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Elizabeth Arden Fifth Avenue
Elizabeth Arden

Fifth Avenue

Citrus
Fresh
Floral
White Floral
Iris
Woody
Musky
EDP · 1996 · womens

Elizabeth Arden's Fifth Avenue, launched in 1996, represents the house's take on classic American luxury fragrances -- a time when prestige beauty was synonymous with timeless elegance and accessibility.

The fragrance opens with bergamot and mandarin orange over a lush floral heart of lilac, lily of the valley, and magnolia. Once settled, Fifth Avenue deepens considerably with a dense arrangement of rose, jasmine, tuberose, and ylang-ylang, rounded out by nutmeg and peach for warmth. The base layers in amber, iris, and sandalwood with clove and vanilla, creating a powdery, musky finish that lingers close to the skin. This is a white floral with substance -- sweet but grounded, romantic without being precious.

Fifth Avenue works best for someone drawn to classic florals with an older-school sensibility, especially those who appreciate powdery, amber-forward bases. It suits daytime wear and transitions well into evening. The fragrance shares DNA with The Romantic, The Heirloom, and The Homesteader.

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Main Accordsreported by community
Citrus
25%
Fresh
17%
Floral
100%
White Floral
90%
Iris
20%
Woody
20%
Musky
70%
Powdery
80%
Amber
20%
Warm Spicy
50%
Spicy
41%
Vanilla
20%
Sweet
60%
Gourmand
20%
Creamy
20%
Fragrance Notesbrand verified
Top · 0–30 min
Bergamot
Bergamot
A sun-ripened Italian citrus with a brightness that goes beyond lemon, simultaneously tart, floral, and slightly spicy. It's the defining note of Earl Grey tea and the backbone of countless fresh colognes. Perfumers love it as an opener because it lifts the entire composition without overpowering what follows.
Lilac
Lilac
Powdery, sweet, and nostalgic, lilac is a soft, springtime floral with a slightly medicinal, almost camphor-like edge that keeps it from being too simple. It's one of the harder florals to capture naturally (most is synthetic), but a good lilac accord reads as the first warm days of May. Delicate and quietly romantic.
Lily Of The Valley
Lily Of The Valley
Crisp, green, and dewy, this spring flower smells like rain on cool grass with a clean, soap-like clarity. It's one of perfumery's most requested scents despite being nearly impossible to extract naturally, so it's almost always recreated synthetically. The result is fresh, tender, and timelessly elegant.
Magnolia
Magnolia
Creamy, lush, and faintly lemony, magnolia is a floral note with real presence, richer than peony but more accessible than jasmine. It has a velvety quality and a slight spice that stops it from being simply pretty. Used to add warmth and dimensionality to floral compositions.
Mandarin Orange
Mandarin Orange
Heart · 30 min – 3 hrs
Bulgarian Rose
Bulgarian Rose
The most prized rose in perfumery, grown in the Valley of Roses in Kazanlak, Bulgaria. Rosa damascena cultivated here produces an oil of extraordinary depth: honeyed, velvety, with faint hints of tea, honey, and spice. The standard against which all other rose materials are measured.
Carnation
Carnation
Spicy, clove-like, and slightly powdery, carnation is one of perfumery's oldest floral notes, with a warm, almost peppery character that distinguishes it from softer flowers. It has a vintage, slightly old-fashioned quality that is coming back into fashion. Think pressed flowers in an old book, warm and complex.
Jasmine
Jasmine
Intoxicating, heady, and slightly animalic, jasmine is one of the few flowers that smells as rich in a bottle as it does climbing a garden wall at dusk. It has an almost fleshy, indolic quality that stops it reading as purely 'clean.' Jasmine is a workhorse in both feminine and masculine perfumery, adding depth and soul.
Nutmeg
Nutmeg
Warm, woody, and softly spiced with a slight sweetness that makes it gentler than clove or pepper. Nutmeg adds a quiet, autumnal warmth to fragrances without sharpness. It blends seamlessly into woody and oriental bases, acting more as a supporting character than a lead note.
Peach
Peach
Ripe, juicy, and velvety, peach has a warm, slightly creamy sweetness that feels lush rather than childish in the right context. It adds a fruity sensuality to floral and oriental fragrances, and its slightly fuzzy quality can even play into tactile, skin-like accords. A note that feels like high summer.
Tuberose
Tuberose
One of the most intensely floral natural ingredients in existence, rich, creamy, and almost narcotic in its sweetness. Tuberose is polarizing by design: it's meant to be enveloping, not background. It has rubbery, vanilla-like facets that make it feel both sensual and slightly retro.
Violet
Violet
Sweet, powdery, and faintly green, violet sits between floral and earthy in a way that feels distinctly old-world glamorous. The leaf and the flower smell quite different: the flower is sugary and delicate, while violet leaf is fresh and slightly vegetal. Together they create a note that feels both nostalgic and current.
Ylang-Ylang
Ylang-Ylang
Base · 3–12 hrs
Amber
Amber
A warm, resinous accord rather than a single ingredient, amber is typically built from labdanum, benzoin, and vanilla to create a rich, honeyed, almost solar warmth. It's the quintessential base-note family, adding a comforting richness that makes fragrances feel complete. The difference between a fragrance feeling cold and feeling alive.
Cloves
Cloves
Iris
Iris
One of perfumery's most prized and expensive ingredients, iris has a powdery, cool, almost carrot-like richness that is hard to describe and impossible to mistake. It's simultaneously earthy and refined, like the inside of an old Parisian couture house. Iris root (orris) adds quiet luxury to anything it touches.
Musk
Musk
The base layer of almost every modern fragrance, a soft, warm, skin-like scent that extends longevity and bridges other notes together. Natural musk was once derived from deer (now banned); today's musks are synthetic and range from clean and soapy to dark and animalic. The right musk makes a fragrance smell like 'you.'
Sandalwood
Sandalwood
Creamy, smooth, and milky with a soft, skin-like warmth that clings beautifully. True Mysore sandalwood is one of perfumery's most precious ingredients, simultaneously wood and skin, never cold or sharp. It rounds off sharp edges in any composition and makes the wearer smell subtly, irresistibly warmer.
Vanilla
Vanilla
Warm, sweet, and universally appealing, vanilla is to fragrance what salt is to cooking. Real vanilla is complex and slightly smoky, though most perfumery vanilla is synthetic and reads as clean, sweet, and creamy. It slows the evaporation of other notes and is the reason certain fragrances feel like a second skin.
Who Wears ThisScent DNA matches
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The RomanticBest match90% match
Your fragrance is a love letter you never stop writing.

