.”
Dmitriy Kornilov – :
It could be because of my own story with this scent, but to me it is both innocent and mature, soft but steady. This was the first perfume I ever had as a kid, and I assumed at the time that it must have been a “toy” perfume since I was a little kid wearing an inexpensive body spray. This is not the case! I had wanted to try it again for a while now, and with the rough week I was having decided this was the time to treat myself to a bottle. It is instant comforting nostalgia, but now that I have a more mature nose and can pick out notes, it also feels somewhat new and exciting. This must be where my love of carnation and coriander was born, as I detect them prominently here and generally love fragrances that incorporate them. It reminds me of springtime in the fifth grade, but feels perfectly appropriate for my life now as a young working woman, and I can’t imagine ever tiring of it.
xron – :
This is the first perfume I ever had. When I was age 8-10 (late 90s/early 00s), I went to my friend’s birthday party and among the goody bag items was a body spray spritzer. This is the one I received. I loved the smell of it, but my mother wouldn’t let me spray it much and always complained about how strong it was.
I didn’t realize it was such a classic. Don’t know if I would still like it, but I may have to pick up some again for nostalgia’s sake.
Update: I did follow through on my last sentence a few days ago and tried the body spray. I must say it doesn’t seem as potent as I remember from my childhood. Definitely a soapy clean scent that makes me feel I just stepped out of a nice long bath—like an instant shower. I still like it very much, but the smell does sometimes get “caught” in my throat if that makes sense. Perhaps when I finish the body spray I will try the actual perfume.
Pentax – :
Smells like a combination of topaze and L’air du Temps (which I love and hoped this might be a great dupe of) but it is way too soapy, like a sneezy soapy note which drives my sinuses insane. Very strong and long lasting, good quality. I gave it to my partners mum and she loves it so it didn’t get wasted.
еремейка73 – :
I was placing an order for a Guerlain decant online at Surrender to Chance and noticed they had vintage Wind Song. I ordered the smallest vial. There’s something only minutely different (to me) that is in the vintage and transports me to the 70s, when I began wearing it. But testing vintage on one arm and the current cologne spray on the other and WOW! After a few minutes there is absolutely no difference. I’m so glad that whoever owns Prince Matchabelli has retained the integrity of the Wind Song formula.
larka68 – :
My dad bought this for me when I was maybe 11-12 years old. I’ve noticed many men and women from his age group( born 1956) enjoy this or wore this. I think he may have dated a girl who wore this or L’ air du Temps. Its not my preference for a woodsy, green chypre type of scent but its not unpleasant either. There is a bit of hairspray smell but that doesn’t bother me actually. My aunt Mary gave me some Avon stuff like Sweet Honesty and Far Away that was more my taste back in 1995.
wxs466speagoessenda – :
Wind Song is the only fragrance which has ever made me physically gut-sick.
I think coriander is the reason. I checked the notes list of many perfumes that others really love but that are not pleasant to me and found that they all have just a little bit of coriander.
But Wind Song has a predominance of coriander and made me feel like I had food-poisoning.
So, trying to understand this reaction led me to interesting information – that a small percentage of people have the gene variant OR6A2, which makes them experience one aldehyde found in coriander as very unpleasant
(nature.com/news/soapy-taste-of-coriander-linked-to-genetic-variants-1.11398)
Further googling shows that some people even have immune system reactions to coriander – they are allergic to it
Celealkarge – :
I love Wind Song! I use it often to carry on that clean soapy smell from the shower…comforting and just plain clean! I don’t see why a lot call it “old lady” and “grandma”Most of the compliments I get when I wear it are from men and not “grandpa” men either, lol
Mexa – :
I recently blind bought a brand new bottle of Wind Song, and I didn’t care for it. I’ve never tried the vintage version. So, I can’t compare. However, the current version smells very harsh and medicinal on my skin. Another reviewer compared it to Carmex lip balm, and I’d have to agree. At least it wasn’t terribly expensive.
razka – :
Bought it on Amazon.com where I read positive reviews of the fragrance not to mention the reviews on this Fragrantica page. I’m enchanted with this perfume. Yeah it’s a drugstore cheapie and the packaging/design, the bottle, is nothing to go crazy over but it’s such a gorgeous scent. This is a spicy floral musk, old school, old fashioned in fact definitely from the post-War era (WWII, 1953) a vintage Golden Age classic. For vintage fans, this perfume’s in the same league as Chanel No 5 L’Air Du Temps and Chantilly. For me it’s a bit of a hybrid of all three of those scents. A fresh, clean, and spicy floral aroma for a confident lady.
