Halloween

Feels like walking into a church on a chilly spring morning and smelling the flowers left out for an upcoming funeral service. It's quiet and lonely but you don't feel too sad. It's just peaceful. Perfect for a gentle summer gothic scent in my opinion, at least that's how I've been using it.

Why is this scent called Halloween or tied to Halloween at all? Lol. What a let down. BIt's so vibrant and bright that I thought it had lemon or grapefruit in it. I would call this cute. Appropriate for a preppy teenaged girl. It smells like lemon and flowers, nothing else. Not exciting, and definitely not reminiscent of Halloween whatsoever, but ultimately, not a terrible scent. I feel like if Barbie is Polly Pocket released a scent, this would be it.

My teenage love, the first scent I have fallen in love with and always need to have. I am also collecting the flankers out of my love for this beauty, especially loving Sun, Freesia and Water Lily ones. These are close to the original, with different notes highlighted. But nothing bits the original. I especially like it in summer for day-wear but it works also well in the spring and autumn, including evening when it is also very fitting. Clean, innocent, bewitching and ethereal. There is something mysterious about it, something misty and filled with eerie colors. The wearer has a mysterious aura in it and as such the name fits. I also love the color and the bell bottle. So cool and iconic. I adore it for summer day, it somehow works wonders. The scent itself is fresh and subtle. Not easily described. Floral, with watery notes and banana leaves. I feel magnolia and violets, banana leaves and watery notes, not necessary sea but maybe. I feel also vanilla and sandalwood later on, but subtly. It is a must-have scent and one of the absolute best light scents for summer. I still love it dearly. It suits me. I always love my time in it. And it projects and lasts well for an edt. 11 hours already of gentle projection. It is never tiring or heavy but I feel it on very well which delights me. Totally dreamy and relaxed. I think I still feel its echo in the morning. I love it when my scent accompanies me the entire day. My husband does not perceive it on me, so it is very safe. But I think it is because it suits me so well. If you see it try it, buy it if you like it cause this is special and wears perfectly. Ultraviolet by Paco Rabanne is the intense version of this.

Charming, mysterious, hypnotic, and tender. It definitely lives up to its name, in part. It gives me the feeling of a fairy walking through an enchanted forest in a light mist. It's beautiful, though a bit strange, since it doesn't stay consistent on me. It's even the only perfume in my collection that I have trouble perceiving while wearing it. Sometimes it seems to disappear completely, and then suddenly, I catch a very faint, powdery, fresh, and vanilla burst that makes me stop and marvel at something so magical and tender in its scent. What spoils my experience is that its sillage is very weak on me, but as an everyday perfume, or even for evenings, it's spectacular. It's not at all bothersome.

This is like a sea witch fragrance because it has the oceanic facets layered with mystical violet and a bit of floral warmth from the base notes. I do really like it! It's very 90s. I would repurchase

This scent is a magical witch's potion, most definitely brewed in a cauldron. There's truly nothing like it. Fresh, sweet violets meet petitgrain (sour/bitter note) and pepper, finished by incense, myrrh and sandalwood, but the base somehow comes off as dirty patchouli instead. To my memory, this one had fabulous longevity and satisfactorily strong sillage. Older eau de toiletes were closer to perfume strength as perfumes are today. I preferred this frag in the cooler Spring or Fall months, because the base is heavy and patchouli-ish, and patchouli in the Summer turns my stomach. Spring would be the best season. Not a safe blind buy. Definitely for someone who enjoys oddities and dirty/clean frags. It is both childish and innocent, as well as impure and illicit. It reads as both a young scent, but then again mature. Not a sugary-sweet scent, it's weird, hypnotic and strangely addictive. Damp earth and pretty flowers. Crisp and clean, yet soiled. I am very much contemplating bringing this back to my fragrance collection. I am thinking I can still pull it off. I loved it to the last drop over half a decade ago, and it is memorable for me still. It's a frag most people would not recognize, yet one whiff will be instantly recognized by anyone who has worn or smelled this. I can see it being extremely polarizing, but a love for me forever.

