Perfumista Avenue

LOVE THIS! Seriously, a beautiful, perfect, full rose scent, just magnificent. Now I'll grant you, not everyone likes true rose notes, but this is wonderful. PA contains attar of rose (rose oil) and rose water, and as a result, displays the full range of the rose, from the deep, dark, pungent, velvety attar to the bright, light, sharp scent of the water. Plum supports the dark end of the spectrum, while nutmeg highlights the brighter end, lending a contrast. Bitter herbal artemisia opens the scent, but the bitterness in the heart is saffron, and much like in cooking, that bitter note highlights the sweeter aspects of the rose, which otherwise is achingly dark and dense at times. This is not a "red" rose- this is the true rose scent of original roses, the deep pink, naturally occurring scent rose that grew across Europe before people started breeding roses for specific characteristics, and the scent was lost in the hybrids. It is not a girly scent, or even a feminine scent. This is a true rose, deep, strong, dark, lush, heady, epic in it's intensity and longevity, it'll sink it's hooks into you, and everyone who smells you. It's not the tidy floral "pink" rose either, PA is very much a grungy dark rose, dirty, full of attitude, trending towards joy, irrepressible and irreverent. You wear this one with tats and denim, not taffeta and lace, and definitely not with a suit! If you've never smelled a true rose, test this. BUT---if you are shy about other people noticing your scent, if you do not like to stand out, I recommend that you not wear this. It will attract attention! It will make you want to misbehave, flip people off, and laugh with abandon, loudly, often, not caring who notices. Completely intoxicating and wonderful.

FOR ROSE LOVERS AND PERFUMISTAS I'm crossing my fingers my perfumista friend remembered that in August for my birthday party I said oh I wish I could have Perfumista Avenue Bond perfume and Brooklyn. If she remembered I should be getting those fragrances for Christmas and I will be reviewing them in January after I've had enough time to wear them. I spray tested sampled Perfumista Avenue and loved it for an entire day. That whole day all I could smell was roses. These are old fashioned old timey but realistic roses and devoid of the harsh chemicals of TEA ROSE by Perfumer's Worskshop which I now use as room spray. I love soft but real roses. My current favorite soft realistic rose is HISTORIAE'S ROSE DE FRANCE which is an absolute rose dream. This is heady and sweet and has additional notes I like like plum, saffron, jasmine, peony and patchouli. I know for a fact as a nose and perfumer that the pairing of peony and rose is a winning combination. It makes it heady but not cloying, sweet, fragrant and very nice. It's absolute rose that you want though and not a synthetic imitation rose (like you'd find in the current formula in Bal a Versailles which continues to sell for God knows what reason and at a ridiculous high price tht isn't worth it). I do love the absolute rose in this fragrance. It's too beautiful and sexy for me to spray it in the house so I'll wear it myself as an alternate fragrance to Historiae's Rose de France. I love the concept of this fragrance as it's all New York City landmarks/locations I'm a New Yorker and would love to explore this fragrance line. Please Santa I want Brooklyn and Perfumista Avenue for Christmas!

Oh boy here we go... I will start off by saying this is undoubtedly my favorite Bond No. 9 perfume. Ever. I have 25 bottles of Bond at the moment and nothing comes close to this upper class rose based perfume. Upon first spray and look straight at the spot you sprayed Perfumista Ave on you can notice it's extremely highly concentrated. This stuff sprays on very oily. It's pure perfume and its price reflects that. This stuff is extremely potent. So potent in fact....on my skin it exceeds 24 hours. Projection is radioactive and the sillage is crazy. People will know you were there....this stuff lingers in the air for quite sometime. Top notes I get this combination of a plummy rose mixed with saffron. The dry down is where this perfume really shines. It gets even more intense as the noticable patchouli and musk intertwine with the rose. The dry down to me is just pure artistry. Women and surprisingly men compliment me and ask me what I have on. Never had I have someone (my coworker) sniff me throughout the day and tell me the noticeable evolution Perfumista Ave is going through on my skin. The dry down is really where you will garner all the attention. This is not for the meek or unsociable. This is Bond at its top form. If you can afford Bond's asking price....the reaction from people and random people on the street will tell you the power of this beautiful perfume. I cannot recommend this one enough.

