Extraordinary

So nearly two years later, I'm still blown away by this fragrance, but now I have better knowledge with which to describe it. Extraordinary absolutely lives up to its name. If there was a fault of Avon in the release of this scent, it is the fact that it was released ahead of its time. In the recent influx of gourmands and creative blends, this fragrance would be right at home . . . except that it's not a fruity-floral. So let me rephrase this: this fragrance would be right at home among niche fragrances. Had Harry Fremont pitched this differently, to a different company, it would be wildly successful. But alas, it is another Avon genius discontinued and sold for pennies on eBay. The fantastic thing about this fragrance is the blend. A brilliant blend will sell me every time, and this one has it. Taken all at once, I smell something woody, sweet, fresh, and warm all at the same time. I can't describe the scent. I might categorize it as woody or even as an oriental. But initially I would never have been able to name the individual notes. Give me a list, and I have an "ah-ha!" moment. In my opinion, there is no one dominant note. Chocolate and vanilla are present, but this is no gourmand. Black pepper and ginger are here, but this is not all that spicy of a scent. I get orange and raspberry more than the grapefruit, and they are fresh and lovely, but this is no fruity fragrance. The sandalwood carries the whole thing, and finally at the very end of the remarkably long life of the fragrance, it stands out. But up until this point, I did not find this to be a sandalwood scent. There is a hint of the orchid and the lotus, but absolutely this is no floral scent. SO how would I categorize this scent? In my opinion, it's the musk that carries it. It makes for a creamy, rich base, almost like a luxurious cream or lotion. It's not a sharp or "skanky" musk at all. It's a clean, pure, fresh musk. Two other fragrances that have this same immaculate blend with musk are mark. Bohista (another Avon fragrance), and Jil Saner Sun. In addition to the remarkable composition, this beauty has outstanding longevity. Today I sprayed once on each side of my neck and once on my left forearm for sniffing-convenience, and it's still strong at 8:30 at night. It's not overwhelming at all. Those around you will notice it for the first couple of hours at least, but I consider the silage to be moderate. And because the fragrance is so pleasant (to me), I can't imagine anyone being put out by it. I first wore this first in the spring in Minnesota. It later became my fall scent. Now I'm in Haiti and today the temperature was at a high of 90s (F) and now has dipped into the 70s (with low humidity). I think that the heat helps this fragrance to balance to beautifully. It's a full-bodied, complex fragrance, but one that I find very appropriate for the heat. Please do yourself a favor and buy this fragrance! Then once you fall in love with it, you can thank me by emailing Avon and asking them to bring this and all their other gorgeous discontinued fragrances back!

I do not always agree with the site's review at top, but in this case they nailed it. I have a high appreciation for remarkable scents at a budget price. Avon's Extraordinary fills the bill. I find this fragrance to be absolutely Extraordinary, in fierce competition (if not a clear winner) over some of the most expensive scents in the world. Champagne sparkly with cocoa and ginger notes makes for a highly interesting, unique and gorgeous blend. This is a rich and sexy frag! It is an exquisite designer evening gown with no jewelry (unnecessary, the dress is the jewelry) or a tee shirt and distressed jeans with diamonds and blingy mixed metals. It is sensually serious and fun at the same time. This frag makes me smile and lifts my spirits sprayed with no makeup wearing my sloppiest attire. Smells elegant and fitting dressed in my finest. I am happy to see this listed as an oriental as it should be. Despite the large cocoa blast this is not a gourmand. Extraordinary is not for the die hard jelly bean and choco candy frag lovers. It is more sophisticated than that and its complex blend so very well done the price is a steal. I am honestly glad some people dismiss Avon frags for fear an Avon scent be seen on their vanity or found hidden in a cabinet. I often see Avon referred to as "linear" which I disagree and think that kind of thing varies with skin chemistry. If the scent smells beautiful from beginning to end I have no complaints, as certain reactions can occur in the changelings which are not always a good thing. Avon's well done scents stand competently toe-to-toe with the finest Parisian "parfums" in the world. Avon's Extraordinary is definitely one of those scents. Lovely! Very, very Extraordinary canary House of Avon Extraordinaire!

