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Dfast – :
I’ll have to give this a 6/10 rating. Hyacinth is my favorite flower and is rarely used in perfumery. Bluebell does indeed get the hyacinth note right, but the addition of the spices (cinnamon and cloves) along with the rose note, steers this in a direction I’m not particularly fond of. I bought the smaller 50ml bottle, and am glad I didn’t get the larger version.
severen80 – :
Only tested it instore.
It starts off very sharp and synthetic green to me and for me, even after an hour, it never really improves markedly. Sure it turned a little spicy-green but the extremely synthetic scent never went away. I actually felt nauseous from it!
Interestingly, I wasn’t able to remove ALL of it with makeup remover and sprayed a fairly generic perfume on top (DKNY Be Delicious) to see if I could disguise it. The two scents actually blended together very nicely (DKNY BD is usually a bit boring for me but Bluebell added an interesting powdery-green base??)
This IS a very expensive perfume though, so using it solely as a layering perfume might seem a bit wasteful. If you bought blindly and dislike it, perhaps layering it over a more “generic” fruity/sweet perfume you’re trying to get rid of will create a very interesting and unique blend.
If you’re thinking of it, try it on your skin before proceeding.
bechter – :
Do not blind buy this one. You need to smell it and wear it to determine whether it will work for you. Also, do not judge on first impressions. The opening is bizarre, like the smell in a tire store, or tyre store since it’s an English fragrance. Just a sharp concentration of bitter green floral notes. Give it at least fifteen minutes to warm up on your skin – Bluebell will open up and reveal a lovely wet green spicy crunchy scent like hyacinths.
Penhaligon’s Ostara is all about daffodils to the extreme. Penhaligon’s Bluebell is all about hyacinth to the tenth power. What other nuclear soliflores does Penhaligon’s offer? I need to investigate this line a bit more.
It’s a rainy day here in the extreme heat of Texas dog days, so this wet green scent seemed like a good choice. I always think of the second season of the British crime drama “Broadchurch” when I wear this because of the bluebells. We have a flower called bluebell here in central TX, but it’s not even related to English bluebells – which are relatives of hyacinths. You have to be a hardcore old school floral lover to tolerate Bluebell, but I am one and I love it, especially on rainy cool days.
Moderate sillage and great longevity.
Sajke – :
I wasn’t sure about this perfume based on reviews from Fragrantica, reading toilet cleaner and saliva, that didn’t sound so good, but I was so curious so I bought a bottle. It is unexpectedly good! I thought it would smell sharp, harsh, too green (Like EL Pleasure which I dislike). The opening is very green, similar to the opening of Guerlain Chamade but it turn to a lovely, fresh, beautiful bouquet of flowers quickly. I’ve never smelled bluebell flower, in my nose this perfume reminds me to a funeral home or flowery garden when there’s a lot of fresh flower. It’s a strong perfume with moderate sillage and very long lasting. It is unique and beautiful! I will definitely buy this perfume again when this bottle is gone!
Kilfempollallg – :
Oooooooooooo Bluebell O Bluebell How I Absolutely Love You!!
This was a blind buy for me & I was very hesitant about purchasing it due to some of the reviews on “Fragrantica” But im actually so glad that I took the chance & bought it!! This is pure springtime in a bottle,& it captures a woodland meadow/forest perfectly indeed after a heavy rainshower & when the sun comes back out!! Imagine gorgeous Bluebell Flowers wet with droplets of rain sitting all over them sparkling like glass beads in the warm sunlight,think of their green wet stems & leaves surrounded with tuffs of grass,fern,moss & the woody floor which their roots are happily growning in ALL perfectly captured in a beautiful Penhalagons Perfume Bottle!! This Fragrance is SOooooooooo different to any I own in my perfume collection,& the perfume smells so real It’s absolutely amazing!! It starts of with a sparkling Citrus smell,Which soon fades to the beautiful smell of real Bluebell Flowers,their stems/leaves etc after a shower of rain!! Add to that a fresh green cut Grass aroma followed by Fern,Moss & damp Forest earth,mingled with beautiful Lily Of The Valley & some wild rambling Rose followed by some Clove & Cinnamon to give the base some mystery & depth & basically You’ve got Penhaligons Bluebell!! This is only the second day that I’ve wore/tried out my Bluebell edt & I can honestly say six compliments already including my Mother!!This Penhaligons Perfume is wore & loved by Her Majesty The Queen & it actually carries her Royal Crest & Also the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher!! A real beauty perfect for a Misty Rainy Day,The First Sign Of Spring Or Summer,or when you just want that gorgeous shower fresh up-lifting green freshness this perfume brings!! Absolutely gorgeous & well worth a try!! I most certainly will be purchasing this from now on!! Over the moon with it!!
