Courreges in Blue

Finally, I got my "baby" back, today!!! And, I'm over the moon with this long time lost perfume, which stupid me gave away in 2014, because he/she/it called me a hoarder, which I wasn't than - but proably is now :)) Yes, I bought my first bottle i Palma, Mallorca, back in -85, it was a 50 ml, but this bottle in an unopened box, I bought private is only 25 ml, and it smells so good as it should. I think it's an aldehylic perfume, I think there is some galbanum in it, but it's not. It smells as a lot of my older perfume, and this is the way I like it. This perfume is what I would call a "mature" perfume, to me, first came the marigolds, and than oakmoss, and coriander and cloves. Not so much fuzz about it, but you have to like the strong notes to find any pleasure in this perfume, and, of cause, I LOVE it!!!

I have a vintage bottle of this fragrance and I love it. The vintage version of Courreges in Blue EdT is in the same vein as Estee Lauder's White Linen, both share a 1970's elegant vibe in the opening. Aldehydes, herbs (basil) and spices (coriander) in the top notes, as it develops, a beautiful powdery chypre with a spicy-green dry down. Carnation isn't listed, but on cold days, I get a carnation note. In the dry down, this diverges from White Linen in that it remains dry, crisp and powdery. With the addition of amber, honey, and benzoin, White Linen becomes warmer. I love both perfumes - they both have a surprising complexity that makes them enjoyable to wear. Two sprays last all day, which is impressive performance for an EdT.

Courreges is spring-like to me, it's green, fresh and herbal. I get a bit of tuberose in the middle-not a really creamy one, then it dries down into a slightly spiced chypre. I love it, it's hard for me to describe it, it's different. I have 2 bottles of Courrages, one is a mini parfum, the other an EDT in the glass bottle with the ball cap. I loved the mini so much I got a full bottle, but they're different. The mini is richer, creamier and more powdery, the EDT is sort of like a skim milk version, it's not as creamy and much more green and herbal. I'm wondering of the EDT is a reformulated version. Both are very wearable, sillage and longevity are excellent.

I love the freshness of this perfume when it is first applied, perhaps due to it's strong coriander and citrus top notes. It settles into a unique fragrance unlike any other I have in my wardrobe while still retaining some of it's citrus. I live in a hot climate and it can be a bit overpowering when first applied but the fragrance stays all day and remains "true" without becoming too "watery". Love it but hard to find

I bought this nice perfume in Palma city at Mallorca in -85. And now I want to try their other perfumes.

I bought a small bottle of the eau de parfum a few years ago as a Summer scent. The notes and pyramid seemed unique. Well, I have had it on my shelf, kept thinking I would get rid of it, but I couldn't let it go. I gave it a whiff recently and I must say, I changed my mind. It went from a hate to a really enjoy, with the caveat that it is the most beastly of beast modes, so it must be layered with something musky or light. Because holy basil, less than one spray is more than you need on its own. And, speaking of basil, this is an extremely heavy, green, herbal, earthy frag that leans hyper masculine, like a man's aftershave or old school men's barbershop-type smell, sans the lavendar. I am surprised it is even marketed as a women's scent. The drydown is the closest thing I can think of to a bar of Ivory soap. Soapy-fresh, clean, just out of a bath - as long as you layer it. It is intolerable and suffocating, perhaps even nauseating on its own. I wore the tiniest little spray last Fall to the grocery and a couple walking past whispered that I smelled like bug spray. It's an acquired taste, most certainly. Not quite a "clean boy" or "clean girl" scent, too heavy for that, but cozy. Best to be worn at home in the Winter months whilst bundled in a thick, comfy sweater reading a book by a crackling fire or watching the tellie. That's the vibe. Not a young scent, not the sugar overloaded juice of the modern age, nor a lemony freshie, not traditionally sexy, leans grannie, or granddad. Yet somehow, I do find it pleasant and comforting, and I've become a bit fixated on it as of late, so my bottle is staying in my collection and I will enjoy it in abundance this Fall and Winter.

I recently got a 100ml vintage, perfectly stored bottle for dirt cheap, that looks just like the image above, and wow! Courreges in Blue is something else. It's basically a fierce herbal and floral chypre, but without the harshness and the challenging notes that similar chypres have (for example, White Linen by Estee Lauder, which makes me want to throw up.) It starts very very fruity floral and herbal, with the white florals, rose, marigold and the ammonia - like, old fashioned black currant. It's a bit harsh and nauseating at the beginning, but then, 20 to 30 minutes later it turns into a gorgeous fresh, soapy and just very alive, blue scent. (Very mossy, but not "bitter-mossy", more like deep and "damp - mossy") It does smell very blue indeed, retro but timeless at the same time. I think with the right chemistry, Courreges In Blue can smell totally gorgeous, refreshing but deep and complex at the same time. I'd love to try the extract version, and i'd hate to try the reformulated version haha.

This a lovely, lovely BOLD chypre. The "floral aquatic" label here is waaaaay off. Ah,the 1980's...big shoulder pads, big hair, BIG fragrances. This Big Fragrance will sneak up on you like a wicked riptide on an otherwise calm sea. There's a brief watery introduction to the oakmoss, coriander, bergamot, amber, cedar, sandalwood, vetiver and violet... all favorite notes of mine! Opens with spice and brightness and settles into an even spicier green warmth. Good for hot weather but I'm planning on wearing this one all year round. Love it! I own 7 Courreges fragrances and apart from Empreinte, CinB is the most "grown up". There's determination and persistance here in this seamless blend, nothing simple or carefree here despite the florals, no sir. CinBlue feels serious, like a woman who is clearly IN CHARGE.

