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Weposen – :
Poor Blue Grass often tops the lists of hated fragrances, and yet there’s lots of love for this vintage. And indeed why not, BG is so much better than its reputation.
A low cost classic Elisabeth Arden perfume with good longevity, Blue Grass was one of my mother’s fragrances.
I still have one of her bottles and the scent has aged well – as has my mother!
Blue Grass has very similarities to Je Reviens by Worth,
which also happens to be a personal favorite. There’s a bit of floral sweetness in both fragrances but BG has deeper and sharper notes.
I suppose perfumes like Blue Grass and Je Reviens are considered old fashioned because they don’t align with the current taste in fragrances. There’s nothing fruit chouli about either, which is yet another reason why I like both.
mihail-chechen9 – :
@miss mills – the perfumer was Georges Fuchs, 1934 according to Basenotes.
csu838elipseskism – :
Does anyone know who the perfumer is who made this one, please? This is one of a few bottles of tester perfumes I was just gifted and it has a so very nearly vintage Guerlain vibe to my nose. There are the sparkling aldehydes along with spice and herbs but the overwhelming smell on first spray for me is minty! Is my nose broken?! Perhaps it’s the lavender and aldehyde together which lean minty and almost soapy, I don’t know, either way this is very strange on my skin and it reminds me so much of my granny’s closet that I’m wondering whether she might have worn this (which makes me want to wear it to work tomorrow).
Ladylike, a little officious, buttoned up and ironed but very, very interesting! I would wear this out ironically if I were a hipster or an art student sporting a patterned granny dress, blue tights and a knitted brooch but pretty much nowhere else that I can think of. And I don’t wear perfume ironically (though I do have a knitted brooch) so I guess Blue Grass is out for me but I can absolutely see why it has its devoted followers.
tetah – :
For some reason I really enjoy this perfume though I’m not usually a fan of adelhydes or green notes.
It’s fresh and yes, it could remind you of a nice, fancy soap from an expensive hotel. It’s not a dainty smell it’s more of a woman who has outdoor barbeques and goes camping and loves horses and maybe biking. Totally not me but I find amusing in small doses. Maybe someone in my childhood wore it, I can’t remember but it gives me a sense of nostalgia.
There is a bit of medicinal note at the initial spray but it doesn’t last long.
five311 – :
Blue Grass is rumored to be a perfume favored and worn by Queen Elizabeth 2, herself, and that has made me curious to try it for quite awhile. I’ve had fun watching Prince Harry’s recent wedding to Meghan Markle and seeing the lovely dresses worn by the ladies in the Royal family. Queen Elizabeth is always such a standout in her brightly colored outfits. I love her sense of style and I finally got around to trying one of her favorite perfumes – Blue Grass.
The first spray surprised me because it is fairly loud and strong. But the dry down is a soft, fancy soap scent which is both feminine and clean. Pristine, poised, mannerly elegance. I can see the Queen wearing this.
#Graf# – :
My Great Grandmother wore Blue Grass. It smells very crisp and clean, a little spicy from lavender and the carnation, which is a note I especially adore. This reminds me exactly of the scent of expensive garments after having been dry cleaned when I was a child, the chemicals used around 25 years ago, evokes a much more 1980’s scent to my mind. I believe “White Linen” gives the impression of fresh laundry hanging on the line, for a comparison. This would not go amiss as a linen spray for your garments if you do not particularly enjoy the scent on your skin. Fragrance repurposed in this manner can be just as lovely.
kokoss70 – :
I just received my 100ml bottle of this joyful classic. I’m glad I did because the juice is being phased out here in Canada. Now my work only carries the cream antipesprant and dusting powder. I asked the rep what was going on and she gave me the troubling news.
I love aldehydes! This delivers for me,full force almost leathery cleanliness. Must be the combo of lavender and vintage 1930’s aldehydes in the top. Then it mellows into a gorgeous powdery clean floral. The base is delightful with the musk and cedar most prominent on my skin.
What a jem! If you see it buy it! If you don’t end up liking it, store it well in the box and I guarantee it will be worth something someday.