Warm roses, vanilla, amber, creamy musks. Soft, evolving, intimate.

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The Heirloom86% match
You carry something beautiful that most people have forgotten.

Powdery, soft, classically sweet. Iris, aldehydes, gentle florals, quiet vintage warmth.

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The Homesteader82% match
Rooted, warm, and entirely self-sufficient.

Warm skin musks, sandalwood, soft cedar, clean vetiver. Grounding, intimate, unhurried.

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Scent Profile
Citrus25%Fresh17%Floral100%White Floral90%Iris20%
Fragrance Family
Floral
EDP

Elizabeth Arden Fifth Avenue— Prices, Coupons & Buying Guide

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What does Elizabeth Arden Fifth Avenue smell like? +
Elizabeth Arden's Fifth Avenue, launched in 1996, represents the house's take on classic American luxury fragrances -- a time when prestige beauty was synonymous with timeless elegance and accessibility. The fragrance opens with bergamot and mandarin orange over a lush floral heart of lilac, lily of the valley, and magnolia. Once settled, Fifth Avenue deepens considerably with a dense arrangement of rose, jasmine, tuberose, and ylang-ylang, rounded out by nutmeg and peach for warmth. The base layers in amber, iris, and sandalwood with clove and vanilla, creating a powdery, musky finish that lingers close to the skin. This is a white floral with substance -- sweet but grounded, romantic without being precious. Fifth Avenue works best for someone drawn to classic florals with an older-school sensibility, especially those who appreciate powdery, amber-forward bases. It suits daytime wear and transitions well into evening. The fragrance shares DNA with The Romantic, The Heirloom, and The Homesteader.
What are the notes in Elizabeth Arden Fifth Avenue? +
Top: Bergamot, Lilac, Lily Of The Valley, Magnolia, Mandarin Orange. Heart: Bulgarian Rose, Carnation, Jasmine, Nutmeg, Peach, Tuberose, Violet, Ylang-Ylang. Base: Amber, Cloves, Iris, Musk, Sandalwood, Vanilla.
What fragrance family is Fifth Avenue? +
Elizabeth Arden Fifth Avenue belongs to the Floral fragrance family. It is an EDP.
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Grey market retailers sell authentic fragrances sourced through unofficial distribution -- typically excess inventory from authorized distributors. The product is real and identical to retail. FragranceNet (est. 1997), Jomashop, and MaxAroma are well-established with millions of verified reviews.

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