Happy 1997 Perfume

Happy (Perfume) by Clinique
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6.7 / 10 262 Ratings
Happy (Perfume) is a perfume by Clinique for women and was released in 1997. The scent is fresh-floral. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Main accords

Fresh
Floral
Citrus
Fruity
Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Mandarin orange tree GrapefruitGrapefruit LaurelLaurel BergamotBergamot
Heart Notes Heart Notes
JasmineJasmine OrchidOrchid Boysenberry blossom
Base Notes Base Notes
MimosaMimosa Hawaiian wedding flower LilyLily MagnoliaMagnolia

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6.7262 Ratings
Longevity
6.4205 Ratings
Sillage
6.0199 Ratings
Bottle
6.3209 Ratings
Value for money
7.160 Ratings
Submitted by Sani, last update on 19.04.2024.

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Edda32

15 Reviews
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Edda32
Edda32
Top Review 41  
What is actually a bad mood scent or Who has worries, also has liqueur
I've been wearing this scent for two days now. In the garden while mowing the lawn and weeding the weeds, while shopping (huiii again expensive!) and during various bicycle rides with the children... (please RIGHT RUN! RE-HIGHT...!!!!!) ...It's holidays, it's early spring with all its tulips, daffodils, winterlings, forsythia... I see yellow, yellow yellow, the magnolia next door drops banana peels in the gardens. So Mr. Neighbor, please rake and sweep every day, otherwise there will be trouble.
The birds are roaring in front of the window at half past five. (Hey, does anyone know where the spring tiredness comes from?) The sun is shining and I have even worn short sleeves with goose bumps today. Sometimes I already dream about sandals. And with all this I am surrounded by a delicate, tangerine-yellow-orange scent, like busy bees, with little buckets of henkele on my feet.

Loud cheerful notes, yes indeed.
Of the eleven notes from the pyramid, some I feel are dazzling. The Hawaiian wedding flower doesn't want to get googled, and I'm a little suspicious. The association 'wedding' wants to fit so well to 'happy'...Well then.
Start at the front of the fragrance. A few common suspicious components can be found in the top note: bergamot, fresh green lemon and the always sporty pamelmuse. However, these two slightly effervescent fruit notes are immediately intercepted by the mandarin and carried into the sweetness. It's not mentioned, but I smell also candied orange slices, but not the dry, brown ones, from the Christmas spotpourri, but these here shine like cathedral windows.
Or like Capri ice cream.

The heart note combines spring and summer notes. Countless white flowers are snowing in. Jasmine shines fragrantly from afar, a few fruit trees in addition... Here spring and summer - fruits here and flowers there - unite and it becomes clear that it is not really a native scent, but an exotic and it wants to be worn where it belongs. On vacation, on vacation, in the sun.

Boysenberries are simply a cross between blackberries and raspberries, better brimberries so to speak. They come from America, just around the corner from Hawaii by the way .....You should meet them in the heart note, not yet to pick, but as flowers. Well, I can't smell it, but I can sense it. It smells like fruit blossoms.
Slowly the Capri ice cream melts with my skin and all the bees and flowers together, to a well-known scent:
Sunshine on warm skin. There is even a bitter component, that must be the laurel. And I think this is typical Clinique: always slightly edgy, somewhat bold and very cultivated in this fragrance despite the cuteness.

Earlier, while sniffing at my forearm, I asked myself what actually characterizes a so-called good mood scent. Here the term would be so impudently imposed that one would like to avoid it.
Short brainstorming. Good mood...is light-heartedness, freedom from worries, no brooding, simply serenity, a smile in the eyes and sunshine in the heart. Taste doesn't need caffeine, 'Happy' doesn't need sexiness, is an end in itself for innocent serenity.

I can really use it: the kids drive as they like, fucking magnolia slop, account empty and in the garden everything full of weeds.
And I spray, I spray, I spray................................................................................................................
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Aolani

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Aolani
Aolani
Very helpful Review 20  
Secure in life
Dear Happy,
yesterday I sprayed you up and expected my familiar, beloved fragrance. I loved Your merriment, which was never loud or oppressive and which made me cheerful, even when thunderstorms were going through my interior. With you, I felt safe in life.
But the familiar pleasant smell failed to appear. I waited. And waited. Everything I smelled seemed synthetic. Where's my girlfriend? Happy, where are you?
Full of melancholy, I sneaked through the day. It reminded me of everything we had experienced together. All painful and beautiful, all life avalanches and pink clouds. I sighed. Because I knew what would come inevitably.
I don't know how to tell you this.
I, I have another...
Of course I'll give us another chance. But I'm afraid we'll split up.
My life used to be simple. In winter Must de Cartier, you in summer and in between Helmut Lang. The Helmut did not exist any more and so the summer time with you was extended until the first snow and the winter time with Cartier until April.
And now this. I've become a perfumer. And our love, Happy, has become stale. Oh, Happy. I am sad.
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8
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Greenfan1701

