Head Over Heels

I just ordered this today. I bought this back in 1995 from the Belk counter when it was still sold under Ultima II. At the time I didn’t know it was under Revlon. I also had a very good big eyeshadow palette from them, it was gorgeous. I loved this perfume at the time. When allergies got the best of me I stopped wearing perfume, only body sprays. So I decluttered my perfume collection. I swear I kept this bc of the bottle, but I yet to find it. We had a fire in ‘99, but I still had after that. We have had 3 transition periods since all that. I still hope I find my vintage bottle. I don’t expect much bc research says this is different. I really loved the og, fresh, fruity, floral...still lean toward the fruity florals. I will edit when this gets here to see if it is the same as the og or if I find my old bottle😊 She’s here and here are her notes, which is exactly what I am smelling. Original (1994) Top Notes: Melon, plum, peach Heart Notes: Rose, jasmine, geranium Base Notes: Cedarwood, moss It is bright, fresh, fruity, floral, & a lil woody. Oh so vintage, just like me🤟🏼 And this bottle, JPG ripped em off!! I will wear this every now & again, but sparingly bc it can get cloying to me. Still a beautiful scent!

I love it! Have worn it since the 90's. I am asked on a regular basis what I'm wearing. I have always gotten compliments on this fragrance. There are many fragrances that I cannot wear, because of my body chemistry. Head Over Heels is a great one for me! Although, I have noticed a slight change in the fragrance over the years. It was originally made by Ultima II, but now seems to be a Revlon product. Now when you first spray it on, there is a woody, musky smell, but that disappears in a matter of minutes. It doesn't have the staying power it once use to have either. I suspect more alcohol in the formula. I always layer it with the lotion and it seems to alter the smell somewhat, and I think makes it more pleasing.

The bottle is soo beautiful and unique. The scent is soo sexy and I really like it, people use to turn their heads when I walk beside them and some people use to ask me what I am wearing and they tell me that the scent is delicious and unique ;) Today I tested on my skin "Sunflowers- Elizabeth Arden" and I got surprised it smelled just like "Head Over Heels", amazing I couldn ́t believe it !!! Trust me if you want to know how "Head Over Heels" scent is just test "Sunflowers" from Elizabeth Arden ;)

Hi Geegee, really funny to see how people smell differently! I get a lot of melon, melon all over the place and a lot of plum as well. I like Head over heels very much, it is strong and has very good sillage! Good luck! Action

Well I remembered this when I was young but never had it. I found it for 5 euros and I decided to buy it. I didn't remember how it was smelling. Even after reading the reviews, I thought that it is ok if it smells similar to Sunflowers. Luckily it smells awful lot like Sunflowers. The begining is kind of more synthetic and cheap but after an hour it is difficult to tell the differences. I love Sunflowers so it is only natural to like this one. I don't like it as much as Sunflowers though. Be careful, one spray is enough. It has big sillage and longevity so you don't want other people or you to suffocate (and it is difficult to take it out even after scrubing it). It is so interesting that back in the days even these mass market perfumes had great sillage and now even if you pay a mini salary for a perfume it might dissapear after a while. In any case, I liked the perfume so I didn't regret it and I am happy that I liked the content. I will leave it for spring though since it is ultra floral. I am also happy that since I haven't brought Sunflowers with me (I have left it in my other country), I can use this instead. I am even thinking of buying the Limited Edition Blue version of this bottle.

I've bought this on sale because of the pretty bottle. A nice collector's item. As vioversilver said the scent itself is nothing special. A mix of banana, melon and some spices or nuts. Will be good for a teenage girl.

Peach, melon and plum are NOT the notes on my skin or to my nose. This went on a crisp, light floral that smelled like Lily of the Valley with oakmoss and some musk.

i had this perfume ,cant say that i loved it but i just liked it.nothing special yea bottle was nice but still i wouldnt want to buy it again .