Floral aquatic ? In my opinion, vintage Courreges in Blue EdT is beautiful hybrid chypre with a drydown in the oriental side and spicy green opening . I love "old" perfumes like this one : complex , rich , intense and very longlasting for an Edt ( about 7 hours , a record for my skin ! ) This perfume is "thick" : this adjective always comes to my mind when I smell it . I would like to get the parfum concentration : I' m sure it is heaven ! I 've seen that many people find it similar to Hermes Amazone . Well , they share the black currant note , but Amazone is not thick and that loud ( I'm talking about the Jean Claude Ellena Amazone version , that is the second one ) : it is classier . So , give a try to vintage Amazone even if you do not like Courreges in Blue . They are not similar , in my opinion .

I have a new-production bottle which I admit I bought primarily for the bottle and because it was very inexpensive. But hey, it's also a really interesting scent! I sniffed it and read the notes here and was intimidated...so I sprayed it in the air in a spare room. I've been going in and out to check on it and it's an experience, the whole way through. After 5 hours it maintains complex herbal but also fresh/clean notes over a unique base that smells quite unisex to me. I don't think this one will be a favorite for me, personally, but I have to admit that it's an old-school symphony that deserves respect! I'm in agreement with the reviewer(s) below who said this is more oriental/chypre than aquatic floral.

This is a nice 80s scent. The initial spray smells like other aldehydic fragrances of its time BUT the dry down is where it becomes delicious. When I read floral aquatic, I thought someone was terribly mistaken, but the dry down is where the aquatic floral notes come forward and then meld nicely with the woodsy base. It almost smells powdery, maybe soapy in the best possible way, but this is really a nice fragrance.

Having read the reviews I was left thoroughly confused and decided to purchase yet another vintage miniature online. Well? I agree with small points many make but none in total. My experience is yet again completely different. So here goes. Started out uncomfortably strong and mildly unpleasant in a medicinal chypre way. Just a few short minutes later it faded to the middle and became a skin scent. Herbal, green and soapy skin scent. Floral aquatic? And on my skin barely worth wearing. Why would I anyway? Marigold, rose, narcissus, jasmine, patchouli, pepper, amber and musk. Notes shared in CinB with Montana de Peau and Ivoire de Balmain, fragrances I heartily dislike. Aunty Kathy will no doubt love this one too. The notes on Fragrantica are starting to help me sort out why I feel the way I do about fragrances. It's all interesting for me anyway.

My first impressions: This is no aquatic, but the top notes are fresh, with the marigold, coriander, and aldehydes giving a "peppery" effect. The floral notes in the middle blend into each other; I can't pick one in particular that stands out. The clove note in the base is extremely strong; on my skin it overpowers all the other base notes.

I tried this fragrance when I was a child. As I remember, it was aldehydes fragrance. And as I was a child at that time, this fragrance seemed to me like expired. I wonder if I like it now or don't. My mom had it. She reminds it as a good fragrance. Now I like some aldehydes fragrances, too, so maybe now I would like it also, who knows.

Last night I wore Courreges in Blue to bed and it gave me a profound insomnia. I could not sleep because the changes in the perfume were unignorable!a combination of green and honey (tubereuse????) I don`t think it`s aquatic, may be floral green with a tendency to lean towards a chypre. It is also very energetic at the same time, without being citrusy at all. A little bitter, it made me think of a business shark lady standing 6.5 feet tall in her 5 inch Jimmy Choos and ready to execute a business opponent with one wave of a pen.Cruel! Then it started to feel more warm and soft,a little medicinal - still with honey on top to sooth the taste.I felt a lots of marigold and it was a marigold tincture I used to get for my sore throats when I was a kid. When I almost gave up all hope to have any sleep at all, all of a sudden I was left with a strong scent of freshly chopped parsley, and a whole bunch of it. May be even a bit of a celery root! And on this comforting note I finally fell asleep.

Bough a bottle of 100 ml vintage of this. Its an eau de toilette, but it behaves like an eau de perfume. Very long lasting on my skin; about 8 to 10 hours! When I was young I had a miniature, but my memories were totaly different from what I smell now: I didn't remember the exact notes of this perfume. So it was a surprise. I Always remebered it as a kind of aldehyde perfume, but now I smell black currant, vetiver, marygold and oakmoss. Very strong and somehow spicey. I can also detect the basil and the coriander, very intensive. (First I reminded me of baby diapers...!)I realy had to learn to like this perfume again, but now I wear it regulary. For me it smells like no other perfume. Very special.

Sparkling aldehydes are still magnificent in this 80s bottle (aerosol atomizer! pssssst), they lift this honeyed, bitter apple, ever so slightly medicinal marigold. I love the smell of marigolds, and this is a true accord, accented with blackcurrant buds and basil. It's remarkable how intact the fragrance is given its age. Coriander dusted, powdery, soapy floral medley is what makes up the heart, with that marigold still the driving force. It gets bolder and warmer over time. The florals seem to immerse into spiced woods, with lingering herbal shades. It's a unique vibe, a savoy unisex treat, a lush wear.

This is a scent of memory for me, because my mother used to wear it when I was a child. I use to adore it on her. It was a complex floral smell and it smelled classy to my young nose. I still have a sample of this, but I don't like to wear as it seems so dated to me now. Still an original scent for that time.

My first thought was when I have got introduced to this perfume to rush out and get a huge bottle of it! Lucky me I did not since novadays all I can smell is marigold, nothing sparkles here! Unfortunatelly it reminds me of Private Collection Estee Lauder, which I am not so keen on either.

Floriental.Reminds me of Cardin - Cardin with only a little spicy difference (to my nose : cloves). But very little spyciness.Nice floral.Reminds me also a little of Basile , would call it a very very soft Basile(bcs of the clovy hint).