Moonwind

So trying out all of these vintage Avon scents has taught me something about myself: I smell great in chypre fragrances. I didn't have the fragrance vocabulary as a child to know that that's why I liked Moonwind so much. Whereas Sweet Honesty and Zany are clean powder scents, and Persian Wood and Cotillion are spicy Orientals, the most surprising scents for me this week have been Somewhere, Candid, Occur! and Moonwind, all classic chypre fragrances. Of these three Moonwind is the lightest, but she's still lovely. Here's the breakdown: First drops applied by pipette to wrists, neck, and pits. A warm, gently soapy scent hits. There's a definite slightly sour citrus punch too, initially a strong grapefruit. Don't worry, she doesn't hang around too long. By hour two she's dried down into a cozy bergamot, lightly mossy, cedar, sandalwood, white musky scent, and I mean cozy. This scent is relaxing. I also realize something else I didn't know as a kid. Like many Avon scents this one is vaguely familiar: Miss Dior! Definitely Avon's sister scent. I think classic Moonwind smells closer to classic Miss Dior than the current pink version Dior makes. By hour 4 she's gone, but I don't mind reapplying early. I have a couple of these little bottles from the 80's. I'm going to make the absolute most of them. Moonwind is one of those rare "anytime, any place, any season" scents. Sadly, they stopped making this one too. However, bottles can still be found all over the place so if you find one out in the wild for $5-10 it's worth a shot. You're not going to find classic Miss Dior for that, or new Miss Dior for that matter either. Night Magic was similar, and they still make that one, though I have no idea what the current version smells like. I really should remedy that. But Moonwind is a definite win for me. Hubby absolutely loved it too, so that's always a bonus.

Thrift stores stock them, and they only set you back a few dollars, but I am always reluctant to sniff Avon perfumes. To call them "hit or miss" somehow feels like an understatement. Some of them are on par with Guerlain et al, and some smell like strange chemical abominations. Fortunately, "Moonwind perfume concentre" is a $5 stunner, a classic chypre floral. It goes on with an aldehydic sheen, gentle herbs and florals peaking through. Lavender, sage, a honeyed, pollen-like note of narcissus, iris powder, softened by an undercurrent of sweet ambery musk material. Alongside their signature "Avonade", the base contains some raspy oakmoss & angular vetiver. Avon perfumes generally time out quickly, but Moonwind has enough going on to keep it interesting. If you can imagine Dior releasing an extension line of products for 1947 Miss Dior; Moonwind would approximate the talcum powder. Hopefully this comparison paints a clear image. Like most Avon perfumes, Moonwind has a cosmetic aspect to the scent. It's a rather powdery and soapy wearing experience. I find it nostalgic and endearing, and if you don't mind these qualities, the perfume has an otherwise gorgeous DNA; some natural materials, good progression, and a distinctive trail. It's quite beautiful, certainly among the best vintage Avon perfumes I've sampled. I see why it's so popular and highly rated on the database. I wish it would last longer, but otherwise I have no complaints.

When this fragrance debuted, I was a young child and my mother sold Avon. So I must have smelled this back then, but I don't remember it. Fast forward to the 2000s when, after her mother's death, a friend of mine gave me a 'senorita' bottle of this that had been her mom's. I was touched just to have the bottle, and didn't realize that perfumes could survive for so long, so it didn't occur to me to sample the fragrance until some years later. And then I discovered...something I feel is unique, and very hard to describe. Moonwind, the lovechild of the Age of Aquarius and the period of the moon landings, a fragrance that simultaneously inspires from the past and exhales into the future. As other reviewers have noted, a perfume that is green, serene, and meditative. And...is there musk in this? Because I get musk, which enchants me all the more. Moonwind is a potion to put on a cotton ball and tuck into your pillowcase to induce beautiful dreams, to apply to your corsage and wrists and dream of unicorns, to inhale to relieve you of the stresses of the modern world. Everyone should experience it at least once.

