Grass

My first review here, so I’ll try to do this justice. This is a lovely green scent. When first applied, you definitely get the “someone just mowed the lawn” smell you get when you open the windows on a warm spring or summer day. In fact, its made me sneeze a bit when I first put it on. That does not last long though. After only a few moments, it softens to something more like the scent that surrounds you as you lie in the soft grass of your yard, or a field, or a meadow... the sun is warm, and the grass is cool against your skin. It has just a bit of a sweetness, like an “almost hay” smell, but not musty, not hay that’s already been cut and dried, but tall, tall grasses that are just about ready to become hay. After about an hour, you’re left with a hint of the above. Just enough for you to personally smell it on yourself, but not enough for it to project that scent unless someone is standing and whispering in your ear. I love this fragrance – definitely a unisex – I can see this being worn by anyone, really. I wish it had better staying power, and a bit more drift. Wish it traveled a bit further from my skin. I even put a bit of spray on my clothing to see if I could increase the longevity and – it might have, but not by much. Its been about 1.5 hours since I applied it last and I can barely smell it. Maybe I’ve gone nose blind but... I think its just that *soft*. I’m thinking I want to layer this with some Demeter Lilac or even Dirt. I’ll need to try that another day though, I want to devote this day to this scent all on its own. Hopefully in the end, I don’t love it *that* much, or I find something I love a bit more, since its discontinued and I bought a partly used bottle off ebay just to give it a try. It’s a bit expensive for something that isn’t very long lasting and stays so close to the skin. But, I may just have to bite the bullet because it is that lovely!

I recently was at a Gap outlet with my 13 year old daughter and going through the checkout line I spotted it. Gap Grass! I almost shrieked I was so happy and surprised and my daughter nearly died of embarrassment at my giddiness. I picked up bottle took a sniff just of the atomizer and swooned! Plunked down the money for it without even a second thought. After leaving the store, I started to explain my excitement to my daughter. How this was the scent of my very late teens/early 20’s. It was the mid 90’s and life just felt so full of potential. This scent was both nostalgia for my childhood and forward looking to my future at the same time. With its scent of freshly mown grass while playing outside all summer long and having adventures in my neighborhood and not coming home till the street lights came on, in my early 20s I already missed those innocent days and the nostalgia was powerful. But it’s crisp, bright freshness also gave me a feeling of anything possible for my future. It was just so good! When my daughter and I left that outlet , I whipped open the bottle and sprayed myself right there (it was an open air mall) we both swooned! She loved the scent too. Now for the sad part... within 30 minutes of the dry down, this changed. For the worse. No more fresh cut grass. Now it was some woody, floral not at all fresh scent. I really wanted to cry. I returned it immediately. I went home that day looking on eBay for a vintage 90’s bottle. Cried some more tears at how expensive it is. They always say “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone “. Oh so true.

I wish I could return and give my 13 year old self this beautiful fragrance. It was after days camping at a concert festival in blazing hot Eastern Washington (State), on the way home...late July 2003. This was at an outlet mall, my family and my best friend stopped to shop. We had just spent 4 days in the literal desert. I recall how this smelled in my mind (this is a memory snippet, not a true review)...but the situation couldn't have been more striking. It was likely partially due to the experience of heat, dryness and camping (also concerts, sweaty bodies, greasy food...) but this was the freshest, cleanest, most wholesome scent to ever assail my nose. Wet grass, and yet, freshly mowed. Ozonic, aquatic, dripping wet clover sparkling with dew. Clean laundry, windy crisp air, and sunlight. I mean....it was a fragrance *moment*. But my friend?...She exclaimed - "Oh ewwww!!! It smells like you stepped in mud!" I was so embarrassed for loving this, I quickly sniffed it again and said something like - 'Oh yeah, it smells so gross...' I had no self-esteem at the time, I was an idiot kid. I wish I had stuck up for my taste and bought this when I had the chance. I've forgotten about it for years. This was surely excellent, and my impression of it certainly was, but the memory fills me with a pang of regret.

The summer of 1998 I think it was, dropping into Gap Paris after marauding Virgin Records. I grabbed a tin of Grass at the counter before we ventured out to Notre Dame, a small dab of the inexpensive gel on my chest, adding to the late afternoon vibes. Then walking in the rare air of the cathedral it suddenly came alive, projecting it’s fresh and urgent scent, enveloping me in a fragrance I’ve not experienced before or after. The smell of summer ‘98 on it’s way. Back home and a year later, the gel started to turn and I knew I’d never get it again. Gap wasn’t in the UK yet and so only another trip to France would get me closer to that experience again. Years have passed and I’m made up that this page exists at all, it has a fanbase, and not for no reason. It must be an accidental classic - a multinational dip into fragrances that actually had critical success, if only they’d listen. I’m here if that ozonise blast of comforting grass, lemon and fresh air ever materialises again, like something freshly picked from the Tuileries itself... a work of art.

