Incandessence

With Incandessence I learned a valuable lesson that getting to know a certain fragrance is like getting to know a person - it takes time until you can be familiar with all the different and beautiful facets of one's character. At the beginning of this summer I received a 30ml bottle of Incandescence as a gift and at the time I wasn't very thrilled with it. I remember that at the initial spray the only thing I could sense was alcohol, alcohol and alcohol, again. After a few minutes there was a strong smell of orchid and cyclamen, accompanied by an equally strong blend of other flowers that I couldn't really distinguish. Still, I decided to be patient and try to accommodate myself with it. I used it from time to time when I wanted something different than what I normally wear (I'm an oriental type of girl), but I never considered it something special. Until a week ago. For whatever reason that day I decided that I want to wear it and spritzed some behind my ears and on my wrists. This time the fragrance behaved in a totally different way. Instead of cyclamen and orchid , this time what I felt was a dominating scent of tulips and peony. It was beautiful, sweet, but with a slightly bitter touch , because of the tulip. With time the aroma settled down and I could also sense hints of orchid and cyclamen.Magnifique! That night coming home from uni, I spritz some again. It was a cold ,chilly night, but I felt like I was surrounded with a halo of flowers . I kid you not - I felt my neck and sides warming up. Now I finally understand why it's called Incandessence. It made a dull trip home in one bleak October night into a magical memory for me. That's why it holds a special place in my heart. My advise is be patient with it (and with any other fragrance, for that matter) as you would be with a person. Don't let preconceived notions and ideas to stop you from seeing the unexpected side of life ... and fragrances.

This is the first perfume I ordered when Avon started becoming popular in my country. That was 25 years ago. I was enchanted by it on a first shiff then, and I still get exited when i by it and spray it for the first time after a while like that first time. This is a summer day in a bottle. Pleasant, light, feminine and fresh, for both day and night. I haven't still ran into a women who didn't liked it and yet it's far from generic and 'like every other women perfume" I always get compliments when I wear it.

Incandessence was one of my very first bought perfumes. I wear it from time to time, it's one of my favorites fragrances for the summer. It's an very unusual scent for me, i usually like some more complicated smells, but i still return to it from time to time... The only inconvenient it is that Incandessence is a best seller in my country. But i can get trough this, as well as i can survive the fact that it's not expensive (it should be!)... i love Incandessence!

Am I the only one that smells Johnson’s baby shampoo? Like the old formula. Takes me back to the 90s bath time. Feeing nostalgic every time I have a sniff of this. I love wearing it in spring and autumn right after a long hot shower! I don’t get the j’adore which was one of my first ever perfumes as a teenager. It’s great to see that the majority are saying this but I guess it differs with skin chemistry

While I don't remember how Incandessence exactly smelled like, I still clearly remember the feelings it evoked in me. It was such a happy, sunny perfume and it was perfect to wear for spring and early summer mornings. I loved sneaking a few sprays before going to school when I was elementary/middle school. That was THE spring (my favorite season) fragrance for me. I wish I could smell it once more.

This smells like dior j’adore even better less synthetic and plus affordable. I noticed expensive perfumes get better reviews just because they are expensive or maybe people try to love them more since they spent money on them. This smells really good, feminine, fresh and never tired of it. Has good projection. Will forever like avon perfumes so much nostalgia and quality ❤️

My beloved perfume. I had 3 pieces so far ^_^ now the cost of the directory is PLN 45.90 EUR = 10.17 Promotion I recommend to people after 25 years of age, he fits almost everything. Wersja Pl > Moja Ukochana perfuma. Miałam 3 sztuki do tej pory :D obecnie koszt w katalogu to 45.90 PLN = 10.17 EUR Promocja. Polecam osobom po 25 roku zycia, bo pasuje prawie do wszystkiego.

THis is a masterpiece! Smells nothing like an avon fume.It is dripping with huge pink parrott tulips,Smoldering orchids,and creamy white peonies.ITS the same beginning to end.Sillage is great and it really lasts.sexy,ooy gooey,dripping sexual fume! I cant find it anymore so I treasure my small bottle for special events.TRuly floral,a breath of springtime Enjoy!!

I first smelled it on someone else and i desperatenly wanted it so i went and buy it... it's very sensual, i fell in love with it. It's soft, sensual, classy... and it lasts long too. I've got a lot of compliments about it. I usually grow bored of a perfume by the time i already used half of the bottle, but this one is so great i bought another bottle.

In the opening, you can feel a lot of orchid, followed by a green base with tulips and many other flowers. The florals bring something green that feels a bit heavy and can seem bitter, but in the summer, this bitterness is very refreshing. As it dries down, the scent becomes purely floral, and that strong burst fades away. I love Avon perfumes!

