Navy Dana for women

This is a soft, slightly sweet, slightly powdery, slightly spicy, warm amber scent. This is misnamed as Navy. If you are expecting something cool and aquatic, you won't find it here. This is an underrated warm oriential. If you like a warm ambery scent, this is worth a try.

This is such a nice fragrance for the price. I love the sophisticated & classic scent of this inexpensive floriental. It is very strong amber & jasmine for me, a little musk & vanilla with the other notes. I've worn it off & on through the years & I always get compliments on it. Men seem to really like this one. For any season or occasion. Good sillage & lasts all day & into the night for me! What a value!

I tried Navy some days ago in wlm@rt, and well..it has a small price tag, it is oriental , strong amber note...but ..well it has that "animalic" accord...that in my skin..smells just well...animalic...i mean ..cat pee :)

opening is almost RootBeer like. Spicy like it had cloves and Sassafras. Becomes Vanilla like.
As said in an earlier review, i don't see what's Navy about it. It's straight up Oriental spice to me.

I am another one who got the two tissit bottle package at walmart for seven bucks. I for one usually like to try perfumes that aren't associated with people my age (23) and navy seemed to be one of those perfumes. I sprayed it and absolutely fell in love with it. I do get the powdery notes which I love and I've actually been complimented by other girls my age as well! LOL The best thing is that it lasts all day on me, it's inoffensive and it's super cheap, I just got a gift set with two one ounce bottles and a body lotion for just nine bucks...can't beat that! Love this one and will be wearing it all winter long! :)

Like all perfumes, sometimes they smell good on you while others do not. Navy smells good on myself, and certainly not cheap. I feel that some people have bad feelings about perfumes simply because of the time they wore them was particularly bad, or they disliked someone who wore it. These people do not speak for everyone, so my advice is to just try it on your own and form your own opinion. I haven't smelled anything like Navy since the early 90's.

Just a very warm/fuzzy scent I keep in my purse. Long-lasting and great for casual/leisure. Musky, but with enough floral to not be cloying.

I had totally forgotten about this one! Like several other reviewers, I had it back in the early 90's. It's a warm and fuzzy scent with a cozy, sweet musk base. This would be good for the cooler months.

let me preface the review by saying that i smelled it when it first came out in a magazine strip and thought it smelled amazing. At the time(i was in high school) i already fallen in love with my HG, Samsara and i thought this scent was definately in the same category. I never purchased it until the other day when i kept seeing it at Walmart for bargain price of $7(two little bottles of cologne). I figured if i didn't like it, seven bucks is not a big deal
at first smell(in the bottle), i wasn't impressed-smelled a bit old and dated to me. I decided to give it a go on my wrist and ahh...there we go, the scent that brought me back to 1991. Warm vanilla ambery goodness. I really don't get anything "powdery" like lot of reviewers claim. I generally dislike powdery frags and there is no powder there. I don't get peach and greens at all-jasmine with ylang-ylang predominate, with amber on the drydown. Very warm rich sweet scent. If you like fruity or fresh light frags, this is definately not for you-but if you appreciate richer orientals, you will love this, just like i did. Tiny spritz on my wrist lasted for at least 5-6 hours and we are talking eau de cologne here, not even edt. That's some lasting power, amazing! I miss the times when the fragrances actually lasted as opposed to modern scents that you have to layer to make it last.
This is sexy, rich scent, perfect for night out or cold weather. Alas, i live in the tropics but i still intend to wear it, just use a light hand. Will definately repurchase!
P.S. Why is this called Navy, I have no idea-there is nothing "Navy" about it, since this is rich heady oriental

Yes, I remember wearing this in the early 90s. A very nice floral, suitable for the office if you were careful with application. And it lasted all day on my very dry skin. A *very* good value.

Would I wear it again? Maybe. Right now I have a lot of fragrances to use up, including samples my mom gave me because she didn't want them. I've probably got 5 years worth to use up.

Or, maybe not. Maybe Navy would remind me too much of a part of my life that's long gone.

Great classy inexpensive scent! I always find it at the old drugstores! Hasn't changed. Is a powdery Oriental.

I like this perfume, lots of green notes and light; used to wear it alot at one point.

This is kind of an interesting scent. I totally missed it in the 90's; I saw it in stores but just wasn't too interested. I recently came across it in a giftset of tiny fragrances which included Chantilly, Tabu and Heaven Sent. I guess I had an idea in my mind of what something called "Navy" would smell like, and this surprised me! I'm not sure what that image was, just that this didn't fit it! Ha! I like this. I think it's softer than what I imagined; I guess I imagined a very sophisticated scent. On me this smells like a little bit of orange at first, then some soft, pretty spices, then powdery warmth. It's pretty. Well worth the price.

I can still remember Nicky Taylor's advertisements for this perfume. Loved it when I was a young kid, it made me feel so posh and so grown up, haha!