I have a bottle of the new 2020 version as well as one from the early 2010's and compared them. To tell them apart: the new 2020 bottle is short and rounded at the top like a dome with a small silver cap. The 2010's bottle is tall and perfectly cylindrical, like a tube, with a clear plastic cap. I sprayed the 2020 on one wrist and the 2010's on another and compared. At first I was convinced the 2020 was no good because I didn't get a huge hit of that grassy note right away - the one that lives in my scent memory and is almost green-fruity like a green banana (to my nose anyway). But as I've used the 2020 more, the original Grass fragrance does come through, and I like it more and more. So if you're looking at buying one of the new 2020 bottles on eBay, or the 2010 bottle I say go for it! They are both true to the original.

Oh those memories of the mid-late 90's... :D I remember traveling to the USA in 1995 and finding this gemstone, I bought a small sample. The selection of perfumes wasn't that big in Eastern Europe that time, no internet and online shops yet. The next year my sister bought me a 100 ml bottle in London, and it became my summer signature scent. (My winter scent was Sun Moon Stars) I loved this perfume so much! I still have the bottle with a little remnant in it... The prefume itself has gone off unfortunately. This is pure GRASS as the name says, with some apple and green notes.

I have the 2020 style bottle of this. It doesn’t quite smell like I remember from the 90’s, but close. Or maybe I just don’t remember it that well or that my sense of smell is more refined now. It still has that grassy, fresh, cucumbery opening I remember but at the heart I smell more clean/soapy type notes than I recall before it fades into a light musk. It’s an EDT so it isn’t going to last all day, but I actually get about 3 hours or so good wear out of it before it becomes a barely there skin scent, but it’s still a great fresh light spring/summer clean scent

This stuff is amazing. One of a kind. Nothing ive smelled like it. Sweet, grassy, like fresh cut grass and sugar water, cucumber, crisp apple slices, and fresh picked strawberries. Really captures the 90s teenager scent. They sold these in small bottles back then for 7 or 8$, when I was buying carpenter shorts and long sleeve raglans at GAP, circa 1993, along with Heaven and Dream. Beware of jovan grass oil, which is equally as rare and expensive, but it smells awful, musky, gross, nothing like this stuff.. the best.

This is maybe my all-time favorite perfume. That probably sounds insane, but it's just so unbelievably clean, fresh, summery--- NOTHING else smells like this. I definitely get the mowed lawn but there's other things happening to support it and add to the complexity. I still have my original bottle from the 90s, it's half full, I will never ever ever get rid of it. Will be my life's quest to find more scents in this vein. Just utterly, hopelessly in love with this FOR 30 YEARS.

One of the few for me that lives on the good side of 90s nostalgia. Was a bit shocking at the time and every time smelling it, but all of the cool counter-culture activist yet studious people I wanted to be like seemed to smell like this. I have been reminded of a lot of 90s smells recently so it made me want to seek out a good one. Maybe one day we will get the original back so we can revisit and reawaken the best of those times.

If you love Leila Lou by Rosie Jane, the fresh cut grass scent is 1:1. I smell a more floral mid note like Jasmine after the initial whiff of grass. Save yourself the money and get this instead of Leila Lou! It’s nearly 1/3 the price and you get much more. It smells like what you should wear with a white tee and jeans after a fresh shower on a late spring evening! So effortless and chic.

The new formulation is NOTHING like the Gap Grass of the 90's. This is watered down, laundry detergent blah and boring. Don't waste your money. I was in love with the original Gap Grass in the metal travel bottle. The crisp, sweet apple, freshly cut grass and a hint of cucumber. Perfection! Bring back the old formulation!!!!!

The review under mine is exact and on point Banana and grass So realistic So refreshing Although bad in performance But the price to quality ratio is incredible So sad to see this go I found a bottle for a bargain So happy to own one even more f I won’t be able to wear it outside just after a shower would be ideal

Oh please, come back again, please! This delicious fragrance is nothing compare to others expensives in luxury bottles... This is a surprise, a fresh wind in the mountain grass in spring. But it is discontinued... Why? I loved this years ago, and now keep a little amount in the old glass for my doughter, someday.

This was my signature scent in HS. I can no longer find it anywhere. If I could purchase a truck load of this fragnace and hoard it I would. Sadly, that is not the case. It reminds me of wet grass and evocative of all everything I loved growing up.

Came back to say this: If you are missing Gap Grass, try Snif Golden Ticket (not on Fragrantica atm)! The first hour smells very much like Gap Grass with tea and like what the cool kids on the college campus would smell like. :-)

I loved The original ‘grass’ and would purchase it in a heartbeat if they brought it back, formula unchanged. It literally smelled like fresh cut grass. Very crisp, green, a bit citrusy. Loved it

Had this fragrance years ago and would love to own a bottle once more - the smell of freshly-cut grass and a hint of banana was an absolute delight.

I love this so much. Its so green and grassy but still sweet without being cloying. Soothing and fresh. Every perfume I love is discontinued!! :(

Fresh, unique. Scent of fresh cut grass with soft musk. I dont understand how they still sell many of the Gap scents except this one.