егорклп – :
Cool, crisp, aromatic goodness that is so refreshing in the heat and humidity! I prefer it to both current and vintage Je Reviens.
akrosa – :
Where do I start? I had yet to find a Elizabeth Arden fragrance I could stomach. A few months ago, at a Ross store I blind bought EA’s Mediterranean thinking it had to be an summery aquatic fragrance that might pull me out of the cold winter slumps. I pulled the lovely undescribable shade of blue bottle out of the box. The bottle is cool and feels good in your hand. I sprayed and boy, was I disappointed!!!! What a let down. The name and the bottle don’t match the cheap fruity yuckiness. That bottle of EA has been delegated to the “gift closet”, ha!…although I don’t know anyone I dislike that much to gift it to. Enough of this tangent.
On to Elizabeth Arden’s vintage Blue Grass. Another blind buy. Read the conflicting reviews here, but wa somewhat intrigued. Went searching on eBay and found bottles with crazy high price tags. Until, poof, there it was…a gift set for $8.99! I grabbed it! It just came in the mail. The moment of truth. I hold my breath and spray my wrist. Arrrggghhhh! Oh no, not another EA disaster?!?!? Just as I was about to go scrub and write off that $8.99, something happened. Something lovely and wonderful. I love it! Beautiful soapy, powdery dry down. A definite keeper. Not to worry Blue Grass, you will never see the inside of the dreaded “gift closet”!
987654321 – :
Old fashioned soap. Done perfectly.
This is wearable Jicky.
Soapy with some herbal sharpness. Something minty, and something oddly sweet. Overall it’s soap, but to a vintage perfume lover– it’s got character in the notes. Wonderfully blended to create a scent that seems linear but gives out “pops” of certain notes if that makes sense. I swear I even got some hay. And now florals.
I expected to be “scared” of this cheap blind buy, given the reviews, but I find my current EDP to be light, I used many sprays on both skin and shirt. I can smell it for sure, but not offensively.
This is what I wanted White Linen to be.
I love vintage scents for a cozy homey feeling, while imagining another era.
Ohhhhh as the soap dries down (aldehydes) it IS like L’air du Temps but better! Stronger! My current EDT and EDP of L’air are weak compared to this. Now I have a less-soapy, kinda herbal spicy carnation woody powder. This is terrific!!
DreamON – :
Very disappointed! It was my first perfume back in late ’70s. I used to like it so much, it was such a classy and special perfume! It smelt airy, grassy, soapy, spicy, earthy and a bit musky and flowery. The scent is completely different from what I remember back then. A very bad reformulation. I just smell some harsh spices and incense, a sultry, fusty old church smell, a metallic and synthetic mess! Anyway, for those interested, please try before you buy.
made75 – :
Unfortunately, I find this fragrance as horrible. I rarely felt such a repulsion for a perfume
HICCERDETESOR – :
Based on reviews and notes, I expected I would love this. Nope. Not at all. It’s not for me. I am not a fan of Elizabeth Arden fragrances. Nothing has changed. It reminded me of something you might smell on ladies in church 40 years ago. There was nothing clean or fresh about it for me. Musty was more my impression. Obviously others like it since it has been around since 1936. I’m disappointed. I really wanted to like it.
kvn6701 – :
wearing the vintage in the frosted bottle with the horses, so all the top notes have deteriorated. In this fragrance in the top, I smelled oakmoss, it quickly burned off to a lovely soapy floral. Aldehydes, lavender, naricissus, woods and musk.
sergei.dyachek – :
OK, so where do I start. I wore this quite a bit in the early 70s and liked it very much. Well, apparently I was alone. I went on a week long ski trip with someone I was sort of in love with, and he very bluntly told me that my perfume stunk “to high heaven.” As it turned out, I never heard from him after the trip, and I think it had a bit to do with my choice of scent. (not entirely though, I’m certain.)
Well, as it turned-out, the guy was a real jerk. So, I have Elizabeth Arden (and Blue Grass) to thank for the break up.
