Make Me Wonder

The sadness that this has been discontinued is still real. It reminds me so much of a youthful and happy time in my life, and it's one of the many Avon fragrances that has been discontinued and has made me wonder (boom boom) 'why?!' Now all the Avon fragrances are largely generic floral and all in a very similar fragrance line, which can get boring. Where's the character? Where's the flirtiness? Where's the charm? Anyway, this is lush. It's a purple-berry-frosted-with-sugar masterpiece. I mostly get purple (and a touch of red) fruit, and pure, sweet, unadulterated sugar. If such a thing as blackberry frosting existed, this is what this would smell like. There's maybe a hint of vanilla and sophistication, but the sweetness is largely just an icing-sugar/frosting kind of sweetness. It is flirty and girly, I couldn't see this being an elderly lady choice at all. It is supremely feminine, and if you are a fan of sweet, fruity scents, you'd love this. So sad it's gone. The closest comparison is Britney Spears Midnight Fantasy, but in MF I get more fruit and a slightly more synthetic vanilla vibe, this is sweeter and the fruit is more dreamy and floaty and less synthetic. I'm relying on MF to recreate the Make Me Wonder vibe, though, since MMW is now discontinued and the odd bottle that pops up on eBay is astronomically expensive, for a perfume that was originally marketed as a 'budget' scent. Avon have a habit of discontinuing their best scents and products. I've no idea why!

For many years I've claimed this perfume as my all time favorite. I'll admit I had not smelled it in about 14 years but if I sat there long enough I could almost imagine smelling it. I was very well known for this smell in highschool. My stepsisters and I all got the set of Make Me Wonder, Make Me Smile, and Fire Me Up. Luckily we all had different scent preferences and I traded them my other two less favorite scents for their Make Me Wonder bottles! Even having three bottles, they only ever sold 1.7 oz bottles of this perfume so I made them last all through til senior year. Recently I purchase an old bottle off of someone for a pretty penny compared to the amount of perfume ($51 USD), with that being said I delicately sprayed one spray and rubbed it on my wrists and it's still just as heavenly as I remember. The fruit notes come through on top, then you get that lilac and vanilla. The powder note for me stays throughout but it smells like a clean, sweet berry. I sprayed it three hours ago and I still keep getting whiffs! The nostalgia of this perfume was worth every cent and I will cherish this perfume. Maybe someday I'll find a perfect match, as it's sadly discontinued and all the bottles being sold are questionable sources. Ebay was my lucky find for this in 2024.

this was one of my favorite perfumes in middle school. i have a really old bottle with the tiniest bit of juice left that i don’t know why i held on to, but it still smells good. i revisited it today. i think this is what started my love of sweet fruity-florals, specifically violet. it’s nothing super sophisticated, i wore it as a teen, but i’d still wear it today. longevity was pretty good for an Avon perfume (and i say that with love). i just love getting whiffs of this, it makes me nostalgic and i just loved wearing it. they’ll never bring it back, but if they did i’d buy a couple of bottles.

Dark-sweet berries, cool-sweet violets and creamy-sweet vanilla...just what it says on the tin. At (often far) less than $10.00 USD for a 50ml bottle BUY IT unsniffed, toss it in your beach tote and plan on using it up before the summer's over. A warm fruity floral with vanilla -- it shouldn't work in hot weather BUT IT DOES! and very well, at that. So what if it needs reapplication every couple of hours? I keep my bottle in the fridge for a cool spritz when I come in from our 100+ degree heat in the afternoons, hours after my morning fragrance has disappeared. An energizing happy fragrance.

Oh, I miss this so much! Blackberry juice and vanilla. That's really the best I can describe it. Lasting power was decent, but I wouldn't want to be prolonged to such a sweet fragrance for very long. Only problem is I wore it for a week straight at an office when our air conditioner gave out, and needless to say I now associate the scent with that sweaty summer.