On my usual round of thrift and vintage stores, I found Extraordinary, an Avon fragrance I wasn't familiar with from the past. Checked the notes, thought they were interesting, and knew I would buy it. The sales associate that had taken it from the display case, pulled the bottle out of the box, sniffed it before handing it to me and announced, "Oh, smells like another Avon perfume!" (Thank you for your poignant assessment, ma'am. I'll keep it in mind if I decide to make a purchase today.) Now I love my patchouli. Funny thing is, I hardly get any from this scent. But I do get chocolate. Chocolate as if I grated a bar of baker's chocolate over a warm, thick, creamy custard. It's not a sweet chocolate that's cloying, just comforting and relaxing. There's a hint of spice in Extraordinary, it's the ginger that lays very low sprinkled on the sweet patchouli leaves that are sitting on the side of the custard plate for decoration, but their soft aroma wafts upward to your nostrils from the heat of the dessert. Uplifting and fresh to start, Extraordinary's notes are blended to give this perfume a gourmand-like flair with an excellent run. A good eight hours later, I still sensed a musky scent with chocolate and spices that was soft and sensual. A very rare occurrence for me. The name, Extraordinary, along with swirling patterns, similar to a fleur-de-lis design, is embossed in gold on the back of the bottle so you can see it through the front of the tall rectangular glass. Wonderful by itself, delightful for layering and absolutely beats many other far more expensive chocolate fragrances on the market. Quite a happy purchase for me and yes, this fragrance is extraordinarily delightful.

The chocolate note convinced me to get this, but the back of the box reads chocolate orchid (what's that?) and ginger flower? Anyway first spray out the bottle is a ton of ginger and pepper, I like ginger. I waited for the chocolate to appear but it never did. How did people vote for chocolate? I get a lot of sandalwood and patchouli in the dry down. It's a nice fragrance and could have been guessed as a designer scent if I didn't know it was Avon. It's just not as Extraordinary as I would have liked. Lasts for ages and reminds me of Believe by Britney Spears. The picture here is much prettier than the actual bottle. **Update**-a few days later: (September 30th 2016) So I sprayed this on today and I got a whole heap of smooth dark chocolate just like the majority of you say! I guess a few sprays had to get out of the bottle first, due to it being there so long. My box says limited edition 2005, so it's been there for eleven years! My advice to people ordering this is to get the first four or five sprays out the way then test after. This is so chocolatey and rich smelling. Chocolate, ginger, sandalwood and patchouli are what I get and I really really like it. Makes me wish I had asked for two bottles because I am going to be using this so sparingly to have it around for as long as I can....Extraordinary indeed. Avon please relaunch this! Please! This and Today Tomorrow Always Gold.

Luxury in a bottle with one spray your addicted! the opening starts off with a blast of Rich dark Chocolate with a nuance of pepper and an unsual concoction of tangerine and grapefruit for the drying down. Ginger is easy to detect but the chocolate is the dominate note here orchid with it's semi-sweet Orchid as the suporting basis. the drydown has an bitter end with sandalwood the patchouli is barly noticable the musk makes it sexy with musk can make perfumes sexy. animalistic qualties are prevalent in one single spray. the bottle is so elegant i thought is wasn't from avon; avon are know for there tacky cheap scents but this can be a Relative to Dolce & Gabbana because it's so different from other avon perfumes. one spray i'm transported to an Mansion in Beverly Hills and the paletes of Gold and black in the Bedroom where a luxious bed with golden sheets gold and black pillows with an black canopy with gold trimmiing a tall sender woman with long wavy blonde hair with gold stletto's and a shiny golden top just there seductivly staring and eating chocolate dipped srawberries. it maybe from Avon but it's a Great Perfume.

