Blue Grass

Gorgeous! This is not a perfume l would ever have sampled or bought in my life. The bottle is too old fashioned. It looks way too cheap chemist buy from the 1980's, the sort of bottle you would see in a very frugal grandmas handbag, they should modernise and bling up the bottle design a bit. It wouldn't ever have drawn me in for a sniff. A friend gave me a full bottle recently saying a friend gave it to her but she can't stand it and it smells awful on her. I sprayed it expecting it to be horrid and chokey like bug spray but was pleasantly surprised, it's lovely! For me it opens very aldehydey, green, and bitter like Estee Lauders Private Collection or Clinique aromatics, it's soon joined by cloves, a nice amount, not too much, as cloves are very dominating in a scent. It starts to turn softer and wonderfully soapy and clean in the mid stage, and a French posh talcum powder joins the party too and it smells so fresh and clean. It is a bit old fashioned smelling but l love vintage scents they are the best. Perfumes of the current day lack a lot of the personality and confidence the vintage ones have. Vintage scents to me very much say I'm here and l dont care if you like me or not because im fabulous! I bet this is great on an unbearably hot day to make the wearer smell like they just got out of the shower all day. I like how the fragrance changes in the 3 stages but the cloves and talcum powder stay all the way through. This doesnt scream typically female so guys could wear it too. The drydown is soft but still clean smelling rather than vanilla sweet like most perfumes dry down stage. I will wear this a lot. This is a grown up fragrance l feel young wearers will be put off by it's bitter clovey talcum powder notes, I would say this would appeal to the 35 and older crowd. It smells like a classy well dressed older woman. I give this powerful little Diva a 9/10 as the bottle could be more aesthetically appealing.

After trying and loving Memoire Cherie, I had to give this a try, too. I've purchased an enormous 6oz "flower mist" for an awesome deal on ebay. I'm a little scared reading the reviews. I often like things that others on Fragrantica dislike or categorize under "old lady," "stinks," "smells WEIRD." I love Lauder Youth Dew and I hope it's like that. Edit: I forgot I had this in a little vintage purse spray refill of "Perfume Essence." It is light, fresh, summery! The benzoin is heavy but so pleasant-- along with the aldehydes and geranium, it creates something powdery and sweet. There IS something grassy about this. More like hay/woodruff. Sometimes a mild whiff of dill?! I remember testing it in middle school, when Gap Grass was "a thing." My grandma had this on her dresser, I tried some expecting that green cut grass scent--not to be had--I found it repugnant. Now I'm older and smarter, and I love it. Reminds me of Tussy deodorant cream, I'll have to try the Bluegrass deodorant as well. Like Wind Song, it's an old-fashioned interpretation of freshness, no melon or sea salt here. I really like this. The flower mist arrived today, I'm still at work and will update on that later! Later: The flower mist is lovely but too light to enjoy as anything more than a refresher. The bottle is divine, stylized mares and foals grazing 😍🐎 I'm curious to try the modern spray, or an 80s one. From other reviews, it sounds as though older is better. I think not TOO old, though. Unless pristine, I can imagine losing those lovely top notes. My perfume essence fared well in the minute pressurized can. Final thoughts: If you're curious about the vintage version, aim for a perfume or "perfume mist." These have more potency (obviously), and if you find one that's pressurized with propellants, you're likely to get juice that's still fresh.