Update:This has really grown on me for hot days and smells remarkably like Thierry Mugler Eau de Star. The latter has more refined aquatic notes but they are very similar. I bought this because of the sexy bottle. I can't resist packaging that shows high heels, garters, legs, busts, etc. This was inexpensive when I bought it about 20 years ago so I wasn't super disappointed that it wasn't a fabulous scent. There's nothing really wrong with it, it's OK for Summer grocery shopping and I even wore this hiking once but I wouldn't say it's spectacular. It sure looks great with my other bottles though! I have to wonder how it's legal for Jean-Paul Gaultier to blatantly rip off this bottle design.

See another review below for the full list of notes because the ones listed here are only the top notes. This is a very sweet floral fragrance however it does have that vintage smell underneath. It is still likeable perfume. But I will not be reaching for this very much. It makes me a little bit nauseous I can taste it in the back of my throat. I like to spray so that I can smell it. No one has complained that I am i loud. I actually have to get up close to somebody like a hug for them to smell it. I recommend if you like vintage sweet floral that is not offensive.

While this is not an active dislike for me, it's also hard to say I like it because I almost never want to wear it. I also laugh because my husband once complimented me on it. It seems like a very simple fruity floral, which becomes almost metallic smelling on my skin after it dries down. It seems like they were going for a bit of an aquatic feel here, but it fell short. Not as much unpleasant as weird. I bought it for the silly bottle anyway, and in the process got a compliment.

There's a Helen of Troy perfume housed in the same bottle with a similar box (umbrellas instead of shoes.) I wonder if it's the same one? There's also Helen of Troy II with a yellow skirt. I'm so intrigued!!

First I thought of L'eau D'Issey, then I thought of Sunflowers. Similar to both and not as nice as either of them. Great bottle, though.

Let's be honest. This one's a stinker from the early 80's. It's fun, retro bottle reminds me of the Stray Cat Strut or Sexy and 17 songs made popular in 1983 by American Rockabilly group, The Stray Cats. IMHO, the spicey floral combination is not blended well, which makes it the fragrance equivalent of a bad perm, an ill-fitting jacket with large shoulderpads, a short, tight mini, red pleather pointy shoes, and bright geometric design shirt with matching earrings, bracelets, and necklace. You might be able to made one or another element work alone, or with something else in the closet, but this assemblage just doesn't go well together. To me, this one is fun to try when you are 17, but it just doesn't work now. And really tried to like this one for the bottle alone. It wins most original bottle but that is about it. If anyone has had success laying it with something else for a better effect I would love to read about it. It could possibly work well layered with something else, but I haven't been willing to sully my wrists to try that yet.

I admit I bought this head over hills forthe bottle,lol&being curious,big mistake,I have a 3.2oz bottle,edt version,SWAMP?=(um I do not like this scent,to me it smells very not me,not good,my opinion,it smells like perfumes my mom owned when I was young,like just gross,granted she had better ones,but cute bottle,so win&loose.Lasts 1&half hours 2 max,barely there at 3hours very close to skin,no fruit I smell only green something.

I bought this perfume online a few days ago. I just tried it out and I can honestly this is the worst perfume I've ever had. It's smells exactly like our toilet spray and the worst part is that about a minute after I sprayed it on my wrist, I have the most horrible headache I've had in a long time and I am someone who hardly has headaches... I can not stand this smell for another second so I'm going to scrub it off right now!

Very strong melon and plum with a bit of soft peach....and perhaps musk? I don't find it overly sweet, but it is long lasting. Unfortunately, this doesn't smell good on me, probably due to the heavy melon. Head Over Heels has a very synthetic chemical smell that doesn't change with the drydown. I don't plan to wear this fragrance, but the bottle is a cute, unique additon to my vanity table.

This is certainly a fruity scent. There's something jolly and lighthearted about it. There is a kind of plastic smell in the mix after it's been on my skin for a couple of hours which I am not enjoying. I am a fan of oriental florals and foral woody musks, so I'm going to experiment with layering this perfume with others from my collection to make it work for me.

Luckily, I just bought this at a bargain on ebay for the cute bottle because it really smells awful on me. I agree with some reviewers who say it smells like EA sunflowers which I also dislike. It just doesn't work on me but, the bottle is really cute and looks great on my fragrance display.

