Honeysuckle (1963)
by Avon

On me, Honeysuckle started off a little funky, with a very animalic honey smell that was quickly joined by what seemed to me like orange blossom and some soapy musk. Given time to settle, I ended up with a standard powdery white flowers accord mixing with the orange blossom over a soapy musky honey smell. This mix stayed fairly linear for hours, doing a great job simulating a flower that smelled pretty but with an animalic growl underneath. For the record, the bottle I sampled from was copyright 1990 and had a linear flowery strongness that felt quite 80's (think Pleasures). While nothing exceptionally special, Honeysuckle is proof that old cheap perfumes smelled a lot better and more interesting than new cheap perfumes...

9th December, 2011.