1989: Perfume Puff Ponies

DAISY SWEET

Dark aqua earth pony with poofy gold hair, white perfume bottle and pink hearts symbol, scented.

Although the whole set was sold in the UK, distribution must have been a touch wonky, because I never ever saw any of them in stores in my part of the country, and finding them at carboot sales round here has also always been something of a nightmare.

Therefore I can only conclude that some areas had them more liberally than others.

And now we come to the enigma.

There has always been much argument about the existance of a Daisy Sweet with white hair. It is true that her gold hair colours can and do fade out to white (all except the forelock, usually!) and therefore authenticating the variation has been different.

Daisy Sweet (White Hair)

However, this is one variant in which I am inclined to believe. Some years ago I found a Mint in Box Daisy Sweet in US packaging at the local carboot sale. Her hair was pure white and her box, though a touch battered, did not appear to be faded. Therefore I believe she is a white haired Daisy Sweet. However, the seal on her box has been broken, though her hair is still fastened in place. She has a yellow ribbon, flower pick and three hearts hair clip - but these may well have been randomly put in the box and might not be original to her at all. What IS clear however is that she has very distinctly white hair, right down to the forelock.

Draw your own conclusions :S

As regards Daisy Sweet and her comic persona, in logical pony style her special magic was to do with making scented daisies appear - at one point using them to form a bridge over a rushing stream!