Wind Song smells like an autumn breeze on a landscape, like an East Coast campus or Oxford in England. I visualize trees and lawns, old stone steps and old churches and libraries. It’s late September and the leaves have changed color and the winds have scattered them on the ground. The sunset is cool and the earliest sign of winter chill can be sensed. Opens with fresh citruses and neroli in place of aldehydes. The orange notes remind me only slightly of Shalimar but mainly of Chantilly with it’s citrus top notes that can get somewhat creamy like orange flavored gourmands. There’s also a nod to L’Air du Temps. The same notes in the formula for L’Air. But for whatever reason, Wind Song is a much darker, spicier, muskier creature. Definitely unisex and can be worn by males whereas L’Air is all female.
When the citruses have faded, the floral notes come through with detectable carnation, rose, jasmine and ylang-ylang. These flowers are not of the sweet heady kind but more of the chypre kind with a soapy air. This is similar to a really good luxurious bar of bath soap that you keep in it’s own special container on the bathtub. It’s more European bath than American bath (for American bath I always think of White Shoulders by Evyan). The flowery scents are quite nice if you happen to like carnation this is a very good white carnation scent and a good jasmine scent.
The dry down reveals a woodsy base with rich sandalwood and cedar wood. It has a ‘cottage’ smell like a clean newly built wooden house. This has some vetiver and green notes, very little but detectable unlisted moss and tarragon grass which to me is more prominent in the base/dry down stage. Some amber and musk give it a warmth and a glow. So beautiful. This also has a little bit of benzoin or incense giving it just the right amount of smokiness. It’s not very sexy. As some have been quick to observe, and quite accurately, I might add, Wind Song is what some of us associate with the elderly, with our grandmothers or with an earlier generation which were strong perfume. This is Church lady perfume! I used to smell this on one of the congregation members of my old Church growing up in Tennessee. My mother never wore this but one of her friends sure did and she was liberal with the atomizer so that I could smell it even though I sat in the same row as her four people over.
This is a hard to wear fragrance for today. Most people are walking around in their modern casual clothes smelling of light-weight body sprays and mists that smell like strawberry or vanilla-gourmands, celebrity scents and or luxury brands. Wind Song will have none of it! She is in a class of her own and smells like a blast from the past, a little lady in her furs, gloves, and turbans, rather like Norma Desmond refusing to go along with the modern age and still living in a romantic more glamorous past. This perfume demands you wear her with your most formal clothing so it’s probably only suited to Church, weddings, fancy dinner parties, black tie affairs and that kind of thing, or a fancy romantic cruise. This has it’s place like with everything there’s a time and a place even for the most ‘geriatric’ of fragrances.
tanyaceten – :
I never experienced Wind Song before, but today I was walking in the grocery store and an employee was stocking the freezer (she was probably late 30’s/early 40’s, minimal makeup, in fact, at first I thought she was a young boy.)
But I kept smelling something so fresh and clean; she just smelled great, but not like perfume per se, but not just soap and water either.
I asked her what she was wearing and she “Wind Song”. I was like, “REALLY? Wow – well, it smells GREAT on you!”
It’s definitely a fresh, clean scent on the dry down! I didn’t get carnation or clove or any of the main notes listed, just really a fresh, clean, soapy pleasantness. It definitely suited her and again, I could smell it from 5 feet away, but it was just straight up “pleasant”.
sbt015intitytek – :
I think “sexy, mature (old lady? maybe, in the best of ways!), clean”.
eeemmmbbbooo – :
Oh my goodness, I had a fascination for this back in the 90s, no wonder I had fallen in love with L’ Air Du Temps! This was her twin! I have finished my WindSong perfume and body spray, but still have the classic LADT with me. Yes, the 80s classic, I think I might take it out to sniff that for a trip down memory lane once in a while.. LOL !