BeaviSs – :
I was very much afraid of this perfume. Reading all the toilet, swamp water and saliva comparisons, I didn’t want to have anything to do with it. However, being a Penhaligon’s lover, I got it as a gift. It is a very unusual, natural fragrance. To me, it smells somehow Gothic, like a perfume made for a witch.
I smell some fresh bluebells with stems, roots and leaves. Nothing too pretty but very realistic, I would say. Also, I get a fair amount of wet soil and moist air in this one. This note resembles the smell of stale vase water, but the result isn’t as bad as I would expect it… it seems to me that it only adds to the fragrance’s authenticity. Staying power is above 10 hours on my skin. Sillage is moderate for the first few hours. All in all, I like this one.
martina3 – :
there’s something weird in the opening – the smell of drying up saliva/spittle on the skin (like when you accidentally sneeze…) which is a bit off-putting.
but
then soft floral, not the sweet kind, hard for me to describe. i would say though that the color that i see in my mind when i smell this is exactly the color of the its box – powdery light blue.
i like this unique scent a lot. i use it sometimes to go to bed.
try before you buy, but first allow it to bloom on your skin before you make a conclusion.
alena333 – :
Screechy flowers with a weird hint of something that smells of waste oil.
IIJIAHETA – :
I don’t get prim and proper ladylike images from Bluebell, though I can see why people do. The Queen is said to wear it, after all. To me, It’s more of a wild thing, in the sense of nature’s wildness. Whatever the actual fragrance notes are (I can’t analyze those), I get a wet earth, flower bulb, rooty, bitter green, spring air, fairy glade with whisps of fog scent whose sweet component if you sniff deeply enough is peculiar up close. Just romanticizing. If you enjoy sinking your hands into the soil, planting spring bulbs, then you might like Bluebell. Definitely try before you buy. I think it’s brilliant.
Gabrielle_fromAF – :
Although I haven’t smelled an actual bluebell, I know there is a certain type of hyacinths that have the same animalistic note as the perfume. Apart from this note, it is the most realistic hyacinth in the drydown. No wonder it’s still a bestseller despite all the harsh reviews.
I imagine a Renaissance lady wearing something that crystal clear and melancholic. Beautiful!
tashaa – :
Exactly like a stroll in London around 1900. Classic but not an oldie, interesting but not impressive. probably, “subtle elegance”. A real lady’s perfume!
kombinat – :
An earlier reviewer stated that this may make you feel nauseated at first – spot on. Another reviewer thought it had a stale water in a floral vase vibe…also spot on. I don’t like this at all, it smells damp to me, it has a musty, shoe cupboard that needs serious airing feel to the mustiness. A win for one of my daughters who may enjoy it far more than I do.
A disappointment because I have a lot of wonderful Penhaligon fragrances.
Not a safe blind buy, please test this before committing.
Deroxatwyu – :
grassy green and all about the hyacinth
Elisabet15 – :
Bluebell
A vintage charmer with a pretty baby blue bottle and the fragrance itself matches up with the cute bottle. This is a “blue” flower in that it smells like wet dewdrops on flower petals after a rain. It’s in watercolors and the raindrops are light blue. I thought it would be aquatic in the style of aquatic fragrances like Acqua Di Gioia but it’s far from it. This is slightly wet but not a beach seashore type of smell. It’s definitely a green floral with distinctive hyacinth, rose, jasmine and lily of the valley. To call it a blue floral would be inaccurate. To me she is a white floral with a blue-purple hyacinth at the top.