Bought it for the very cute bottle. At first I cannot stand it. After a while it smells ok, fruity. But it all smells very synthetic and chemically. I think I smell melon. :) Would be good for a young girl, but I really don't think I will ever like this one besides for the cute bottle!

i bought a large bottle and only for the bottle. The smell reminds me of Elizebeth Arden Sunflower. i don't like it. i use it for air refreshing. i see only three fruit notes included. Really? Can't understand such work.

I thought the notes looked good on this one, but it just pulled very sour melon with no hint of sweetness on my skin. .

I doubt I got a fake or old bottle from Strawberrynet.Scent is just disgusting and cheap.

I don't get any of the notes listed I really dislike this perfume but I'll keep it for the bottle

Fragrance Review For Head Over Heels Revlon Notes Peach Melon Plum 1994 Vintage Eau de Toilette Spray Bottle Women's Legs Stockings Black Dress Upside Down Stopper This is a cute retro 90's fruity fragrance unlike anything out there today; except perhaps a Victoria Secret perfume with even less sillage and shorter lifespan, something like Victoria Secret Mango Temptation or Strawberries & Champagne. With only three linear notes of peach, melon and plum, it's not a long lasting scent nor is it especially memorable. It has that same kind of fruity shampoo or fruity body mist or hairspray type of scent. This is not going to be a mind blowing complex mature Revlon scent. In fact I was surprised that they even went into this cute girly girl direction. Revlon is mostly known for mature frags like off the top of my head vintage Scoundrel Joan Collin's first perfume. It's been compared to Elizabeth Arden's Sunflowers but I don't get anything remotely similar to that fragrance. Sunflowers happens to be more full bodied and floral. This one is sweet fruity and summery with barely any flowers or discernable dry base notes. Here we have a standard even 'cheap' little fruity perfume. It's as flirty, cutesy and sweet as the packaging with the girl's legs wearing thigh high stockings and turned upside down in a little black dress. Opens with melon and it's more of a watermelon, a candy watermelon similar to those Jolly Ranchers watermelon candies. This is what I'm getting out of it. It can pass for a very young girl's perfume, a pre-teen in junior high can rock this thing with body lotions and hairsprays that smell of the same kind of fruit. This is girlish and sweet a girl without any worries and still lives at home with mom and dad. Normally I don't go for these perfumes but I have discovered so many different kinds of frags that I like the more the merrier. This is a summer time fragrance for casual wear in T shirt and shorts, or a cute mini dress or top and skirt when you don't want to 'dress up'. The plum note reaches my nose quickly and it's juicy and deep 'purple' almost like grape soda with a delicious peach that begins to blend with the powerful melon that dominates the fragrance. Smells like an assortment of fruited candy more than actual fruit in a fruit stand or aisle in a supermarket. The sweetness is also aided by a nondescript floral note. I can't tell what it is and smells vaguely of peony violet or rose. This is more fruity than it is floral. In the dry down I can hardly make out anything. I believe it's possibly composed of a powdery accord, some vanilla or musk, and the slightest trace of an amber. This is not warm not aromatic not green not woodsy not musky. She is a very straight-forward peach perfume. I love the bottle and so does my 5 year old niece who wanted me to buy it for her so I ordered it on eBay. It's the sellers on eBay that hold the vintage lover's bait! Where else can you find discontinued and nearly forgotten fragrances such as this one. This is a very cute and charming little girl perfume. This is for those of us who still maintain our childhood spirit and remember being young enough to be aware that we have the power over the opposite sex but we're not wearing any make up yet and do no dress provocatively. This is for a stylish girl of about 13 to 15. For older adult mature women this is a treat if you are especially fond of fruity perfumes. Perfect for wearing in the summer time when you want to smell either fresh and fruity or candy sweet. A good fragrance to wear for a party in a party dress as well.