Romashka2216 – :
Man, I just love this fragrance. I also love L’Air du temps, but this seems to last longer. I love the spice, carnation, and soapiness. Yes, I’m 58, but I loved it at age 16.
crupFoono – :
I was surprised to see this old perfume that I remember from the mid 70’s in a perfume store so I quickly bought it. I remember the girls in high school talking about this Wind Song, I do remember that nice scent but I don’t remember if I bought the bottle. I remember buying Cachet. I think there were more perfume commercials back then than there are now. It reminds me of a church smell so I remembered L’air du temps so I see it was already added as a similar scent.
FrankaTomas – :
Expensive, luxurious jasmine bar soap. I do like this scent, though I don’t reach for it often. It is powerful, and can be too thick in hot weather, but it is a wonderfully vintage, ladylike take on smelling “clean.”
swx3 – :
Everytime I smell this on someone I think “out of the shower fresh” from the bottle it can be a bit intimidating; but let it mellow and you have a clean, fresh scent that literally would last for DAYS. It smells like clean soapy skin. I don’t wear it very often, and I don’t know why- I get comments every time I do–I guess it’s because there is always something new coming down the pike- but this is a classic in every sense of the word.
Andrey_Begoml – :
Wow. Was this classic name really launched in 1953? I remember it from friends’ mothers’ bathrooms circa the 1980s, and thought it was a ’70s thing. Didn’t know this one–I’ll agree with those who say it is heavily nostalgic–was so mature.
Кровосос – :
For me, WIND SONG is one of several summer staples that are inexpensive and easy to wear. Unfortunately, I don’t have an original vintage bottle, but I have an “oldish” one that’s about 15 years old. There’s not much left in it now, so I purchased a new one last year. On its own, the new fragrance seemed pretty close to the older one, but I hadn’t done a left wrist/right wrist comparison until today.
Initially, the old (or oldish) version is stronger, richer and more powdery, with a noticeable touch of lemon. The new one starts out a tad sharper and more floral. At that point, I didn’t smell the lemon much on the new one, but it did come up later. With dry-down, the new version started to lose that sharpish note. Within a couple of hours, the new version became very much like the older one, although it wasn’t quite as rich or as strong. I don’t know if this represents an actual formulation change or if what’s left in the older bottle has lost its top notes and the remainder has become more concentrated over the years. Right now, after 7 hours, it’s hard to tell them apart.
WIND SONG does have distinct similarities to L’AIR DU TEMPS, however, it’s not an exact duplicate. The notes have somewhat different proportions and WIND SONG doesn’t have the aldehyde notes.
sitkevichh – :
I’m a very sentimental person, which is why I think I’m so into classic florals. Others may smell them and just dismiss them as “old lady” scents, but me? I smell generations of women who would adorn themselves in these scents. Mothers, daughters, grandmothers, great grandmothers. I smell memories and moments that can be awakened just by a single spray of a fragrance. Fragrance can be the key to unlocking memories. For example, I always remember my grandmother’s house, specifically her basement where I loved to relax, smelling like crisp, clean, linen. Now, there are dozens of “linen” and “cotton” impressions available, but when you find that one that is exactly how you remember it smelling, it almost transports you back to that moment in time. That’s the power of classic fragrances for a lot of people – and this is a quality new fragrances can’t possess. I feel like wearing classic fragrances makes me feel grown up, mature, it allows me to stand out as a young person, and I like to wear something that has depth, history, and sentiment with it – not just a trend or fad. I’m going into great detail with this review because I have sentimental feelings regarding Wind Song. A while back, I was making a late night Meijer run and I took a stroll through the fragrance isles. I spotted L’air du Temps, and the beauty of the bottle intrigued me. It oddly seemed modern sitting next to modern fragrances, so I sprayed it. Fizzy Aldehydes – one of my favorite things in classics like Chanel No. 5. I went on and left the store, and after it