There are a few scents that moved in my head and just live their little special lives in there rent free. This is one of them. It is such a beautiful creation, I keep searching for it on Ebay. Miss it even 18 years after I had it. Funny how this works, my skin has a taste of its own. She likes Mugler Magic, some lighter scents with a twist (jimmy choo flash, marc jacobs freshies) and This!. (Not a la vie est belle kinda girl nor a good girl type, none of that... guess we're old school, lol) Its a complex gourmand with earthy tones on me. Back when I had it, people were running around wearing DKNY classic, Light blue and the likes. I remember feeling like some fairy from the woods arriving in the city wearing this. So special. Why don't they create scents like this anymore? If this came back, I am pretty sure people would pay a much-higher-than-avon price for this magic in a bottle. Continue my hunt for this . If you ever come across one, buy it, its amazing.

Extraordinary is certainly one of these fragrances that an oriental floral lover simply must have. While chocolate note is very prominent, the whole composition does not resemble a gourmand mediocre perfume mass market. Chocolate note is entwined by the spice and earthiness of pepper, patchouli and just a hint of fruity note. I purchased Extraordinary in blind and must admit that for a fragrance under a tenner, it does the job. It generates compliments, it lasts quite a while (good 4-5 hours), it has noticeable silage (I get oriental delicious whiffs during cool weather mornings). It is most definitely a keeper for winter time, I cannot comprehend why has the fragrance been discontinued, from the reviews I can tell that it seems to appeal to oriental lovers, it possesses the quality of some of the expensive designer creations, so how about you bring it back, Avon? Notes: 9/10 Lasting power: 8/10 Silage: 8/10

Extraordinary IS... extraordinary. One of the rare instances where product puff matches the reality. How to describe this one.... To start, subtle. Intimate sillage. You’ll be perceived as smelling wonderful but no one will quite be able to say why. A Your Skin But Better (YSBB) in the sense that it could just be soap, nice lotion, shampoo, you’re wearing clean clothes. But there’s also an almost subliminal chocolate. Not, as has been pointed out, vanillic/sweet but dark and dry. Clean, comforting, elegant, approachable. Imagine a very light lily-rose, touch of lotus or white musk making it airy. Imagine under it a very light, dry, chocolate basenote. An elegant woman in a cashmere sweater who is calm, likes to do fun things, comfortable to be around. This is an extremely wearable scent. And the bottle is STUNNING!

On first spray, this was a pepper blast and I had no orange or chocolate, which is what I was hoping for. I did as another reviewer recommended and sprayed it about 15 times and that pepper was much better - I got the orange or mandarin and some chocolate, even a little orchid. As it went on, I found it to be strong on the ginger, which lasted about 2-3 hours. It has since dried down to a mildly citrus, sandalwood, slightly chocolate base. This is gorgeous. It reminds me of a homemade pomander mixed with gingerbread, very festive, and lasts at least 7 hours on my skin. Update: This has become one of my favorites in my collection. I also layer it with many fragrances, including Chocolate Ganache and it really brings out the best in Extraordinary. Beautiful around the holidays.

After the review by Champagne.Supernova0107, I was reminded how much I liked this perfume when it came out ages ago and went straight to EBay. I got a sealed 2005 bottle for less than $20 and it arrived today (so fast!) Amazingly, none of the notes have “gone off” and it still smells as I remember it. Initial blast of pencil shavings (likely from the patchouli and sandalwood combo) gives way to a deeper chocolate and vanilla adding sweetness while keeping its complexity. The perfumer behind this has also created some of my other fragrance faves (CK1, Lucky You, David Yurman Delicate Essence) so it’s not shocking that I love this one (although none of those perfumes share anything at all in common with this one). Apparently I just like his nose and ideas!

Yummy! I ordered this off Amazon because of reviews that listed it as one of the "cheap" perfumes that smells expensive. Wow. At first whiff I was thinking, "oh no, here's that Avon stank again." But then a couple of minutes later I was blown away. There's chocolate and ginger and all that loveliness, but there's also this gorgeous sandalwood that I've never noticed that way in another perfume. It is a stunning scent. I also was confused because the embossed name and design was backward, then I turned it around and figured that might be the intended way to view the name (through the perfume) so I guess it was ok.

