Ananda

Ananda can be summed up in 3 words - Elegant, feminine, sophisticated. 🤍 It is such a beautiful, delicate, floral fragrance that you’re bound to fall in love with it right from the first spritz. It opens with delicate floral notes with a hint of pear and settles into a cosy, powdery musky warmth. Truly very feminine. If you’re fond of the “clean girl” aesthetic, then this is the fragrance for you. Inoffensive and work appropriate too. The only downside is the modest sillage and longevity (on me it lasts for about 5 hours on skin and around 7 hours on clothes) but then that actually is in tune with the elegant personality of the perfume. And just how gorgeous is the bottle 😍😍😍!

Ananda (means bliss/joy) is so delicate and feminine. The prominent notes (pear, mimosa, plum, jasmine) feel chilled, deliberately subdued and understated... muted, if you will. Ananda presents to me as such a cool fragrance, almost as if the notes were poured over ice before they reached my skin. I've often wondered if they were left near an open window on a clean, clear snowy morning, just waiting for me to discover them. To be near me while I'm wearing Ananda means you will be hugged. It's a feeling to be shared. The lovely Ananda promises a peaceful, joy filled day...and it delivers.

I think this is the most beautiful Micallef parfume. It smells so womanly, smooth, yet characteristic. Oohh I love this kind of sour fresh fruit accord laying on the creamy background. Heaven should smell like this. Beautiful fruit trees floating on clouds and little blond angels flying and smelling like vanilla. Although I have to state that this is not an innocent, but a grown up scent. But in a good way, nothing like old ladish. Very stylish and inspiring, I can imagine wearing it on a wedding day. Sillage is moderate Longivity is good

What can I say... I love this. I love the artistry behind M.Micallef fragrances. This really took me by surprise when I first smelt it. It evoked a nostalgic feeling in me and that’s because it has some similar notes to Ysl Paris which my late Grandmother wore. I’m personally not a fan of Ysl Paris, I find it dated, but this is like a modern, clean version with the best parts of that fragrance taken and blended to perfection. A classy floral, fresh and juicy fragrance.

I think its one the most sensual ,intimate and romantic perfume i tried so far.The benefits is its all natural ...so its not living this sour smell on the skin like almost all synthetic perfumes do.(on my skin that absorbs all the smells).I almost can't smell it on me.But people around me doing compliments.They saying its hard to describe but its like a gentle kiss.Also i love the pear note!Very unusual .

Delicate, feminine, light florals. Very ladylike but not dated. I imagine a quintessentially British young lady getting ready for a first date. This smell like you’ve had a milk bath and then put on expensive lotion. The date is a picnic in a luscious meadow wearing a cute day dress and sun hat. Very comforting, classy but still playful. Easy to wear and inoffensive.

This perfume is wonderful!! That's all I have to say, it's beautiful, it vaguely reminds me of Champs (which I adore), but this one has its own personality and it's also beautiful. Can anyone say if there's already an Arabic perfume that has been inspired by this Ananda by M. Micaleff, or by Champs Élysées by Guerlain?

Perfect powdery mimosa. I've tested it first at the end of the summer and it was too sweet for me. I tried it again on winter time and it was love from the first sniff. It keeping some sweetness, but on winter it feels comfy and balanced, this fragrance brings me happy mood and happyness, like sunshine in the morning

Ananda exudes peace, a sense of tranquility, a fresh out of the shower feeling. I get whiffs of Ananda throughout the day, and I just feel "clean". This mimosa is extraordinary, with a sweet hint of vanilla enhancing the rest of the notes. The longevity is exceptional.

This would be perfect for a summer wedding in the garden. Beautiful, gentle. The pear in the opening is the most realistic pear I have smelled in a perfume ever. Drydown are gentle flowers. Downside - it is not very strong and does not last that long.