04. November 2021 The review is for vintage bottle produced by Revlon. Well preserved in it ́s box and not off. It took me really several wears to fully appreciate this fragrance. I believe this is strictly hot summer fragrance, since it doe snot work well in colder climate/weather. It is a typical 90 ́s baby of that "watermelon" era fragrances. At first it is not pleasant at all: the melon note is overbearing and quite synthetic. Some might even call it an "air freshener" type of fragrance. If you like melon - then this is your go to type of fragrance, but for me watermelon or melon almost never work. So the first hour or so it was quite unappealing to me, but the more it developed, the more i started to like it. Although it stays quite linear for the most of the time, and it stays a long time on a skin 6+hrs going strong only 1 spray, after 5 hrs i can finally smell something more, than just melon/musk/synthetic peach combo. Guess it is a plum, even though i do not recognize it as one. Yet something warm and cozy appears and the drydown smells delicious. The best part for me is a drydown for sure, but i cannot say that overall the quality is bad or something (maybe modern versions are bad, but my bottle is vintage). At first it reminds me of some 90 ́s aquatics, like "Fleur d ́interdit", "Cool water", "L ́eau d ́Issey"(less powdery though), "L ́eau par Kenzo", even "Eternity" or diluted "Escape" but closest would be Avon "Sunny skies" (have them both, so i can compare), but i do not get any likeness to "Sunflowers" - sunflowers always smelled "oily" to me, but never aquatic, so i do not know, how people compare these two. There are more notes to this, than those ones that are listed here on Fragrantica for sure. Not bad, but was a very common scent back in the days, so not outstanding, apart the bottle design, which is fun and interesting.

I adore & collect unusual perfume bottles. So of course when I saw this at a ridiculously cheap price I had to buy it. It's too cute and too easily afforded not to own. I won't pretend that cheap is good. You usually get what you pay for, especially with luxury items like perfumes that need expensive ingredients to make them the potions that we all love. But this perfume is very unusual nonetheless. I expected a cute bottle that 'happened' to have a scent in it. But after carefully sniffing it (I dread the chemical headache I fear I'll get! I blame the cheap price!) I like the scent. It's reminiscent of Giorgio Beverly Hills, which can be too much for me when over sprayed and can give headaches. But, Head Over Heels is much softer! It's less in your face in-a-bad-way. And now I read the comparisons to Sunflowers and I find that I agree with that to a point, yet Head Over Heels still smells better in my opinion. This one is a puzzle. One day soon I must dare to spray and leave it on for a few hours. If a headache occurs, I'll still have a cute, funny bottle. If not, I might wear this more often and see how live forms around me react to it! : ) Until then this is all I can say but I will keep you posted. BTW: Before this was a Revlon scent, it was a Ultima 2 scent and Ultima launched it in the early 80s I believe. So, it's not new and still being manufactured. Obviously there is a market? Yes! Us bottle collectors! ; )

I can barely imagine the candyish watermelon the other reviewers are smelling, but to me this is a straight forward soapy, green, sweet fragrance, the kind that you’d give your kid to use. It’s on the nose, flat, cute, girly, unimpressive. Nothing really to go on about. Like most, it’s the bottle design is what caught my attention, but then again it’s not even the bottle, just the plastic cap. Maybe I can wear this when... I have a playdate to serve imaginary tea to my stuffed animals? Go down to the mom and pop RX store to buy a bag of gumdrops for a nickel? Skip to my Lou playfully singing “la la la” in random notes while twirling my hair with my finger?

I am so sad this fragrance is no longer with us. I have so much love for this teenage perfume. I wore this parfum when I was 14, 15 and 16. The sweet fruit is peach plum and melon and is so delicious. Fresh fruit sweet and like fruit candy when you spray it. The peach and melon are good for wearing when it's hot in the summer and you want to smell good and sweet fresh. Remind me of hairspray. Is like hairspray for girls in school. I remember spraying this in my hair. The bottle is so cute! I like the girl's legs and little black dress. This was cheap in the 1990s years but now it's very rare and very good for a young girl to wear as first parfum.

Interesting how different we all see (smell) fragrances:) i agree it is similar to Arden’s Sunflower somehow, though its a bit sharper whilest sunflower dries down a bit sweeter and woody maybe? I can also detect some Sage and that is why it also reminds me of Eternity by CK. . What surprises me is the similarity in the smell of the above mentioned creation but a totally different style. Based on the bottle I would expect something more extravagant... still net-net after wearing it one day I think I like it, maybe a bit i feel like a youngish, punk grandma who always wears clothes her grandsons are ashamed of:D

I too bought this for the totally kitsch bottle, its so tacky & tasteless that its adorable & one to have a great laugh over. The fragrance however has a lot to be desired, i detect none of they said notes but smell a LOT of honey. Its strong & sweet & one you really wouldnt wear for anything special, certainly not for a dinner or where close contact is on the cards with other people. I dont think anyone would appreciate sitting next to you whilst eating dinner & choking on your fragrance. Thankfully the strong sweet smell doesnt last too long & it dries down in to something a little softer & more palatable.