Moonwind is the smell of my early childhood visits to my grandmother. She and my grandfather had quite a few Avon colognes, soaps, talcum powder, and aftershaves when I was little. They all merged into one smell in the bathroom unless I picked them up and smelled them individually, which of course I did. My grandfather's aftershaves all had what I now know to be a lot of oakmoss and vetiver. My grandmother's colognes were either powdery florals, like lilac, or a bit more like my grandfather's scents. Now I understand why. She clearly had Moonwind. Today I got lucky enough to find a beautiful 4 oz peacock-shaped bottle of it at a thrift shop. It couldn't have been opened before; the cologne is vintage, but not degraded. the aldehydes, spicy oakmoss, soft floral, and green notes are intact. Scent has the ability to put your mind solidly into a setting from the past, and Moonwind has done that for me. I thought I was just buying a beautiful bottle today. Instead, a cologne reminded of my grandmother.

Cool, mossy, blue green. A little contemplative, a little lonely, a little sad. But also euphoric, and nostalgic. Beautiful. There's definitely musk in this one, and I'm not sure if it's animal or nitro,but it's a variety that isn't used any more. It's in the old avonade, and definitely present here. I have a small strawberry full of the pure perfume and a large blue plastic aresol(sp?)of the colonge mist, which I layer. These are chock full of natural ingredients I wager. That oakmoss is just heavenly. I recommend getting some of this while you still can on eBay. The prices are going up and stock is going down,it seems. This is a magical perfume from a bygone time. They don't make em like this too much anymore! I love it!

I got a small bottle of Moonwind from a thrift store. I think that in the context of modern norms, it leans slightly masculine. Some of its most prominent notes are more associated with men's fragrances nowadays, maybe because many of the older fragrances still in production are men's, and the ones still worn by women have gravitated more universally toward sweet, floral, fruity, or gourmand types. Moonwind is a powdery soapy fragrance that I find to be somewhat comparable to Stetson for Men.

I cannot imagine anything more fairy-like than this fragrance. I live by the woods and it gives me the vision of a little fairy flitting by my window wearing a dress of leaves and a crown of moss carrying a gauzy little cloud of moonwind around her. Maybe on a warm spring night with the moon glinting off her wings. Someone used the word diaphanous which is perfect. If you crave real oakmoss, this is your fragrance.

I love this i was brought it by my mother when i was little, for my birthday my husband found an bottle of it in ebay same bottle original box and nearly full, every now and then i take a sniff and think of my mother and im a child again

WOW I am amazed. Trying today a vintage mini perfume in a shoe bottle. This is NICE perfume. Reminds me of Youth Dew somewhat, but not so spicy. I really like this and most definately recommend it. Fresh and sexy at the same time.

Perfect nighttime scent. Nice powdery chypre with some spicy oakmoss. I love these old Avon beauties, very evocative and sentimental.

My sister tells me our Mom wore this back in the 1970's. One of several. But this Moonwind is decidedly masculine. With prominent accords of Woody, Earthy, Green, and Mossy, nine times out of ten its going to at least lean masculine. And Moonwind does, despite the marketing to women, and the votes here on Fragrantica by people too easily swayed by marketing and insufficient experience. A woody Aromatic, somewhere between a vintage Fougere and an Aldehydic Chypre. My sister and two other voters here on Fragrantica thinks this smells like Stetson, and I can understand the comparison. I have Stetson in my collection along with a ton of other vintage masculines. Moonwind just doesn't have enough going on in scent profile to stand out against Stetson and most of the others. Stetson has a honey note. Moonwind could use something like that. The aldehydes are really apparent but not overbearing, although Im not the biggest fan of aldehydes. I'd rather have the aldehydes replaced with honey to be honest. But all in all Moonwind isn't bad.

I was walking home from coffee with an old friend when I found a "free" box by the side of the road. To my utter astonishment, it contained five bell-shaped Avon bottles WITH perfume still in them. In addition, there were lead-crystal bowls and I grabbed two of those as well. Somehow, after all these years, this perfume is still good. There wasn't much left in the bottle, and it was rather thick and oily in consistency. Maybe somehow the alcohol evaporated and left behind all the oil in good condition? Anyway, maybe some of the top notes have degraded, but it still smells rich and romantic. I'm very fortunate to have happened upon it. I liked Moonwind a lot, but Husband complained I smelled like a grandma. There wasn't much of it left in the bottle anyway.

