Charisma Avon for women

Bought it at least 3 dollar for a dozen roller-size and then discontinued. Dont know how hard to find but I give it all to my granmom. Seems like Ebay-expensively price! :-) .
I still remember how strongly smell of it that i dislike, it's overwhelming of soaply scent and aldehydes, maybe cause of my body chemistry cant connect to it!

I owned a small cream perfume jar of this back in 1997, when I was 12, my first fragrance along with Sweet Honesty. I loved this stuff, I remembered it being very warm, a silky floral scent with bitter-sweet woods enriched with amber and creamy musk. Elegant and comforting. It made me feel so grown up back then :)
I have never tried the liquid version of Charisma though, but I liked the body talc as well. I don't think I would have liked the EDT formulation, judging from the notes it probably would have been too strong and over-powering for me, but the lovely cream just goes straight into the wonderful heart and cozy drydown. I wish I could find it again.

I picked up a vintage mini @ a local vintage shop and immediately noticed a very soapy quality to it so I am sure that this may be an late 70's-early 80's bottle. It has a very clean feeling about it and the amber, which I am not a fan of, makes itself known, but not in a nauseating way.

I use to love this fragrance. I was going through my older stash of perfumes and ran across a small bottle of this one again. It does still smell similar to the actual fragrance, but over the years it has lost a significant amount of it's strength. I do wish Avon would do a big campaign for the Holidays and bring back some of the wonderful older fragrances. If Avon would make affordable bottles of the older scents, a lot of us older women would buy so many of them just for the memories, Persian Wood, Topaz, Bird of Paradise, Charisma, Here's My Heart, just to name a few of the great ones.

Maybe this is the least complex of all the Avon vintages I know, and also the soapiest, but I simply love it!

This is a really odd scent to me, at first I thought it was absolutely vile but as I've found, often the bit sitting in the spray degenerates so it's not a good idea to judge the fragrance at first spray.
The version I have is a Christmas box set of 15mls EDT with a box of talc (both unused) probably from the 1990's judging by the pack. It's a fresh and spicy affair which kind of works well at a distance in a soapy powdery way but there is an undertone to it that I just cannot like, I'm not sure what it is, but I shall be swapping it forthwith....:(
I should note that the drydown is in fact quite pleasant and reminds me a little of a Chanel.

I had this scent for many years before it was discontinued and I loved it. I have heard that Avon brings back this scent for special sales, but I have yet to see it happen and I have been an Avon Rep. for many years. This was a true giant back in it's peak. I do not find old bottles of perfume maintain their perfection so I do not seek them out. If Avon brings this one back, I will buy a couple bottles.

Not sure what to think of this one. I tried a bottle from the early to late 90's, which I think was shortly before it was discontinued. Then I also came across a true vintage version from the late 60's or early 70's. I don't know if I'm imagining it, but the two smelled slightly different. Both had a strong aldehydic soapy scent, but the newer one seemed fresher and soapier. Although the older one seemed slightly more complex, there was a note in there that didn't quite agree with me. Possibly some woody or musky note, I can't quite put my finger on it. Was this my imagination, or was it reformulated at some point? Or maybe the older version changed with age? Does anyone know? Anyway, having said all that, this fragance starts off sharp and strong, and then dissipates into basically nothing in an hour. It does smell truly vintage, which isn't a bad thing. I'm on the fence with this one.

Update: Got my hands on another bottle and tried it. It smells lovely! Both bottles were from the 70's, and the only difference I could see is that one was a spray and one was a decanter, with the decanter winning hands down. It's got a clean, spicy scent, if that makes sense. I have made up my mind, and can say I really like this one. I'm truly starting to appreciate Avon vintages.