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.

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.

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 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.

I'm surprised at how much Blue Grass is disliked; but at the same time not surprised. I think the name may have something to do with people's expectations that this will be a very breezy, grassy scent but it isn't. In truth, it's a very unusual scent that plays different types of notes against each other. What I mean is that there are the sweet bright florals like daffodil with bright aldehydes pitted against darker spices such as cloves so it's an unusual mix that is not often seen in perfumery. I don't get a strong aldehyde opening like from classic floral aldehydes - I do get something that smells very much like banana Starburst candies in the opening. I thought at first my nose was playing tricks on me but every time I sprayed it - there it was. Nonetheless, I'm not complaining; it was kind of cute in its way. Overall, I like Blue Grass very much. It's perfect for spring - and maybe fall as well. Because Blue Grass is so unusual, I would definitely advise trying before buying but give it time to play itself out (I mean, several hours, maybe even more than once). It changes constantly and keeps you wondering what will happen next. Sillage is very good so maybe less is more with this (I say this because I'm seeing so much hating going on) and it's pretty long lasting. I'm giving it a "love" for it's intriguing take on the "floral green" genre and uniqueness.

Blue Grass hasn't the glamour of other classics, It may be regarded as somewhere in between tomboyish and dowdy. I think this well-preserved version is wonderful to wear. It is one of those that has me convinced that I smelled it on a family member ages ago and its scent was imprinted deep in my memory bank. It elicits sensations of a distant past and an aching desire to relive it—knowing that it is impossible. Did my mother own this at some point? Did my grandmother? An aunt? A teacher? Maybe it was favorite teacher in elementary school, Mrs. Antaya, 2nd grade. I still remember her warmth and her grin. It is bottled up and bittersweet obsolescence. There's something about the dusty, distant aldehydes rolling over grey lavender and geranium, like some peculiar fougère. It is spicy and herbaceous, but not in a terribly exuberant manner, which also intrigues me. It reminds me of a sad Old Spice, a pensive Bay Rum, but with some blurred flower arrangement in the periphery. Now I encounter a powdery carnation ghost. Further on, there is a point where it smells like braided sweetgrass in damp air, a certain sweet-musty coumarin hay-like quality. As it winds down, a pale sarsaparilla spill, a woody licorice, a fancy potpourri, a shell soap to the nose. It makes Youth Dew feel thoroughly modern in comparison, and I love it for that.

Bought blindly because I was very curious to smell it and it's so inexpensive. I've been getting to know it for a couple of weeks now and it's old fashioned like nothing else I've smelled, and I simultaneously love it... and find it abhorrent. The opening smells like mint and urinal cakes! My husband said it smells like a very clean public toilet. It dries down to smell very herbal and floral; the lavender never really identifies itself for me but I can feel it's soapy woody purple-blue presence. Smelling close to skin on the dry down it does have that shaving foam sweetness similar to youth dew but the sillage is still the soapy purple-blue smell. It definitely suits it's name and it smells very of it's time. I wish I didn't have the association with urinal cakes. With regards to the horsey association; it does certainly have a grassy feel to it, but when I'm missing my equid friends I reach for the tack-room-and-cigarettes of Cabochard. I imagine a female ghost would wear this to her job as a professional haunter. Her favourite job is at the abandoned ww2 airfield but sometimes she stands in an upstairs window of an abandoned cottage. I live in an old house and I feel like someone here is very happy each time I wear this or spray it around which makes me feel happy too.

Aldehydes, Lavender and Spice is what this smells like on me. I absolutely love it. I normally avoid fragrances with spice in them is they can smell like incense on me, but this is gorgeous. It also has a slight fresh green smell in the beginning but that quickly fades. A gorgeous fragrance and at such an affordable price! I saw some things online that it got discontinued around 2021, my batch code says it was produced 2023. Small update - this fragrance has interestingly trained my nose to enjoy fragrances with spices in them! Blue Grass isn't overwhelmingly spicy of course but has made me be able to enjoy fragrances with spices, in particularly oriental fragrances. Another update - I LOVE this fragrance. I've been noticing the benzoin in this a lot more recently which gives a lovely soft sweetness to it. To me this fragrance is powdery, spicy, lightly floral (especially the lavender and carnation) and has a lovely dry earthiness. To me in a deranged way this feels like Chanel No5's sister who lives in the country side. I love this fragrance with heat and humidity, it wears beautifully on a hot summer day. This does have a strong vintage vibe to it but that's honestly why I love it so much.