I discovered this one in random perfume shop while on holiday in Gran Canaria many years ago. I fell in love with it instantly although this is not my preferred scent profile. Surprisingly, Halloween has become one of the very few fragrances that I keep circling back to, I'm on my third bottle now, which is record-breaking for me as I usually get sick of scents after 15-20 ml and declutter. I guess it has earned its forever place in my small collection. I wouldn't wear it in winter or fall but it's my favourite for summer time especially when it's really hot and humid and everything else makes me feel unwell 💜

Quite aquatic in the opening with a slight watermelon like smell! Slightly sweeter floral drydown, very delicate feminine fragrance; By the way 'Halloween ' means Holy evening before All Saints Day, so ethereal, rather than the 'gothic' association!

A mystical, nostalgic scent. It definitely feels like a safe haven. Upon opening, you detect purple flowers and that mystical aroma, then it evolves into a scent like you've just stepped out of the shower.

Typical mid-late 90's rose/violet/sandalwood powdery aquatic. Others in this catigory are the now discontinued Mark Cross Embrace, Giorgio Ocean Dream, Laura by Laura Biagiotti, Alfred Sung Pure, Nautica Woman, Curve for women etc. They're all in the same family.

This is a light clean, watery, slightly floral, with just the slightest touch of wood and oriental lightly there fragrance. I'm not sure if it is more winter or spring. At first to me it is like a blast of the cool ocean air. Then it warms up to a slight floral with all the ocean air still lingering. Finally you get the soft oriental woods but only lightly. It is nice. But not a fragrance I would have ever associated with the holiday Halloween.

It carries a fresh violet note, though it comes across as somewhat monotonous.

What a stunning cheap perfume! It goes through so many stages so fast, just like a woman. The opening is very sweet and almost like a summer rosè wine. I think the violet with the marine vibes is kind of giving me wine note but not a strong red wine but fruity wine. I am not a fan of wine notes. But I love this. It quickly settles into a sweet powdery violet, calms down after the initial blast. But thats not all! 10 minutes in it has the same power as the opening but less winey. Now its more marine, airy, powdery. The violet is still very prominent. The incense is very well blended and not sharp at all. I think this perfume will perform better in hot weather (I tested it in -15 degrees, still beautiful, the cold air gives it a very icy cold vibe. ) For the price id say 9/10, I could easily see this being a niche quality. No alcohol blast on initial spray, very interesting development, i just wish it was a bit slower.

No soy fan de las fragancias florales y frescas, pero tengo que admitir que este perfume, a pesar de que sea floral y fresco, es bastante rico. Al olerlo se siente la nota de violeta al instante y también se siente mucho la frescura.

I love this perfume! Sometimes it does come across as a boring freshie when i spray it on my skin, but sprayed on clothes that incense note really comes through and it smells like an alien invasion #iwanttobelieve :,D It actually reminds me a little of alien by mugler, but this one doesnt have that strong jasmine note obviously

This perfume was my signature scent through 7th and 8th grade. I definitely remember why I chose it: I was really into floral perfumes then. Definitely floral, and a tad bit summer like. It's kind of a soft toned scent at least for me. I love it, but I'm not too fascinated by it anymore. 8.9/10

Violets are my favorite flowers, so it was love at first splash with this perfume. If it were a film, it would be Practical Magic - violety, fresh, (later) powdery and dreamy.

Smells like a dusty, powdery old coffin filled with heavy florals. If you’re into that, good on ya - I use it as a bathroom air freshener.

200ml of this was £12 at Notino a couple years back and I've been KICKING MYSELF for missing out ever since. It's green and it's sweet. It has a thickness, soft but thick, dense. Hello, blue star... I see the a-holes here are ever present....

I finally got my hands on it and I actually really enjoy this. I’m not even sure if anyone has mentioned the dry down because it’s actually quite nice, very resinous which I really enjoy in a perfume. It’s a soft summery gothic scent for sure which is great for me since it doesn’t get around 60 degrees till end of November where I live.

