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ko9i – :
Can only add my praise for this unique fragrance along with my sorrow & disbelief that it’s never come back. Mind you, it was hard enough to get in the UK anyway & our stores discontinued it (along with the whole range) long before the US.
The scent ? It’s a dream of summer; the smell of grass that’s only exists in our imagination. It’s the meadow Julie Andrews danced across. Believe me, I’ve eagerly tried other grass scents but they smell ,well, just of grass.
I admit my emotional reaction maybe as much due to the first time I wore it ( one of my first breaks with my partner, madly in love, a perfect but very hot week in Stratford on Avon, sitting on the grass outside the RSC, beside the Avon, oblivious to the crowds around us.
Ahem, back to perfume: well, I struggle with scents for hot weather (I’m an English/Celtic mix, I wilt above 21C ) I’m usually all about aldehydes,woods & powdery scents better suited inmho to cool weather.”Old Lady” stuff (well,I am now,so finally grown into them). Think pre-1980 or most Guerlain to go even further back (AP & N.Rodreguez being rare,modern exceptions ). Full-bodied scents best worn after dark. So,I was stuck for something appropriate for day (my go-to was,& still is O de Lancome but I’d not packed it) So I needed a cheap & cheerful stop-gap (pardon the pun) &, by chance, found this little miracle !
I still have a few mls left – strictly to smell when I need a little shot of summer-loving !
PS my first review
Aby Hayyat – :
Nothing comes close to Gap grss. I tried for so long to find it again but no dice. Wish they would bring it back.
slesar88 – :
i remember reading a thing about how years ago all the hippies were planning to encircle the pentagon and meditate in an effort to levitate it and thusly bring about world peace. if only the fragrance community could harness that enthusiasm and focus their intentions on bringing back gap grass what a glorious world this would be.
wwwcomss – :
Oh my days how I loved this. When I saw the reviews I thought they may still do it, sadly not. It is very 90’s and if I smelled it now it would just take me back. Freshly cut grass, heaven! 90’s loves all gone now.
crys777 – :
I just found a small bottle of this, original aluminum, half ounce, about half full, in my drawer. Smells like bananas a little bit, then a wonderful fresh laundry drydown with the gentle grassy notes of course. Wonder why this one was not selected for reformulation. I have the new Heaven, and it smells pretty close. Aluminum perfume bottles are just so cool, lightweight, and 90s. Wish I had stocked up back then.
тамерлан2 – :
Not actually grass. Green aquatic with a hint of well blended cucumber and green apple. The opening is unbearable but the dry down is cleaner
xGENAx – :
I love this so much. Its so green and grassy but still sweet without being cloying. Soothing and fresh. Every perfume I love is discontinued!! 🙁
FriendAlexandra – :
LOVE!!!
—-I always loved mowing the lawn barefoot (dangerous, I know…). Liked the wet green stains on my feet and that fantastic sweet smell of fresh cut healthy grass. Nothing says summer like that. And this composition captured that feeling in a bottle. Too bad it is gone F-O-R-E-V-E-R
5pav – :
First thing I thought When sniffing this was wow it’s sweet. I expected something harsher but was pleasantly surprised. It’s a good, cheap grass scent according to me.
MariamSilb34 – :
Smells just like Calyx; I have Grass on one wrist, and Calyx on the other. Once the alcohol has evaporated, the two are 99% identical. The other 1% is just some minor difference that isn’t a dealbreaker. Even I can’t point out exactly what this difference is, except that Calyx smells more expensive and is longer-lasting. In my opinion, Calyx also smells closer to how GAP was back in the ‘90s — deep and concentrated; less alcohol-y.
To me, GAP Grass is the scent of the cool late ‘90s alternative girl: pretty; angelic face; looks great in a fitted band T-shirt, long tutu skirt, and Doc Martens. I, unfortunately, was not a cool girl in 1997. I remember my awkward, skinny and un-womanly bodied self smelling this scent strip in an issue of “Seventeen” magazine—the ultimate aspirational magazine for teenagers at the time—and feeling sad that I couldn’t own a bottle, like I was too uncool to have “deserved” something like that. Now, I’m actually a cool adult (or so I’ve been told, lol) and I have a huge EDT bottle that I bought back in 2010, and still spray from time to time. Each time I smell it, I’d feel like a geeky teenager all over a again who’s just pretending to be cool.
