Haiku

This is one of my top daily fragrances of all time. This lush, gorgeous beauty is my go to morning 'Zen' fragrance. I awaken and spray one or two sprays before my morning tea or sometimes coffee and it awakens and refreshes my mind immediately. I wear this during my workout, and it energizes me. It is truly a fresh morning fragrance for all seasons. Summertime, spring or fall rainy days also perfect. IMO mornings are the best times for this beauty also anytime during the day. It is very feminine and green floral rich. This perfume needs to be sprayed and then 'rest' for a month or two to fully 'open up' to it's potential. Very good value of a fragrance as well indeed. I feel I need to expand on this scent just a lil bit more. The notes I pick up most are, lily of the valley, a lemony type of citrus I think its yuzu but not sure and jasmine with white flowers and a cotton musk scent. This fragrance is lush and very green, very ethereal and clean. Its perfect for any occasion really very feminine and pretty, yet classy and fresh more so than clean really. It's been very dreary weather where I'm at lately, my body aches as well some days, with a couple of sprays of this and I feel ready for the world. It's an uplifting fragrance as well. Cheer your mood right on up. I have been using this almost daily lately and it's now in my top 5. It's very long lasting as time goes by and as the juice ages in the bottle it also turns a greener color as well. Which Imo makes it even more luscious. Also there is a vintage like quality to it the bottle and the scent. Something a lady would wear in the 1920's, it's prim and proper as well very ladylike. People around you will try to get closer to smell you in this fume. It;s similar to' Light Blue' by D and G I have that as well but I prefer Haiku its better more evolved note wise and much longer lasting on plus the price can't be beat. A classic. Let me add one more FACT a few ladies like to call this and other fragrances 'old lady' fumes. HERES THE DEAL, When I first met Haiku almost 20 years ago, I did NOT like her at all. She smelled very 'cold' and citrusy to my nose. Was not a fan. A little while down the road, I gave her away to a friend of mine without a thought. However, as time went on and I grew older as lucky people do and guess what my hormones changed, like allot. So now many scents smell completely different to and on me. Some frags I can no longer tolerate as I once did, although I still love them, I cannot wear them any longer ie; original Far Away perfume which was once my fave although I do wear the Gold Far Away easily allot. I can smell allot of notes in Haiku that I could not smell before pre menopause. But boy do I love Haiku it's like a whole new perfume to me now. Brand new almost to my nose. So never say never ladies you may go down the road a few years and if Haiku is still around you may find yourself in love with it just like me. Better than fragrances ten times the price out there, especially today. I'm currently hoarding bottles when on sale, I hope I never run out and Avon never discontinues this BEAUTY. Incredible. QUICK TIP; If you want Haiku to project more spray onto hair. Even if you have shorter hair, you can spray back of head along with your usual spray areas. This can give you a few hours of good projection. Also, I noticed the sprayer itself does not give as good amount of spray dispersion. I think Avon is trying to save money and skimping on the quality of the sprayer. If you replace the sprayer with a better one your Haiku will smell much more stronger and project more. PS I always keep old sprayers for this reason lol. So I recently purchased new bottles. formula has changed apparently. It smells lighter yet richer at the same time oddly. These are 2018 bottles my last were 2016 marked. They smell weaker for now but they also smell like my 2004 bottles just lighter. I will let them macerate for a couple months and see them hopefully I'm sure get stronger. The potential is there so wait and see. They will get stronger the more time goes by. They normally do. We shall see...

A wonderful and beautifully enticing surprise! I love, love, love the original Glow by JLo (I have a very detailed review on it if curious) and this is absolutely the closest I have accidentally stumbled upon, a blind buy from reviews here and notes I typically enjoy. I also wear SHI which I noticed some have made the comparison. Personally, I do not find the correlation at all?? SHI is much more fresh aquatic than floral citrusy; SHI being a lovely scent but not too complex imo, more rather just fresh aquatic and great for day wear. As of yet, I have not found any of Avon's perfumes to be my style but Haiku, it is elegant and has a lot of sex appeal. I literally almost can not tell the difference between Haiku and the original Glow. It has a slightly "warmer" feel to it but is still extremely close. I would personally describe Haiku as a warm citrus, the perfect blend of light, white florals, woody, a hint of spiciness, fresh and clean (I do not detect any vanilla whatsoever, but I am glad tbh as I have begun to steer away from vanilla scents and perhaps only, only a very minimal light musk which comes out more woody which also may give it the slightly more warm feel when comparing it to Glow). It is perfectly suited for day wear and also a great!! date night sexy, attention grabbing scent without being obnoxious. (Just like with Glow, I have been asked without fail what beautiful fragrance am I wearing by both men and women?) It is inoffensive and truly smells quite high end to my surprise too. As much as I do really love it AND the price point which will factor in here for the need to use more; the longevity is not great, the sillage is perfect but I do find I need to reapply every couple of hours...and I do not like to be the overbearing perfume person in the room. When on clothing, it will last longer though and even in the air as I get a whiff of it when I come home when gone only a few hours. Lastly, I do not care much about bottle appearance but I do quite like the Asian Pagoda Temple look and soft green hues of this unique bottle. If you like the notes listed or if you are a Glow fan, I would highly recommend giving Haiku a try!! ☺