I can imagine that those who have nostalgic connections to this fragrance will appreciate it in a different way than someone like me. 25 years into my fragrance journey, I've decided to circle back to some old, affordable classics that I skipped over in my youth. Halloween is one of them. While I love the creative concept, the execution fell totally flat for me. Seductive and vampy it is not. At all. It wears like a body spray: barely there with little sillage. This isn't to say it is an objectively bad fragrance or anything, but it didn't hit the mark on its creative vision and the uniqueness isn't there. If you love this and relish the memories it evokes for you, that's genuinely awesome. But for me, it's not a keeper.

This is a cult classic—at least where I live. I remember my older sister wearing it, and later on, I wore it myself during my teenage years. Back then, I went through a couple of bottles but didn’t repurchase because I wanted to explore other fragrances. A few years ago, I decided to buy again it… and it’s exactly as I remembered: a clean violet, an aquatic floral with just a little hint of tropical (maybe the babana leaf?). On my skin, this is a great performer (especially considering it’s an EDT). It lasts over 12 hours, with excellent sillage and projection during the first 8 hours. Despite the name, I think the bottle captures the essence of the scent perfectly—clean, ethereal, and feminine. If you like violets go for it. For me this is a must have and I will always have one of this in my collection. I Totally recommend it. It’s perfect for spring, summer, and fall, suitable for both daytime and nighttime (though not for very formal events). And I almost forgot to mention—it’s a real compliment-getter!

The name is misleading, this is a summer aquatic white floral fragrance, although there is some violet in the dry down. The opening smells almost like watermelon. It's cute, not offensive to my nose, very light and pleasant scent. Although, it is rather weak on my skin, and the sillage is not great. Somehow takes me back to the 00s, to my childhood. An oddly familiar scent. Not my style at all, but I don't hate it.

It’s not goth, it’s whimsigoth! Love it!

Not ghostly, not spooky, not goth-smelling despite the name and bottle. Violet not detectable. Banana leaf not detectable. It's an aquatic floral. Updating to add: this scent is by no means bad, just rather plain and did not meet my expectations. Smelling this in October now, I do detect a small amount of violet. Used to hate peppery/freesia/marine notes, and hated this (kinda unreservedly). It's ok. Still not my style. Anna Sui is the superior pale purple 90s goth fragrance, imho.

Old goth here, this was my first perfume and it was gifted by my nan, so it reminds me of high school days and I now wear it as a bedtime scent. Makes me feel like I can bring my nan back for a bit. Long lasting for an EDT, sillage is great and it's a mysterious and cold scent, yet super clean, summer and office friendly and inoffensive. A bit too popular maybe? It was quite popular when it was released. Love it.

they somehow bottled up the nicest and sweetest girl you know who’s haunted by middle school summer vacation nostalgia but like not in a way that smells particularly nice

the bottle juice is so pretty lavender colored I adore the violet note here it's so uplifting and the aquatic note blended in a way that makes it so surreal, it gave me about 5 hours on skin would be a good choice as a gift. Presentation / Atomizer (Very good) Scent Quality / Uniqueness 4 Longevity / Performance 3 (5H+) Versatility / Occasions 3 Price Point 4 Final Verdict: 3.7

It is so charming. A moody, lyrical scent of violets, magnolia, water and banana leaves. Everything perfectly proportioned. Love at first sniff and it retains its uniqueness. I adore it for summer evenings and for spring. Its clarity and translucency fits warm weather and the mood fits rain. And it lasts long. It turned yellowish near transparent in my bottle for some reason, a pity, the color of violet suited it perfectly. But it is old, still Jesus del Pozo... Strange that they dropped the name.

How are y’all even smelling this? It looks so promising from the notes and decent ratings. To me it smells vaguely translucent drying down to a woody clean but that’s only if I put my nose all the way into my lower dermis and huff as hard as I can