Who doesn’t love a bargain? I know that I do. So when I saw that Perfumes: The Guide gave Stetson’s Lady Stetson four stars and compared it favorably to Chanel No. 22, I knew I had to try it. A trip to the drugstore and $4.95 later, I had an 11 ml bottle of Lady Stetson cologne spray in my hands.

The name “Lady Stetson” might lead you to believe that it smells like a set from Little House on the Prairie or like something a country western singer might wear. When you couple its name with the fact that it came out in 1986, you might even imagine it smelling like a sort of mega-cowgirl adorned in a rhinestone vest and flipping her bleached curls as she kicks up white ostrich ropers. Instead, Lady Stetson is a peachy, aldehydic floral with a sweet, medium-bodied drydown that might have suited Barbara Eden of I Dream of Jeannie better than Charlene Tilton of Dallas…

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