*EDIT/Addition to my initial (separate) detailed review: After wearing this almost daily since purchasing it, I have actually been layering it sometimes with my (obviously, probably almost annoying now to readers, apologies lol) much loved Glow, to conserve it since I can not seem to get my hands on more...and with being an almost identical scent, it's very easy. However, whether I do or do not, I receive the same reaction always which is beginning to surprise me now tbh because I do mean always. EVERY single time (literally) I leave my home wearing this scent, strangers go out of their way to ask what I am wearing or to simply compliment the fragrance in EVERY store I am in, without fail, customers, men, women, clerks, staff, everyone, of all ages even?! I also feel I need to be fair in updating the longevity too which I rated as needing to reapply but I rarely could be bothered while running errands and shopping, I never remember to throw the lovely Pagoda bottle in my purse. I too often tend to spritz on my clothing and long, long after I can no longer smell myself at all (not as easy as the wrist test which I have begun wearing Vaseline as a base, on what I feel are fragrances needing some help in the longevity area and it works like a charm btw), I truly thought the scent was long gone. This evening for the 3rd time, I was proven wrong after a good 5-6 hours after application when again, a customer actually followed me to tell me how wonderful I smell and asked what the perfume was that I was wearing. (Note, I very much shy away from overdoing it and like a soft and appropriate sillage regardless of where I am going.) So this has better sillage that initially thought and is now exactly equal to the original JLo Glow in the compliment grabbers category. I myself really have fallen in love with this perfume and it certainly doesn't hurt that my fiancé is just as intoxicated with it too. (My initial full review is only a week old, so it should be the last one below if interested.) ☺

I bought this late last year in a layering set for my daughter and myself. We both love this, but since the perfume spray itself turns into plastic trash bag on me and not her, she got to keep the whole set. About a month ago I bought up a bunch of avon's scented deos on sale and this was one of them because I remembered how much I liked the rest of the layering set. I liked the freshness of the deo so very much I went ahead and bought the skin softener and body powder. I am so glad that I did. This is mostly a green Muguet throughout with a lovely soft floral and green grassy undertone. It does develope and shift throughout the day,sometimes grassy, sometimes woody, sometimes white floal, and back again, but the lily of the valley stays consistant. The skin softener stays hours on my skin and I love to layer it with fresh floral scents, and keep my skin cool and fresh all day in the summer heat with the body powder. For me lily of the valley evokes strong memories. Most of my mother's favorite scents had a strong presence of muguet. While wind song was her number one signature scent she actually wore Coty's Muguet du Bois quite a lot, mostly because that is what I would buy for her more than anything else. I loved how it smelled in general and on her most of all. Lily of the valley once planted in rich moist soil under trees tends to take off like a weed, at least it did in our yard - someone long before we ever lived in our quiet little house had planted them under some plum trees along an old fence, they ran all the way to the back of yard along with some little blue bells that were not as hardy as the lilies. They smelled so wonderfull, so strong and I loved them so much they were perfect little white bells of heavely scent. This is one of my first memories. That is what Haiku makes me think of, my childhood yard in the spring filled with flowers planted long ago.

Im not able to do a review yet but should be getting it in the mail in the next few days. Im blind buying because of reviews and i liked kyoto flower. I just wanted to point out that on avons website the note description mentions that haiku has green tuberose in it but it is not listed here. If anyone smells green tuberose in this can you please let me know, tuberose is my favorite flower and ive been obsessed with anything tuberose lately!! Btw, a good wedding day avon perfume in my opinion would be haiku kyoto flower. It's a mix of smelling like chloe love story and pleasures. Edit: finally got my order in the mail and i was pleasantly suprised. It's a very green scent, full of lillies and lilly of the valley. You can smell the green stems of the flowers, it's like walking into a grassy field full of lillies and lilly of the valley. I dont wear green scent often because they tend to disappear on my skin fairly quickly. Haiku was strong and remained strong for 2 full hours before it started to become a lighter woody floral. It goes from feeling like your in a grassy feild, to walking through the woods. I think this is the best green floral I've tried so far. Longevity is 3 -6 hours, sillage is an arms length and after an hour people can smell haiku when they give you a hug, or stand close to you. Beautifully blended, a wonderful green scent. The pomegranate is there to keep things from becoming to sharp, it doesn't stand out but you know it's there, sandlewood and vanilla come out in the end and gives a warmer creamy feel to the perfume. It makes me feel clean, fresh, happy and energized. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a green floral. Oh btw, green tuberose is evident in this perfume, it just blends extremely well with the lily. It reminds me a bit of gucci bamboo and izzy Miyake .