It doesn't list it here, but this scent contains cinnamon and coriander. I find it a little spicy on my skin, and quite sweet. A very interesting scent, could be nice for fall and winter. Not sure that it suits my body chemistry, but I'll wear it a few times and give it a fair chance.

this was a very nice amber scent. i have no idea what it smells like now. i wore this a lot. it was very popular and recognizable. for an inexpensive perfume it smelled sophisticated and classy. a very nice everyday scent. if the formula has changed i wouldn't be interested in it anymore.

I believe I am testing the new formulation, and I'm getting a lot of super-sweet powdery amber and vanilla. This rendition is not working for me!

This used to be a fantastic spicy floral. My sister wore it forever, and it returned the favor--its longevity was brilliant. I often found myself smelling the bottle, wondering if I should take a crack at it. When I finally crossed the gender line of fragrance, Navy was one of the first I wore (in addition to Venezia and Roma).

Sadly, I believe it has been reformulated, because when I bought a bottle earlier this year, its spicy wings were clipped, and in their place, a foghorn blanket of powder, which stifles every other note with its abhorrent power.

A real shame. Even the inexpensive ones get lobotomized.

To me, this smelled like someone poured black pepper into my bouquet of flowers. It was quite popular when I was a teen, but I never cared for it.

I remember this from back in my teenage years! Haven't seen it anywhere in a long while...but I would give it a testif I ever came across it again for old times sake.

Hello, may I suggest to you all, if you want a Fragrance that " Smells " just like Navy...but Better, Stronger and superior qaulity ? Well, try Boucheron ! Yes, that's right, very, very, VERY similar, almost twins really...In anycase, try it, it's WONDERFUL !

Oriental floral? This one always struck me as being very fruity. The topnotes of green and peach overwhelm everything else. This is a strong, sparkling type of scent just made for the summertime. It's as bright as the summer sun and the opening green notes give it a fresh, cool edge that hold up well in the heat. Clean and a bit sophisticated, perfect for any casual/outdoors event.

I used the body spray with the cologne today and I must say I LOVE this scent. Nothing else out there smells like good old Navy. Be careful though...if you apply too much, it literally makes you ill. Imagine what it is doing to the people around you. Applied correctly, it is great.

I wore this in the early 1990's as I was entering my teenage years.Probably bought it with what meager allowance money I had saved up, hehe. Thought it was a nice powdery oriental floral. It was pretty good for an inexpensive drugstore quality fragrance. Don't know if I could tolerate it now, probably too heady & dated for my sophisticated thirty-something yr.old nose. I can't handle a synthetic peach note anymore in any fragrance unfortunately. A "safe" affordable fragrance if it agrees with you.

I used to like Navy back in the 90s. A lady I worked with wore it and I liked the scent . I asked her what it was and said it was nice. I was very surprised that it was an affordable fragrance at drugstores. Unfortunately this lady began to spray twice as much of this on herself after I complemented her on it ! It was just awful, way too much. She figured if a little was good then a LOT was better . After being around this lady who took a bath in Navy every day, I no longer cared for it. I never wore this myself since my co-worker was wearing enough of it to
make everyone in the office pass out.
I never see it in the stores anymore so maybe it got overdone everywhere. It wasn't bad in moderation , kind of a pretty scent.

You want something to smell the same as Navy yet last the whole day try Ciara. I swear they smell very similar and on other people I can not tell them apart.

A gorgous scent but don't expect it to last more than one hour! What is going on with these cheap perfumes these days? I bought a couple small bottles the other day because I like the powdery scent and was totally disappointed in the length of scent power-not more than one hour the most and that is stretching it! Its almost dollar store quality! Save your money and get a good scent that lasts longer than these cheaper ones.

Such a nice smell, reminds me of my teenage years in the 90's when I got it as a gift from a relative and I was surprised when I smelled it. A very nice smell overall & I love orientals /oriental florals. Nice warm & rich smelling. I also have Shades by Navy. I pick it up during the holiday seasons and buy a small bottle mainly for nostalgia reasons. :-)

I enjoy this perfume a lot. On me it's really spicy then dries down to a nice powdery scent. Kind of has a masculine appeal to it. Smells really clean to me.

Navy is a gorgeous scent! I wore this back in the day and I bought a gift set 2 Christmas ago and I gave the 2 perfumes to my daughters.It smells so good powdery and soft vanilla and amber and long lasting for it to be cheap.I would like to buy another bottle.

This one was originally launched by Coty in the early 1990's. Noxell must be the current distributor of it. I see the same bottle listed on different websites as Coty, Dana and Noxell, but the signature bottle and box are just as they were when originally launched.

At any rate, I had a bottle of it in college. For an inexpensive drugstore fragrance, it was surprisingly sophisticated and long-lasting. It's truly an oriental floral, but those fruits and flowers gave way pretty quickly to the tenacious musky amber base. Very typical example of the sweet florientals that were popular late 80's/early 90's: Giorgio, Tresor, etc.

It smelled like a much more costly perfume than the affordable bit of luxury that it really was. I haven't seen it on drugstore shelves for awhile but it looks like it is still very affordable and available online. Worth a try for fans of amber scents.