True Love

Do not scrub this off if you hate the opening. Give it a few minutes and let it settle.. It softens really quickly into a divine plush blanket of clean laundry, fresh off the line, after having absorbed all of the beautiful surrounding greenery, flowers and fruit, nothing overpowering the other. The scent blends so well and as it moves through the notes, it settles into the softest, yet still noticeable beauty. It is love. True love.. not play-with-your-heart flirty or temporary, but true genuine unconditional love. It embraces you, holds you, in a hug that is gentle and sincere. My mother doesn't have a signature scent, but we once had a conversation about perfume when I divulged my deep interest and she mentioned Avon's Sweet Honesty and how she always thought she could wear that. I suggested she would like this one too. I had the 30ml bottle of each, having just bought them 2nd hand blindly, so I sprayed them both while on the phone and I can so see either being hers. I live far from home and after that conversation, I associate them with her. I don't wear either often as the bottles were only half full, but when I'm homesick the most, I love to spray a little of this and imagine she is here. I'm unable to shop online, but I'm going to find a way to get a bottle to her somehow and I hope she loves it as much as I do, as much as I do for her, in my mind and in my heart. As much as I do for myself. I've been hesitant, because if she told me she didn't, it would crush what I have - this self soothing comfort of feeling close to her when I wear it or even see the bottle. Give this one a few tries before you decide yay or nay. Every time I wear it, I love it even more. This is the perfect scent for after the bath, before bed. I use the original Dove bar and this pairs so well with that. The bottle holds so nicely in the hand, there's a deep connection, it fits like a glove - shape and scent. As it fades, I get wafts here and there reminding me to be gentle with myself, to love myself, to take care to share my love with those who truly love me and to make sure to always let them know. ❤ Edit: tonight I sprayed Sweet Honesty with abandon and went searching online to identify which bottle I have as the lid is missing. I didn't find mine, but did find the "Precious Doe" bottle that used to sit on my mother's dresser top and as I lay here covered in Sweet Honesty, I can smell her here with me. This is my mother. True Love is very similar and I just know she will love it as well, so I will try to find a bottle of both to send to her.

Oh, what a stroll down memory lane for me when I discovered this at a superb price yesterday! I first wore this as a young bride and then a mother of one, and then two, 19-16 years ago. Back then, I could only afford the smallest EDT spray from the department store at the mall, and that I had scrimped and saved for. As a dedicated fan of lily of the valley, I loved Jessica McClintock for the LOTV notes. I was skeptical that True Love's pink juice could really have more than roses to offer, but OH, was I shocked then, and am pleasanty remembering the LOTV in it now. WHERE has this been for the last 16 years that I've lived without True Love (the perfume, I mean)? The first blast is like a powdered sugar covered rose from our wedding cake. Real roses, sweet sugar, softness and beauty. Then the lovely note of LOTV emerges, wrapped in a jasmine and vanilla note, with just the slightest touch of juicy, sweet, ripe tree fruits to round this out. I feel like True Love rides the fine line between chypre and gourmand so beautifully! I don't understand the "synthetic" references in other reviews. The scent notes and layers do not seem synthetic or "cheap" at all to me, though I am very picky to notice this usually. Perhaps my formulation is somehow different? If there ever was a fragrance that could take Dior's Diorissimo, which is my signature fragrance, and dip the LOTV sprigs in sweet sugared honey, removing all bitterness, and adding to the bouquet fruity, vanilla misted, shy pink tea roses, with a gorgeous powdery base, you've found True Love. Jessica McClintock, which is what I wore on my wedding day, has a bitter, sharp note with the LOTV. This is sweet LOTV, soft, powdery, ladylike LOTV. If you love Diorissimo, don't miss this bargain for those days when you are feeling like trying something different! Also, those who liked the idea of, or loved an old version of, Anais Anais by Cacharel as I did in high school before it turned "funny" on my skin/changed formulation, run, don't walk, and buy a bottle of True Love today. I would have thrown my Anais Anais in the trash back in 1987-1990 when I wore it if I had True Love as a richer, more refined, gorgeous cousin!

