Azurée

I just received 2 bottles of EL Azuree via an online order direct from Estee Lauder. I bought it based on description, as I love and adore all EL frags so far, and anything lemony I adore. After letting it settle and come to temperature (it is -7 celcius here in Canada today) I can honestly say that I am 100% in love with this fragrance, and will sell off my collection of other lemony/green frags because I have finally found my Holy Grail of spring/summer perfume! the first few minutes after spraying are quite lemony but the background is green and earthy, and starts to shine through within 10 minutes or so. At the 1 hour mark, I find it more balanced and the green and earthiness come out. It is also becoming richer and fuller, slightly floral and quite delicious! I will spray some on my husband, as he is always 2 degrees warmer than me, and I know he will be loving it and using it, so I have a separate bottle just for him. I wanted to buy it now while it is still available in the Classics collection for a good price $84 cdn, because I learned here on Frangrantica that EL is re-releasing this and others as "Legacy Collection" with a huge triple price markup and a reformulation again, which, I dont want, my bottles are batched at 2023 code, and this mossy lemony chypre is absolutely what I have been seeking my whole life! I tried O de Lancome, too lime/harsh and masculine for me, and JL Scherrer, the edp is so synthetic and causes me to sneeze for 5 minutes, Paloma P, not green enough but good, (husband finds it too floral, I find it gets pissy on me if oversprayed.) Cabochard now has no depth too cold, so disappointed with that. I was getting by with Chanel 19 edt since 1978 as a young Miss, but now poor longevity and high price, plus hard to get and I dont like the poudre version with the fake musk. I read the reviews for Azuree here, and put in an order. Can't wait to get a couple more back-ups before they replace it with the Legacy version, as this will be my Spring/summer fragrance from now on! Thank you all fellow Frangrantica reviewers, I feel complete!

I haven't smelled the original Azurée, but this 2019 version is a truly lovely scent in its own right. A mossy, leathery chypre, it is old-fashioned in style (in the very best way). I adore a good chypre, and while I cite Knowing and Private Collection as the definitive Estée Lauder chypres, I can now add Azurée to this line-up. Azurée is a warm yet dark chypre, bringing to mind dappled shade under a tree in summer. Its dark leathery base and bitter herbal notes are offset by bright, fresh fruity notes, the olfactory equivalent to sunlight diffusing through shadows. Azurée opens with bright citrus, followed closely by aromatic basil, a mild fresh start to the herbal accord that permeate this scent. I get something akin to melon too, aquatic and slightly sweeter. The witchy artemisia creeps in, typically bitter and green. The leather emerges here, akin to a worn vintage leather jacket, soft and non-animalic. Alongside the bitter herbs, it very much reminds me of Grès Cabochard, but is more refined. Some powdery florals balance it out, adding some mellow sweetness to temper the artemisia-leather accord. The mossy base develops seamlessly in the background, giving body to the chypre. A lovely rendering of oakmoss is present, and a cloud of patchouli adds earthiness. It becomes softly woody and musky as it dries down, with grassy vetiver in particular evident here. It fades to a musky, mossy skin scent with leather lingering until final fade. Sillage is strong and longevity is long-lasting. It is unisex in the manner of old-school chypres, and is transeasonal - autumnal in particular. Well-blended, well-composed and beautifully-balanced, I have fallen in love. Estée Lauder do a great job of staying true to their original formulas, and keeping high-quality perfume affordable. I hope this won't be discontinued in favour of Frédéric Malle's revisited version (significantly higher in price), but I might get a bottle just in case while I can. Underrated excellence. 5/5.