I'm from Brazil and perfume out of line here long ago sold for only a short time, when I bought it launched, but there was not time to buy another, out of line here, I was very sad because I liked him a lot, unfortunately Avon did this and there are other horrible perfume that they still sell here, and that I liked not sell more, snif!

Very very floral scent, which I wouldn't typically go for. The lilly note stays forever on my skin! I enjoy it, especially in the spring. It's pretty strong so I spray 2 puffs and I'm good. This perfume made me enjoy florals more, me being a sickeningly sweet-gourmand-sugar fragrance fanatic. For the price, it's great

One of the best fumes by Avon so far. Very significant and nicely composed scent. I love it! Update: Today I repurchased it and reassured that this frag is absolutely lovely! Great notes which match perfectly together and the longevity and sillage are superb too, especially for Avon's perfume. Well done!

This was my signature scent for a looong time. Ex-boy friend used to adore it. I think it is one of the best avon scent. It reminds me a beautiful girl wearing little yellow dress and tiare.. The most important problem about this perfume is longevity. I wish it was long lasting..

Sun in a bottle for me. Bright and happy fragrance. Perfect for spring but it is a year-rounder. Similar to Dior J'adore, but less rosy, and of course it does not have the Dior quality. Still pretty on its own though. Cheerful but somehow elegant and it suits any age.

If you want to smell feminine, soft and fresh, then this can be your option. Men find it very attractive. Despite it is underestimated just because of its cheap price, I think it is one of the best Avon fragrance which has ever been released.

A beautiful, classic, feminine vintage fragrance. It is floral and warm, beautiful in its refined simplicity. A composition of many flowers touched by gentle rays of sunlight. It feels pleasant, calm, soothing, and elegant.

I bought Incandessence because it reminded me of my happy childhood days and my mom's lovely frags she used to wear back then, like Fidji and Climat. Incandessence is exciting and so feminine. I repurchased it thrice! :-)

I've always been fascinated by this perfume because it's really hard to describe. It's not sweet or fresh or flowery, it's something else. I would say the closest thing would be hairspray, it's like a balsamic sunset

The carefree spirit of the late '90s and the turn of the century—a joyful, radiant, youthful scent. Floral and light, it evokes a time when life was simpler, slower, yet fuller. Lasts for several hours on fabric.

Love this fragrance! Sooo feminine! It brightens up every day :) It's a very light and bright perfume but at the same time its longevity is pretty moderate. I already had some bottles of it and I want more.

'Incandescence' is a very very elegant perfume (not a EdT) mostly having floral notes. I got this as a present and was able to sell it pretty fast. It's an amazing perfume that I recommend to anyone.

The best option for summery and hot weather for its refreshing notes of fruits to keep it feeling awake and having a good day to go for.

I loooooooooove this scent!!!!!!!! Very clean, elegant, classic, a total pleasure to wear it!!!

I use it and everyone always asks if you can have some and my friend has even bought one!

A very nice perfume,elegant and classy,reminds me of 5th Avenue......by Elizabeth Arden.

so fresh and clean. i generally don't like fresh perfumes but this is sooo good love it.

Good choice for rester and summer night

Incandessence by Avon is an uncomplicated delight as far as simple floral perfumes go. I own a small splash bottle that I picked up back in Turkey quite a few years ago. While applying Incandessence as a splash does amplify the less delicate aspects of the fragrance (pure alcohol, ahoy!), it doesn't necessarily detract from its beauty. Sweet peonies, not of the musky or slightly spicy variety, tulips, and lily of the valley are the most prominent to my nose. It has a modest lifespan and sillage. This is office-friendly floral all the way. Nothing sharp, musky, sour, earthy, spicy, or challenging. Incandessence would make an excellent first perfume for a person who is graduating from body mists but isn't ready to grapple with anything too intense. This won't impress any fragrance veterans or risk takers, though. I also have a special place in my heart for Incandessence because it held up well despite being improperly stored and sizzling away on my vanity through sweltering summers. Perhaps the older batches were made of sturdier stuff. Overall, Incandessence is an agreeable and acceptable floral fragrance that won't shock or amaze but won't fail to perform as a simple and pretty perfume.

A very classical perfume in a good sense. Almost purely floral (in this type of perfumes I always sense a hint of apricot???), and rather clean once you surpass the first 5 minutes of rosy heaviness. The second phase is very nice, but after an hour or so it loses its sillage and leaves just a trace of a fine creamy soap smell - on my skin at least. In this phase I discover a slightly "grannyish" note, but nicely grannyish. (No offence, I'm not young myself.) I appreciate it, though, because to me it looks like something for all the ages and all the types of skin. I can easily imagine it on all the women I know. On the other hand, I suspect it works much better and could last longer on a lighter skin. Not for warm weather if you don't want a chocolatey and slightly stuffy note. This perfume doesn't send the "I am sexy" message, it's too weak and a bit too serious for that. Also, it reminds me to too many other perfumes to call it unique. But as someone here said, it does feels "classy" in spite of that. So if I leave aside my personal taste, this one deserves a rather high mark in this class of inexpensive perfumes.

