Piapedersen

RV has a classic touch to it. The opening is somewhat synthetic but still very beautiful. I sense aldehydes mixed with flowers, presumably rose and narcissus together with some honey. The deep blue colour on the bottle fits the feeling SO well; there is an aquatic sense to this, a bit like Davidoff’s cool water. After 10-15 minutes a soapy note starts to evolve, and this dominates for the next two hours. The base is vanilla and a tiny whiff of amber but it is so faint that I have to put my nose close to the skin to know it is there.
In my opinion Avon has done a good job with this fragrance. I have several of Avon’s perfumes and this is one that has character and soul, in my opinion.

The review is for the cologne.
This starts out very overwhelming and a tiny bit synthetic; Aldehydes with capital A. It has a strong and old-fashioned feeling to begin with, but after ten-fifteen minutes it develops into a very wonderful, warm and rounded smell, with a complexity that makes it hard to dissect it into notes. Still I’m almost certain of jasmine and gardenia – and maybe lily-of-the-valley. It stays like that for the next 4-5 hours. The drydown is nothing to speak of, since it disappears without circumstances; only a tiny hint of something resinous and leathery.
The bottle, in my opinion, fits great in the hand. I really like it, square and facetted as it is. Unfortunately, mine is with a plastic stopper which kind of spoils the impression of something from a lady’s boudoir. But it looks great. I don’t know if it comes with a glass stopper but it certainly should.

S.T.Dupont has many beautiful and glamourous scents on their shelf. I first fell in love with Passenger pour femme and decided to try some of their other wonders and look what I found!
This is a really, really wonderful powdery scent. The best way to describe it is to compare it with Gucci eau de parfum, aka Heaven in a Bottle. Intense pour femme does not have all the same notes but it works the same way on my skin. The two do share sandalwood and musk and some orange-y but Gucci is a bit more flowery in my opinion. They have the same marvelous longevity, intensity and sillage.
So since Gucci had to discontinue their little wonder (why on earth do they discontinue their nice scents? The same thing happened to Accenti), I recommend this. Some of you may not agree with me, but I must admit that I am very happy I have found this great scent. Good Luck!

It is always interesting to try something new. Grapefruit is one of my favourite notes and black currant appears in several of likable scents, such as Boss Deep Red and Cacharel’s Amor Amor. But the two mixed together is not a combination I yet had in my collection. Result: I had to buy it!

As a summer’s scent it’s perfectly composed, especially for very hot days. It is fresh, spicy and a bit bitter. I would take it for a unisex or even a male scent. I sense no flowers at all, but since my bottle is purchased without the box and already used for some time, I do not know if it has been stored the way it should, so the scent might be ruined.

Grapefruit and black currant is a very unusual combination. When mixed together in this particular scent they leave a minty impression. I think it is an interesting opening and I was keen on knowing how this would develop. Unfortunately the longevity is poor. It disappears after an hour, leaving a tiny sniff of something spicy and sour. No sandalwood or cedar comes to the surface. The sillage is very moderate.

The bottle is, in my opinion, a bit ordinary. Since it is one in a row, I am aware of that all the bottles are more or less similar, apart from the colours and the top, therefor the ordinary expression. This one has a small black currant on its top, but it is way too pink to actually prepare the user for what is inside.

Summary: if you want to purchase one of the folies de saisons, this should not be your first choice. But since I have not tried any of the others I cannot give any advice on which to buy. I can only say that this one is not mouthwatering in any way.

Going to a social event, being a bit in a hurry, I realised that I had forgotten to spray on some 'personality' :-) I went to the closest supermarket, thinking I could grab a deodorant, and I stumbled over this butterfly. Since there was no tester but the price was reasonable - 3 GBP/3.33Euro - I bought it and ran to my car. I sprayed it, not thinking, 3 times - that was a huge mistake. The next half hour's drive was done in a haze of plum, jasmin, rose and lily-of-the-valley and all notes were trying to take over the dominion of my small car. My eyes were close to watering when I reached my destination and I was actually quite happy to leave the car for the next four hours. Getting back to the car was a much more pleasant experience. The smell had settled and I was able to enjoy the soft garden feeling on my way home.
For that is was this butterfly is. If being in the poetic mood you can say that it is a butterfly on its daily tour, visiting the nice flowers in the garden. Starting in the orchard at the plum tree, then moving to the flowers, roses and jasmin, perhaps a short stop at the lilies. In the end it lands on the plate with vanilla ice cream leftovers that the youngsters ate a the table a few minutes before.
As the butterfly's life span is short, so is this fragrance. First 15 minutes it is mostly plum, then for the next hour the flowers take over. The last hour or so I can scarcely smell anything but vanilla. Adding up that give less than three hours. But at the price I can not complain.