I just acquired a vintage bottle of this very pretty perfume that has great sentimental meaning and memories for me. The reformulated version doesn't do this softly elegant daytime feminine fragrance justice. Blue Grass was the signature fragrance of my best friend when I was a child. She was 4 years older than me and I was in awe of her. She was like a big sister to me. Taught me everything about boys, how to apply makeup, walk in high heals etc ... Taught me how to deal with jealous girls... She was sophisticated, smart, elegant, even wiser than her years. I admired her so much. We lost touch when she married and moved to Hawaii when I was 14. I thought about looking her up over the years but as they say you can't go home again.. It is always sad to lose people in your life, it happens but I was happy to have known her and I was and still am grateful for her being a good friend to me when I was so young. Vintage Blue Grass is like a whisper of many different elements. Soft, but evocative. A whisper of aldehydes, grass, lavender, bay leaf, carnation and cloves. This fragrance is like a flash in the minds eye of the bluest skies, the brilliance of sunlight, the iridescent colors of soap bubbles. It doesn't have the exuberance and glamour of other perfumes in the classic aldehydic florals genre. It is gentle, soft, and kinder. And I agree there is something of the "tomboy" of the 70s element about it. It was something that someone (myself and my friend) who loved nature wore in the 70s. I smell this now and it saddens me that this scent profile has gone out of fashion. It is so delicate, pretty, but easygoing, unpretentious and gentle. An easy signature for a more elegant and simpler time. The more I smell this lovely vintage gem I keep hearing Lana del Rey Summertime Sadness in my head. It has that feeling to it.

I just purchased a 1 oz. vintage “natural spray” of Blue Grass and I think it has unlocked a scent memory that right now I unfortunately cannot place. I feel like I have definitely smelled this before. Perhaps on a family member. Now my brain hurts from trying to pinpoint it. More than nailing particular notes, this perfume evokes an image for me: a lush green mountainside view with misty clouds hanging low after a heavy rain. At the bottom of the mountain there are pastures and horses grazing in a field of wild flowers. Everything is green, washed clean, and feeling refreshed, yet there is still a warmth that rises up from the earth even though the rain has brought the temperature down. The nostalgia is epic with this one. It’s comforting. Like a coming home. Reminds me of the mountains in Appalachia. If I am going to consider the notes, my nose mostly picks up plenty of aromatics. The most prominent are fresh lavender, spicy green carnation, and geranium surrounded by clove and a very herbal bay leaf along with the dry sweetness of sandalwood and tonka bean. It’s both addicting and beautiful the way the herbal florals and spice waft up around you in a clean, sweet, gentle cloud. It’s quickly become one of my favorite fragrances I wear for comfort, as well as for bedtime too. I must add, there is also something so so very close to the actual scent of Sweet Grass in this fragrance. I have never encountered a perfume that has such a resemblance to it. I’m a vintage perfume fan. And although I naturally gravitate towards the classics, I wasn’t 100% sure I would like this. This was a blind buy and the best surprise. Blue Grass is not a like, it’s a LOVE for me! 💙

Wowww this was a great impulse buy. I'd been going back-and-forth for a few years on whether I should add a classic spicy carnation frag to my wardrobe, especially since I finished a bottle of L'Heure Bleue which was the closest to that scent profile of anything I owned. I've always been caught between going for L'Air Du Temps and Aromatics Elixir but never quite remembering to catch them during the sales, and then seeing this on £10 for 100ml I couldn't resist. It is 100% a vintage, old-school fragrance - if you use 'old lady perfume' as a pejorative then you'll want to stick to the salted caramel gourmands. But it's such a nostalgic, dreamy scent, if you're ready for it you'll be in for a treat. It pulls off so many things at once - fresh and almost bracing from the aldehyde bomb in the opening but dries down powdery and comforting, smells like fresh laundry and warm hay, could be the scent of a tomboyish girl-next-door or a perfectly put-together older lady. It's not as elegant as L'Air Du Temps or as green and mossy as Aromatics but there's some intoxicating floral notes in here that give it a surprising complexity beyond what you might expect for the price: melancholy lilies and earthy narcissus stand out to me almost as much as the spicy carnation-geranium-rose accord here. I think I'll mostly be wearing this as a cosy, stay-at-home scent or using it as a linen spray to max out the comfort factor, but I'm curious about trying it layered to see if I can get it to smell more 'modern' - in particular I think it could play really well with more bitter, herbaceous scents.