So, A.S., wherever you are, I’m hoping someone else out there is torturing you with something like Elizabeth Taylor Passion, or Giorgio – just deserts.
packard – :
Even though the formulation has changed since my childhood memories, when I purchased this recently it still brings back those warm, wonderful feelings. There is very good reason why Blue Grass is considered a classic.
piffari – :
I believe that this has been reformulated as it smells only vaguely familiar to the Blue Grass I remember my mother having in the 1970’s. It is quite strong indeed and I would caution that this would not be a wise blind buy.
I smell a lot of grasses, spicy carnation, hyacinth, a powdery soapy smell, and a tiny bit of citrus…lime perhaps?
It always conjures up an image in my mind of a young woman running towards who knows what in a field of waist high grasses. She is wearing a pretty floral patterned tea dress, a straw hat, and is anchored with old leather boots.
This is a very nostalgic smelling scent reminiscent of an older time, but certainly NOT an “old ladies” perfume for goodness sake. I will never understand how a perfume can smell like an “old lady”…how unimaginative!
It lasts and lasts and projects beautifully. You should only wear this if you want to “be smelled” 🙂
If you like: Avon Mark Earth, you may enjoy this.
If you like: Estee Lauder’s Private Collection, you may enjoy this.
If you like: Coty Emeraude, you may enjoy this.
If you like: Coty L’aimant or L’origan you may enjoy this.
If you like: L’AIR DU TEMPS by Nina Ricci you may enjoy this.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read my review. xo
adysey – :
I tried to get a feel for Blue Grass since it was worn by Queen Elizabeth [2]
I see now after wearing this for a while that it’s beautiful. If you look for the beauty you will find it.
zeka36ru – :
Many many years ago, the Blue Grass deodorant was so gorgeous, it cost 10 times your average pharmacy/drugstore/supermarket deodorant but my God it was worth it.
I can still remember it.
Today it’s rubbish.
Cayenne – :
I’ve already reviewed this but just wanted to point out something interesting about different noses. To me, this scent is lavender, benzoin, a hint of undecipherable herbs and neroli, neroli, neroli.
However, for most of the reviewers, neroli is listed as the note they notice least. So for whatever reason, my nose and/or skin notices and wears the neroli prominently and this is unusual compared to the experience of most other reviewers.
Just a heads-up for those looking to blind buy: I’ve also personally found that scents with a high level of white florals produce the most fractured camps of response.
Completely chaste and virginal vs. almost offensively lustful. Clean to the point of sterility vs. fleshy and sebum-esque.
I think the similarity to natural, human smells that white florals can effectively mimic leads to lots of disagreement between what equals a pristine, untouched human body vs. a celebration of carnal intimacy. Many acknowledge the boudoir nature of these notes but is it a personal, morning bath done alone or is it an evening shared with a lover? I’ve noticed this disagreement very often with white, floral scents.
rolexreplica31090 – :
I have no idea why I decided to blind-buy this, as I usually don’t like the first 3 listed notes. Of course I did not like it and I ended giving it away. It is too old fashioned for me and I can sense the aldehydes a mile away. However, for such a fresh scent it lasts incredibly well, so if you like it, I would highly recommend it.
slayer855 – :
I saw a bottle of this for very cheap in TJ Maxx, so of course I just had to buy it. I love classic fragrances, and for me usually the older the better. This was the very first Elizabeth Arden fragrance, so I was very intrigued to try this, especially seeing the very beautiful packaging up close. The design is so simple but makes the product appear more high scale. On first spray, you get a blast of aldehydes, not uncommon with many fragrances in this time. The opening on me smells very mossy, which is surprising to me because the opening notes are very citrus/floral here. I’m thinking its a combination of the vetiver, cloves, and bay leaf in the fragrance that give the fragrance it’s rather unusual opening for me. After the perfume dries, I smell a familiar spicy carnation/cloves note not too far off from Wind Song. The cloves are a bit stronger than the carnation in this than in Wind Song. I’m also getting a sort of baby powder vibe from this, because it’s alot softer than Wind Song. It must be the lavander that gives it this quality. Just imagine how Johnson & Johnson baby powder smells, then add spicy cloves and carnation. This gets better with time, after a while, the woods peek through and give the fragrance an incense sort of quality. The sandalwood, cedar, tonka beans, musk, vetiver, and benzoin give the fragrance a deeper more intense feel without overpowering the fragrance. So by the end of the perfumes wear time, you have spicy carnation and cloves, softened by lavender which gives it a cool baby powder like quality, and deep, intense woods, that further soften the fragrance. I unfortunately returned this to the store, the opening to me was just way to mossy and strange smelling. I’m almost certain now it’s the bay leaf, which really overpowers the opening and just in my opinion isn’t a nice smell for perfume in general. It’s a shame, because the dry down isn’t too bad, and by the time you’ve worn it for a few hours, it almost smells like a man’s cologne. Very sweet and intense woods. I remember smelling something amazing and not the knowing what it was, then thinking, “Wait, that cannot be the same perfume.” I imagine the vintage of this is alot better, and probably has more notes to balance out the rather unusual combinations.