Avon nailed the title of this fragrance, as it perfectly represents a nocturnal breeze, caressing freshly bathed skin, eyes cast upward to the sky. Powdery freshness of Narcissus and lavender, aerated with the use of soapy aldehydes, sit close to the skin, intimately comforting. Green notes are playful, but only in the sense that lunar reflections transform moss, grass, and vetiver into a darkened state of reflective light, heavy, dripping with atmosphere. It's simple and soft, with just enough sparkle left to sing you to sleep. Disguised as green scent and marketed to women, this could easily open its fougere structure into a world of gender neutral delight.

Taking a blind whiff of a fresh and most likely very well preserved moonwind dispensed on to a blotter strip from a peacock bottle, I guessed oak moss, vetiver, and linalool, green/sharp. This lines up pretty well with the notes, and I can definitely see where the lavender and grapefruit come in too. The floral notes work really well and come through as it dries. Slaps, would probably wear well on most people, and you really can't argue with a peacock shaped bottle, or the original ribbed blue art deco revival atomizer bottle for that matter.

This stiffest, most vertical, staunchest chypre of Avon’s glory days would suit a Henry James villainess. Piercing aldehydes, vigorous oakmoss, and icy vetiver are only fortified by an almost astringent lavender note. It reminds me a bit of givenchy iii but lacks the soft heart notes of that fragrance. I respect this one more than like it, and am probably too much of a flouncy sentimentalist to pull it off, but to those who can I say yes ma’am or sir whatever you say ma’am or sir 🥶🫡

A woody green chypre that could easily pass for unisex as the lavender and vetiver keeps this one from being strongly feminine. I don't wear it often but have a lot of it due to my growing collection of Avon vintage perfume bottles. Probably my favorite perfume name of all time, simple as it is. I like it better after about half an hour, when it softens nicely and the green becomes quite beautiful.

This is an interesting fragrance. I would say it reminds me a lot of a smoker who loves essential oils, the essential oils overpowering the smoky notes. It's not terrible, but it isn't a favorite of mine. I would say this is one of the Avon fragrances that isn't offensive to the nose. I would say that it's good, and that it reminds me of hippies, which may have been the goal.

Opens with a strong aldehyde which carries with it fresh citrus. It is light hearted and slighty soapy. Once the aldehydes float away it becomes a greener scent but still with a soap tint. After thirty minutes, oakmoss and vetiver dominate creating a green woody feel.

I would say this is the most Woody of the ones that I have but overall just a very okay scent for collection. This is the only scent that I have in a car-shaped bottle, though it is only a horse-drawn wagon/buggy type car, not one of like the actual rare vintage cars💔

One of several once-upon-a-time women's fragrances whose notes have since been shifted maleward, making this now perfectly wearable by men, too.

Very strong. Aldehydes, but I think this comes off slightly male. A bit too soapy for me.

