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02/12/2022
Anamandy
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Anamandy
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Much More Than a Lily Soliflore
I first read about this scent in Luca Turin's The Guide last year. He raved about it having an authentic Lily note. I managed to snag a bottle last week and on receiving it was struck by how adorable the whole package was. The nubbed milk glass bottle with the bow is super cute; and the box, with flowery artwork reminiscent of 60s psychedelic pop art, fit the look perfectly. I thought with packaging like that this would make a great gift for a teen. But then I tried the scent and found the juice inside totally belies the exterior packaging. This is a very womanly fragrance. Slightly aquatic, very floral, with jasmine, lotv, and lily the most prominent. I am also getting a little bit of tuberose not listed in the notes. While not sweet, as it wears on a slightly sweet creamy vanilla and silky wood notes round it out.
There is nothing particularly groundbreaking here. It is a simple floral scent; and while the lily is nice, it is not the best lily fragrance I've ever smelled. For me, that would be Baiser Vole. But though simple, it is a very pretty scent that I think would be especially nice worn in the spring and summer. Best yet, it doesn't have that Avon signature smell, or whatever it is that makes you think of a fragrance as an Avon fragrance. (I still haven't figured out what that is but it's definitely there in too many of their perfumes.) As to the authentic lily note LT spoke of, while it does smell very much like lily, it is not the pure lily soliflore scent he claimed as it is too much of a mixed bouquet to be that. Still, I agree that the fragrance is very nice.
From what I understand, when this fragrance was launched it was part of a pair of mother daughter perfumes, with the fragrance Petal, in a smaller, pink bottle, being for the child. I think that is such a sweet idea. Of course, an idea like that could only have come from a company like Avon.
There is nothing particularly groundbreaking here. It is a simple floral scent; and while the lily is nice, it is not the best lily fragrance I've ever smelled. For me, that would be Baiser Vole. But though simple, it is a very pretty scent that I think would be especially nice worn in the spring and summer. Best yet, it doesn't have that Avon signature smell, or whatever it is that makes you think of a fragrance as an Avon fragrance. (I still haven't figured out what that is but it's definitely there in too many of their perfumes.) As to the authentic lily note LT spoke of, while it does smell very much like lily, it is not the pure lily soliflore scent he claimed as it is too much of a mixed bouquet to be that. Still, I agree that the fragrance is very nice.
From what I understand, when this fragrance was launched it was part of a pair of mother daughter perfumes, with the fragrance Petal, in a smaller, pink bottle, being for the child. I think that is such a sweet idea. Of course, an idea like that could only have come from a company like Avon.