Filth66 – :
Being an admirer of older perfumes, two years ago I bought Blue Grass as a present to my mother for her birthday. She was indifferent to the scent – she neither love it nor hate it, but she was wearing it until the end of the bottle.
On the other side I was quite intrigued. Blue Grass was like a feminine, more floral and lighter version of Koruos to me (it has that civet vibe nevertheless there is no civet in it). I liked the scent, but I was hesitating to use it, just because was labeled “for women”.
Until today… The reason that I decided to buy a bottle of Blue Grass for me, was because last week I received a sample of Amouage Gold Man and in the moment that I sniff it, a picture of Elizabeth Arden’s creation popped into my mind. I was so fascinated by Amouage Gold Man and I told myself: “If this could be a masculine scent, why should Blue Grass couldn’t be masculine on me?”. That’s how I realized that there is no such thing as women or men scents. If the scent gets you – wear it with pride. And now I have my bottle of Blue Grass – a truly amazing state of art.
igrek_62 – :
Blue Grass
I’m from Tennessee and I’m familiar with the geography of the Blue Grass States of Kentucky & Virginia.
I love Blue Grass music and the lively music of banjos gets my heart racing. I’ve worn many an Elizabeth Arden fragrance except this one; and man I have been missing out!
This is just so beautiful!
As the fragrance starts to play it’s Blue Grass music, the aldehydes come through loud and clear. It’s a fresh and aromatic green scent with distinct pastoral notes of lavender, carnation, orange blossom, neroli, lilies, tuberose, and bay leaves. For me it’s floral enough but it’s a wild flower aroma of mainly spiced up florals. That carnation brings back memories of receiving carnation flowers from boys that had crushes on me who lived in rural communities where everyone knew each other. It’s a childhood scent to me. The carnation was the “poor man’s rose” when I was growing up in the 70’s in Tennessee. This is a really fine carnation scent.
But other notes provide it with an outdoorsy and natural floral air: the orange blossom is true to orange flowers and orange trees in orange groves, that bergamot mixing and mingling with the strong aldehydes make this fragrance rather unisex and fresh, citrusy and energetic.
It makes me want to run out into a field barefoot and dance to the invitations from banjo harmonica and guitars. It IS floral but not very ladylike at all. She is a country girl at heart. It smells like something on a waitress at a diner by the side of a road catering to motorists.
The cloves and lavenders turn into a rosemary, very aromatic, potent and spicy.
For an Elizabeth Arden fragrance, this is rather different and even a bit shocking. Why would anyone want to smell like the things I’m describing? Why? I’ll tell you why. Because it’s a mature fragrance for us gals – or guys who wear unisex frags – because we tire of the same old familiar fruity sweet sugary gourmand garbage out there factory made by celebs.
This is as far from smelling like other EA perfumes: Red Door, Fifth Avenue, and Green Tea. This is aromatic and green but it has a vintage air and could pass for something like Vent Vert by Balmain, Scherrer, Aliage by Estee Lauder. The green and floral notes turn into distinct chypre notes of woods.
The sandalwood note is gorgeous!
The dry down stage is woodsy and has vetiver, and that vetiver is really the key ingredient. Vetiver is indeed GRASS but because of the other notes in this fine fragrance, it does not smell of pure grass in a bottle the way some claim that Chanel No. 19 is truly like. No grass in a bottle here. It’s the scent of stepping outdoors in a farmhouse in Virginia and inhaling the air around you, redolent with distant flowers, woods all around you and green grass at your feet.
