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Swiss Arabian 1996

6.3 / 10 19 Ratings

A perfume by Swiss Arabian for men, released in 1996. The scent is woody-fruity. It is being marketed by Natura & Co..
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Main accords

Woody

Fruity

Spicy

Synthetic

Gourmand

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Green apple

Grapefruit

Fermented Transistor

Heart Notes

Bamboo

Ginger

Base Notes

Patchouli

Teakwood

Cedar

Ratings

Scent

6.319 Ratings

Longevity

5.614 Ratings

Sillage

4.712 Ratings

Bottle

6.020 Ratings

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/07/2014

7Scent 5Longevity 2.5Sillage

Tar
261 Reviews

Tar

Helpful Review 3

Signature of...?

1st surprise:
Peculiarity, that can not be easily compared to other fragrances. It opens with an interesting aquatic tropical fruity cloud, as you would inter in the Paradise.

2nd surprise:
It is resinous and fruity, without being sickeningly sweet.

3rd surprise:
An excellent mixture of paper and fruit wax. Really unique.

4th surprise:
It turns turk, and exhales a pungent, spicy denture to bite you before it leaves the skin - after 3-4 hours. So teakwood & cedar alliance overcome on patchouli, but also ginger plays main role in the endgame.

I am not satisfied with sillage, nor with longevity. I also can not agree with categorisation as masculine fragrance, it is unisex in my opinion. Getting to know SIGNATURE makes me glad, learning a language of a unique fragrance is always joyful.

02/04/2015

1Scent

Riechsalzer
12 Reviews

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Riechsalzer

1

It's getting cheesy.

Well, this fragrance has been in my collection for quite a long time now.
Probably more out of laziness than because I actually used it.

When I first got it, or rather acquired it, I did use it a few times. However, it became less frequent until I stopped using it altogether.
I recently asked myself, why is that?
Sure, the scent doesn't appeal to me as much anymore, but still - why?

There is something in the fragrance that kept pushing itself more and more to the forefront with each new use.
From an initially slight irritation that I could still ignore, to the point where this component bothered me so much that I just left the Signature behind.
And there it sat, just gathering dust.
Every attempt, even after longer intervals, to give the EdT another chance brought the same result. No - it just doesn't work anymore.
Why does this one scent component, which is present both in the top and heart of the Signature, bother me so much?

Well, recently I actually got the answer to that.
When the sun shines beautifully through the windows of my winter garden, some tenants come back to life. Just like one or two shield bugs that like to hibernate there.
It can happen that you accidentally step on one. I think everyone knows how that smells.

Yep. You guessed it, it smells like Signature by Avon. It's probably the aforementioned apple note. Well, to me, an apple smells different.
To me, the bug's scent is so overpowering that I can no longer separate (bug - Signature). So that was the reason for the demise of this perfume for me.
For others, this association may not occur or hopefully won't at all.

01/29/2015

1Scent 2.5Longevity 2.5Sillage

Scientist
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Scientist

3

Signature of Nobody

It's a shame, really, the fragrance pyramid sounded very promising, especially the combination of bamboo and ginger piqued my curiosity. Since Signature by Avon is a real bargain, I quickly ordered it.

While testing, I noticed right away that there’s nothing behind it! The scent starts off very weak, and even in the top notes, the green apple contained in it comes across as very synthetic, smelling to me like apple from one of those air freshener sprays that were used in the bathroom back in the day, which actually made the smell even worse, but I digress..... no trace of ginger and bamboo, in the end, there’s something very barely noticeable, woody left after just 2-3 hours.

Like the longevity, the sillage is also very poor. The only positive thing is that Signature, in the middle of its development - if one can even call it that - doesn’t smell unpleasant when the apple has mostly evaporated.

I applied it very generously, every time I got ready for my boring and undemanding side job, and even then, despite a lot of human contact, no one noticed it, but at least it suited the situation wonderfully. Thank goodness the bottle is now empty due to excessive use.