Unforgettable

My wonderful friend Cat scored me a full bottle of this stuff, in its original box, at an estate sale, along with some other great Avon finds. This one is in a beautiful glass bottle that reminds me of my favorite Chicago building, and it smells like a great floral chypre. The goldtone top is real metal, a nice change from the plastic that dominates most similarly priced perfumes. Not sure if it just aged beautifully or if always smelled like that, but this so-called cologne is as strong or stronger than most EDPs. What a find! I might upgrade this like to a love once I do a skin test--it has passed the paper test with flying colors--but I'm wearing another perfume right now and don't want to overwhelm my senses and/or skin. I keep wanting to take it out of its beautiful box so I can admire it some more. I have the one that says Rondelle at the top, which confused me because I couldn't find that in the database. (Unforgettable appears in much smaller type below it on the box.) I think Unforgettable might have been Avon's attempt to mimic or at least do an "impression of" the original Miss Dior, or maybe one of the Chanels (because of the very assertive aldehydes, which aren't listed but very obviously there); they did a fine, even amazing, job, especially at the original (affordable) price point. I'm doing a skin test now, and I really love this. The unlisted aldehydes plus the leather note smell expensive to me, and there is as much or more oakmoss as there should be in any respectable chypre. I can't believe how good this is. I'm upgrading to a Love. This is a vintage bottle, completely full, in the original box (looks like 80s, possibly late 70s). The metal screw top lid obviously kept it in perfect condition. What a wonderful fragrance! It's supposed to be a cologne, but it outperformed a contemporary EDP on a paper test I started earlier today. I haven't been wearing it very long, but I think on the skin it will perform well also, if not as impressively as it does on paper. I can't speak to the current version of Unforgettable, but my guess is it must smell very different, because this much oakmoss in an inexpensive perfume is simply not going to happen these days (not legally anyway). So grateful for my friend who trawls the estate sales for perfumes for me; she has already given me a bunch of wonderful vintage fragrances. Update: I decanted most of my vintage Unforgettable to a 10-ml purse-size/travel sprayer, sacrilegious though that might be and as gorgeous as the dabber bottle is to behold. I just find that I get better performance with colognes if I have a good fine sprayer, so I put it into nice glass vial with one of those dandy opaque metal twist cases. I haven't worn this out yet, but I think Unforgettable would need to be refreshed every few hours anyway, since it is a cologne, after all. I was wearing Patou 1000 earlier today, and this older formulation of Unforgettable that I have is not exactly the same but very compatible. A floral leather chypre, with loads of oak moss. What's not to love? Update: I'm so fretful about running out of this vintage stuff--with the real oakmoss and other alluringly illegal substances--that I'm now getting backup bottles, of dubious provenance, off eBay, smdh.

Gorgeous mossy-leather number with some truly amazing packaging. You might think floral from the notes but nope a light but sort of greasy (in a good way) leather note and slightly pungent moss dominate against a backdrop of spicy carnation, with just enough of the other notes to round it out and keep it light and fresh feeling. For sure speaks to a certain brand of 60s femininity but if you ignore the packaging this could pass as totally unisex by today’s standards. Worth picking up if you’re a vintage moss & leather lover or even a wearer of modern leather frags... just be prepared for a heavy dose of oak moss! I also love using this as a base under more top-heavy frags :-) Edit: above review was for the rubberized edc aerosol bottle. I have recently obtained the perfume oil and all I can say is wow! Rich unctuous dark sexy. Rly amazing probably one of my more favorite vintage perfumes I own???? Avon rly did that

I wish the opening would stay forever. It smells like the delicious dry-down of Miss Balmain, but transforms into a less-exciting powdery skin scent as time goes on. Still really nice and overall a great alternative to the expensive (and hard to find) Miss Balmain that I love so much. I have a perfect (and probably never opened or used) 1 oz splash cologne still with its bamboo motif box, and will definitely be seeking out more products from the line; hopefully one of the perfume bath oils that Avon made so many of mid-century, but I'd also love to find a body powder and a bigger bottle of cologne!

My sister loved wearing this perfume. I never understood why and totally forgot how it smelled. I was too enamored with Avon Occur and civet (though I'd never heard of civet). Tonight, I tested from a roll-on with different appreciation from bottle sent by a Fragrantican friend. It is, IMO, a very good scent, but the roll-on version wears too close to the skin. Still, I'm considering an ebay purchase since this is a chypre surprise with leather, which my teenage nose found strange. The leather note is not so strong that it overpowers, at all. Just an all over well blended fragrance.

My Mom bought a bottle of this perfume right before it was discontinued (sometime in the 1980's?)and we shared it. The carnation made me sneeze a little, but overall this was a VERY strong, warm, mossy and sexy leather-dominant fragrance, which I think could also be worn by men. Sillage and longevity were incredible. We only had a small bottle, but when Mom passed away in 1999 there was a little bit remaining, which I used up that year.