This was Elizabeth Arden’s first fragrance, conceived at a time when chypres were in vogue, and must have smelled amazing on the women of the 1940’s but you know what, you, too can smell just as great as those grand dames. This is sophisticated, artsy and deep, very much like all the other fragrances I’ve made references to.
Wear this if you wear:
Chanel No. 19
Vent Vert
Scherrer
Aliage
Ivoire de Balmain
On me the lavender notes (twice in one perfume) are the most pronounced of the florals, but I’m the biggest lavender fan, so this is a good thing. The whole thing turns into superb woods. If you like cedar wood and sandalwood this is a rich sandal scent. Highly recommended for those of us tired of fruity berry garbage!
Trappephar – :
I love “Blue Grass” for accomplishing the feat of representing cool toned white florals in sunshine. It’s actually quite hard to pull off, the perfect balance of cool and warm.
There’s the herbal lavender, the crunchy carnation and a melange of white florals that feel pristine and virginal(it even reminds me a little of L’Artisan Perfume’s “La Haie Fleurie”, an otherworldly white floral blend that is now discontinued; it must have taken some direction from the ethereal but decidedly more down to earth “Blue Grass”), except they’re being taunted by warm, beaming sunshine. There’s something of an Amish or prep school girl, in starched collar to it, sneaking out to do nothing more scandalous than take her shoes off and run free in fields of flowers.
Of course, “Blue Grass” does have her sultrier side, though this side is merely tongue in cheek, as “Blue Grass” wears like a perfectly immaculately scrubbed and powdered, elegant young lady, teasing with propriety while being begged by a heated paramour.
It’s not as chilly as a Chanel nor as young as “Heaven Sent” or “Baby Soft” but it does represent a young woman, perhaps a 1930’s collegiate, who was clever enough to heat things up just enough with her gentleman callers — but not more! — to keep them tossing and turning at night but unsatisfied until she got a ring on her finger. “Blue Grass” is the perfectly primped lady pinching her cheeks and unfastening her top button when he’s looking away. I love it and get a chuckle out of the 1930’s aesthetic.
arturakas – :
Smells like Johnson&Johnson baby shampoo from my childhood
Prainimig1981 – :
This is the most punishable perfume I’ve had out of over different 60 ones.
The beginning is so synthetic jasmine wrapped in synhetic honey/resin combination. It reminds me of cheap votive sticks. I thought perhaps the synthethics will evaporate and change like cabochard by GRES and develop into something interesting or beautiful as other reviews suggested. On me, it does gets weirdly sweeter and rounder like a glowing liquid amber mixed with a few drops of honey, my memory recalls a distant haze of Clinique Aromatics Elixir or Royal Jelly. It takes nearly 6 hours before jarring synthetic gives way to soapy smell which is not exciting nor interesting and that’s not enough reward to bother with this one. It cannot be used as an air freshener either.
I think the title should be changed to Stressful journey to Amber Glow or better Extremely Synthetic Blue Grass.
Rion – :
I do not own this, years ago I worked with a woman who oversprayed and it kind of turned me off it. Like others have stated, a little goes a long way. I recently tested it again after 30 years and the minute I sprayed it, the smell of the powder hand soap that was in the dispensers at my catholic grade school 40+ years ago came to mind… boraxo? not sure what it was… but it dries down quite lovely and old school.
funtikov1974 – :
Why didn’t I try this long ago? I know I tried it…does body chemistry change over the years? I think so.
Love it- clean and complicated.
Yes!
Nogoccani – :
About Blue Grass Vintage Perfume
This fragrance was still selling in the 1950’s!
Upon my first visit to the Elizabeth Arden Red Door salon around 1954, a lady whose sole job was to spray perfume on customers to get them to make up their mind about buying the perfume, sprayed this on my wrist. Initially I wasn’t impressed. It smelled like too many of the kind of perfumes I was wearing at the time – Vent Vert by Balmain for instance. It was a blast of aldehydes, lavender and floral notes, and woods. By definition, this is a chypre. So I never did buy this perfume during the first visit. By the 3rd visit to the Red Door, I had become intrigued and wanted to wear it just to have it in my wardrobe.