Floral and soft, herbaceous, earthy with cloves, somewhat spiced up with sprinkles of cinnamon and green notes. I’m not familiar with galbanum but if that means it’s green all over in the base that’s definitely true. There is probably more going on than the notes themselves. This is a nice soapy domesticated fragrance. I don’t see myself wearing this out in public. It’s a prim and proper English lady who doesn’t care for perfume, really, but smells of a good soap. This is meant to stay at home and you wear her when you don’t want to smell particularly glamorous or romantic. You wear this when you have visitors at home especially family and small children and you hug them and they get a nice whiff of this lovely toilet water.
The sillage/longevity is more of the Eau de Toilette kind so it doesn’t last as long as a regular parfum. But it’s a very conservative and lady-like scent that I like as a breath of fresh air in a world of gourmands and unisex fragrances. This is a feel good old time English floral fragrance. But like others have pointed out, there is something that is not quite upscale about it though by no means cheap either. It’s a middle-class home girl. Stay at home mom or grandma. The association one might get with the florals is that it’s old lady stuff but it’s really quite beautiful and soft and wearable for young women who like floral fragrances. Though not 100 percent the same, I think it bares a similarity to Waterford Lismore. Bluebell is a little wet garden flower after drizzle and rain, giving off a pleasant aroma. I wish it could last longer.
rashka62843 – :
This is my first niche perfume I ever buy ^^, so I bought 50 ml just in case I don’t like it since niche perfume have weird scene too.
I never smelling Bluebell flower, but its kinda powder, i love the smell, but this perfume not long lasting sadly….its only takes 2-3 hours before it gone from my skin, completely.
I want the 100 ml, but the weak longevity made me consider to pick another Penhaligon brand…
maybe its because EDT, perhaps i should try EDP.
npg696Negeltzex – :
Wow!! I love love love!! Powder, greens and spice without tons of toothache.
I’ll admit I was afraid to blind-buy because of all the not so positive reviews, but I have a thing for florals that are close to nature. The scent that transports me outdoors will always win my heart.
I like to imagine that this is what a Victorian floral would smell like, if I was so lucky to be transported to my lifelong fantasy to the 1800’s in the guise of a young and lovely English noble lady!
I had to laugh when I read about the “pickle accord”! It’s strongly there for a second or three but dissipates and literally settles into place really quickly.
English Bluebell is the blue floral that I have been looking for! It is sweet, tart, green and spicy. I get tired of perfumes that have to present everything through a filter of sweetness. This is the earthier sister of El’s Splendor, which I love in all it’s purple and blue glory! The wild sister of the same flower with those wonderful cloves, the living greens and cut out the overwhelming sweetness.
I discovered that two puffs over L Huere Bleue EDP is just like a Monet garden is to eyes! Glorious!!
stels7 – :
I thought I was anosmatic to hyacinth in perfume until I got the vintage Bluebell. It is the real deal. I tried Anais Anais, Jean Patou Vacances, Smell Bent Florist’s Fridge, Guy Laroche Fidji, Vivre Molyneux, YSL Y, Vero Profumo Mito Voile d`Extrait, Chamade, Tears of Eros and Annick Goutal Grand Amour but none of them smell hyacinth the flower to me even though a lot of them are masterpieces.
My bottle is the box with gold prints instead of white oval label.
Vincent_87 – :
Bluebell has been on my blind buy radar for some time now. Due to lots of alluring fragrance sales on various websites, I nearly purchased Bluebell twice. I thought it about time that I familiarized myself with this fragrance, so finding a tester on display I quite liberally sprayed Bluebell onto the inside of my wrist.
I am so very glad I tried this fragrance as it is definitely not for me. Bluebell is a super green floral fragrance, a touch too green for my personal tastes.
The opening is crisp, green and oddly bitter. I can detect a dominant hyacinth note followed by lily of the valley, jasmine and a spicy hint of clove. I give it five stars for originality, yet I am somewhat disappointed that this fragrance doesn’t work for me as I know Bluebell is one of Penhaligon’s best sellers.