Azurée strikes me as a distinctly European fragrance, despite its New World provenance. Lauder’s oeuvre is filled with cheerful and openly friendly (“American”) scents like White Linen and Beyond Paradise; Azurée doesn’t aim to please so easily. It’s one of those rare perfumes that feels like it has its own personality and temperament, indifferent to the whims of its wearer. It’s bold and unique in a sea of sameness; there’s certainly nothing else like it on the mainstream fragrance counter, unless you include the current Cabochard - all bones, no flesh - or Lauder’s own Aramis. A similarly mouth-puckering leather chypre, Aramis admittedly feels stark in comparison to the more lush Azurée, but the family resemblance is undeniable. With its robust character, earthy depth, and aversion to pleasing the crowd, Azurée feels like fragrance as body armor. I wear it when I want to feel confident and devil-may-care, or when I just need inspiration to pull myself together and get things done. (I don’t know if Katherine Hepburn ever wore Azurée, but it strikes me as something right up her alley.) It’s a “backup bottle” scent, to me - both affordable and the kind of proper retro perfume that feels like the result of a glitch in the matrix. How can this kind of thing exist in 2022? If you love a dry chypre that smells like a chypre should, Azurée is a must. [Edit: Despite its potency - or perhaps because of it - this is one of those chypres that arguably suits warm weather better than cold. The heat dissolves some of oakmoss’s inherent mustiness, leaving behind a sharp, sun-baked bitterness that cuts right though a doggy summer day. The citruses and florals have more bounce, and the rich leathery drydown feels even sultrier, while remaining crisp and breathable. Don’t write this one off before you experiment with it in different climates.]

A sweet little chypre. I'm still not sure what sunlight is supposed to smell like, exactly, but this does smell like the great outdoors. I get a lot of moss and vetiver, with a little brightness from the opening citrus and basil. The rose and jasmine seem to come out more during the drydown, but they never dominate over the sweet grassy and mossy accords. Overall, Azurée is in the same general family as EL's Private Collection, vintage Miss Dior, Miss Balmain, Clinique's Aromatics Elixir, and Avon's Unforgettable. Azurée smells to me like sweet hay, clover, moss, grass, and some unobtrusive but recognizable rose and jasmine. I find this crisp and pretty, in a slightly wild way. It doesn't smell remotely azure to me (except maybe in a vaguely Mallarmé way); to me it smells more like shades of green and gold, with some chestnut and bark-brown here and there. This is the perfume you should wear if have elected to roll around in a fallow field or a hayloft with a sexy day laborer. But it also works just fine if you're just sitting in your office, in November, on a cold but sunny day, and you're thinking wistfully about the Côte d'Azur. Update: Even though the leather isn't listed as a note anymore, I can still smell it, as a soft suede accord blending with the mosses. This might be a reformulation and perhaps a bit of a compromise of Ms. Lauder's austere original, but make no mistake: this is still very recognizably Azurée. I'm sure the oakmoss notes are synthetic, but they smell every bit as convincing to me as their now-illegal compounds in my vintage chypres (EL PC, Avon's Unforgettable).

I blind bought this latest version of Azuree last year, and it is probably the bitterest green in my collection. I didn't appreciate it until today as I am hunkered down in cool air conditioning, hiding from our almost unliveable heat and humidity in the 2020 Australian summer. With the shutters closed to keep out the heat and sun, I feel as though I am living like a mole, deep underground, surrounded by Moses and lichens, earth and damp - It has wormwood as a note after all! Azuree fits my mood to be sequestered in a comfortable place inside, but still in touch with nature. This version of Azuree has absolutely nothing to do with the description of the original by Mrs Lauder as quoted in the Fragrantica notes above (and indeed is still being used on the EL official site to describe this 2019 Azuree - they really need to have a word with their marketing department). Maybe in the late 60's Azuree smelled of the Mediterranean, and was a sunny fragrance. Take a look for yourself at the notes here in the 2019 version. Oak moss (or whatever is used these days to recreate it) is big, dark and dank here, the florals fairly subsumed by the herbals and woods, and aldehydes are completely gone. This is unquestionably a bitter herbal green and leans more towards the Aromatic Woody family I think. So, in short, don't blind buy this if you believe the official description of this Azuree, and want a sunny fragrance, but if you love bitter woody green fragrances, or something of the Aromatics Elixir ilk, do give the latest Azuree a sniff. it is brilliant, heady stuff.

