Ananya Perfume Oil

Ananya perfume oil is my absolute favourite fragrance ever! My Mum used to wear it and gave me the perfume stick in my Christmas stocking when I was about 12 so it has many happy associations for me. She gave me the oil and eau de toilette last last Christmas and I love it even more as an adult. People always comment on how nice I smell and ask what it is when I wear it. My physio said it was "A yummy smell". I love it because it's fruity and yes, yummy, but not in a food way (although I love that too!) It last really well and is appropriate for every possible occasion and season. It's just so hard to get hold of! It seems to come back once every few years here and then disappear again. If anyone knows where I can find it from New Zealand let me know!

I have the body lotion of this and have just moisturized with it before bed. I think it resembles Charlie Red and decided to spray the bed linen and myself with it. They work really well together as they are both fruity and flowery, with some tuberose. I'm interested to see no other review has noted the likeness or harmony they have.

I still have a bottle that I bought in the late 90's. I looove it but it's not an every day scent for me. @Perfumedsecrets, yes I remember Revlon Outrageous shampoo!! Oh gosh, it smelled fantastic and was totally a dead ringer for TBS Ananya!

Still have some of the body mist from early 10s, was my go-to for nighttime and when I don't want to be 'invisible' in a room. Heavy on the classic floral notes (think your grandmother's vanity table), a hit-or-miss but a definite hit for me.

This is probably the best scent I've smelled for my body chemistry. On me it was very warm and slightly sweet. Unfortunately I wore it during the most difficult time of my life. I want to reclaim it, but in just not sure.

It was so long ago that I had this oil that I can't remember if I used it as perfume or home fragrance (or both). In any case, I do remember that I loved it very much! I have got to get this back into my life!

A very heady deep floral. Smells like Revlon’s Outrageous shampoo from the 90’s. I wear a drop or two on my wrist for the nostalgia.

It so reminds me of my teenage years!I still wear it and i always get compliments about it!!

Yesterday I've found this line again at the body shop!!! It's back here in Italy, with a new packaging and it's unmistakable scent! I used to wear the body mist (very intense and long lasting!) in the autumn of my 15 years, but then they discontinued this fragrance...yesterday, when I sniffed it again, I felt the wind of that autumn on my skin; I relived the walks with my best friend, the trip to the south of Italy, the tree-lined streets with leaves that were beginning to yellow; the day of October in which there was an eclipse of the sun, and the sky of Rome had that sweet and melancholy light... Ananya was the perfect scent for those moments! It's a scent full of character, a warm and velvety floriental fragrance. I can maybe find some similarities with Avon Faraway (they both have notes of peach, jasmine, freesia, vanilla and musk, that I can notice very well on my skin), but this is more mature and intense, somehow "darker". I find it perfect in all the seasons, expecially in the body mist form, a little less heavy than the eau de toilette, but still very noticeable and long lasting on my skin.

I recieved the perfume oil as a gift in the 90's. I started wearing it in 2001 because i had a tiny bottle of China Rain that i finally finished and was addicted to when i needed a perfume oil for travel or gym. Before China Rain it was BS Fuzzy Peach and BS Dewberry. I'm not comparing similar notes but explaining that i always used tiny dabs of perfume oil on my hair or occasionally dab my underarms when working out. I was so in love with China Rain as a teenager so that was my oil to refresh with during high activity until the little bottle was finally empty. Months after i switched to Ananya a guy i work out with at my gym told me that i had to have the freshest,cleanest smelling sweat he ever smelled on a woman his whole life. I was always drenched in sweat before socializing on my way to the locker room. It had to be the Ananya. These little perfume oils seem to last a long time back then. I was disappointed with my Atlas Rose Mountain purchase 2 years ago because several dabs do not last 10 minutes and the smell is forgettable. I miss all the classics,especially BS Sandalwood!