Avon Extraordinary lives up to its name. When I wear it, I am surrounded by a creamy sweet peppery cloud that is feminine and sophisticated without being too heavy. The champagne notes lift the heaviness of the woods making it fine for day or evening. The chocolate notes are intoxicating. It is at once sweet, but not cloying or girly; peppery and woodsy without being masculine (although I think that some men could actually wear this quite well.) It's not a hot weather scent, since this fragrance is probably too musky and peppery for that time of year, but overall, it's one of Avon's winners.

I really enjoy this one. I was on the search for a chocolate scented perfume and I read about this one on the thread. I find it to be a really nice chocolate scent with a decent longevity. I layered this with Chocolovers and the two makes a perfect combination. If your looking for an inexpensive chocolate scent give this one a try. Edit: I have officially fallen in love with this beauty. It is so much more than a chocolate gourmand scent. There is something very sexy and enticing about it. The more times I wear it the more I realize just how beautiful and unique a scent this is.

People sure are polarized about Extraordinary. Maybe that is why it was discontinued. On me it is dark chocolate and a sweet orangey spice, like one of those pomanders people used to make back in the seventies, the kind made by sticking eleventy dozen cloves into an orange. Really this is beautiful and unique in the dry down. Nothing else exactly like it. While it is obviously not an expensive niche, it is original and comforting to wear. If it reminds me of anything, it would be SJP Covet, but only about 50%, mainly from the chocolate. Soapy bitter cocoa powder.

I can't believe this is Avon. You could say this was Serge Lutens and I'd believe it. Whenever I spray this, the redolent, mossy, warm tones just surround me. I feel like I'm a creature of the earth, all clay and spice and animalistic warmth. It's sweet, too, but a very nature-made sweet - not gourmand at all. I smell chocolate, too, but it's that Mayan hot chocolate, with powerful cacao and none of that milkfat. "Extraordinary" lives up to its name- it is mature, intriguing, and piquant, while still being wearable and even cozy.

I was the first one to mention that this is like a lighter version of black orchid, but well, somebody else noticed it wich is a great thing; i get a metal/mineral note along the chocolate and the ginger and some kind of refreshing note of champagne (i love wine too) so bright and complex i dont know why avon does this kind of stupid things again and again sending away the best fragrances and keeping mostly the garbage in their catalog...i bought three bottles so im kind of having a stock of this great fragrance.

One of my favorite scents of all time. My absolute favorite is the original formula Miss Dior Cherie, to give you an idea of what my tastes run to. This one I was told I would love by the Avon lady. I sprayed it on, didn't like it, sniffed again, started to like it, smelled some more, put my nose into my wrist and breathed deep, then I bought 2 boxes. It's fizzy orange-y chocolate and I've never worn it when someone didn't compliment me. This is perfect for winter when you want to feel cozy and warm.

OMG... this is so rich and refreshing. Zingy and creamy sweet at the same time. Chocolatey good, peppery, tangerine, guava, ginger, orchid, sandalwood,musk, patchouli and vanilla. Well blended exotic. This scent makes my eyes roll back when I put it on with goodness. I have owned this fragrance for years and it never fails to impress me. ****************** Very underrated GEM*** A true love. Cute bottle. Long lasting/ Great sillage Rating 10/10

Very good actually, the first thing you smell is chocolate and the brightness of champagne mixed with citrus and pepper, in the drydown is amazing, look out the delicate aromas of orchid and lotus flower, but dominated by raspberry and begins to be very sweet. good combination with the woods and vanilla. It is pure sophistication! I receive many compliments when I wear it. It goes with my skin chemistry. Gorgeous.

Opens citrus and pepper, too much grapefruit for me personally, but warms up to an interesting ginger and dark chocolate with touches of orchid, patchouli, and musk. Drys down about 4 hours later to a sweet musky vanilla with a hint of chocolate still lingering. I actually ended up really liking Extraordinary. Sillage goes from inches to skin, and lasts over 6 hrs total on me.