Everyone from the Queen to Kate Moss apparently wears Bluebell. It’s a fascinating fragrance in that it’s bitter, green, spicy, powdery, clean and floral all rolled into one. The scent also packs quite a punch, so if you are the proud owner of a bottle of Bluebell just promise me that you’ll go easy on the sprays.
Perusing the reviews below I see I am not alone in my distaste for this perfume. I strongly advise against blind buys as I now know Bluebell to be quite a polarising scent. I would recommend this fragrance to anyone that loves a classic heady floral and can stomach clove and hyacinth in larges doses.
b_a_r_07 – :
In the UK unless you’ve been living in a cave and oh alright if you don’t care for fragrance, you won’t be familiar with their best seller and most renowned fragrance Bluebell. This perfume is a winner in many ways. It is commercially successful, the most successful out of all the Penhaligon fragrances and they are quite large in number and still producing newer fragrances. Bluebell is a green aquatic floral that was traditional of green florals of the 70’s, even as Charlie by Revlon was for the 70’s in America. It’s a beautiful but simple, conservative, classy and most ladylike fragrance. Nevertheless she is not old money nor aristocratic. We are told, or at least I was told, that Princess Diana wore this fragrance. I don’t know how to confirm whether that is true or not but it would make sense that she wore this and not Quelques Fleurs on her wedding day to Prince Charles which some people seem to believe. This is a lovely nostalgic scent, fresh, flowery and comforting to a woman who loves flowers.
Oh how I love this scent. Every time I inhale the aroma it is like catching whiffs of the flowers on a vase in water when the freshness is still there. The opening notes are of hyacinth and perhaps a bit of orange blossom. The citrusy scent is never overpowering allowing the star of the show the hyacinth to shine. If you are familiar with the hyacinth flower speaking in the botanical sense, and the perfumery sense, then you will cherish and love this fragrance. It is a lovely fresh dewy hyacinth, like the hyacinth flower has been kissed by a drizzle of rain. This is a morning dew scent. The freshness of citrus and florals are most invigorating. This is soapy as well and suits you after having taken a shower and you are about to go out and start your day. This is floral toilet water of the highest caliber. I keep it in my bathroom and put it on after a shower.
A tincture of pink and red rose as a note is in the heart, as well as white jasmine and a very detectable lily of the valley. Now the lily of the valley to me is as prominent as the hyacinth. The lily is green with it’s herbaceous aroma, and white floral. So this is very much a traditional old time white floral scent. With that hyacinth and rose, it does feel very floral but it’s subtle and not overly fragrant nor too flowery like the aforementioned Quelques Fleurs or Beautiful by Estee Lauder. Neither is it a very musky floral type like Rive Gauche by Yves Saint Laurent. And it certainly isn’t a powdery floral like the iris based Paris Yves Saint Laurent. Bluebell is light but not terribly powdery, more soapy and sudsy. This is an intimate, graceful quieter and more relaxed casual floral scent for the morning.
As the florals fade, the dry down stage reveals notes of spices namely cinnamon, cloves which are earthy and green with a distinctive galbanum. The galbanum note is the glue that holds everything together here. This keeps it in a sort of natural and very green botanical and herbal realm, very much like a wood in England where lily of the valley blooms and where one can smell how green, how wet it is after a rain. Because of this lily of the valley and the rest of the floral notes, this is a spring floral fragrance. It heralds the spring and since spring is just starting it is most appropriate to wear. Bluebell also makes for fine fragrance to scent your home, closets and pillows with. I can’t tell you how much I adore this perfume. It has been with me ever since it’s release and has always brought me pleasure and comfort. This is as good as an herbal tea. I wear this only in the mornings in spring and summer. Highly recommended for floral fans.
Саша20011997 – :
Lily of the valley. And hyacinth (my favorite). And pickle juice. And cloves. And dill. Perhaps tarragon. And a slight medicinal vibe. And that smell you get when you change the water in a vase of flowers.
This is not a common scent. It’s an acquired taste and not for everyone. I give this a rating of “upper middle class” as opposed to Eau Sans Pareil which rates middle class at best.