I remember that I loved this scent when I was younger.My friend had it & everytime I would go to her house I would douse myself LOL. Anyway I had almost forgotten what it smelled like when I was in the supermarket & smelled something great.I started sniffing around & realized that it was a women in her 40's shopping next to me with her child. I kept debating with myself about going over to ask her what it was....when I realized that I already knew.It was head over Heels.I still like it just as much as I use to. I would also say that it is a Floral Fruity Mix.I do not get the aquatic from it.

This was my first perfume obsession. I was twelve and my friend's older sister owned a bottle. Every time I'd go over to play I would admire the cute bottle and steal a spray or two. I don't remember the scent, only that I loved it. These bottles are going for 10 dollars on Amazon. I will have to get one just to see how much my tastes have changed. It would be so great to still love it at thirty. Even if I don't like it, the bottle makes me smile. Interesting fact: this bottle makes a quick appearance in Lil Kim's "No Time" music video from the late 90s. I wonder if she actually wore it.

Action, ive noticed this too on many reviews. I have also noticed how different perfumes smell on me at certain times of the month too. Ladies body chemistry much change considerably day by day due to our hormones. Ive noticed the sweeter perfumes smell rank on me when its that time of month yet the heavier ones begin to smell sweeter than they usually do. Us women, we are very complex creatures...just like a great perfume, wine or cheese.

Yep , I got this for the bottle also, it really is a hoot , the perfume itself is nothing special, if it really is the fruity concoction that the above notes list, I don't get them either , maybe some coconut or banana,some kind of spice,or resin would of helped flesh this out... All said and done, its all about the awesomely unapologetically, kitchy bottle and name , it just does'nt get better than this!

A friend of mine wore this in high school and the marvel of personal chemistry being what it is...it smelled expensive and sophisticated on her. I sampled it recently and on me I'd be better off with a body mist as it performs about the same..Just evaporated into nothing after a couple sprays. It's a great smell though if it works for you. Super easy on the wallet also.

They really should bring this back. The bottle was fun and kicky. This fragrance is perfect in the summer in hot weather. I wore it in Tucson in July. Perfect it was. In a time of heavy perfumes, all of which are nice, these same frags would knock your nose off in 103 degrees. We still need light colognes.

I had this perfume but even though I used up the whole bottle I still can't make up my mind about it. After spraying it initially I could smell the floral/melon notes but soon afterward it would fade leaving a bland chemical smell. It's not a terrible perfume but i don't think I'll be getting it again.

Shockingly bad. I'm wondering if I got a dud bottle (mind you only bought it for £4 for the bottle anyway), or if this perfume is a joke. Cheapest possible aftershave with overtones of melon. For most cheap perfumes, there's a good reason why they're cheap.

So, I just got this today and I cannot be the only one who thinks this smells like a near perfect, if slightly sweeter, version of Sunflowers. Could I have somehow gotten a "bad" one or a fake? Smells good of course and the bottle is adorable.

About ten years ago I tried this and it smelled incredibly sweet and nice on me, I finally have it and it does not work for me anymore, SPICY is all I get. Spicy all the way and nothing else. So sad.

I remember buying this in the summer of 1994! I don't recall it being fruity lol on me it was spicy and kinda peppery....surprisingly not bad but also not a favorite.

Aaaahhh! So this is where Jean Paul Gaultier got his scandal design from! Now that is scandalous! I am more tempted to try the original!

This was originally a scent by Ultima when Ultima Cosmetics had counters in department stores that is....

I think this smells a little bit like sunflowers by Elizabeth Arden. The bottle is so gorgeous..

I need a new bottle. I really like Head over Heels. I still wear mine when the mood strikes me.

I'm a guy and I simply love this perfume because of the cute bottle!!