had dried down, I remember smelling my sleeve where I sprayed it in the car, and I just thought “Grandma…”. I had been lucky enough to know both my maternal and paternal great grandmothers. This reminded me of my Great Grandma B who had passed away a few years back. I never knew her in great depth, but have good memories spending time with her and chatting. She was a very kind and gentle woman. I eventually forced my mom to smell a sample of L’air, telling her it smelled like grandma to me. She coughed, and said “Yuck! That smells nothing like her, she would’ve hated that…” Then she told me, “If you wanted something that smelled like Grandma, It would be Wind Song.” She told me Wind Song was all Grandma ever wore, because she had sensitivity to fragrances, which would give her bad laryngitis. Wind Song was the only perfume that didn’t. I looked up Wind Song here on fragrantica, and low and behold, around 80 people voted that Wind Song smells like L’air. Not too long ago, I sprayed both fragrances, L’air on my left arm, and Wind Song on my right arm. They smell almost 100% the same to me, except Wind Song is more intense, spicier, and the lasting power is ridiculous. Wind Song is a cologne spray, yet I still smelled it on my arm after a shower. I’ve never had that happen with any other fragrance. L’air du Temps smells more luxurious to me, like the “expensive French soap” smell, and has more depth and layers, and it contains Aldehydes absent in Wind Song. I also isolated the note I’m smelling thanks to Fragrantica – Carnation. This is the prominent note in both Wind Song and L’air du Temps, as well as cloves as the second note. It feels almost gratifying to be able to say I can remember my grandmother always smelling like carnation and cloves. I want to find carnations now in a garden and smell them. I haven’t yet bought either fragrance, but I want to buy them both. I can see myself wearing L’air du Temps more because of the more luxurious smell, and I can save Wind Song for any day I want to feel sentimental, and for any day I want to smell like Carnation and cloves, all day! Making these connections makes me want to find out what my other two beloved grandmothers wore, so I can buy and keep them for the sentimental quality.
artem2010 – :
Some fragrances really stand the test of time. And some, like this one, immediately catapult you decades back into history. For me, it’s the early 80s. This was literally the first perfume I ever fell in love with, when I was, say, eight years old. I just recently happened upon some for about $4 at a drug store, and frost my cookies, it smells just the same! In an overwhelming wave of nostalgia, I almost went off in search of some coke in a glass bottle to drink in a video arcade.
But I digress. To sum up: not a fragrance I would wear, since I’m neither eight nor eighty, but currently enjoying it as a delightful room spray. Is is green, woody, powdery, faintly mysterious, and jut a little bit magical. I think if there were a fairy wood, it would smell like this.
unelabspeak – :
Sweet, powdery, and spicy goodness envelop my senses when I wear this. There’s something of a fizzy cola note that weaves in and out. This is a very soapy scent in the most pleasant way.
I am too young for this to have nostalgic value to me, but I’ll be blessed if I can still find this when I’m eighty.
Kekс – :
Because of the ” middle notes are cloves, carnation, orris root, jasmine, ylang-ylang, rose and brazilian rosewood; base notes are sandalwood, amber, musk, benzoin, vetiver and cedar” it would be easier to classify this as a “cold weather” fragrance, though in reality it’s nice whatever the weather. The slightest whiff has people asking “what is that????” because it’s so mysterious and light.
Lemon and clove do mix well.
TirteroDY – :
Wind song is definitely the most beautiful song to me,it comforts me,it makes me feel the love I had,my great grandma Minnie is here,she only ever wore this when she left the house,my memories of this spicey,floral,ylang ylang,scent are endless!I hated this as a child,but now I understand why I like classic perfumes,my great grandma born 1919,passed 3-20-09,at 89years,6days before my birthday my mom,who was also my great grandma,this perfume I wear for her&bought for her&now I love wind song,it’s a lovely womanly perfume,so classic,I usually like sweeter scents,but I love this,amazing how I can have my grandma with back with me,memories amazing!!!