I do not understand the bad reviews of this perfume, for me it is the best perfume ever smelled, not heavy, no alcohol or sharp. then walk through a beautiful flower garden, lovely.. even if I have a severe migraine attack I can wear this perfume ❤️

This is truly a great summer scent. Very sweet, so you have to really like sweet perfumes. I swear I smell neroli but its not in the notes. Very clean smelling.. almost like a shampoo scent in a way.

a pleasant clean day scent, like really amazing laundry freshener, I would buy a bottle if it were priced about £20 max, certainly not worth a high price over £25 max.

Smells like an Olay body wash in the best way possible. If you wanna smell like you just got right out of the shower this is the perfect scent and I love it ❤️

This is beautiful, this is what i would imagine a goddess with white long greek dress would smells like.

Bridgerton summer in a bottle! The most beautiful mimosa I have ever tried !

Smooth, mild, soft, slightly characterless, yet very classy, upscale hand-lotion-y sort of thing. Fluffy white clouds of girliness with no sharp corners whatsoever. Absolutely not my area, but miles better than I expected looking at the pyramid - as I'm not a fan of big fruit salads and have a particular phobia about pear. Yet somehow, as often happens with Micallef, this has been mixed with a careful enough hand to not get overwhelmingly sweet, or to smell nauseatingly fake-fruit-bubblegummy. Instead it all just merges into a light, gentle, clean-yet-feminine aura that's just all-around pleasant. All the listed notes make sense, but it's so carefully blended together that to be honest I couldn't sense any of them or pick them out specifically ... which might be the height of perfumer's sophistication, or a bit of a lost opportunity, depending on your tastes. (For instance: if like me you love realistic white flowers, there are other options which can get you far, far closer to nature than this.) Infinitely better than its peach-nightmare flanker Ananda Dolce, but I was more attracted to the spicier, warmer inflection given by the tea and spice version Ananda Tchai. This one is I guess the original, but somehow the most anonymous of all. However, for the money, you might want a bit more than pleasant and inoffensive ... and I kept getting distracted by trying to remember the exact sort of hand-cream it was reminding me of (Dove? some sort of Nivea?) - and those are pretty cheap associations to get evoked by a high-priced niche perfume. Didn't seem to evolve or change on me much, either. Longevity and sillage both pretty middle-of-the-road, not poor, but no surprises. In short: never not nice, but never very exciting either.

I'm amazed I'm the first one to write a review, because I think this perfume is quite inspirational really. It is floral, but a sweet one! The plums and blackcurrants on the background make it quite syrupy, still the florals make it easier to handle. It is quite loud and I predict the staying power will be great (I only have sprayed it an hour ago on a piece of paper, but it is still very much there). Now this also reminds me a bit of Lollia's Wish, they both have this quite unique smell. Though the difference is, that Wish could become quite cloying and overly sweet, it's more gourmand. Ananda has much more 'spring' in it, that's why I like it more than Wish. I really recommend trying this one if you like something sweet and uplifting! PS: The bottle looks totally different now by the way, I suppose it's modernised. It is a half circle with see through glass with litte strass-stones located on the cap and a circle on the bottle itself: it's just like the bottle of rose aoud only ananda's fluid and stones are white while rose aoud is pink. Really looks pretty...

Yet another like after initial dislike. How parfums need proper weather to shine! Today, 31°C, and Ananda is dreamy. Like stated here, fruity - mainly plums and pears, juicy and charming, sweet but perfectly balanced, yellow floral with gorgeous sunny mimosa dominating, powdery with violets, floral in heart, with clean and creamy musky finish. Today, the similarity to Champs Elysees shows but Ananda is better. It is an intense scent, it will be noticed. But to shower and then dress in Ananda and white cotton will make you feel like a princess. You rule, others must bow.

Opens very lush and sultry with flower and fruit notes. Jasmine is noticeable from the start. Violet and musk notes show up soon and add a mysterious aroma to the fruity floral mix. The mimosa is also clearly there, and I also smell hints of pear. The drydown is a musky vanilla with fruit notes and jasmine & ylang. Sillage and longevity are moderate. Very feminine smell. I don't get any rose out of this, just white flowers and a vanilla musky fruit drydown. I like this scent, very fresh and sultry at the same time. It has a bit of a creamy feel to it. Lovely.