I remember the ads in 1994, I was 20, a good year. The ads were simple, and allowed the gorgeous, simple bottle of sweet, pale pink juice to shine, entwined with roses. There was a tester strip, I believe, lol, in the May issue of Cosmopolitan with Bridget Hall seductively staring in a tight, white sheath. The magazine smelled of it. A deep, almost sugar toned rose. Deep. A deep and bodied fragrance, unlike the wispy generic stuff of today in my opinion, i.e. Marc Jacob's Daisy or Tory Burch scents. And not like the heavy hitters I experimented with in the 90s like Spellbound or Joop. It was feminine, powdery almost, and unique. I never bought it until 1998, instead going with the cloying, screechy Sunflowers in 1995. The scent that defines the incredible, sun splashed summer of 1995 for me. I love True Love to this day. It definitely transports me to the carefree, primordial days of the mid 1990s. Sassy magazine (it was, in fact, featured in Sassy in a glorious fragrance spread in 95 or so, along with Navy, Love's Frenzy, Lauren, CK One, and, my high school favorite, Calyx), black and white velvet formal dresses, Revlon Toast of NY lipstick, L'Oreal Mattique foundation, black GAP blazers, and the movie Before Sunrise. Soft, but deep, powder, rose, comforting and pink. Some milky notes in there. Someone aptly said flowers in a vase, sitting there awhile. Yes. But to me in a good way. Or a rose corsage from prom that's been sitting on your dresser for a week surrounded by a yellow canister of Lush Silky Underwear powder, an amber oil from that hippy shop, Johnson's Baby Lotion, and a bottle of Teen Spirit Romantic Rose shampoo. The Sundays are playing in the background and you're waiting for your boyfriend to call.

Very fitting name and scent for a wedding. The package is simple, and I like it but it isn't enough to draw longing crowds in...which also is just fine with me. I'll be wearing this quite a bit. This is a familiar smell to me, as if it were worn around me more than just a couple times during SOME period in my life. When I pulled the bottle out of the package, first thought was "What a PLAIN bottle...cheap" and then I studied it a few moments and thought "This doesn't NEED anything more, it's simple and elegant". I have no gripes about this in any way. I feel you can wear this any season but might want to go easy when spraying during the hottest of days. Still, I'm not sure about that even. I'll have to try this during mid summer. I think it's the iris that makes me love this in the crispy air. I do love Infusion d'Iris! Which is what made me even THINK I might like this, along with the peach...since I love Fancy Love also. I actually CAN smell the peach, which I normally can't. I can sniff out a good iris also. Iris first, then peach....are all I smell with this scent, even though I know there's more to it then that. This is a hairspray, bubble bath, shampoo type of smell. So this is clean and what I think, soapy. If clean and soapy isn't your thing, you need to test first. If I were to put like scents on a shelf, I would put this along side of White Linen, Fancy Love, Infusion d'Iris, Eternity etc. I actually like Fancy Love more, but that's just me. I can see where just as many will love this more. I'm so glad to have found this. I love learning about, and then finding a true classic, which this IS.

True Love is one of the most beautiful oriental floral ever conceived. Not by chance the nose who came up with it is a master of the perfumery art! It opens with a vibrant fuzz of freesia, wet green notes tip toeing around with a delicately powdery iris. About half an hour later a hint of peach and apricot takes stage, gentle, enticing fruity combo. They are not very prominent, but the juiciness is there and one can almost taste it! And then heliothrope arrives, taking place in a rather joyous convivium! Bliss! It does not smell of baby powder, though I can understand the similarity it can evoke. Anyhow, True Love mellows very slowly into a white, juicy, and light woody caress: it's fresh, mouthwatering, classy. They should have named it Innocence, because of its clean, pure, suave nature. I am pretty sure that what many perceives as "pungent" sits with freesia, a sweet fragrant flower with a slightly bitter kick. It also somewhat can be mistaken for peach, so all in all I believe that is what confuses some. It is always good to remember than our skin PH is what affects in particular the sillage, but also longevity and general reaction of a fragrance with us. Warmth does not bode well with True Love: it likes cold, wet weathers (London, where I live!) for love adores cuddles. And that's what this scent is, a buoyant, sweet, innocent hug! It's love for me, the truest ever possible. My advice to those approaching it is simple: spray some in front of you and walk into the cloud. No point, ever ever ever, in blasting yourselves dead with a scent you have never tried before... go easy, go soft :)