Purple Fantasy Guerlain for women

I had my hands on a bottle in a closeout store in 2003 for $10 USD! I wondered what was up with such a classy perfume? I thought I would wait. Indeed, I just found some vintage for $60 on e-bay last summer. The bottle alone is worth it!

It was the final launch from Guerlain proper-I will mention the improper later. Its bottle was a tribute to Apres L'Ondees. Fine art! I expected violets. There are none. Instead there is this stream lined heart of Samsara. Jasmine and almost too much sandalwood infinitum. There is nothing purple about it, except the package. It should have been called Stardust Memory. It is the last real perfume from a mighty lineage.

I will wait patiently for the corporate shackels to be broken. Until then, I have a very large collection of vintages that are to me, priceless!

love love love it best perfume ever

I have a little decant of this one. When I first applied it, I beat my brains, what PF remembers me of. NOT of Alien, for sure. Today I smelt it again on me, and the drydown of Chanel Allure EDP came into my mind. After the first ten minutes it's exactly like that, just less strong (at least on my skin). For me it's no problem, because I like Allure EDP, but it's a bit too much for me. Here, in PF there's no vanilla, I know, but I feel the same creamy-powdery fruits, and flowers lingering around me. I like this one more than Allure. The bottle is beautiful. I'm sad, it's discontinued.
Update: I have a full bottle now, the package is beautiful. I like the scent, too, but I don't use it too often, unfortunately it's boring after a while:(...

UPDATE2: In love again:-), it's a keeper to me.

I don't think of perfumes in colors so I can't say if it smells "purple".

On opening I get sweet, floral,fruit, tea, citrus, and powder. At first I didn't really know what to make of it. It's almost like a bunch of people talking at one once, you can hear all of them but not make out what any one person is saying.

It takes about 10 minutes before I can decifer it. At that point it's a sweet bright floral with a twist AND a kick.

You get the jasmine, light bright and beautiful. You get the apple which gives it a crisp, slight green note. The orange gives it tang while the apricot gives it sweetness. I applaud their use of the coconut. It's not done in an exotic/beach type of way. Instead, it adds a totally intriguing note that piques your interest but is not dominant. The tea gives it some depth and helps to transition as the perfume progresses to the woodsy base.

To me, the progression of this scent is like the sun's progression on a beautiful day. The opening is the early morning, fresh and bright. The middle is still bright but a bit more intense, though not too warm but does get a bit blindng at it's height. Then it progresses into the peaceful sunset where it slowly fades away.

It's a modern floral with some interesting elements. I have to concur that it would be better classified as floral fruity than floral green.

Like other Guerlain offers, this changes as it progress and you have to see it all the way through before you form your final opinion on it. I like the opening (after it settles a little) but at the height of it's mid stage, it does get a touch cloying and too sweet for me but once the cedar and sandalwood emerge and carry it home (long journey as the perfume lasts and lasts on me), it's pleasant. If it wasn't for such a long lasting woodsy base that tempers the floral, I would not wear it as it would end out being too bright a floral for me.

I find it an interesting choice to put such a modern smelling scent in an antique style bottle. It's kind of cutesy. Between the bottle and the lightness or lack of complexity, I can see why some didn't take this scent seriously. Not to say it's not pleasant but it's not typical of Guerlain imo.

gorgeous fragrance!!!I feel like i am in a fairy tail wearing it.The smell is really purple.It has nothing in common with Alien.It has its own unique style and smell.+++++++

This is a wonderful, so sophisticated scent for me from the XIXth century...

No good.No lasting power,no smell of coconut.Just little tea and some violets.blah

If Guerlain's PURPLE FANTASY was a commercial flop, it can only be because the name drove women away, for the fragrance itself is beautiful. I must confess that even I, a bona fide Guerlainophile, approached PURPLE FANTASY with some trepidation. What could it possibly be? Something sweet and fruity along the lines of Victoria's Secret's many fragrances with similar names? (think: Very Sexy, Super Model, Oooh la la, Sexy little things, the list goes on and on...)

Far from it, in fact. PURPLE FANTASY is a spicey, slightly fruity floral, to my nose. In fact, I would have categorized this as oriental fruity. I do not agree with floral green, for PF opens very spicily with a gentle fruitiness dominated by the bergamot, which is not sweet at all. Then, all of a sudden, the beautiful jasmine floral makes its presence known, mingling with a subtle dose of cedar and sandalwood, creating a lovely, lasting layer that is very different from the opening, yet equally appealing.

There is no syrup here; no grape; nothing that the name might suggest: loudness, brashness, cheapness--these are all absent. I believe that if this fragrance were re-launched under a pseudonym, it would succeed.

The presentation, by the way, is delightful. The little 1oz ridged cylindrical bottle is fashioned out of smokey purple glass, and it comes wrapped in a thin mesh bluish-purple bag with blackish-purple silk drawstrings, all attached at the bottom to a deep purple satin covered stand. All of this purple, conjoined with the disastrous name, no doubt kept buyers away. But this is a fine fragrance, as one might expect coming from the unsurpassed house of Guerlain!

i agree that its not have any common with Alein!!! ..

its very old fashion - have a lot in common with Femme by rochas

this one smells really purple.to me is not similar to Alien at all.They dont ave anything in common.This is sweeter and warmer than Alien and it smells like there are violets in it.it reminds me a lil bit of Ultraviolet.Not that it is bad but It is a dissapointment from Guerlain.no wonder why it was discountinued!

I would agree with glitteralex that it is similar to Alien, only it is MUCH better. At least to me the discontinuation of Purple Fantasy cannot be thought of as a flop - Guerlain do that all the time.
I Love the apricot and jasmine that blend SO perfectly well with the coconut and the orange, which stay, to my nose, for quite a while, that the smell of sandal wood and cedar in the base is not overpowering - in fact they just add to the sensation of a very feminine smell with an unforgettable sweetness.
Pity it is SO HARD to find.
Shame :-)

This is an Alien by Mugler analogue-sweet, syrupy, grapey. It was a huge comercial flop and can be found for quite cheap. Pretty bottle.