I have no emotional attachment to this, I've never smelled it before and my mom would hate it lol. So here is my modern take on this: I LOVE it! It opens with an aldhyde, which I really dislike, at first I was like 'OH NO' But the headache inducing aldyhyde went away very quickly, maybe 3 or 4 min.? Then Blue Grass blossomed. On my skin it's spicy, cinnamon and clove (living my goth girl fantasy on that ha!) But then it became floral, with hints of spice and just a touch rose. The carnation was there. This just smells good. And it has LASTED, it's been 8 hours since I last sprayed it and I can still smell it like I just sprayed it 2 min. ago. They don't make'em like this anymore. One down side is just how much this projects. Don't wear this before a long car ride, unless you want to blast everyone. I wouldn't wear this in summer because every bee in my state would know where to find me. Early spring, jacket and shawl, early fall at night... that could be the modern sensibility, I've noticed the older perfumes sometimes smell like they can be used as fuel in a pinch, while newer perfumes are made to be inoffensive. The price is also excellent. I got a giant bottle for $20 on fragrance net.

First off, I think this and Je Reviens are both fragrances that you are either going to love or hate. They are very similar. I, myself think that Blue Grass is very unique and vintage and lovely. It starts off to me like the feeling of standing in a hayfield just after a rain. If you live on the great plains like me, that's a wonderful place to be. I get the combination of aldehydes, lavender, and carnation. This stays around for about 30 minutes or so. Then the lovely spices, benzoin, sandalwood, tonka and classic florals make an entrance that soften the initial blast at the beginning. At this point, it transforms into a beautiful vintage powdery, soft, fluffy feathery scent. In my opinion, it wears much like an Annick Goutal, particularly Heure Exquise. Not that they smell the same, they just go on and transform the same to me. Yes, I am with everyone on this one, the drydown is the best phase of this perfume. Not everyone is going to love this, but you really do have to wait and give it a chance. As with any perfume, I am only interested in what is inside, and I find it to be a very unique, multifaceted, and enduring perfume.

I recently tried this for the first time. I had never been interested because I thought it would be astringent and nose burning. What a delightful surprise ! I adore this scent and it will be perfect for a HOT summer day here in Alabama , It is very clean and refreshing and feminine . Don’t let the price or age of the scent fool you . This is lovely . The sample I have is not heavy. It is a soft green floral with some lavender - feels like a clean garden scent . I can’t wait to spray it after a working in my garden on a how summer day . ( I also recently tried Ciara for the first time and figured it would smell cheap since it is sold at Wal Mart . I read reviews and purchased the 100% formula and can’t believe Ciara does not cost $100 . It is a well crafted orientation with oomph and lasting power. Almost addictive ! ) It is a joy to find a long lasting scent that performs and does not cost a day’s wages . Blue grass is a really pretty scent!

I don't know if it's because I'm smelling Sun and Nature that I love this one, Aldehydes make me happy! I don't care that's old fashioned either. Technology change, fashion always come back, especially in fast pacing world were we want always new things and stuff just get rebranded. PLUS i LIKE WHAT i LIKE, that's my philosophy! The bottle has a problem with the cap, I don't know if it's a bad batch(I've seen several comments about it) In my view it's not worth to pay good money for it, Arpège and Youth Dew have similar scent, bottles are better...still they don't have big production costs. As a longevity I haven't done a proper comparison but they do seem all pretty long lasting. I'm gonna be a good girl and not buy it anymore until I'm at the end of the 3rd bottle(that probably will be Youth Dew since it's the most precious)

Omg amazing and sooo affordable! I want enough people to keep buying this so they never stop making it but don't want everyone else to smell this exquisite! Powder, musk, spice, warmth, floral, sweet but not sickly at all. Vintage smelling for sure but in the nicest way! Not 'old smelling' but classy. Keep getting warm comforting wafts as I move around. Watch the review by Super Dacob on YouTube, his description is perfect. I'm addicted to doing his method of warming the smell on my wrist by breathing out on to it first to warm the molecules up, then smelling it's wonderful depth. Can't believe I only just found this one. Been wearing it more than my No. 5 and for under £10 for 100ml. Good blind buy if you love No. 5 and Arpege.