I just tried Dior`s J`Adore again the other day, just to see about the aforementioned similarity, and it is definitely there, hard to explain which are the exact notes that cause this similarity, but these two are similar in type and notes also..Yet I still do prefer Incandessence over it! I think J`Adore`s drydown is almost exactly like Incandessence`s opening, but on initial spray I found nothing in common! Incandessence`s drydown, however, is simply just more flowery, less dry and sour - J`Adore always used to have this quality about it that it turned sour to my nose, whereas it never occurs with Incandessence! It could be just the thing of skin chemistry, yet Avon performs so much better to my nose..I also prefer the bottle somehow - it is round, evokes summer, especially because I remember that the first time it was out and I got it it was very close to summer school-break.. It could last longer - a common trait with most Avon products - but it`s still a firm favorite that I get for myself from time to time, one of my top 3 fave Avon perfumes.

The 2000s were very fun for me. I played both video games and street games enough. I got acquainted with video games on my cousin's computer in the late 90s. In the 2000s, I remember playing games on my cousin's computer. An object that looked like a ball in my cousin's room caught my attention. It was like a ball covered with glass on the outside. When I opened the lid, I came across a perfume bottle in the shape of a half sphere. Whenever I went to my cousin's and played video games on his computer, I would definitely spray a few sprays of this perfume. I remember later convincing my aunt, who lived in the same house, to buy me some of this perfume. I didn't like the smell of this perfume very much as a child, but I couldn't help but smell it every time I saw it.

About 90% of Avon perfumes are fresh florals, at least the ones I have. Incandescence is probably the second best in this category (to Avon’s Today). They both have some unique flowers. Here, it’s the freshly cut tulips on their green sappy stems that intrigue me. I don’t smell tulips this clearly in any other perfume I have. It’s delightful, vibrant and optimistic, I totally get the name. If you’re not into florals steer clear, but if you like them then get it by all means. You won’t be disappointed at that price points. I’ve bought some niche samples for more money, many of which never managed to brighten up my face with a smile like this one does. 😊 PS I personally prefer it to j’adore.

This was a blind swap with a lovely Fragrantica lady. Once I worked out how to open the bottle (I'm not closing the lid fully from now on!) and sprayed it, I was immediately reminded of a slightly more floral, lighter version of Estee Lauder's Pure White Linen Light Breeze which has long been a favourite of mine. It makes me smell like I've just got out of the shower after a hard day's sunbathing and I'm cooling off on the balcony somewhere in the Mediterranean, wearing a white cotton wrap. Lovely bright fragrance and a definite cheer up on a cold Autumn day like today. ETA - I've just ordered this for a birthday present for a family member. I hope she likes it as much as I do :)

I had a bottle of Incandessence a few years ago (6 years maybe?) and I remember I liked the fragrance very much, it seemed elegant and classy. Nowadays I buy perfumes from higher shelves but I decided to buy Incandessence again to recall the fragrance. I liked it again, but after a short time I decided that my fragrance preferences had changed and I sold it. I must admit it's one of the best fragrances released by Avon, good lasting power, it has something oriental in itself - but all in all, too much flowers and only flowers, mainly tulips - tulips are great done here, but I wished there was more than only flowery notes to detect. It's a powerful, strong fragrance. Thumbs up!

I don’t own a bottle (yet) but I have a roll-on with this scent, and it works really well. I mean fragrance it’s soapy and pretty, subtle and polite. Never thought of a bottle, but now since I see Avon changing 00s bottles designs for a new ones, starting to think of buying it. As I already feel that I lost my chance on Far Away. About incandessance: it can be good as linen perfume, and just as a vintage item in my closet, like the bottle, color, early 2000 vibe. Edit: went to try it on once again. It doesn’t give 00’s vibe, nore my teenage time nostalgia. Just tastes like a shampoo. Not very expensive of fancy shampoo, a regular one. Modest perfume

This fragrance is great for its price. The scent is difficult to describe which makes it quite unique and nostalgic. It smells kind of like a hairspray or conditioner at a hairsalon. Very floral, clean and warm that makes you feel cozy and relaxed. But it’s also very radiant. I dont really smell a lot of orchid in this fragrance, but more peony, bergamot, rose, white peach and musk. Its a great combination. Sadly does this fragrance not last long so you have to reapply it almost every 30 minutes. Sillage is also pretty weak. Although I still think this is such a steal

Uhhhm I am confused by the notes displayed by this site. According to avon this perfume has bergamot, rose accords and white teakwood. For me it DOES smell like tulips and peonies so someone got the notes messed up? Hahah anyway..Incandessence is one of the best perfumes from Avon in my opinion. It gives me a happy and solar feeling while wearing it. I think it can be worn in any season but especially in late winter/early spring. Longevity - around 9 h Sillage - moderate with one spray and quite heavy if you apply more than that.