Moon Wind (Avon) 1971 Re-living the fragrance Thank you to the sellers on eBay who are the online rummage sale for the whole world! This fragrance I wore in the early to mid 70's which I ordered from the US to be delivered across the pond to the UK. In those days the Avon fragrances which sold to American housewives came in the most charming and unique bottle shaped like such things as telephones, dolls and female figurines, frogs, snails, peacocks, mirrors, churches, bells, and lots of interesting and cute creations. Sizes ranged from small (1 ounce) to larger (over 4 ounces). I used this up very fast every year. I had the 'green' themed bottles of frogs and green Christmas candles. Green is definitely it's color. As a green toilet water chypre scent, the oak moss is quite dominant. Smells of green carpet made of earth, grass, moss and vetiver. Opens with strong classic aldehydes so common in old Avon perfumes. The cologne is the right balance. Not overpowering but definitely strong. There's a citrus note of bergamot orange and grapefruit swimming in those aldehydes. Fresh and citrusy with an astringent citrus aroma not unlike the opening to Emeraude by Coty. Then it turns to a floral note of deep lavender. The lavender note is aromatic and almost seems to be paired up with rosemary. The imagery it evokes is pastoral, not so much a garden, but the countryside, where fields of lavender and freshly cut lawns are to be found. The fragrance does not last very long as it's a toilet water but it is fresh and invigorating and great for wearing after one's shower or bath. In fact it is a bath oil. I have the bath oil shaped like a bust of a Victorian woman. The scent does have a trail of flowers as it wears on your skin, but they are not terribly heady or super fragrant. Soapy flowers. They include soft floral tones of narcissus and jonquil, possibly a lily of the valley. The color is green and white, like lily bulbs on green bushes and stalks. The scent is earthy, floral, aromatic, herbaceous. When dry the fragrance turns slightly woody with cedar or sandalwood, a tiny amount of musk and some patchouli but mainly it is a dry down of moss. This was when the oak moss was authentic and had not yet been banned by the people at IFRA International Fragrance Association, who decreed that the oak moss note is toxic and hazardous to the public. Moon Wind is... a swamp or a bayou in Louisiana, in the dark, illuminated by moonlight as it reflects over the still green waters. The scent is like having bottled up pretty nice swamp water and caught moonbeams in the bottle. This perfume is quiet, serene, soothing, herbal, therapeutic. Total therapy. It's wearable in the day time as an easy to wear clean green scent. You can wear it practically anywhere including where you work. The scent is outdated and old fashioned but you will definitely stand out in a good way. Mature and clean, a fragrance that belongs to it's era. This was the 'green is good' era of the 70's when chypres and green florals were all the rage. This is wonderful.

This is the first vintage Avon perfume that I bought that hasn't arrived soured or "turned". Not sure what year my bottle is from, but I have a small splash bottle. This fragrance came out in 1971, and it does smell authentic to that time period. This came out a year after Chanel 19, and they have the oakmoss & a couple of other notes in common. If a mom who wore the Chanel had a preteen or teenaged daughter who she didn't want wearing that because it was too grown up, she probably could have steered her towards this. It's a little bit like the scent of Avon Lip Dew lip balm, with those added notes to give it some depth and young girl's innocent Chanel 19 feel. I can see a 14 year old girl in the early 70s, who had flowered bed sheets, long, straight, ironed hair, who read Nancy Drew books, wearing this. Marcia Brady could have worn this. Such a pretty early 70s scent. So glad to have found a great deal on it on Ebay.

Moonwind, like many Avon offerings, is unjustly obscure and overlooked. This vintage lunar breeze is a moderately complex aldehydic-green-floral chypre. It is quite well-made and pleasantly wearable, ...even if not superlatively remarkable by the standards of the 1970s. However, amidst the currently bleak deprivation of 'true' chypres in 2026, it is assuredly a vintage prize to be treasured. It may also be interesting to examine some of supposed similarities with other scents listed here. • Imari, also by Avon, is somewhat similar, they might even share some accord structure, ...but Imari is also more sharply green and much more powdery. Of the two, Imari s probably the more distinctive, but Moonwind is perfectly fine as well. • Madame Rochas is both mossier and more spicier, than the more lightly graceful Moonwind. • Worth's Je Reviens EDT is NOTHING like Moonwind. The comparison is absurd.

Takes me right back to 1971--first year of college and a girl named Dottie on my dorm floor that sold Avon---I remember it originally in a midnight blue and silver bottle---I thought the name was desperately romantic and loved the jonquil, oakmoss aldehyde--just green, clean and floral enough for me. I have good luck at my local thrift shop with Avon scents, especially the old ones in the funky bottles--I have had a tiny,.5 oz dab on bottle---but last week I picked up a pink figural bottle of an elegant Elizabethan Lady, filled with 4 oz of lovely, unturned Moonwind cologne! These older Avon scents are REALLY very well made!! Oh--and it cost 50 cents!!SCORE!

