Indian Summer

Rose Chypre I think this perfume is aptly named. This is not a nascent, green, full of life perfume, this is like summer has come of age and learned a bit by the end of September. Many of the notes are concentrated and dark. Also, I guess it was just the early 1970s and the name it fit at the time. This is mostly a rose chypre, and what is surprising about it is how much it changes from the early top notes. For an hour Indian Summer truly is all “Floral Aldehyde” but all the initial notes fall away and it becomes a luscious rose perfume. The topnotes do remind me of a rich summer field, at least, there classic woody aldehyde is heavily infused with the green, dried hay notes and a whopping dose of earthy vetiver. It’s a very nice combination, if you like that sort of thing. After an hour the top notes fall away and a lovely rose emerges. It’s very dark and dripping red, kind of sweet and dirty at the same time. I don’t find it to be honeyed, exactly, but it’s a great combination of sweet and skanky, like it is also blended with civet. The rose heart lasts for hours on me, after a long while the base dried down into a classic oakmoss-sandalwood. Beautiful. If you like rose chypres like “Diva” or “Knowing” you may like this too. I really like how the rose kind of sits alone in the heart, you have no idea that it’s coming when you first start wearing the perfume, it’s not blended with any other florals or woods, and any other notes are just supporting that deep thick red rose. By the time the dry down comes the rose is gone, like it can’t bear to share the attention with anyone else. This wears fairly close to the skin, but lasts for over 8 hours. I’m pretty sure my bottle is from the 70s, I have no idea when this was discontinued, but the perfume smells very fresh and doesn’t seem to have any degradation. I really love this, it’s still available on Ebay, if you love classic chypre perfumes Indian Summer is a go!

Parfum version. An autumn harvest of dried flowers, spices, mosses and vegetables. The aromas here are like those you'd get whilst raking leaves in a backyard garden. I'm not sure the notes above are entirely correct - I've seen others on different sites, but there is something in it that does smell like tomato leaves and hay, and this is the only one I've come across that lists those. Absolutely perfect for a warm October day, and I don't know many perfumes that work for that as well as this does.

ebay auction vintage bottle. mild "male" tabu like. definitely comforting after the initial low-key blast. it is an old polaroid which has not faded of a dandy hippy. (not an oxymoron!) mix of spices and warm animalic energy. fades into a pillow of perfume, sleeping with someone who loves fragrance.

This one opens with a '70's record scratch of thorny green rose then settles into a good long roll in the hay while listening to Joni Mitchell albums--but later the pepper leaves you itchy, and you're vaguely aware that a cat has peed nearby.

Fragrance Review For Indian Summer Houbigant Notes Aldehydes Rose Spices Tomato Green Notes Cloves Honey Cinnamon Hazelnut Sandalwood Hay Incense I had the opportunity and the pleasure and honor of experiencing this fragrance after I bought it second-hand from a seller on Ebay. This comes in a splash bottle with a round gold or silver cap. It's an outdated old fashioned aldehydic spicy scent, not quite an Oriental, not a floral, not a chypre. It's hard to put a label on this fragrance. I'll just label it AWESOME. This perfume reminds me of fragrances I've enjoyed like 20 Carats by Dana and Twenties by Place des Lices. Today it would bare a resemblance to indie niche fragrances like Demeter Fragrance's Aphrodite Slipper Orchid. There is also a similarity to APERCU by Houbigant. Sometimes it's like Hameau de La Reine by Historiae. It's one of those spicy, earthy scents that don't really remind you of any one specific fragrance. To me it seems to want to capture the spirit of a long summer in the country. Honey is the dominant note. A rich dark honey right out of the honeycomb. The honey is subduing the aldehydes which can still be sensed as the scent opens. There's also a rose that comes and goes briefly and because of that honey note the scent briefly turns into an accord in Red Door by Elizabeth Arden Limited Edition (which is not limited and sells at any Macy's department). There are hardly any florals other than that rose, and she's not the star. She makes an entrance and an exit. The spicy hazelnut cinnamon and cloves take over the middle stage of the fragrance. Because it does not have a top-middle-base note formula the fragrance develops quickly but it is not linear. It seems to have layers. The cloves are very strong so if you like clove scents, this is a good clove. There's sandalwood that really stands out as the fragrance dries down and begins to fade. Woodsy but not heavily woodsy. A warm little touch of incense can be detected as well. This part is only the slightest bit Oriental (sandalwood-incense) but it lacks the fuller body of an Oriental. It seems to be a hodgepodge of earthy spicy scents like having collected various spices from a spice rack and congealed into a perfume. There's a tomato note in this scent that sends me! It's exactly like a tomato ketchup. This fragrance is savory and spicy and would smell good in autumn and winter at a restaurant when the scent of your perfume clashes with the food scents in a good way. This is spicy and sultry. It's not delicious, not fresh, not a gourmand. It's a simple earth-based scent of spices cloves, hazelnut, cinnamon and a honeypot. The honey is to die for. Wearing this fragrance will get you noticed. No one I know is wearing this fragrance. This is a very underrated obscure scent and in fact I'm the only one writing a fragrance review on it. I absolutely love the cologne. It is definitely mature and exudes confidence. A little goes a long way. I splash this on my collarbone. Smells just as good on clothes. Thank you Ebay for indulging me in my love of perfumes.