GAP Grass is gorgeous, and it is unfortunate that it’s been discontinued. However, do give Calyx a try; you’ll love that one, too.
hang22 – :
I am just sad that of the first 4 Gap scents: Earth, Day, Heaven, and this scent Grass… my favorite is Earth and they don’t even have the scent on here like the others!!! I have some left, bought the next to last one on ebay and even got the one by scent matchers. Yet, I can’t see the notes/accords on here. 🙁 Ah well, I guess it makes it even more alluring. At least I can spray my matched scent all over and use the real ones sparingly. It smells like a strong burst of clean soap with a hint of pine/sage. Anyone know this scent?
Thanks! ~J
alvit – :
This stuff is amazing. One of a kind. Nothing ive smelled like it. Sweet, grassy, like fresh cut grass and sugar water and strawberries. Really captures the 90s teenager scent. They sold these in small bottles back then for 7 or 8$, when I was buying carpenter shorts and long sleeve raglans at GAP, along with Heaven and Dream. Beware of jovan grass oil, which is equally as rare and expensive, but it smells awful, musky, gross, nothing like this stuff.. the best.
Евгений Григорьев – :
Incredibly natural and realistic smell of lawn and clover, I would never believe it is possible to re-create even by most expensive niche house. Sounds weird, but it smells even more realistic, than the actual grass.
Gap did it in their body mist! May-June’s fresh, bright, green grass under the huge blue sky, excitement of an astronaut, who just have landed on beloved Earth, after a long time into open space, or creation of last Earth inhabitants, that are leaving for another planet after some explosion and who want to save in memories of next generations how good old Earth smelled like…
Very thankful to great fragrantica-girl for this gift and for the eyes opening!
netpingus – :
Ahhh, the summer of 1994. A gust of wind, a way-too-sugary strawberry flavored soda, some Nirvana. GAP Grass covering up the ‘sandal smell’ of Teva shoes…
Has a 50/50 sport/cute persona and can be worn by virutally anyone.
sssup – :
My first review here, so I’ll try to do this justice.
This is a lovely green scent. When first applied, you definitely get the “someone just mowed the lawn” smell you get when you open the windows on a warm spring or summer day. In fact, its made me sneeze a bit when I first put it on.
That does not last long though. After only a few moments, it softens to something more like the scent that surrounds you as you lie in the soft grass of your yard, or a field, or a meadow… the sun is warm, and the grass is cool against your skin. It has just a bit of a sweetness, like an “almost hay” smell, but not musty, not hay that’s already been cut and dried, but tall, tall grasses that are just about ready to become hay.
After about an hour, you’re left with a hint of the above. Just enough for you to personally smell it on yourself, but not enough for it to project that scent unless someone is standing and whispering in your ear.
I love this fragrance – definitely a unisex – I can see this being worn by anyone, really. I wish it had better staying power, and a bit more drift. Wish it traveled a bit further from my skin. I even put a bit of spray on my clothing to see if I could increase the longevity and – it might have, but not by much. Its been about 1.5 hours since I applied it last and I can barely smell it. Maybe I’ve gone nose blind but… I think its just that *soft*.
I’m thinking I want to layer this with some Demeter Lilac or even Dirt. I’ll need to try that another day though, I want to devote this day to this scent all on its own.
Hopefully in the end, I don’t love it *that* much, or I find something I love a bit more, since its discontinued and I bought a partly used bottle off ebay just to give it a try. It’s a bit expensive for something that isn’t very long lasting and stays so close to the skin. But, I may just have to bite the bullet because it is that lovely!
andry-san – :
Oh please, come back again, please! This delicious fragrance is nothing compare to others expensives in luxury bottles… This is a surprise, a fresh wind in the mountain grass in spring. But it is discontinued… Why? I loved this years ago, and now keep a little amount in the old glass for my doughter, someday.
vcz135bedyWelty – :
Fresh, unique. Scent of fresh cut grass with soft musk. I dont understand how they still sell many of the Gap scents except this one.