This is so nice, I can smell it in my bedroom three hours after spraying it. The top citrus notes in this reformulation smells very similar to a lime fragrance oil that I used too use for candle making. It's a really comforting type of citrus, (not a screechy citrus) so nostalgic... This is one of the best chypres currently on the market I wonder what would happen if I mixed this with the 2019 reformulation of Cabochard edp. I bet that would be interesting. Maybe the aldehydes from Cabochard will pump it up a notch. We'll see!! EDIT- I was sitting in the living room when my best friend walked into her kitchen from the outdoors, and she said she could immediately smell me when she came in, and she was a good 15 to 20 feet away from me. I will forever have this in my collection. EDIT EDIT- I wore this in 100°F sunblazing weather at the pride festival, and I could still smell it when I got home. This is the only chypre I own that sticks too my skin in the extreme heat. I think this would work very well in almost any climate type.

I have a sample from the new bottle and from what I can smell, the notes are faithful to the original. Not that abbreviation above. I didn't have the pleasure of trying it sooner, these oldies are getting harder to find every day. At least they are still in production. Azuree is still quite the powerhouse, probably tamer and flatter than before. The real thing would probably blow my mind... I see it as more flamboyant, sunny version of the darker, broody even, Cabochard. Cabochard is like a businesswoman or a supermodel that is to busy to smile, appears cold and inaccessible while Azuree is her younger sister with girl next door charm. Azuree is more relaxed, less demanding but still cut from the same cloth. Great posture and substance. I can't believe this was created as a vacation perfume. Apparently, wearing girdles was still quite common at the time. And I can only imagine what the body care was like. Fabulous.

I've been looking for Azuree for months and I finally found one in the new 2019 release formulation. Superb! A dry, bitter, green chypre clearly belonging to the charmed circle of famous kick-ass legends - Cabochard, Bandit, de Scherrer, Silences - all of which I love. They're all a bit different from each other but they have the same effect on me. My lungs fill with sharp, green, faintly floral green and I am instantly in amongst the whispering verdure of wild nature, delighting in dappled light and velvety moss and silvery lichen on big sweeping branches with birds and insects and burgeoning life surrounding me. Azuree brings me closer to my animalic, sensory core and gives me a break from the celebral, disconnected aspects of e-life. It's such a pleasure to breathe this stuff in and feel myself relax. A treasure in a bottle. Haiku of the day the scent of nature green velvet moss and lichen sensory relief

I first smelled this scent years ago when it was commonly sold in the bottle with the octagonal collar and thought it smelled great, but I recently bought the scent in this new style bottle. I am happy to report that it's still spectacular! A unisex leather/oakmoss scent, the box suggests that it has honest-to-goodness real evernia prunastri (oakmoss) in it - and don't it smell great! Scrubby, leathery and rich. It smells like a real perfume from a better era; I don't know how to state it other than that. Yes, there is some citrus at the very beginning, but it dries away quickly. The House of Lauder has done a commendable job of maintaining this scent. The more I smell it on me, the more I like it. And boy, does it last! Great stuff! ---------------- Update six months later: This stuff is absolutely wonderful. Oakmoss, lovely, lovely oakmoss. Real oakmoss. I think I like it more than ever.

My Azurée arrived today. A full bottle blind buy based on reviews here. People ask, how is this Côte d'Azur at all? Oh, but it is. Have patience in the first 30 min, while it seems to dangerously veer into Youth Dew country (oh, no!). And then, little by little the smoky, camphorous curtain lifts and you find yourself standing on gorse, broom and heather covered rocky hill. The sun is hot on your back but the air is fresh and arid. The iodine and salt in it tell you that bright blue sea is not far, just over the hilltop. It's a coastal cousin of Farouch. And that makes me happy. One tiny spray on the wrist lasts on me some 4 hours. P.S. Oh, and that iodine scent, that's Spanish lavender, cantueso, typical of any Mediterranean hill and mountain https://theoriginalgarden.com/es/p/plantas/flores/flores-vivaces/lavandula-stoechas-cantueso

wWOWw! This fragrance is absolutely STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL! Man? Estee Lauder sure does make some amazing Chypres!! My all time favorite Knowing, Lauder for Men and now this Azuree??! Fantastic! Now, Azuree remimds me of an Elevated, rou.der, smoother and more potent Grès by Cabochard, but again, on a whole other level! Where Grès is more leathery/smokey, Azuree is greener with a more prominent Oak.oss note. The Patchouly is that dense but CLEAN Patchouli like in Knowing. Perfectly Unisex and as a man, I wear both Knowing and will also be wearing Azuree with ZERO problems. Qnyhow, if ya'll like your classic Chypress, man or woman, you MUST get Azuree in your collections! A 9 outta 10, Green, super long lasting, dense yet clean Chypre! STELLAR!