For once, I ordered a sample before buying a big bottle. I usually can tell from notes whether it is going to work for me (notes and the reviews). This is stunning! When I first sprayed it, there was some uncomfortable note mixing with the yummy deep dark rose that I actually could not stand. BUUUTTT after 5 minutes, I could not stop smelling my wrist! I am in love with this one now. I must have it. Next week I will be buying a 1.7 oz. bottle. I found a great deal, just hope it is still there on Thursday (payday). This is def full bottle worthy. I disagree completely with other reviewer saying it smells cheap. There is nothing cheap about this perfume. I will have to just get used to the unknown note that I dislike in the top notes. It kind of smells like licorice or along those lines. Since I don't know how to identify most notes, guess I will never know which note to stay away from moving forward. Lastly, the longevity is AMAZING. I have a few dark rose scents very similar but none of those project like this and none of the others have the extraordinary longevity! This is one time I wish I had just ordered fb the first time.

One of the many Bonds I own. I love this fragrance. It is very strong rose musk with peony in the lingering part of the dry down. Plus the plum and jasmine twist is quite unique. Not to much on the patchouli or leather side. I have read the reviews of this smelling like urine and where some people have purchased this fragrance. All I can say is I do not know of any Bond No 9 sold at a Tj Maxx?? lol...and I do not smell like urine wearing this at all. Bond is a very expensive line that I would not buy from anywhere but SAX, Nordstrom (licensed department store) or direct from Bond. I think you should watch where you buy fragrance from seeing how there is A LOT of fakes out there that most often smell like urine or any other rancid smell you can write down in a review. So what I am saying is this, before you leave a review that is less than favorable make sure you have bought an authentic product before dragging its name through the mud! Longevity on this is out of this world!Projection fills any room you are in! Beautiful bottle and presentation. 10/10 from me...a collector for over 20 years!

To each his own BUT I undoubtedly loved this fragranced at first sniff. The scent of spice and saffron...absolutely unique and enticing to my senses ! That day that I was shopping for the nth time for the firsts Bond 9 fragrance at Bloomingdales... I tried most of the spicy fragrances, as I really cannot be paying almost $400 for another floral fragrance. The NY Oud was going to be it....or the Signature Fragrance. Then something on the display caught my eye. The BIG flashing pink bottle. I just had to try it on. The lady at the counter was slightly afraid I might not like it, I think. She sprayed it on my arm and asked me to walk around for a little bit and come back. I was fascinated ! That night I asked my sister who loves Indian food if she would like to smell like saffron. She said saffron does not have any smell, I told her but they use saffron in Indian food to make it smell good. Like cumin and cardamom. I give this perfume 10 starts. It lasts long on the skin and just a couple of spritzed works wonders !

I LOVE Perfumista Avenue! On me it feels like a combination of Lady Vengeance and Cabaret de Gris, but it haunts with hints of Voleur de Roses. This fragrance seems especially beautiful to me, but anyone who reads my reviews here knows I adore rose fragrances. Perfumista Avenue smells like a classic Chrysler Imperial Rose (launched the same year as the car, but clearly proved the more popular of the two). Perfumista Avenue is green, and sweetly plummy, with hints of peony. I don't think this smells much at all like any recent Bond releases. If you enjoyed the severely underrated Cabaret de Gris you must try Perfumista Avenue. I am thrilled with Perfumista Avenue, however, and I think the name is adorable. This perfume is classic, elegant, rich, and sensuous. Fantastic lasting power as well.

I must not be particularly sensitive to this ammonia smell everyone is commenting on. To me this is a sexy and bold feminine fragrance. For a fashionable and sophisticated woman in her 30s maybe. The rose and patchouli with saffron and musk is a heavenly combination. Usually rose scents make me think of toilet sprays or very mature scents, but this is a rose dominant fragrance done right. I know oud is not listed here, but for some reason I detect it as a note. I also sprayed this side by side with Delina and let me tell you they are very similar. Too bad for those who don’t like it.

A rose lover's paradise! This has an industrial strength level of deep pink rose, starts off fresh but ends up very earthy and musky. Very similar to Roses Musk by Montale. The plum makes it a bit jammy and the saffron gives it that heavenly effect. Rose, saffron, plum, patchouli and musk....how can you go wrong? I'm baffled by the dislike. It has to be coming from people who don't care too much for rose. Or at least not rose dominance. And this is packed full of rose. Which is exactly why I love it! This is a real wow for me!

