Wear Your Love Like Heaven

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“Wear Your Love Like Heaven”
Single by Donovan
from the album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden
B-side "Oh, Gosh!"
Released Dec 1967
Format 7" single
Genre Psychedelic Pop
Label Epic 5-10253
Writer(s) Donovan Leitch
Producer Mickie Most
Donovan USA chronology
"There is a Mountain"
(1967)
"Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
(1967)
"Jennifer Juniper"
(1968)

Wear Your Love Like Heaven is a song and US-single by Donovan, released in 1967. It became the opening title of his double album "A Gift from a Flower to a Garden". Chart positions were #23 (USA).

The song was featured in the Eau De Love (by Menley and James) fragrance commercial in the early 1970s that featured Ali MacGraw.

It also was featured in Weekend at Burnsie's, the episode of the 13th season of The Simpsons in which Homer Simpson uses marijuana.

They Might Be Giants covered this song as a spoken word piece.

Note: Wear Your Love Like Heaven is also the title of another song by UK dance music duo Definition Of Sound, released in 1991.

The song mentions several colors including Prussian blue, Alizarin crimson (Rose madder), Havana Lake (a dark brown, possibly purple), and Rose carmethene.

The song was featured in the Eau De Love (by Menley and James) fragrance commercial in the early 1970s that featured Ali MacGraw.