The fragrance opens with aldehydes that are hard to miss. Fresh and old fashioned. The neroli and orange blossom citrus scent is there at the first spritz. And then there is a distinct lavender scent. Lots of lavender. It’s a spicy floral aroma. There is a carnation, hardly any roses, but there is narcissus and tuberose, so it’s got a bit of a white floral vibe. The flowers, however, are not at all the kind of perfumy flowers that I was wearing at the time. In no way does this resemble Arpege which was powdery and much more delicate and feminine. This is a chypre with floral touches but it has a stronger foundation of woods and vetiver.
The perfume has incredible sillage and the scent is long lasting. At the dry down, the scent turns a bit masculine. The woodsy notes of sandalwood, moss and cedar, along with vetiver, are pungent and it matches up with some of the woodsy notes in men’s colognes. However at the time of the fragrance’s debut, this was the way that a lot of women’s perfumes smelled like. This was an era of confident women who wore perfume that projected and had a deeper and more powerful presence. The woods only help push up the aroma into the air out of your skin and pulse points. The scent matches up with a dark suit. This was never a “dress” perfume to me. It was business wear perfume. It reminds me, and only slightly, of Bandit by Piguet, although Bandit has heavier musk and leather. This fragrance replaces the leather in Bandit with chypre ingredients of vetiver, moss and heavy woods.
The woods are really quite beautiful and remind me of the autumn. The leaves have fallen and the first winter chill nips the air. This is a country scent, like being outdoors in the late fall – September, October. This perfume fills my head with visions of prairies, hills, and little cabins in the woods, cabins that are each at a distance from each other. It’s also rather like a masculine soap. Sometimes it’s good to mix it up and wear perfumes like this.
I enjoyed wearing this perfume when I was a music teacher and when I taught voice/opera. The scent was formal and it meant business, it was no nonsense, sober and like others have pointed out, a bit of a unisex or fougere with lavender and sandalwood.
It’s still such a great aroma but it’s a pity that this perfume, the first of Elizabeth Arden’s many fragrances, is being pushed further back into everyone’s memory or it’s becoming nearly extinct. I hope they never discontinue this fragrance and that it can still sell to fans of vintage perfumes. This was the perfume that enabled Arden to continue to produce perfumes well into the 20th century.
АлимханБ – :
Best used sparingly, this is one of the longest-lasting perfumes I know. Cool and beautiful in moderation.
AntoreyDencor – :
Fragrance Review For Blue Grass
Elizabeth Arden
Top Notes
Aldehydes Orange Blossom Lavender Neroli Bergamot Lily Geranium
Middle Notes
Spices Carnation Tuberose Lavender Jasmine Rose Narcissus Cloves Bay Leaves
Base Notes
Sandalwood Tonka Bean Musk Benzoin Vetiver Cedar Wood
This was the very first Elizabeth Arden fragrance launched during the Great Depression in the US. As such the fragrance in vintage form with it’s aldehydes and florals would be unwearable today. Fortunately the reformulation is not bad and smells like the original in a more wearable fashion. This made me think of women from the the “Blue Grass” states of Virginia West Virginia and Kentucky, during the 30’s when it was not easy to travel as often as today, these places were far from the big cities of New York or Philadelphia, Boston or Chicago, and being so far from Fifth Avenue and Elizabeth Arden’s Red Door salons, the ladies who lived in farms would never have had access to a classy perfume like Chanel No. 5 much less an Elizabeth Arden. What’s a gentleman farmer’s wife to do? My immediate impression of this perfume is that Elizabeth Arden herself came up with the idea for the production of a perfume that could be imported and sent to little towns in Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas, Arksansas, or any other “country” area where women of the plains could also get a hold of a fragrance. And it does not smell European or too frilly. It’s the scent of “blue grass” and the plains and fields of the American Mid West not the powder rooms, beauty salons, boutiques and perfume stores of Fifth Avenue Manhattan NYC.
