Miami Blue

Probably my most successful blind buy til date. Started off with a good ozonic vibe from the calone, very blue but in a more subtle way. The blue note linger in the lower part of my nose instead of in the upper part like othe oceanic blue note. None of the notes is stronger than another. Everything is in the right amount to balance and adding body for eachother. I can tell there is lemon/citrus, ginger, rose and aldehyde but I get everything at once. Lemon is not essential oil, not peel, not juicy, rather powdery, can't even say if it's more natural or more artificial but I liked it. Ginger is not herbal, not spicy, not candy, just a bit of warm leftover after you smelled a heavy dose of ginger, again have a powdery feel to it like the lemon. Rose is also faint, not sweet, not real roses, not fake neither, it's like a room full of expensive rose lotion / soap, and you stepping in smelling the air of the room. Aldehyde covered everything giving you a clean feeling hence why everything feels powdery and unreal. But the star of the show is this cocain note, it has that distinct slight pungent, slight piercing smell, like it hits the inside of your nose, burn it a bit and open your nostril up, but in a different way unlike mint/menthol, aldehyde open your nose and automatically close it right after, making your nose suddenly seems clearer then suddenly seems muted. I believe this is the feeling of cocaine they depicted, you have to tried the stuff to understand I guess, to me this is quite close to the feeling of snorting the real stuff. They nailed the powdery feeling and the whole physical feel of doing the actual stuff. If I have to sum it up, I'd say this feel like you just got out of the cold water of the pool of a 5-stars hotel, took a warm shower in this clean white marble bathroom area, stepping out to where's warm steam leftover, the smell of luxury soaps and lotions lingering in the air, you then started snorting a fat line of coke right in that bathroom and ready to head out.

it's a warm day in south beach miami 1988. your lounging in your silk versace swimsuit by the shimmering swimming pool of your wealthy lover's villa. you sprinkle some cocaine from his endless stash onto his beautiful sunshine glistened chest and cut yourself up a line. you go to snort it and you catch a whiff of his cologne as the yayo rushes into your body. that is what this fragrance smells like. i really love this fragrance for all the wrong reasons. while yes in it's nature it is quite "generic", the taboo aspect is what really sells it for me while it might be what turns people off to this. i don't find it gimmicky at all considering that 19-69 as a brand is based on a nostalgic concept of past times with a modern interpretation. it's fresh and ozonic with a faint saltiness. it's an aldehydic rose with aquatic elements. i find the rose to not be very floral but more musky and briney. the amber is not sweet or heavy but rather dry and adds to the powdery aspect of the fragrance. i find that most of the notes are really just the supporting role to the coke note. the cocaine note in here is that sort of sharp synthetic chemical chalkiness that blow has, but with the dry rosie citrus starchiness to give it a pleasant aroma. but with that said, you can spray this fragrance all over your body and your going to smell good, nobody is going to tell you that you smell like cocaine. but if you were to point it out to someone that has dipped their nose into the more indulgent aspects of life, they might get a giggle out of it. overall it's a pretty safe and easy going scent. it is very reminiscent of those sort of old school fresh aquatic soapy scents from the 90’s but with a modern feel. it's super light and doesn’t stay very long. perfect for a hot summer day in mid july.

I got a sample of Miami Blue today, and I can say it wasn’t what I was expecting but I like it. It’s sharp and a little piercing, with notes of lemon aldehyde and ginger at the top, it’s a bit citrusy and definitely fresh. My girlfriend described it as a weird mix of MontBlanc Explorer and Versace Pour Homme with a bit of Eros, and while I don’t get the Eros I can see the other two. In the mid it has rose oxide, calone, and a cocaine accord. I assume the calone is working with the aldehydes to give it the airy and slightly aquatic or beachy feel. I’m not sure where the sharpness of the fragrance comes from possibly the cocaine, as I’m not sure what it’s supposed to smell like. Maybe that is also the calone and aldehydes mixing with the cocaine. All I know is this fragrance is SHARP I seriously pictured a sword with a blade made of wind, water, and electricity when I first smelled it. I will continue to test but based on first wearing I’d say it’s full bottle worthy. It lasts decently at about 6 to 7 hours currently and it’s fading into a skin scent. The fragrance projects moderately for the first two-ish hours. I like it! It’s definitely a bit weird, while still being mass appealing, fun, and intriguing! Can’t wait to test out more from the house!