Bluebell is too green for my candlelight suppers but it’s perfect for charity committee meetings and afternoon tea with light refreshments.
taniusha28 – :
I was really intrigued by this, mainly because it looks like something you’d buy unsniffed for your niece as a kitschy souvenir from London, knowing full well it probably wasn’t going to really be my thing. I even considered paying for it, but then the opportunity arose to get it in a swap for a couple things I was almost never wearing, so I leapt.
Yeah… first 10-15 minutes? Godawful, like paint thinner up close, and like paint thinner poured over a freshly cut hyacinth from a little bit of distance. Then it does soften and develop a little sweet spiciness. The cloves and cinnamon are its saving grace, and it does get kinda pretty. It still smells more like a bathroom spray than perfume, though. Ah well, I think I’ll keep it for looks.
aldamirvah – :
Fragrance Review For Bluebell
Penhaligon
Top Notes
Citruses
Middle Notes
Hyacinth Rose Jasmine Lily of the Valley Cyclamen
Base Notes
Galbanum Cloves Cinnamon
Mistress Mary Quite Contrary How Does Your Garden Grow?
With Silver Bells and Cockle Shells And Pretty Maids All In A Row
– English Nursery Rhyme, 1744
I had the opportunity to experience and wear this floral masterpiece at the Penhaligon’s fragrance boutique in London. They have all their fragrances with test scent strips for you to try before making up your mind. With countless of fragrances, you’re spoilt for choice. I have a few of their colognes and perfumes, most of which are realistic and beautiful florals, but I hadn’t experience Bluebell which is their most commercially successful fragrance since it’s initial release in 1978. While most reviewers who have worn this gorgeous floral have likened it to the scent of a bluebell forest in England, or rather, a fresh earthy after the rain type of smell in a floral wood, I was not able to get this when I smelled it. I can see why they say that because it does have an initial aquatic freshness which smells like flowers on water but for me this is something else entirely. This beauty has a Britannic bluebell flower garden aroma that instantly brought to my mind the visual of an English garden, not in a manor house but in a suburb of London. It’s a bit of a pretentious perfume, in a cute and funny way. Think Hyacinth Bouquet (or Bucket) from the British TV sitcom KEEPING UP APPEARANCES. She is a middle class average housewife who has a small garden but who, through various ill conceived candlelight suppers, attempts to climb the social ladder and ingratiate herself into the high society and wealthy elite of London! This is a fragrance that can be a chemical aroma nuclear bomb with flowers that though few are garish and super fragrant. Reportedly, it has been a fragrance worn by big Brit names including Princess Diana of Wales, Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The first note I was able to detect, as anyone surely can, is the citrus notes. These are plain ordinary orange blossom citrus type of smells. It’s zesty lemon and orange which can match up with the subsequent rose note in the heart, but this was never about soliflore neither as a rose perfume nor a bluebell. Hyacinthoides non-scripta is the genus. That note of bluebell flower is hard to recreate as a note in perfumery but cleverly it comes through in the form of hyacinth which is quite similar to bluebell as it is part of the flowering plant family. This is a rather graphic overwhelmingly green garden scent. The hyacinth is front and center the first flower in the garden but in a row of other flowers. They include lily of the valley which is essentially the same shape of a bell as bluebell but white in color and more green-herbal in it’s aroma. There is also a greenish rose scent, white floral jasmine and cyclamen. One can argue that this is a big hyacinth plus white floral scent. The overall mood is not as romantic as say Quelques Fleurs or Estee Lauder Beautiful, but more along the pretty but no nonsense green florals like Cabotine. Still, it’s a classic and beautiful as a classically formulated floral.
In the dry down you experience the smell of cloves, earth, a spice note, cinnamon a little bit of musk and some more greenery. Green notes abound when you pick up on one of my favorite green notes: galbanum. Today this note of galbanum is becoming a rarity which is very saddening because it’s one of the more beautiful green notes in florals and chypres. It has a scent that is so amazing that one will mourn it’s loss in fragrances when it’s completely gone. This green peace floral perfume was quite common in 1970’s fragrances. It reminds me of Charlie by Revlon. It also has a bit of Yves Saint Laurent’s Rive Gauche. There is no moss but one smells moss because of the green notes like that galbanum and the cloves. It all dries down to a basic musk. This is very pretty and although it has it’s detractors, simply put, this is can only get bad when you spray liberally or bathe in it. It’s a very lovely fragrance that should not be abused! One spritz in the right place like under my ears or on my chest is enough to make it very pleasant.
