Avon Charmed

I had to do it. I'm not sure what came over me, but I spent the $1000. It did come with "$1000" in "free" skin care, so that's basically free, right? The initial blast is full-on vintage Avon, that same musky, musty smell you've smelled many times before when spraying an Avon scent from the 60s or 70s or 80s or earlier. I have to admire them for going there though. It's totally fitting for an anniversary Avon scent, and considering that's not even their current scent profile, it's pretty gutsy. When you're making a fragrance that costs approximately $975 more than your average fragrance, I guess you get to be whimsical. As it settles on my skin, I detect a harsh note amongst the floral, something almost like leather with a touch of dirty smoke. As it progresses, I'll have to update you. I will tell you that you can save your $1000. The presentation is lovely; the scent is okay, but there's nothing here worth four figures. I bet you're shocked, SHOCKED, to hear that.

In Canada, a bottle of this costs $1,350! There is a scratch and sniff page in the current catalogue, and this is very nice! Not necessarily $1,350 worth of nice, but I think it smells very good. The inflated cost is apparently due to the use of natural perfume oils from around the world (instead of lab-produced synthetic notes I guess), 18K gold finish, Swarovski crystals, and wooden box to hold it. The catalogue says the perfumer is Caroline Sabas. Notes are listed as neroli, lily of the valley, jasmine absolute and musk. I don’t know how well you can realistically tell about a fragrance from a scratch and sniff page, but that’s probably the closest I’ll ever get to smelling this. I love it. It’s rather vintage-smelling, which is a great tribute to Avon’s long heritage. It just so happens that I love anything old school, mossy, or aldehydic so I would love to own a bottle of this vintage smelling floral beauty.

@bel.gravia in response to your comment, since 2016 Avon USA is a separated company from Avon Products Inc(Avon Worldwide), and its now called NEW AVON COMPANY, acquired in 2019 by corean company LG HOUSEHOLD & HEALTHCARE. Avon USA is only for sales and distribution to the USA, Canada & Puerto Rico. since 2016 Avon Products Inc, moved their headquarters and operations from New York, USA to London UK, and they are responsibles for the sales and distribution of the brand in Europe, Africa, Asia and LatinAmerica. last year the brazilian direct selling beauty company NATURA, with presence in the majority of latinamerican countries, presented an intention to acdquire the 74% of Avon Products Inc, so in the first trimester of 2020 it became a reality, and Avon joined Natura and together they are now THE NATURA & Co. formed by the brands Avon, The Body Shop, Aesop and Natura, becoming the fourth largest beauty group in the world right after The Estee Lauder Companies, Shiseido & Co and The L ́Oreal Group. Avon USA is working to bring back and preserve the Avon heritage, the new collectors edition fragrance Charmed are only 1,886 pieces made to sell, the peacock is made from 18k carat gold with Swarovski crystals and the bottle looks really cute, the price is very high but the product is made in corea, and they are not going bankruptcy if they do not sell the 1,886 bottles of this fragrance, how many people lives in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico? i bet they are millions so this corean owners are taking Avon USA to a new era and bringing Avon heritage available for the lovers of the iconic brand. cheers!

When I was little, Avon used to produce kitschy cute bottles that you wanted whatever the perfume was, the scent was basically secondary to the rabbit, tortoise, ballet shoes, butterfly, jewelled bird whatever. I'm not sure I recall correctly but I think sometimes you could choose the scent inside what was basically a more.. or less tasteful dressing table ornament. But they were really fun. I had a glass unicorn splash bottle whose horn was the screw on top. I think I remember a white kitten. This bird would be ace if it was just produced in the old way, ie CHEAP n therefore accessible. A thousand for a perfume is not in the spirit of Avon 'heritage' at all, even if the style of it is. Just make a gold painted, paste emerald bird n fill it with Moonwind or Millenia or Fantasque. Avon is for the masses. Good luck with attempting a rebranding but the most common reaction I get from telling people there is a new thousand dollar Avon is incredulous laughter.

WOW! A white cute bottle with the golden peacock on the cap. Looks different, attractive and eye catching one. What a fantastic opening that is kind of vintage with the musky fragrance which is super admirable too. later, a harsh note pops up among the floral ones that feels like leathery one with the dirty smoke touch. The presentation looks expensive and classy, so the juice does. Literally an expensive one. Scent is surely nice that smells good and genuine. Top notes in this one is lily of the valley, neroli, musk and jasmine. This is a perfect vintage smelling Avon scent that reminds of old school, aldehydes or mosses. Main accords in this one is white floral, musky, green, fresh, powdery, floral and citrus. All the accords are well blended and well projected every now and then to give the best fragrance during varying phases. Beast at performance! Enjoy!!