Surreal Garden Avon for women

An excellent green scent!

É bem gostosinho, fresquinho, e tem um significado especial, me lembra minha melhor amiga :)

I've worn this a few times but have been careful because of reviews and sometimes you yourself will think a perfume smells good on you when it doesn't. I have found through numerous testings, it's clean, fresh, and very versatile. This can be worn anywhere, anytime, with the exception of damp or rainy weather. It's one of those scents that you can always just pick up and not question if it's right or wrong for the occasion, well, unless a storm blows up! I don't know why this makes me cringe when it's damp, but it does. I don't get any melon really, which might make this not enjoyable to me. I think being that it's NOT sweet at all is why I am so drawn to this. I love sweet scents but this captures my attention more so! It's an odd little alien on my dresser that gets R E S P E C T!

Logo quando comprei gostava muito mas com o tempo passei a achá-lo enjoativo. Passei para minha mãe e gosto do cheiro dele nela.

Sorry to have to post a negative review, but...this one's not for me. I had high hopes because of the good reviews, but after tracking it down online and finally getting my hands on a bottle of this stuff...I don't know if it's just my body chemistry or what, but it kind of smells like men's aftershave on me. A serious disappointment. I gave it to my daughter, though, and she loves it. So, I'm going to chalk this one up to differences in chemistry.

Very Unique fragrance. I like this one. The only thing I notice is Avon has a habit of making many fragrances smell like a skin so soft undertone.

After reading the reviews i orderd for it yesterday and it was deliverd today...that was fast.Strangely the perfume is not what i expected.I can smell a lot of melon in it and its turning me off..hope i like it once the scent settles down.But maybe this is not for me the fragrances which best suit me are ysl opium and chanel allure which while being strong suit me a lot

Very fresh, green and grassy. Just imagine: You come outside after a rainfall and notice that your neighbor mowed the loan... thus, it smells like wet grass. That pretty much summarizes what this scent is. I enjoy it but am not in love with it by any means...

I bought this one after reading the notes, hoping it had a similarity to JC Ellena's 'Jardin' trilogy...it didn't, but it is a very pleasant scent in it's own right...

This is a very complex green floral musky scent. It begins with a citrusy feel and quickly becomes a watery blend of water lily/lotus and sweet pea. It grows more green with a leafy/stem type of aroma and then gets sort of incensy. The patchouli here is fascinating as it is earthy-aromatic but green and watery at the same time. I had this and Surreal both for a while and found Surreal too fruity and sweet(gifted to a good friend), but this...I would still have this because it is so unique, if my Mother had not begged me for it. (She didn't get one before Avon did what they always do-discontinue the good ones!) This is flowery, green and 'aquatic' but can be worn by anyone who likes something different...

Sillage: good
Longevity: decent
Overall: 3.5/5

This is definitely a 'surreal' one, it smells almost like an underwater garden to me yet is green, earthy and resinous at the same time. It is like a flower garden, in a thunderstorm while the sun is still shining and smells soooo different from anything Avon has ever released. I occasionally sneak a spray or two when I want to smell lush, green and unique. SG is avant-garde without being too weird, if you can find it, try it. it's definitely a different trippy twist on a floral chypre...

wow very fresh melon smell almost like watermelon so sweet!great for summer!

I got this today and am a bit on the fence about this one: although the description "luscious garden" fits it perfectly, I don't know if I feel comfotable with this. It's as if avon couldn't decide which direction to go with this...it's a chypre-floral, but with overripe fruit somehow.
even I think that sounds harsh, but my smellbuds just don't get along with this avon.
What really surprised me is the staying power: although an edt it lasts for quite a while (on me at least 6 hrs) and afterwards it's like a mist on my body...
what irritates me is the fruity-bitter note which is strong on me - since i really want to like it i will try on.

Surreal Garden is a mixture of tart citrus and aquatic notes at the beginning that are sharp but complex. Later it becomes a modern chypre floral, wet vegetation with bitter, herbal and earthy notes that are at the same time light, airy and feminine and slightly reminded me of Davidoff Echo.

A couple of hours later the green aquatic notes soften up and become like a fresher and tarter version of Always from Avon and that's because the chypre accord is dominant till the drydown. It's perfect for hot, summer months where other, sweeter fragrances would be too cloying.

Not a fan, although I wanted to be. The initial scent was promising, a combination of something cool and almost watery and the interesting dryness of chypre. But on my skin it quickly turned sour, the coolness turning into an irritating melon that didn't quite fit with me or the other notes. Perhaps on another person's skin it would work OK, but most definitely not mine!

This is a weird fragrance...one of the few fragrances i ever smelled where i was truly "suprised" by the smell...it smelled like being in a wet thick green vegetable garden/rainforest while on LSD...it smells almost other worldly...i hated it but i kind of liked it...very strange...for the right person it would be an excellent fragrance...but after a while the smell made me sick....the dry down was a synthetic melon smell....very unusual experience with this scent.

it isen't only two notes, it has several:
FAMILY Olfaction
Floral green woody

PYRAMID Olfaction
Output: Lemon, Freesia, Green Leaves, Flowers of Pea
Smell.
Body: Jacinto, Water Lily, Gardênia buttons, Lily
Cala, Jasmine.
Fund: Vetiver, Patchouli, Musk.

PERFUMES
The French Cachena Corine, creator of the successes
perfumery world as of Montblanc Presence for Men and
Skin Care of Vichy, was based on women
contemporary value and that all that is beautiful and
Surreal Garden to create natural, and a mild fragrance
fresh to be used at any time.

I bought it because I thought the perfume bottle beautiful, but I had a pleasant surprise ... the Surreal Garden moved with my emotions, and I remembered my adolescence. I fell in love with this fragrance beacouse this feeling!

Have you ever walked into a conservatory, or a greenhouse, or any other enclosed space filled with wet plants? The concentrated aroma of all that vegetation hits you almost physically, and that's the feeling that Surreal Garden recreates. (Albeit more sweetly.)

I like it, but I can see how others would find it offensive - the water lily and patchouli are both quite strong and persistent. (Prior reviewers disagree on staying power; on me it hangs around all day.) The top notes also include a definite greenness, bordering on citrus it sometimes seems. It's harder to distinguish between the heart and the drydown, but the top at least is distinct. When we first smelled it, my husband and I joked that it's exactly the thing for sexy waitresses at a vegetarian restaurant.

It's more "Surreal", I think, and less safe than the original fragrance it flanks. And perhaps these things shouldn't matter, but the green bottle is adorable, and Surreal Garden is a terrific name for a perfume . . .

I also love this fragrance....although it smells more like a surreal rainforest rather than a Surreal Garden. But not in a masculine way. It's a very feminine clean scent- nice & light in a gorgeous bottle. Perfect for the Spring and Summer months. Edit: I'd also like to add that the lasting power on this perfume is terrible. It lasts about 2 hours or so on me. Doesn't change the fact that I still love it though.

I have to say that I love love this fragrance! It seems it would be very simple with two fragrance notes, but I have not found that to be the case at all. The Lotus and Patchouli must mingle very well, this is a much more complicated scent then I would have expected from its description. Just smelling this puts me in a good mood, very good daytime scent, good for spring. I have found that I also enjoy this scent when I need a pick-me-up during these cold winter months. :) I have to get another bottle, as mine is running low... Very inexpensive, and too bad it was either discontinued or made for a limited time. I have to add that it has very good staying power.