Bluebell is a very fine English garden. It also smells like when you walk into a flower shop but you haven’t decided what flowers to put into your bouquet and you smell all the available flowers: the roses, the jasmine, the hyacinth, the lily of the valley. In the end for me the two top floral notes in this perfume are the hyacinth-bluebell and the lily of the valley. Both these scents are incredibly floral and they could have just used these two notes as ingredients and you get the same results. This is a for floral fans only and it has a superb longevity (over 5 hours) and sillage. It receives more compliments than insults and shows you have great taste. It is mature but gorgeous and grown up. It’s Victorian and old fashioned. It smells like Eliza Doolittle selling flowers at Convent Garden. It smells of Lewis Carrol’s Alice from Alice in Wonderland talking to the flowers. It’s a simple and soapy fresh floral to bring pleasure to your home and to wear for the day time as a casual fragrance. Nothing formal about it. Too soapy for evening wear. Day wear flower. Beautiful flower.
Thank You Penhaligon’s! I’ll be back!
hyv013Bessinepome – :
If you go past the first 15 minutes of this perfume (which are truly like a walk at the flower market, vivid green leaves, freshly-cut stems and all!) this is an eccentric perfume that will appeal to few…
It’s green, flowery, heady, doesn’t even smell like perfume… and yet it’s utterly original! After the much awaited 15′ it gets very sweet, juicy-syrupy sweet, and has something that reminds me of my beloved Quel Amour by Goutal! At this stage, the stems and leaves calm down and there’s more air to breathe! I obviously prefer this stage to the first, realistic flowery one… To me it has not much in common with Lily of the Valley of the same house..
Definitely worth trying, if only to experience the intense greenery; however not a safe blind buy by any means!
sisoev777 – :
Just awful..horrible and sickly .It’s rather like the Prime Minister reported as wearing it !!
viktkorn – :
Very unusual soft green ambery smell and I am getting cyclamen more than hyacinth
alcyone – :
Wow, this one is incredible… totally “there” and very strong, but this is fine because it all requires one small spray for the whole day. VERY distinctive. A great signature scent.
VioletteYe14 – :
Careful, this is one of those strong ones. PURE Hyacinth. Strong, pure, real, natural smelling floral/green. With a rather musty background that’s rather enticing… like a fabric softener, but not synthetic smelling. After a while it does get a bit tiresome though. It’s like i was rubbing a flower bouquet all over me.
Longevity: Extreme
Sillage: Huge
sp1n0za – :
This is my first scent of Penhaligon’s and I am very satisfied with my purchasing. It is like the smell of someone finished his/her shower, or even more like the scent of wardrobe or home fragrance. It is really interesting to see people have diverse opinions towards this scent, but for me it is really a lovely and elegant scent! Highly recommend!
ray-v – :
Unfortunately, I cannot stand this perfume at all. I’m not sure what is creating such a vile smell. I do know that I love clove, but in this perfume the clove is out of control. It’s way way way too strong, but I feel like it’s still not the root of the evil here. Is it the hyacinth? There’s something very bitter and wrong here for me. And this scent is tenacious! Good if you like it, not so good if you happen to sicken from it. Definitely smell before buying.
Chehonte – :
Great review Chri76, inspiring me to reacquaint myself with my long-cherished bottle of Bluebell, reigniting a forgotten fondness for its ancient aroma – thank you!
Life really is too short not to embrace art daily.
Bluebell stirs something primitive inside me, it is the aroma of moist soil adhering to naked flesh, vivid images of my carefree youth foraging for mushrooms in rain-forests and tripping in the rain.
How very unsophisticated of me!
adcerovichsaw – :
In the language of the flowers, the bluebell symbolizes constancy, perhaps in reference to Endymion, the Greek hero loved by the goddess Artemis, from whom the scientific name (Endymion non-scriptus) derives. It seems the right meaning for a plant which has the capacity to reappear and spread, year after year, in the woods.