Moonwind wasn't one of my favorite Avon fragrances; it was too green and mossy for me back in the 1970s and 1980s when I was a regular AVON customer. (I preferred Timeless.) But in 1979 a co-worker gave me a pretty bottle of Moonwind perfume oil, which sat unused on my dresser for quite a while. On New Years Eve 1980, though, I had nowhere to go and nobody to go out with. So I poured myself a steaming hot bath and poured half the bottle of Moonwind into it. I think I made myself a gin & tonic and spent about half an hour soaking in the tub. The next morning, I spent about half an hour scrubbing the oil out of the tub. And that's my experience with Moonwind!

I always find vintage Avons at my local flea market ...and for CHEAP. One of my favorite scores was a clear owl, glass clear body & plastic clear head..with big light blue "gem stones" for eyes that really sparkle in the light! It's filled with Moonwind powder that smells sooooooo nice and comforting! Because of the "Moon" theme and the light blue color of the owl's eyes-- this is a very BLUE color scent for me. Either way - the smell encompasses the "Aquarian" age and a special time in my life...the "Wonder Years". For the $3.00 that I paid for this, I got a good deal on a nice "memory smell" that I visit from time to time.

my mother wore Moonwind back in the late 70's and 80's. It smelled wonderful on her. It was clean, fresh, yet soft and feminine. I used to spray it on myself because I liked it so much. Just seeing the name brings back wonderful memories of my mother as she has been gone now over 30 years. I have not seen any in years, but Avon did offer it as limited editions every once in a while. I understand the limited edition bottles are now very valuable. They should bring it back every once in while along with some of their other classics.

I bought an Avon collectible cat bottle that came with Moonwind in it. I mostly just wanted the lovely bottle for display. Moonwind smells exactly like Aquamarine hand lotion to me. There was a lady in my office that anointed herself with Aquamarine lotion every day at noon. It took about an hour for it to die down so we could breathe again. It's a very distinctive 1960s smell. If you like Avon Moonwind or Revlon Aquamarine go easy on it , that's all I can say !

Ma mère ne se parfumait pas mais elle utilisait abondamment de crème. Entre autre une crème avec ce parfum de Avon. Ressentir ce parfum m'a transporté 35 ans en arrière...et m'a permis de découvrir la beauté de ce parfum. L'amatrice de parfums qui porte maintenant des Guerlains, des parfums de niches souvent très coûteux ne pouvait pas imaginer qu'à une certaine époque Avon créait de très beaux parfums comme celui-ci. Élégant, raffiné et singulier. J'adore.

When I was small, my grandmother had a cream sachet of this. Ooh, let me describe the heaven to you: Your nostrils first got hit by the powdery, soft, smooth, enveloping musk. Then the sandalwood and sweet narcissus showed up, warming up the scent. Then the lovely oakmoss gave it great depth. Only a small amount would suffice. Since, well, back in time, they really made perfumes.

I got a vintage bottle for £4 from ebay. It was just as I remember it 💜 It was launched in 1971 and I think was in response to both YSL rive gauche and Estee Lauder super cologne - both bright with aldehydes and greeness. Such a shame avon discontinued this beauty.

上皮的瞬间泪如泉涌,它很像是我童年经常闻到的一种味道,但我又记不起源自哪里。总之我忆起很多久到已经快要被我遗忘的岁月,一些在姥姥家的小床上渡过的夏夜:电视机被关了声音发出轻微的噪声,我偷偷换了频道眯眼窥着,妈妈和姥姥已然睡熟,隔壁姥爷的呼噜声震耳欲聋,我就这样渐渐睡着了,合上眼睛开始做梦,梦里我在地球的背面滑行。 整支香的感觉很像Peter Lai的那曲Le Petit Prince,闭上眼睛整个世界依旧是一片蓝色,童年时代的星星们永远在你抬头就可以看到的夜空中窸窣低语着。

This is basically Timeless, minus the incense and sweetness. It's also related to Miss Dior, Replique and Intimate.