According to the My Little Pony Comic, the Perfume Puff Ponies lived in the Perfume Puff Palace. In actual fact, however, the Palace was one of the first playsets to be sold without an accompanying pony. Although Daisy Sweet and Lavender Lace featured in the in comic advert (above) and Mummy Apple Delight fronted the picture on the free comic with issue #114, the set came with only hair and beauty accessories - most of which are also shown in the comic picture. There is also not a lot of room for a pony to fit inside, especially when the cabinet is in situ.



The set was shaped like a giant perfume bottle, and the spritzer at the top did spray out perfumed scent, although it seems to have been scented air rather than actual perfume.

The box for the Perfume Puff Palace and its accompanying story did not feature Perfume Puff Ponies, and this may well be because, in North America, this set was first issued in 1988, a whole year before the Perfume Puff Ponies were on sale. Their release was simultaneous here, but not over there. And, although the name of the playset was altered on the UK set to reflect the UK release name (Perfume Puff Palace, not Poof & Puff Perfume Palace), the rest of the release seems exactly the same as that in North America, including box photographs and internal paperwork.

Proof of this can be found in notes like the reference to not using make up on So Soft Ponies, which were never released here. The ponies on the box were all HappyTails ponies, a set which did get a UK release, but only in imported US style boxes. The ponies on the box are prototypes, and some have different poses (Romper in the walking pose and Squeezer in the Gingerbread pose). The story that came with the playset had also had the title amended to feature the UK playset name, but no editing had been done on the story to remove the names of ponies not sold in the UK. (This is in contrast to the Crimp & Curl Hair Salon, where the names in the story were changed.)


The story featured Princess Dawn and Buttons, rather than a Perfume Puff pony. Buttons was a pony released here, but the timescale indicates this was actually referring to Twice as Fancy Buttons, not the earlier movie release pony.


The accessories for the playset were fiddly and decorative, but helpfully listed on the box with images. My sister had this set from new as end of line stock, and I am pretty sure these are the accessories she had, with the possible exception of the hairclip shown (which I think was actually a bow clip in the style of the Dance & Prance Ponies, only without additional hairpieces). The make up and nail polish with this set was not labelled the same as that sold over here with the Princess Brush & Grow Ponies, although it is likely to have been the same kind of make up.

In the North American release, it was called the Poof & Puff Perfume Palace. Although the 1989 also included this name for the UK release, by the time the set was actually on shelves, the name had been changed. The most likely explanation is that Hasbro wanted to streamline it along with the Perfume Puff ponies and make a theme of it - which they did through the combined advertisements.