Zany

I moved in with my cousin halfway through my sophomore year in high school, and she had the fun bottle of this on her dresser. She didn't care for the scent, but I bathed in it! My aunt bought it for me regularly as she had connections to an Avon rep, and I wore it through most of my high school years. After this, later in my high school years, I moved onto Chanel 19. Loved the fresh green scent then, and now. I may have to go back down the Zany road again soon and relive those fragrant memories.

This was the "cool" Avon fragrance that I wished I could have in the early 80's after it came out and stuck around for awhile in the Avon brochures. I already had Sweet Honesty, but I thought Zany had a fun-looking "zany" bottle and I thought I'd just feel more grown-up wearing this perfume. I never got it and never smelled it, until about a year ago, when I thought of it again and ordered off of Ebay. It's a light spicy floral, I think I can detect some heliotrope, jasmine, lighter vanilla, sandalwood, some citrus, and it seems a lot like cardamom for the spiciness. As it turns out, I like it and now enjoy wearing it. It's light enough as a spicy scent to wear for summer without feeling smothered by it. The original bottle is silly but fun. Definitely recommended especially if you're a vintage Avon collector like I am! It's great when it smells good enough to wear as well as collect.

I found Zany in a cute holiday edition bottle shaped like a mouse. To be honest, I blind bought it based on a few positive votes and that cute bottle. "Zany" doesn't seem like the right description; it's very soft, powdery, and sweet, after an initial burst of a floral note I can't identify. The comparison to Love's Baby Soft is apt. After about five minutes, that's what I smell, with just a hint of a tropical flower. Tht could be other notes combining. This is about forty years old. After an hour or two, some of the sweet powderiness has died down and been replaced by gentle spiciness. Maybe some amber? It's nice. This is a young person's scent, but more sophisticated than some that were around in its time.

Wow, Zany...I had the hippo decanter as well, a white hippo with a red plastic top hat, and I liked it so much I used it up. I remember it as a sweet-spicy fougère, somewhat along the lines of Heaven Scent (the Mem version sold at drugstores in the early 80s), or Canoe, but sweeter, spicier, and heavier on the vanilla. It's been years, but I'm thinking...lavender, lemon, jasmine, carnation, geranium, clove, maybe cinnamon, heliotrope, sandalwood, tonka, vanilla? Probably all synthetic, but still nice.

I had this when I was about 14 years old in the hippo decanter bottle.I remember very much liking it.May not be my choice now,as not so complex as I would like now.For a teen then It was a very nice fragrance.I can remember it being a green floral.