I bought this perfume only because Ananya is my name. I really want to love it but it's just impossible. It's not like I hate it but this perfume is not for me because it's overwhelmingly coconut-y. To my surprise, it has many notes that are my favorites when used in other perfumes or toiletries. Rose, Jasmine, Ylang Ylang, Vanilla and Sandalwood are my HG notes but I can't get over the coconut. It's a better version of virgin coconut oil. Everytime I wear it, I'm reminded of an Indian woman in Red Saree with polished hairdo who uses Jasmine to decorate her hair. And ofcouse, she uses coconut oil to moisture her hair. (A well-known Indian regimen.) She just had a visit to the temple and has the smell of rose and incense lingering on her body. She is beautiful, charming and exotic. ....only if she din't use that coconut oil on her hair. I got a second bottle anyway..Well, its my name! But its left on the shelf...untouched.

I have a bottle of the original perfume oil. It 's a gorgeous but very powerful scent. I almost always layer it on top of a sweet pea perfume oil or over my Body Shop vanilla perfume oil. Somehow adding either of these calms it down--it's still an intense fragrance, but it stops tickling my nose. I don't have any pure sandalwood oil, but I bet that would also be great underneath Ananya. All the original Body Shop perfume oils were marketed as tools to build your own scent by mixing and matching them on your skin or in a bottle of lotion, so if you have any of them I'd encourage you to try layering it with other things.

I only just realised that I have this! My dad bought it for me just a few years ago before I moved states. It's such a warm luxureous fragrance. I either use it when I am going to out for a day at the beach -it really lasts and lasts and lasts this one- or I dab on a bit in the evening on one of those hot and humid Queensland nights and the next morning it's still there just as strong. I don't know what it is about this scent but everything about it seems to scream tropics at me. Makes me think of sunset on a tropical beach with palm trees and white sands, time for a Pina-Colada I think!

I heard that this is back at body shop but still haven't seen it. So until then, I am staying glued to my bottle (I had the perfume and not the oil) that I have kept for almost 15 years now! I even had a matching lotion and body mist but finished them. I hope the new one it is the same as the old. Such distinctive and girly scent. The thing with this one was that I could never understand the notes but there was something particularly strange that made this fragrance unique. You could distinct it from km if someone was wearing it. Oh memories...

I used to wear and love Ananya EDT back in the 90s, and when I saw that The Body Shop brought it back I grabbed a bottle immediately, for nostalgia's sake as much as anything else but one little spray and I knew instantly why I had worn it so often, and gone through so many bottles back then!! It's simply amazing. Powerful, sweet but not sugary, womanly, not girly and the memories it brings back....Wow!!! Thank you Body Shop for bringing this beauty back, I think I'm going to need a back up. Or two, or three!!

Questo ananya era una bomba che oggi farebbe sognare. Ho la boccetta di olio di metà anni 90,un profumo tropicale,denso,tuberosa e fiori opulenti dalla vivacità incontenibile. Aroma denso e ceroso,solare,inebriante su uno sfondo ambrato sensuale e carnale. Un tocco di miele dorato,il potere erotico dell'ylang,una traccia animale e l'ipnosi narcotica di questa fragranza ti porta a fantasticare ad occhi aperti.

I have the original '90s perfume stick and finally finished it today. I'll miss this one! It's gorgeously sweet and really lasts. I actually really like the waxy texture of the stick as well, though it's probably softened a bit in twenty years! Tempted to pick up the oil now and see if it lasts as long on my skin.

They already released the EDT of the perfume ,I wor it for the 1st time in 2005 (the old bottle) it is such fab, nothing absolutely similar to this it is Lo0ovly perfume very feminine very young very classy

I had totally forgotten about this perfume, throwback moment. It was floral fruity and fun. What year did this even come out?

This is a review for the EDT: First time I tried it was on a piece of paper. I was blown away. It was the strongest of all the body shop fragrances. I loved the smell and found it so unique so I bought it. Next day, I sorayed it on my arm. And I felt repelled. I kept smelling it again and again, including the spray on my shirt thinking 'why am I smelling this way?!'. Maybe it's skin chemistry, but what I also know now is that I really don't like violet! It surprised me how I can love ananya one day and not tolerate it the next. Other perfumes I tested before this must have altered my sense of smell, that's the best reason I can think of. Too bad, because when I smell it I still find something so divine but at the same time a smell that's just too much for me to take. The good thing about this is its projection and longevity. Its excellent really. Anyone want to trade just PM me.