Why, oh why is it when I fall in love with an Avon fragrance... they discontinue it?!? I LOVE this perfume so much, it's unlike any other fragrance; spicy, earthy, a bit floral and some chocolatey goodness... luckily I found a bottle in my sister's old boxes when she used to distribute years ago. I think I'd better try to find some asap for when my current bottle runs out!

I recently snagged a sealed bottle of this off eBay and it’s exactly how I remembered it! Yummy dark chocolately goodness with vanilla,musk,patchouli,sandalwood,pepper,magnolia with a splash of champagne even though it’s not listed. A underrated classy fragrance!!! It’s a shame Avon discontinued this gem! Longevity and sillsgr are moderate but strong and lasting💗

Once I loved her very much. Here in Poland, now virtually impregnable. You can buy only for large sums of 149.90 zł =33.21 EU. Certainly do not buy it, and shame: ( Wersja pl. Bardzo ją kiedyś lubiłam. U nas w Polsce praktycznie teraz nie do zdobycia. Można kupić jedynie za wielkie sumy 149,90 zł = 33.21 EU. Napewno jej nie kupię, a szkoda :(

Chocolate, gingered champagne & spices shot though with orange. Beautiful stuff ...and that bottle? Extraordinary ;) . Always get compliments on this one. The only gourmand that has ever really worked on me (if you don't count Aura which starts on me as a sweet & sour gourmand before wandering into green & chypre territory).

Very very very nostalgic piece, reminds me of when my mother would go out and dance her heart away, a very yummy, down to earth yet captivating scent. Found an old bottle in my cabinet and i couldn’t help but to get my own personal bottle, to live out my days as a exciting woman to be.. This perfume is the epitome of YOUTH!

vanilla, sandalwood (that reads creamy tonka), orchid, pepper, musk; a lovely sweet gentle buttery tonka/benzoin fragrance that is close to the skin and snuggly; reminds me a bit of Shalimar without the citrus; there is no chocolate, ginger, orange or spices here, not sure what everyone is smelling

LOVE! Nice oriental, warm, not over powering and lasts a long time on me. You can find this on ebay for a reasonable price. I have 2 and may purchase another before you can't find or if you do its is really exspensive. I hate when avon has a nice perfume and then discontinue it.

I found a new bottle at an out of the way Avon store. I've been hunting one locally after reading such interesting comments. Yes, it is one potent and lingering fragrance. I like it and that's that, as emily put it. Happy 2011, all.

This perfume and Surrender are the best from Avon. Unfortunately the content in my bottle is ending in some months and I can ́t buy it in Brazil anymore ́cause its discontinued in here...=( Every woman should try this one! =)

Is it just me or is this a spicier version of Today? I adore it, don't get me wrong, but they smell almost the same to me. Love the stronger chocolate note, though. In a nutshell, I love it and plan to wear it regularly!

This one I like...First,I can smell spices, chocolate and the champagne on it. When times passes it leaves a musky, spicy, sweet smell on your skin. It is a rather strong frag, so I guess it's not for everyone.

Whoa.....this is Amazing. My bottle has copyright 2000 on it, but nothing is faded, smells so expensive and isn’t. Very well blended, I don’t get any chocolate at all, but effervescence yes. Very nice!

This one is gorgeous! The chocolate with the spices is divine while the flowers and the citrus gives this frag a classy vibe. A shame it got discontinued. Lovely scent.

This fragrance is truly extraordinary! Exotic!! I feel really good when I wear this and for the price? Wow! Thumbs up Avon, you nailed it with this one.

i had this perfume 4 years before and im still looking for something like this ..can i find a perfume that smells similar?? anyone help??

Chocolate, it's what can smell in this fragrance. It also has a distinct spiciness. Very lovely, one of my favourite Avon perfumes.

L O V E this one!! Its ashame they stop making it!! Why do they always stop making the good ones and keep the stnky ones??

Love, Love, Love!! One of my favs!! I wish Avon would bring this one back!! =o)

Whenever i was wearing this, everbody asked me what it was..

