Lady Stetson

THREE TIMES A LADY Lady Stetson! My mother wore this in the 90's A LOT. She loved it. This was probably her favorite fragrance after she dumped Avon LOL First of all let me get one thing straight. This is not a cheap perfume. While it's very affordable and inexpensive, it wears just like a more fruitier version of Chanel No. 22. It doesn't smell exactly like No. 22 but it has the strong aldehydes, white jasmine, white rose and sandalwood that evokes No. 22. So while this sells at under 30 bucks it wears like a much more luxurious and expensive fragrance. I remember it was very beautiful on my mother. She let me wear it when I was finally old enough to wear perfume. I wore this one to my high school prom. No one else was wearing this fragrance so I felt very unique. I wore it with a rich dark royal purple prom gown that I had made myself with my mother's sewing machine. The rose in this perfume is not a dominant scent but it makes it's presence known and it's clearly more of a white rose at a wedding. That's probably the lady part of it's moniker. The carnation is stronger to my nose as is the ylangylang the latter being the strongest player. Wears like a creamy yellow flower. The peach in this fragrance is sweet and rather tart. Alright I'm being polite. It's a slutty sexy seductive peach! I found it less lady like than the peach in Lanvin's Arpege. It's like a cheeky naughty married British aristocratic lady who wears floral perfumes with her conservative attire but who is sleeping with the chauffeur or gardener. This should have been called LADY CHATTERLEY like the heroine in D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover. This makes me feel very sexy but I don't find it appropriate for teenage girls. I was wearing my mother's perfume to the prom for God's sake LOL Fortunately no one else knew that but me. This suits a woman in her late 20's and in her 30's. It's very sophisticated. The dry down comes off as clean and warm and that's definitely the amber working on your skin. There is also significant musk at the end so you get a woodsy musky strong dry down. It lasts and lasts for hours. I remember I smelled of it the next morning after prom. It is a sultry fragrance of strong classic aldehydes, a peachy opening note and a white floral accord with woods at the base. It wears more like a floral chypre. This fragrance was first released by my favorite company COTY in 1986. And this is totally an 80's power house fragrance. So if you like 80's perfumes, strong aldehydes and Chanel No. 22 but a more affordable version, this is for you. I could never wear this again because it takes me back to Prom Night and I don't want to go there anymore LOL

Poor degraded Lady Stetson, like Cinderella the day after the ball, doomed to the lowest, cheapest perfume shelf in Wal-Mart, even below RiRi and Guess. In a thin, thoughtless paperboard box with only three flaps and the cheapest of cheap bottles with a bendable cap, outclassed by Katy Perry and Justin Bieber scents, consigned to shame. For those who choose to rescue her, she reveals a stunning beauty. There's definitely an overlap with Chanel No. 22. I have Lady Stetson on my left wrist and Les Exclusifs de Chanel No. 22 on my right wrist. Not identical by any means, but if you live for the scent of No. 22, you MUST try Lady Stetson. No. 22 is deep, plush, velvety like the petals of an iris with aldehydes like chirping Disney birds in a sparkly rainbow - there is no hyperbole too extreme for No. 22, this is a perfume created through some sort of spiritual intervention that I hope was divine and not something else because I am addicted to No. 22. Lady Stetson smells like Chanel created a soap with the No. 22 fragrance, that's the best I can describe it. No. 22 through a glass, darkly. The outlines are there; the aldehyde, the ylang-ylang. Only details differ. Lady Stetson reminds me more of the old No. 22 that used to be sold commonly at department stores (next to No. 5 & No. 19), which I used in the EDT form in an opaque white bottle for years. If they would take the AMBER out of this, it would be closer to No. 22. They could take out the sandalwood, too, but maybe that's what holds it together. I love Lady Stetson. If you are unfortunate enough to have to go to Wal-Mart for something pedestrian like pipe tape, swing by the fragrances section and rescue a bottle. This Lady should not have to stand next to the rabble on that bottom shelf.

today i found an old bottle of this from about ~2 years ago and decided to spray it just for fun. i remember only a short time i first bought it i shelved it as it was sort of a weak, musky aldehyde that lasted not long at all. however, today it’s completely different! i don’t know if it macerated, my memory is wonky, or i just wasn’t able to appreciate it yet. first, it was a lot more vibrant than i remembered. the tangerine and aldehydes are front and center, softened and made more feminine by the florals and musk. it’s a well blended, smooth, but fun and playful smell and it lasts sooo long. it’s been about 7 hours and i still smell it on myself. i can’t explain it but something about it REALLY strikes me as feminine but outdoorsy, maybe it’s the moss note. if you’re a gourmand person, you probably won’t be a fan of this for yourself, but for me, i am so excited to find a fruity-floral that’s clean, juicy, fresh, and without the presence of vanilla something about lady stetson seems to present itself as sort of old fashioned, and while it definitely has a classical vibe, it still feels fun and exciting. i’m absolutely in love with it, not even mentioning i got it for 20 bucks at walmart. definite hidden gem

I grew up in a rural Texas town, far removed from the bustle of Houston, which is the closest big city. All my peers and I rode horses and most of us had cows, chickens and lived on small farms. I was in junior high during 89-91, and Lady Stetson was ubiquitous. The boys all wore Stetson and Aspen and all the girls wore Lady Stetson and Exclamation! I revisited this again, like many on this site, thanks to Tania Sanchez's review. The first spray took me right back to skin-tight Rocky Mountain jeans and sky-high hair. After consciously trying to overcome the prejudice of my past, I can smell Lady Stetson for what it is, an inexpensive, aldehyde bright floral/musk. The aldehydes linger for quite awhile on my skin, which is nice. It dries down gradually to a powdery floral, and four hours into wearing it, I'm noticing the musk, which is staying very close. I do not find this scent sharp at all, but neither do I find it brilliant like TS claims. What I do find is a lovely scent, absolutely fine for every day and every situation wear. It is casual, light and the florals are well blended. It is not a cloyingly sweet fruit-chouli, for which I am thankful. My best advice, wear this and appreciate it for what it is.

The cruel tragedy that plagues Lady Stetson? She is accessible, overlooked, and comes in cheap, ugly packaging. I wish Coty would give the lovely Lady Stetson a much-deserved makeover. Very soft and smooth. It is difficult to discern the individual notes, they meld tunefully. The aldehydes are the light, breezy, waxy, soapy type, there is prominent carnation, soft lactonic peach, ylang-ylang, sweet rose, smooth jasmine. The base is a blend of sandalwood, iris, warm, sweet musks, soft amber, moss, and a hint of vanilla. Warm, refreshing, powdery, soft, pretty, effortlessly graceful. Beautiful structure, classic composition, very feminine. It is discouraging to consider the continued neglect of this gorgeous $15 cheapie. Large conglomerates push a veritable slew of designer releases, at ridiculous prices, that smell abrasive, lack refinement, and are often unpleasant. How did we arrive here? How might we return to form?