The more I wear it, the more I like it. Now, this is an artistic scent so I would not recommend this to someone that doesn't enjoy avant garde fragrances. The opening reminds me of Acca Kappa Muscio Bianco EDP but where that smells astringent and sterile, this does not. Lots of lemon, lots of aldeydes, and a bit of ginger up top. Then you get the "shock value" cocaine note 🌀. I'll admit, know what cocaine smells and tastes like, and here it is pretty realistic. However, it's not reinventing the wheel as Tom Ford Tuscan Leather unintentionally smells like booger sugar. Anyway, then rose oxide, which has has a metallic vibe, and followed by the smell of a ozonic swimming pool. There's also a salty seabreeze. Projection isn't strong, and I've found my sweet spot is around 7-8 sprays. Really interesting headspace perfume. Overall, a fun scent to wear in a gorgeous bottle. 💙 Scent 8/10 Performance 4/10

I don't reach for this too often, but I absolutely love this. It's a Summer freshie that somehow is also dark and mysterious at the same time?? I bought a decant of this last year and knew I wanted a full bottle somehow. Wearing this gives me those 80's Miami vibes, but also it reminds me of like Pulp Fiction which is funny because it does that more than their Burning Palm fragrance which was inspired by the film. Probably the Coca-Cola note lol. If you can find this discounted like I did (purchased for $120 of a 100ml)... RUN and get it otherwise I think it's a touch too expensive. Amazing longevity for the type of DNA this is.

brings me back to being 7 yrs old sniffing the pages of my mom’s fashion magazines for the perfume samples - the amber, but also the glossy paper and the adhesive. the shock value coke note is only really present for about a minute or two on my skin, with the aldehydes and amber being the real stars of the fragrance. beautiful and mature but wearable - there’s the vaguest chlorine scent to it that i think makes it the perfect pool day perfume.

The scent equivalent of cirrus clouds and scientific diagrams. Ice water body shots. A party at Mount Everest and asking all the right questions. An AC on full blast. Leaving, not knowing it’s for the last time. Summer jobs, fake flowers. Winter flings, dead silence. The feeling of an airport at 4am. Getting promoted. A spherical mirror, a pond of white koi fish.

I love this fragrance. The sweet, lemony opening followed by a powdery musk as a result of middle notes. It’s a bright synthesis fresh notes that dries down to amber, leaving a clean and pleasant skin smell. I only get around 4 hours on skin but I have no problem reapplying. Great for summer and spring.

For enthusiasts of la coca this will definitely ring a bell. Fun and summery blue fragrance that finishes with a recognizable but not overpowering medicinal smell and (if you breathe deep) it can even feel a little numbing. Definitely special and an amazing party fragrance!!

this is a beautifully done blue scent. unfortunately it leans VERY masculine on me after the initial spray but dries down to unisex. because of that, i can’t see myself getting a full bottle but it is a very nice scent.

This perfume changed my mind about blue fragrances. It’s not a realistic aquatic scent, it’s more like looking at a neon teal ocean through the lens of a VHS camcorder. Artificial, staticky, sharp, and fresh

I am not super into amber. Something about it can be super headache inducing to me; but it's just perfect in Miami Blue. It's intoxicating. I would like this on a man but I also love it on myself.

This is the ultimate Blue fragrance. It is sharp and shocking at first, but fresh and exciting. A cool watermelon note slices through the rose and lemon; perfect for Summer.

So sharp. BLUE. Chemical, salt-water sea breeze. I love it.