Irinaurievna5 – :
Wind Song is an elegant and sultry spicy fragrance for the woman who likes vintage and classic floral fragrances but with something extra, something a bit on the spicier side. I don’t mean this is Latin spice or even Italian or Gypsy spice. It’s more in the culinary type of spice like a woman who spends just as much time in the kitchen as she does in her boudoir and can wear an apron to cook and a glamorous evening dress for dancing. This fragrance makes me feel more Italian than I am already. This scent opens very spicy right away with coriander and tarragon which promptly follow the citric neroli opening. I don’t see aldehydes being listed even though I felt aldehydes. The floral aspects of the frag very clearly resemble L’air Du Temps by Nina Ricci. The same flowers are there the carnation, the jasmine, the ylang-ylang and iris/rose combo. It’s even got the cloves and rosewood from L’air du Temps. But this is more of the evening perfume counterpart to the day time scent that is L’air du Temps. L’air has a relaxed, mellow and soothing feel, something to wear after a shower and to get you through your day. It’s also not as spicy as Windsong. This one is definitely the perfume to put on after you’ve worn L’air in the day and you go out at night to go dancing or to dinner with a date. This is bolder and stronger although not in a crazy or gross way. It’s also got more musk than the new formula of L’air. This is in no way a dupe of L’air just more of L’air Du Temps Noir kind of scent. I love it and do wear it in the evenings after having worn L’air in the day. If you try it out you’ll get used to it and can become something to do day to day. Very perfumy very nice.
chernikov78 – :
I immediately wanted to try this because of the cute birdy box, I expected a light floral and had no idea about how old this perfume was.
Wow, I was coughing and my eyes were tearing. Not my kind of scent at all, but if you like powerful clean green sort of powdery scents, try this one. You’ll love it.
fantomas1314 – :
A question for all my fellow lovely noses: if I like the reformulation, I will likely love the original, yes? My great-grandmother wore this — I was 16 when she passed away, and she was 99. I loved playing dress up with items from her drawers, and running her powder puffs silkily along my little girl arms. She had quite a few of the old-style crown bottles of Wind Song, which, of course, I thought were fabulous… I remember not liking the scent very much back then, but now times have changed – and so has my nose. So, I was just wondering.. I like the reformulation so far, but it seems to be missing something. Will I find it in the original?
Absommaalonse – :
I tried this today, I gave one light spray and was knocked out by how heavy, strong and spicy it was, very unexpected from the light pretty bottle.
It has needed 30 minutes to die down to become palatable for me, the coriander is somewhat overwhelming.
The longer it settles, the better it gets for me, I don’t love it, but I do like it. I recognise it as a scent that older relatives wore in the past.
I wouldn’t compare this with L’Air du temps, as this seems much heavier and spicier.
I would put this much more in the Cinnabar category, ie a strong fragrance that smells a lot better once it has settled down and faded a little. There are a lot of notes in this, and it does take time for the calmer notes to peep through.
watchdog – :
This is my second review for this perfume, but I can’t help it, I’m soooo in love with this perfume! I want to make it clear this is for the current version of this perfume; I own the vintage and current. In current, I have the perfume, body spray, and dusting powder. I fell in love with this fragrance last year when, for years, I would turn my nose in disgust; mainly I found out my great aunt Libby wore this and I wasn’t about to wear the same fragrance as a GREAT Aunt. Well she certainly knew something I didn’t at the time…IDK if my nose changed or matured but after a while I recognized this was a unique and lovely fragrance that no one else I knew wore; what ultimately pushed me over the edge to buy it was a found out that this was supposedly Patsy Cline’s signature scent,so of course I had to get it since she’s my all-time favorite female vocalist. I find that this is floral, and very fresh/clean on my skin. I especially love combining April Showers Sugar Vanilla lotion (which is $1 at Dollar Tree) with the body powder straight from the shower, and it somehow works together. My husband always compliments me, and I’ve received compliments from a few people with Wind Son. This scent isn’t by any means sexy or seductive(well, depending on the person, I suppose…), but if you’re looking for a cuddly, floral, powdery scent, a scent that sends you back to a time when ladies wore perfumes to smell lady-like, wore crinoline-petticoats, left a lot to the imagination instead of having everything hanging out, and when couples actually “courted,” I would recommend this 100%!BTW I’m 27 so I have never experienced that Era that is long gone but not forgotten, but wouldn’t it be fun!?
Bainkpank – :
When my late husband and I started getting serious in 2007, we were a long distance couple. I started leaving little toiletries and things at his place for convenience. On one of my first weekend trips to his house, I realized I had no perfume. He lived in a small town, so I had no choice but to head over to the local Walmart to search for something. I came across the Wind Song aerosol body spray. I bought it without even knowing anything about it, thinking it