One of my favorite fragrances! A gorgeous chypre classic. This earthy, woody scent is worth its weight in gold. Azurée is a timeless fragrance. One whiff of the oakmoss, vetiver, amber, patchouli, and basil and you're transported to the Côte d'Azur. With top notes of Basil, Jasmine, and Citrus, middle notes of Vetiver, and Rose, and base notes of Patchouli, Oakmoss, and Amber, you get a "sunny", earthy feel. It's a little like crossing Guerlain's Aqua Allegoria Mandarine Basilic with Youth Dew. It's good to keep one on your dressing table for days when you need a little sunshine in a bottle. :) Azurée by Estee Lauder is a timeless, gorgeous fragrance, A decent substitute is Cabochard by Gres.

Sad, how the only "acceptable" scent profile for women these days seems to be sickeningly sweet fruitchuli or some sort of dessert. Anything else is deemed masculine and men want to take over it. We mustn't accept that. Girls, don't let male opinions keep you from experiencing and owning gorgeous aromatic scents like Azuree, that were created FOR women BY women. There's no need to diminish ourselves or limit our taste to only pink and sweet things. edit. I wrote this as a reply to a comment that has now been removed. It said that this is very much a masculine scent and that the writer basically can't imagine a woman pulling it off. Just mentioning this so you can put my writing into context.

For me, Azuree is just what the doctor ordered. Sunny, green, earthy and aromatic. Not too sweet, not too tangy. I can simply inhale it and feel invigorated! But there's more than that, some rather unusual qualities. One can smell the citrus trees and the earth beneath them, some smoke and a hint of chlorine from a swimming pool. Some kind of cleaning product to wash floors with...fresh laundry hanging on the line. Where is this place? Smells like a beautiful vacation.

The newer formulation is unsurprisingly lighter but takes no prisoners in its presentation of mossy woods and leather. Azurée is a pungent elixir that takes you on a journey. I live by the Mediterranean and can see the inspiration for Azurée; the citrus and bergamot make it difficult to miss. But it’s the oakmoss and patch that catapult it to another dimension that is darker and more introspective than the sea and sand vibe.

Weirdly I get compliments from men when I wear this?! From blokes in their 60s to ones in their 20s which I find surprising. It reminds me of cabochard but less hard leather and a bit greener. I'm not sure its what I think of as Mediterranean but I love it and I'm so glad fragrances like this are still around and still strong, Estee Lauder is a real favourite for this and still great quality!

I am not a big fan of chypre and not a big fan of "vintage" smelling perfumes. Having said that, i have to admit i fell in love with Azuree. It's gorgeous, it's the definition of chypre for me: dry(as opposed to sweet), intoxicating, bold, elegant. And the longevity is enormous! Two sprays and a whole day in the city in hot weather and i could smell it all the time. This is a power scent.

RICH, Deep, Green , Earthy and Magicalx . Absolutely in Love😍, it make me feel i’m in my beloved country Spain in summer time. Smells like home. One spray and last ages on you, and on your clothes. I’d like to try the vintage one but i’m sure still smells the same. Masterpiece please don’t discontinue this treasure 😍

2024 - this is every bit as good as the original Azuree I've had in the past. It lasts for ever - and gets more comments than any other perfume I've used. It is absolute magic. Please Estee Lauder, don't discontinue this masterpiece.

Imádom! Tölgymoha, kis citrus, föld, rózsa (alig), borostyán... Tartós, lengedez egész nap. Minden évszakban megállja a helyét, de az őszi napsugár még tudja fokozni a hatást!