‘Miami Blue’ is fresh in a sharp way. A light citrus with a fresh kick from the ginger. It gets greener and dryer the more it gets to settle down onto the skin, and it smells almost like there is vetiver in the base, but it isn’t? The initial drydown is still pretty fresh and spicy, but there is something really screechy here. I don’t know how to describe it, is it the chemical notes that gives that headache inducing, screechyness? Is it the cocaine? Is it the rose? But at the same time, it is an interesting take on a light blue citrus scent, and I love the cyan coloured bottle. Even though I don’t particularly like it, I still want to keep on sniffing. That has to be the cocaine, right? Nevertheless, I cannot give this anything else than an ‘Ok’. Even though the dry ginger and «vetiver» in the drydown is really making me doubt that. It is way too masculine leaning for me to personally wear it, but if you like these citrus/aquatic scent profiles (and if you’re a finance bro) you should check this one out!

A very cool breeze washes over you when you apply this perfume. It’s a scent for minimalists, that feels a little citrus, a little marine, but mainly that fresh fresh wind of aldehydes. If you’ve ever been on top of a snowy mountain with a wind blowing ice crystals into your face, it’s that dry mineral smell, exactly. The thing I really like about it is that it feels very clean without even a speck of soap appearing. It’s tempting to buy it for that reason since I think a clean perfume can be useful to have, but I dislike soap in perfumes, so I immediately started thinking about when I could wear this. It’s the kind of scent that becomes a bit addictive purely because of it’s weirdness and how different it is. (not the cocaine, lol which I don’t think anyone would recognize unless you point it out ) It only lasts a couple hours though, so that’s the problem with it. It’s completely unisex.

You know how sometimes you crave shit that's bad for you? White Castle, Yoo-hoo, a late-night hookup with a stranger, an eight ball or two? And you know how sometimes you can't help but like fake shit? Pastels, plastic tits, using AI to write Fragrantica reviews? And you know how all of that makes you feel kinda sad? But you do it anyway sometimes because, fuck it, you're human living in a world of fake, bad-for-you shit that's all too easy to say "yes" to? Well, ladies, gentlemen, and all of you who identify as neither, both, either... say hello to my little friend, Miami Blue. 8/10. For me. Because I sometimes like to bask in the sadness of making the choices I make as a human living in a vapid, disconnected, horrifying time.

Miami Blue by 19-69 is sharp but not too sharp, metallic but not overly so. It has a fresh, aquatic feel, with a noticeable chemical aspect that isn’t overwhelming. There’s an uplifting quality to it—maybe from the cocaine note. It smells like Miami, like a beach and a nightclub fused into one. It captures the essence of a late afternoon on a Miami beach, where everyone’s having a great time, and the air is thick with the scent of mind-altering chemicals—especially the uplifting ones. The main drawbacks? First, the atomizer is bad. Second, the longevity isn’t the best. It shines for about ten minutes before settling into a scent bubble around you. I'd say its worth it. I like.

To me, this perfume opens up citrusy and soapy-floral from the aldehydes. After it settles, the amber finally shines through. It takes me back to summer nights at my dad’s hometown, a small fishing town in Tarragona (southern Catalonia) where we would spend time every August. It smells just like my uncle getting ready to go out at night. The cocaine note makes it extra funny since he had a severe cocaine addiction, but I feel like it’s more for shock value because I can’t really smell it on the perfume or when it’s sprayed on me. All around a summer scent in my opinion!

#638 in my "Tour de Fragrance" This is a unique and refreshing scent. Reminds me of the Atelier citrus colognes like Orange Sanguine, Pacific Lime, Pomelo Paradis. Perfect for casual daytime wear in warm weather. Very marine and aldehyde with a nice ginger note on top and a very subtle amber. Car pool, elevator and office safe, but I'd save it for the outdoors, the beach, lunch outside. I'd say if you like Tommy Bahama scents you'll like this too. I found this online at $85 for 30ml. I think this may be a bottle buy for me.