Whenever i was wearing this, everbody asked me what it was..

I loved this one until i couldn't find it anymore.

I notice that a number of reviewers are lamenting that this is discontinued- it is very inexpensive on ebay- just FYI! There are a ton of ads for it. At first spray, Extraordinary is disturbingly gourmand. Literally, this smells like candy. You know those boxes of mixed chocolates, and there's always a cream something that is unidentifiable (is it supposed to be a nut flavor or a fruit? Coconut? What IS that?)? Yup. That. That tastes exactly the way Extraordinary smells at the opening. Not being a gourmand fan, and having purchased this hoping for the promised floral oriental, I'm a bit disappointed at this moment. As the alcohol dries and the heart begins to open, the florals and sandalwood begin to make an appearance. Unfortunately, intensity begins to die down. The patchouli here is nice, crisp, and drier than most. The ginger is nicely apparent, but sniffing my wrist too often makes my nose tingle. It's the pepper, which adds a nice warmth, but would be nicer if it had a fuller body. Warning: This may be a sneezer for those who are sensitive. The magnolia is dominant, and quite lovely- one of the clearest magnolia's I've encountered. I'm not finding any lotus or orchid. My skin never seems to bring out fruit notes, they just disappear on me, with a few rare exceptions. No fruit notes are appearing here, either. This is now quite pretty, a spicy magnolia, with just a touch of sandalwood. Warm, fragrant rather than sweet, and dark chocolate is only noticeable when I bring my nose to my wrist- and I suspect that someone tucking their nose into a woman's throat might enjoy detecting that hint of chocolate. I'm liking this- I wish that it were stronger. Eventually,grapefruit came into play (I got a fruit!), and the scent turned quite cheerful and sparkly. I can definitely see why other reviewers compared this to champagne. All in all, this is a nice scent that evolves over time.I'm looking forward to testing it in the summer, when I suspect that it will really come into it's own. For now, I consider this a fun, kicky, floral. The dark chocolate hung on throughout for me, but I ended up liking it. This is an inexpensive scent, with a really pretty bottle. You can wear it to work, out at night....it's flexible, and very playful. Unfortunately, for me it only lasted 2 hours! If you like cacao, I recommend that you take a look at Madonna's Truth or Dare NAKED. It's another cheapie, but takes a more oriental approach, providing incensey woody cacao bean, less of the perfumey floral vibe. Lasts forever!

I used to love this one...now I feel like it is a lovely scent but not necessarily living up to its namesake. I like the smell of chocolate and you can REALLY smell the chocolate in this one. If you are not a fan of gourmand this one is not for you. The funny thing is I actually got some compliments wearing this and people asking me what it was. I felt like I was wearing something truly unique. With that said, how could I not love it? Well, I do still love it to be honest. I still wear it from time to time but I feel like it might be a little overpowering sometimes. I think that maybe I just grew out of gourmand fragrances. A lot of the fragrances marketed to girls and young women smell as sweet as they can humanly make it; like a candy shop! This one is not nearly that bad. The smell of chocolate is actually quite balanced with the other notes. So this is definitively a more mature scent. I actually remember my grandma gushing about it when she smelled it on me. I think that I might just wear it out a few more times (because honestly I still do like this) and then maybe just gift it to her just because she loved it so much.

I bought this blindly since it seems like lots of reviews below are positive. Unless the vendor I ordered it from on-line gave me a really old bottle or a completely different fragrance, I truly dislike this one. I smell chocolate for probably the first three seconds and then nothing else but CITRUS LEMON. Great if that's your thing, but I'm reminded and overwhelmed of household cleaning product fumes. I can't deal with this. I scrubbed this one off even faster than JLo's Glowing. Ugh. EDIT: Ok, I gave this another chance. About after an hour later I can smell the chocolate. This one takes a while to develop. Don't spray and hop in the car expecting to smell great unless you LOVE lemon. Otherwise, the slooooooow drydown is actually not bad. An interesting scent. Can't say I hate it or love it. I maybe like it a little even. Oddly enough, although I think most chocolate scents are for evening wear, this one is appropriate for daytime use. It's an optimistic chocolate, not a sensual sexy chocolate.