This smells like hair spray that my mom used to use when I was a kid. But in a weirdly good way. It was made over twenty years ago and it smells like that - which makes all the nostalgia come back. Heavy on the florals, slightly synthetic and strong, my god can I smell it on myself. I feel like that's how many perfumes were back in late 90's, early 00's. But I may be wrong lol, don't count me on that. After all, I was a kid back then so now all I can count on are those childhood memories of what women around me wore.

It is mostly floral scent,I like peony in it, which is refreshing me in these cloudy, cold days. But where is any fruit-it is categorised as floral fruity?? I can't recognized it. Any way, it is nice, for every day, with any WOW effect but nice... Edit 2.2.2011 I'm reporting wow effect! :) I've just bought E.Arden Beauty(like it a lot)and I recognize simillar beginning and base too. So Incandessence we can put in green floral and not at fruities at all. Common note is orchid. Classy both of them.

When I last wore this I wasn't very keen, but this time I seem to get along better with it. It has a warmth to it unusual in a floral only scent and is long lasting. However, and as some others report, there is something in it that I wish wasn't there, perhaps its the cyclamen or just the combination of the notes altogether, but it is not unpleasant enough to put me off. Its nicely presented too and I can see why Avon has not discontinued it as its obviously very popular.

Looking at this perfumes Fragrance Notes u wouldn't think much of it... it looks almost banal. Don't let yourself be fooled! This little "incandescent" globe is really fantastic. As soon as u spray it on, u are transported to a warm sunny day... wearing a maxi summer dress and twirling in endless fields of flowers. It's such a happy joyful smell. It works best on gloomy cold days when u are missing the warmth of the summer sun =) U can follow me on YouTube @ BeautyOnSale

disagree with Inani..... in this price bracket I doubt you can find much better. Is one of my favorites from Avon and is really suitable for work. I used it when I was younger and had lower budget for these things and must admit it worth every penny and more. Is long lasting, young and sensual fragrance. Although my taste changed and now use Chanel - Coco Mademoiselle and Armani - Sensi for regualr working days Incandessence could still do the trick.

I think does remind me J'adore. I use to like J'adore but the second time I've tried it, I didn't like. I always like incandessence. Since when came for the first time several years ago . This is one of my very favourites Avon perfume. Is floral, a bit bitter, fruity delicious smell. I don't need to talk much about as many here have already explained. I think is safe to says that have a strong staying power, at least on me.

vonwinklestine :) , no it's original , i had the 50 ml bottle and a 30ml bottle ( the small one , same as yours.) and the color is very dark yellow like orange and smells the same as the big bottle . no i don't think you should bother about it. Only don't spray it on clothes because it leaves stains .Oh yes the Incandessence name is a sticker(i had bubbles of air into the sticker too !! ahahahah) kiss kiss

Incandessence is a floral perfume, not a single fruit is listed in the notes and it does smell pure floral. (listed here as floral fruity) This I consider an Avon classic: a refined, well-made perfume with it's very own character. Very bright, like a sunrise in a spring morning, clean and floral fresh. Mood lifting and happy. I am glad I still have a mini roller left!

Opens strong, dry down very pleasant. It is ALL floral. The men seem to really like this one. There is an initial sweetness that could make me dizzy in a hot, closed space. Day time use; it is a positive and optimistic scent. (Does NOT smell like Happy Clinique, nor Anais Anais). Longevity and sillage both medium; surprisingly not immediately eaten by my skin!

actually i'm wondering if i have a fake. not sure if anyone would bother making a fake avon. I have a 30ml bottle with liquid that looks alot darker than on the website, also i can barely see incandessence on the bottle and it's a sticker i can peel off. The top doesn't fit well either. Also says made in poland. can anyone tell me if this sounds like a fake?

When a girl at my office showed it to me I really loved it. It is quite modern and chic. It is a perfume to wear when you are going out at night, and looking for something "dressy". Unfortunately she sold it to several girls at my office, and I hate wearing the same as everyone else... So that's why it's more I like than I love.

vonwinklestine: I don't think it's the same, but I feel similarities. Happy is more juicy to me, this is more flowery, but I feel the same 'synthetic' sunny note here which is haten by lot of people in Happy (personally I loved it for years). I think you can like this one, too, but it's not Happy.