Love this latest fragrance from Bond No. 9! For those of you who have read my previous reviews, I'm definitely a spicy and fruity fragrance woman. On me, personally, the rose isn't overpowering; just enough to work with my body chemistry. One of the great sales associates from Saks suggested some combinations with this delicious scent. I currently wear it with the Bond No. 9 Manhattan body cream, and believe me, it is simply DIVINE! Whenever I wear this combo, I get numerous compliments!

Forget all the Bond haters because this stuff is GREAT! Every time I wear this I get tons of compliments and women cannot stop themselves from smelling me. Straight BEAST mode on projection and sillage. Again, let the Bond haters hate, but as a true wearer I say buy it now. When I layer with Signature and New York Oud it's even more incredible.

All I can say is that first spray from a tester I was in LOVE. I got the oud vibe first and foremost which I love. It's settling so perfectly.... I don't care if it's too loud for some people. I will wear it when I go out and feel amazing! MAJOR splurge but I couldn't stop myself!

I agree with Jasminalia, Bond No 9 has gone crazy with their prices. I just smell Perfumista and even when my wife and I LOVE it, I think 350dlls plus tax is just too much for any perfume, this house makes Creed look like a bargain!!

Simply delicious. I was given samples from a Bond No. 9 representative at Saks. I want this fragrance and the body cream! She also told me what other Bond fragrances I could mix this with. I'm going to love experimenting!

I just purchased 3.3 oz of this at TJ Maxx for 130$, and I really like it (or I’ve just committed to it already). Perfumista Avenue opens up deeply rosey, medicinal like an alcohol prep-pad, oud-y with a strange note that could be plastic or could also be interpreted as velvety and concentrated leather + something like a hard raspberry candy. This is not precisely a realistic rose, more of a technicolor interpretation. As it mellows on dry down I get more patchouli and an unexpected amount of musk. My overall impression is this is a lipsticky rose. Edit: been wearing this all week and should qualify that it becomes a skin scent approximately 3hours in.I can’t smell it on myself during the day.. have I become anosmic to it? Edit2: 2 years later. I've discovered that spraying this in the air above my head gives a much more pleasing effect. This is intensely strong and long lasting. If you do a spray and walk through it creates a really nice mild rose/saffron and I think the heavy woodiness & slight sourness comes from nutmeg and artemisia (wormwood).

I got this in a sample set from a Bond online order. Initially I didn't like it. It had a weird metallic tang that smelled really sour. It made me recoil and think about showering it off. In the end I decided I would give it the day to figure out if I was going to gift it or not. In the end I like it. It's lots and lots of rose with a very slight spicy scent. Possibly the patchouli. It turns very powdery at the very end. I have a Bulgarian rose perfume that is literally just roses and nothing else and this reminds me of that but much longer lasting. I sprayed a bit much and will need to tone it down for the next time I wear it. This lasted solidly on me for 6-8 hours. This feels like a scent you wear to a family event. Like a wedding or a bar mitzvah or a Quinceañera. Nothing offensive but nothing to make it completely memorable. I don't think I'll splurge on a full bottle but I'll wear my sample happily... after that initial 5 minutes of sour.

Love the line and love the rose. Love the bottle. I got as present this full bottle and I was so happy, but after a few years is still there almost full because is nausea-triggering, too cloying, plus I can smell animalic odour (like stale urine?) in the drydown (a sort of barnyard oud). And it is weird because I don't see oud in the ingredients list..unfortunately is the similar reaction I have with Oud Ispanah. Not a safe blind buy. 2.5/5

Lots of rose, with some kind of plastic that reminds me of Barbie doll plastic. (odd, but I kind of like it). Then it has a medicinal note that alludes to Mexsana powder (maybe the artemisia and mate herb?) Quickly the rose returns but this time with amber, and it also brings along with her some bitter undertones I can not identify. The dry-down becomes more powdery. I do like the scent. Not at all worth the price. Certainly plastic.

The rose scent overwhelmed me at first, but once it sits on the skin for a bit, it levels out and leaves a beautiful & classy lingering effect. It’s not my favourite scent - but still very nice.

YES - it definitely smells like roses musk! I kept thinking it reminds me of something. It's nice and floral.