This is Amazing! When I bought it 4 years ago, it smelled on my skin like bitter dark chocolate. So, I haven't been wearing this for years.. I was craving for something chocolate-y, but not as sweet as Chocolovers, so I said why not :) I am so happy I did! Seems my chimistry with perfumes changes, or might it be my nose? :) It starts off with dark chocolate off course, but not as bitter as it smells from the flanker neither as it used to be on me years ago. The great thing about this perfume is that it's so well-maid. It develops on skin that after a while it turns sexy musky, something like a hint of Narciso Rodriguez or Guerlain's Idyle, with chocolate lingers faintly :) I'm really enjoying it, a great fall perfume and... It's sad that Avon has discontinued this one and Surrender ( my 2 faves from Avon) will miss them of course when I finish the bottles I had been stocking :D

This is an interesting currently discontinued EDP by Avon for women. It reminds me of Rihanna's Rebelle. The coffee and ginger spin together over the sweeter/vanilla notes for a bitter unisex experience. I get more milk chocolate from this, however. The bottle is tall and elegant. The dry down is really soft and mellow. Longevity is moderate. Sillage is good. I was going to get rid of my two bottles. But I revisited this one today and decided to keep them. Vanilla is there. A sophisticated gourmand. Avon is hit or miss for me. I love their fragrance called Passion for Women, which is currently available and I do like Far Away and Far Away Gold, especially for layering. But there are some Avon fragrances that I cannot stand. I am keeping this one around for sure.

I agree with the reviewer just below that this is a fragrance that doesn't seem like every other gourmand on the market. At first spray the chocolate note is noticeable, then for me it mellows down. This seems like it would be a lovely perfume for anytime, daytime or nighttime, but I'll probably wear it more in fall and winter. It does have a hint of patchouli but for me it is not too much. I tend to hate patchouli and there are so many fragrances I would love but for the patchouli note. This one is doable for me. I'm not getting a lot of fruits in this although it is listed, so maybe it's just my skin chemistry. I'll edit after I've had it on a while. I'm hoping for good longevity and that no funky notes become prominent on me.

I bought this after looking for a spicy-chocolate-y scent. The fragrance is lovely up to the middle notes where I'm getting a fresh-spicy vanillic combo then it just stays so and doesn't develop further! Only at the very end do I get a tiny hint of sandalwood very close to the skin. I've never had problems with base notes developing on my skin especially woodsy ones like cedar, patchouli or sandalwood, I always wore them well. This is a complete disappointment. As the dark chocolate on my smells more like coffee as it mingles with citrus fruits / ginger and pepper, I stopped wearing (Extra)ordinary and bought Torrente L'Or instead. A beautiful creation that's just like what Extraordinary tried to be but couldn't.

I got this as a sample (thanks vertigo!), let me describe it: winter juice with water and a little bit of spice. It sounds strange, but I like it very much actually! I tend to keep my nose to my wrists all the time. It is juicy, but in a light way with nice (spicy) undertones which lift it up. That juice is not overly sweet, just a bit in a elegant 'womenish' kind of way. Extraordinary is also not very heavy (though you might expect that with such a name), which makes it also wearable for younger females. I understood Avon makes kind of budget-proof fragrances (of what I've seen on the internet, I never saw avon in a shop before in the Netherlands). So if your budget is limited, this is a very nice one to try!

This is magical. Extraordinary is made from a combination of notes that sound incompatible--more like they'd curdle each other than create such a nice fragrance. Yet everything comes together to form a wonderfully odd-yet-cohesive scent. There's a lot of soft pepper in this adding spice to the soapy white florals. The overall effect is papery, like an office supplies store. There is a backdrop of dark cocoa that doesn't last long. The drydown is reminiscent of brand new crayons. Nothing else smells like this--it's a standout, but it's also a quiet fragrance. I love that nostalgic hint of office supplies/classroom mixed with florals and warm spice.