Blue Waltz

Blue Waltz is relatively new to me, but I know the heart-shaped bottle well. I've seen old bottles in just about every antique store I've visited. About a year ago I found out it's still in production, so I knew I had to try it! I couldn't find it at a drugstore near me, so my bottle comes from Amazon. I decanted the perfume into a spray-bottle, and I recommend everyone do the same. When you spray it, you get to experience the opening in its entirety. It smells lovely. A hint of citrus, aldehydes, and iris powder. The powdery iris mingles with the carnation and rose beautifully. The base is soft and sweet with benzoin, the dry, powdery type of vanilla, and some tonka. Charming, soft, very pleasant. It's one of those nostalgic perfumes that will remind you of bath oil, baby powder, and the scent of your mother's makeup. I spritz it as a relaxing perfume before I fall asleep. Blue Waltz has been around in some form since the 1920s, and that was a time before fragrances were strictly marketed to one sex or the other. Originally a unisex fougere with soft florals, but today it's sold as a feminine. It's a more subtle scent with moderate longevity, about 5 hours. Definitely worth $5.00 if you like vintages, it's a very good one! On the comparisons to other perfumes: -I think Blue Waltz is more closely related to L'Heure Bleue than Shalimar. If you can imagine a simpler, lighter version of L'Heure Bleue, that's a good idea of what to expect from it. -Modern Baby Soft is linear baby powder in liquid spray form. It has a lot more emphasis on the snowy aldehydes and soapy clean musks. Blue Waltz is more complex, it has more florals and a deeper base with stronger emphasis on amber, vanilla, tonka.

Soft, smooth and powdery perfumes usually don't appeal to me, and yet BW is utterly delicious. After reading an article about this vintage perfume I discovered a BW mini in my collection. For some reason I'd never even opened it ... In any case, the stuff inside the heart shaped bottle with the molded blue cap is lovely: warm, spicy and a little sweet. The scent reminds me of the prettiest face powder in the world, satiny and smooth and just devastatingly pretty! Sillage and lasting power are pretty good, the perfume lingers for a long time but never gets dusty/chokey like some powder frags do. BW is a venerable cheapie vintage, a bottle won't break the bank. Hopefully more people will rediscover this wonderful fragrance, it deserves to become popular again.

Spicy, powdery-sweet, even a little incensey, "Blue Waltz" is one of those simple little perfumes that feels cozy and like a general idea of what perfume should smell like (rose-jasmine-powder-citronella). At one point in recent months, I had a drawer full of these. Be careful with the cap, don't put it on too tightly or you'll break it but otherwise, there's something so satisfying about dabbing on a scent from this heart-shaped bottle. It fits in the palm of your hand. The overall feeling of this scent is slightly humid baby powder with a fresh overlay of sweet citronella and to me, it feels very 1950's in spirit: Perfectly primped and feminine.

This was the first perfume I bought for myself and I got it at the Vermont Country Store. Fun, beautiful fragrance with great memories attached to it. Lovely scent for the price and the packaging really ties it all together.

Very nice mix of baby powder and sexy, spicy notes. Blends well with natural body heat and perspiration as the day goes on. Great for cold weather and a lovely vanity bottle.