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Greenfan1701
Helpful Review 11  
Longing scent of that time
It was the end of the 90s. My boyfriend at the time (I Austria, he Germany) and current life partner, came to me from time to time (sometimes I to him). It separated us at the time about 600 km, so we have not seen each other very often. So, my boyfriend at the time really loved the scent on me, so I sprayed him a handkerchief with HAPPY, which he took with him and thought of me whenever he smelled it. (I hope hard he thought of me that way too - without the perfume. :-)
He told me that after 10 days the scent was still clearly perceptible and had not lost much of its freshness.
May be that it was the longing, may also be that he had already internalized the fragrance and therefore associated it with me, I do not know, it is also already past.
Now we are together since 2002 here in A and love the fragrance both still. However, the durability is underground, not even an hour he holds. Initially, the alcohol is also very strongly present, and until the track is, the fragrance itself is also almost no longer present, such a pity. Well, the price was now not very high, so that just Nachsprühen is announced.
And if I apply the and my husband is just around, then I can still attract him with it, haha.
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7
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3
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Kurai

375 Reviews
Kurai
Kurai
Top Review 5  
Balloons
Frolic, cheerful, naive girlie scent. That comes to mind the moment I spray it on. Mild citrus followed by a colorful bunch of flowers.

Sadly this feel-good vibe does not last long, not sure if it’s my skin or just due to the poor quality. Pretty soon I get a plastic-y or actually a rubbery smell: balloons or rubber gloves. That spoils it for me. Too bad, really.
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Sherapop

1239 Reviews
Sherapop
Sherapop
Very helpful Review 6  
I regret to report that my sister was right
It took me years to muster up the courage to test Clinique HAPPY. It's possible that I finally did it only because of my conversion to true love for AROMATICS ELIXIR--against all expectations. I had no specific reason for believing that I'd hate AROMATICS ELIXIR beyond the flagrant contradiction that a fragrance-free skin care company should produce a notoriously powerful perfume, but I had read so many songs of praise written by so many perfumistas whose opinions I respect, that I finally tried that creation and feel shortly thereafter in love. I now own two bottles, one made in the United States and the other made in Switzerland, and both of them smell great, once one gets past the bitter chamomile opening.

With HAPPY, I had some serious baggage to deal with and barriers to surmount. Several years ago my sister sent me one of her generous gift packages filled with ceramics (she's an artist) and various snack items and usually a couple of random and unpredictable "things". In this particular package, she had also "thrown in"--just in case I might want them--about five or six Clinique HAPPY minis which she had accumulated from gwps but did not use. She warned me that, in her view, the true name of HAPPY should be MISERABLE.

I stowed the minis away among a bunch of others and swiftly forgot about them. When I began reviewing perfumes in December 2009, I noticed that the Clinique company does a pretty good job of distributing samples of HAPPY, because I always seem to be finding them, and each time they remind me of the minis, and each time I remember why I never really want to sample this perfume.

On this historic night, with a hot bath on the horizon, I took out one of the fresh samples of HAPPY and sprayed it on. In a moment's time, I realized that my sister was right. This is just horrible. It smells like orange cleaning products to me, not all-natural orange-scented cleaning products, but foul-smelling orange Windex.

Based on the reviews I've seen, HAPPY seems to be a fairly polarizing composition, with people generally lining up in either the love or the abhorrence camp. So I am aware that this fragrance has its fans, and my guess is that this particular combination of chemicals is quite compatible with some people's physiological constitution, and according to them, HAPPY is an excellent citrus scent. To me and those of my ilk, this smells like the emanations from an organic chemisty lab and so off-putting that I just want to wash it off.

My sister and I are similar in many ways, and I have to say that I agree in this case, that wearing Clinique HAPPY is not a pleasant experience at all. I cannot say that I feel miserable, but unhappy might be a fair assessment of the effect of this fragrance on me.

Now It's time for that bath...
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AcantheaAcanthea 3 months ago
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Sharp grapefruit waves around for a while leaving just o tiny hint of florals behind which vanishes a moment later.
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Hartsy3Hartsy3 3 months ago
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Sterile citrus cleaner followed quickly by rubber latex (balloons or gloves). Either way, smells like a hospital.
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Jazzy76Jazzy76 5 years ago
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Apparently minimal and clean, it's a multifaceted fragrance with fruity accents and a creamy and sensual floral heart. Enjoy it in summer
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LauraBellaLauraBella 7 years ago
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Should come with complimentary pom-poms. Too citrus for my taste. Hyper, unanchored, and definitely notice the alcohol scent.
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