The aldehyde content here is an old fashioned Chanel No. 5 era aldehyde. And of course that’s why I love it. Brilliant, sparkling and fresh, perfumy, classic aldehydes. I adore them. Imagine a fresh morning dew that was made into a fragrance. This smells like dawn on a farm. Once the aldehydes fade out, a lavender, distinct lavender emerges. It’s a lot of lavender too as there are two notes of it. Lavender fields at dawn. And it’s enough of a spicy floral in itself as to not even need other florals by it’s side. The floral note of lavender at the top and the sandalwood and cedar wood at the base also made me aware that this is very similar to a fougere. Men’s fougeres typically include lavender top notes and sandalwood bases. Indeed this is a unisex fragrance, or it would be today but in the context and milieu of the 30’s, it was all woman.
The lavender is joined by geranium, white lily, neroli, orange blossom, carnation, tuberose, and narcissus. The flowers are heavenly and very easy to pick out. I enjoyed the tuberose because it was not shriek, just sweet and buttery, and it went well with the creamy benzoin in the bottom base. Jasmine, rose and bay leaves and cloves. Ah. What an aroma. This is earthy, green, floral, spicy and aromatic. It smells like a more floral man’s aftershave. The flowers are to die for! They smell like floral fields and flower gardens in suburban backyards. Very outdoorsy. The neroli keeps them fresh and delicious.
In the dry down I experienced musk, sandalwood and oak moss as well as cedar wood. It’s a woodsy dry down, pure woods. The musk and woods really do give it a masculine aura, but I don’t care about gender labels. This is neither feminine or masculine. It is a fragrance of lavender, florals, and woods. The woods are really quite nice. It’s such an easy to wear and very memorable well composed fragrance. It does not smell like any other fragrance of the era – not an Arpege, No. 5, No. 22, My Sin, Vent Vert, etc. It is very different and a perfume that stands alone. Unisex, classy, bold, outdoorsy, sporty, it’s a chypre of the highest caliber. I can totally dig this perfume and it makes me want to go to the Poconos and wear it while enjoying nature and going on hikes along the mountains.
Beautiful.
dbi421speagoessenda – :
I have been wearing this perfume since I was a young girl. I have other perfumes I like too, so I don’t wear it exclusively but every time I do wear it people stop me and ask me what I am wearing because they love it. I have been asked to gift it to her for her birthday by my 20 year old niece and I have been asked what is is by women well in their 60’s. It truly is a perfume for all ages that evokes a sense of play and lightness. Plus it doesn’t give me hay fever, despite the jokes about it smelling like “hay” by some others. Many new perfumes give me terrible hay fever, but not this one. I agree that you need to give it at least an hour to develop. But then you can walk out and smell classy all day.
pryanik72 – :
Sometimes I smell something in my mind and just have to wear it for a week or more. I had Blue Grass on my mind so am wearing it his week. It’s sweet, crisp and floral. It’s me this week,day and night, I would not be comfortable in anything else. I am wearing the formulation m you get in shops now
Sabir05 – :
WHOA. ITS LIKE BEING SMOTHERED BY 4711 EAU DE COLOGNE AND TEN THOUSANDS BAILS OF HAY. its exactly what it says : blue grass , intense horsey hay play. ( 60’s vintage bottle)
it also has that generic hotel shampoo smell to it “fresh for everyone but awkwardly bitter oldschool”
its not a bad thing, its just its own thing, im starting to enjoy being propelled back by these oldies, everything is so immediately agreeable these days, its cool to throw the random oddball at your nose and have a freak out.
hour later, hmm yah still bit too screechy and warm and weirdo on me AVON LADY MEETS NINA RICCI L’AIR DU TEMPS in hay ?..hmm maybe my vintage is off..awkward
_RUSSIA_ – :
I agree completely with Planet X! Blue Grass is very spiritual and complex. Also, unique as it could not be mistaken for anything else. Fresh and breezy. The lavender and cloves make it bittersweet. A beautiful scent for a down-to-earth country girl.
Kirillius71 – :
Incredible! Spiritual and of such a complexity!
I Am fascinated by juices, that downvoted by majority, especially if it is vintage , so just bought it in vintage formulation, after reading these contradictional reviews and especially admiring the one of grayspoole, where she is writing about Blue Grass being one of faves of Marlene Dietrich.