This was bought for me as my first grown-up perfume when I was 15 years old. 30 (oh dear) years later, and I still have a bottle. I'm one of the seemingly few that really love this. I love it for being instantly recognisable, for good or ill, there's nothing else like it. The coldness it retains to it's core is refreshing, almost but not quite clinical, and because of that, oddly, reassuringly..staunch. You can count on this to be what it is, if that makes sense. I like it when I'm a bit stressed, I find it calming and dependable and stabilizing..it has never been a "signature" or a deep obsession for me, but it has been a lifetime constant. I think that makes it pretty special in its own right, and I will never be without it.

I recently bought a bottle of Blue Grass, and initially, I didn't like it. I'm used to warmer, sweeter fragrances, and Blue Grass is definitely cooler and dryer. After wearing a couple of times, though, it's grown on me. It strikes me as being very soapy with a big burst of aldehydes and lavender and hints of geranium and lily plus musk and vetiver in the background. It seems like a simple fragrance on the surface, but it's actually more complex than first appearances would suggest. There is a soft powdery quality to it that gives this new bottle, and I'm sure reformulated version, a vintage vibe. However, it also seems modern in that it's very clean smelling. It's one of those rare fragrances you could wear your whole life.

My mom's signature 90s scent. Brings back memories of how she was getting my sister and me ready for kindergarden. Like a warm hug in autumn. It was a very strong scent in the 90s altough it must have been reformulated since 1936 anyway. Still you can't compare the amber colored liquid to the light golden juice from today. My mom still has the original 90s bottle and a newer version from a few years ago. There is an obvious difference in strength. The older bottle has a certain pissy opening, has depth and is incredibly strong. The recent one is a reminder of what it used to be, is lighter and fresher. If you feel nostalgic the newer version will do. But once you smell the original you'll know what you're missing.

I didn't know this Blue Grass existed. 1940s vintage. I get wet grass and water and an overall mint herbal tone, must be the vetiver. Dry down is dry like a fine wine. Not as sweet and girly as some of the fragrances of today. The spices are subtle. I also get a sense of leather or something like conditioner you would rub on leather to clean it. A really nice balanced fragrance, not one ingredient trying to compete with the other. Reminds me a little bit of Ralph Lauren's Safari for women, but not as loud and overpowering. Blue Grass is clean, fresh, and youthful. It is no old-lady perfume. Seriously. Longevity for me was about 6 hours. Very affordable. Pleased with my blind buy.

My youngest daughter told me I smell like I've been blowing bubbles when I wear Blue Grass, and I completely understand what she means. It does have a 'bubble' facet. I have since imagined this is what Glinda, the good witch of Oz, must smell like. Blue Grass is very uplifting and magical. It's great bang for your buck, plus she packs a punch, so be careful not to overspray. I don't think it smells dated considering how long ago she was released, just clean and powdery. Bubbly fresh! Side note: Layers beautifully with Not A Perfume by Juliette Has A Gun. I swear to God I've had more compliments today, even from my 17-year-old daughter who rarely if ever comments on my perfumes.

I rememeber seeing this when growing up but never knowing what it smelt like. I only recently tried it on and wanted to buy it straight away. I'm not sure what's in it, maybe lily, but it's very clean, comforting and feel good. Like the Fresh clean feeling after a shower or freshly washed linen. Or as somebody else said, like standing in a hayfield after the rain. It gives me a boost to start the day, so I would call it a day time fragrance. I wouldn't say it's very exciting, but I like to wear different fragrances for different moods. I'm not sure why people call old classic perfumes old fashioned, but then rave about old ones like No 5 that have had lots of recent publicity.