This long lasting fragrance is a perfect representation of the natural flower (the native bluebell). It has a narcotic power as to symbolize the eternal sleep which was donated by Artemis to Endymion in order to preserve his beauty and youth. The floral sweetness is prevented to become cloying by the spicy clove and cinnamon at the base.
Really a masterpiece.
Alenq7a – :
First impression spray in the air is straight up floral shop! Positive so far.
Purrrfect for a humid, grey spring day, your skin is shining and the air is tense with the promise of (more) rain. The colors are muted and invite you to rest and reflect, breathe and enjoy silent, humble, pure happiness and peace. Not like any other floral or clean scent of mine, subtle enough to be safe for work, present enough to lift my spirits, in short, divine.
максим ваколя – :
(If anyone would like to try this, I’m happy to swap decants for my want list.)
I sell decants of this elsewhere, and it’s one of my bestsellers. Yet, I don’t get it. I don’t like Bluebell. I *love* the bottle and the color, but the scent is awful to me; too flowery/green and harsh. No sweetness in this. Do people like it because it was Princess Di’s favorite? Or because it’s flowers on crack? The one good thing I can say is this: this is a UNIQUE scent. You won’t find anything similar. Silage and longevity are out of this world, too. If you enter a room wearing this, believe me: you will be noticed.
timoxa747 – :
This is a weird scent. I bought it online before sampling because I heard Diana liked it. Well Diana rest your beautiful soul there is something wrong with your nose. This perfume has a bunch of different notes to it that belong nowhere near each other and none of them smells like bluebells. It smells very woody and leathery (I know right?! Leather??) at first with some kind of vague, very bitter florals and then eventually ends up smelling like diluted cloves. Every time I spray it I give it another chance but I cannot like this perfume. I’ve decided to stop buying perfumes before I sample them in a store. Is this what women’s perfume choices were limited to in the past, as I know Penhaligon’s has been around for a while, before perfume started to improve? Whatever, don’t like it.
etnies00 – :
I have been wearing this scent for years and love it. I feared when I first tried it that my allergies would nix it. But surprisingly, I have no allergic reaction to it at all. At first, it is spicy and announces itself like walking through the door into a florist’s shop — greens, sharp fresh flower scents. Then, it relaxes into being a hydrangea of some kind, clear and freshly one central direction to it, just like nature’s scent on a hydrangea or hyacinth flower, if you put your nose right up into the flower. It really becomes focused right there, on one central, but complex, flower’s scent. If you want the sense that you are inside a flower shop sitting next to a bin of hydrangeas or hyacinths, that’s what this long-lasting scent will do. I never refresh it mid-day. It carries enough weight on me to last all day.
tetris – :
First It appeared in the air, it’s very bitter and dusty, spicy. It may makes you nauseous or headache.
But few minutes after-Yes, It’s a realistic hyacinth scent you can smell through the whole perfumes even though the real hyacinth have more green-sticky smell(Just IMHO).
Some Perfumes makes you think, “Is this really perfume?”(too bad or too harsh, mostly) and “Is this suited for me?(because of your image, mostly)”. This is one of them to fit both side-in good way. Because It just smells like a flower-a hyacinth. Masterpiece.
vvv19768 – :
Princess Diana used to wear this. It suits her look perfectly!
Lizzard21 – :
I was wearing Jo Malone’s Wild Bluebell yesterday and the contrast with Penhaligon’s Bluebell is striking. JNWB is a soft, cool, airy, watery light perfume whereas PB is almost strident in comparison. I smell much more hyacinth in PB, and while the opening is green, which I love, it’s much warmer and spicier than JMWB.
In fact, I find the spices, particularly the clove, develop too much for my taste. It is, however, a hot summer day, and this scent may suit cooler weather better. I would say that JMWB is a perfect summer scent for me, while Penhaligon’s Bluebell is a Spring or even an Autumn perfume.
sanek3377 – :
It requires an aquired taste to begin to love Bluebell. For starters all