Something Blue

Fresh Cut Flowers... This has a fashion jewellery ring under the blue cap. Signed by perfumers Ann Gottlieb (5th Avenue Elizabeth Arden) & Frank Voelkl (Santal 33 Le Labo), this beauty opens with a citrus-y floral burst with crunchy green touches, that deepens into a white floral heart with sweet, soapy & powdery touches, resting on a musky amber-woody base. Overall I get a wearable fresh floral bouquet, that's multi-faceted and well blended, with floral, white-floral, yellow-floral, citrus, sweet, musky & faint crunchy-green touches. Overall: beautiful classic floral scent profile and average or slightly above average performance for a light summer wearing experience. It's a love for me. Enjoy! Contrast to French Lime Blossom Jo Malone London: These are different, but there are similarities with lime blossom. FLB has a more forward honey-beeswax quality. French Lime Blossom has a lighter performance. Contrast to Forever Alfred Sung: These are different, but there may be some similarities with green & yellow florals and narcissus. The openings are different, but they get more similar both as they dry down and as they age in the bottle and the woody accords come more forward. Roughly equivalent performance. Contrast to Jasmine Oscar de la Renta: These are different, but I was instantly reminded of Something Blue when testing Jasmine Oscar de la Renta. The openings are similar, but Jasmine develops a more forward jasmine over time. Roughly equivalent performance. Update 07/27/24: Sprayed this on the back of my hand this morning. The performance (especially projection) has gotten a lot stronger, and it's really shining in the warm weather. Has a nice "fresh-cut-flowers" vibe for spring-summer daytime wear, with a fresh-spicy accord in the background. This assembles a lot of accords that give it a fresher & more realistic floral bouquet vibe. So classic; still a love.

I blind-bought this purely for the lid of the bottle. I have a soft spot for the Dominican Republic and I love larimar. Then I spritzed the scent. WOW. It is so fresh and clean, green and sparkling. As I inhaled I realised it is pretty much exactly the same as another perfume that I had and loved...but which one?? Then it came to me. Something Blue is basically Escada's Lily Chic, now discontinued and extremely hard to get unless you are prepared to pay dearly for it. Now I don't have to. I have Something Blue to fill the fresh, green void left by Lily Chic. As it begins to dry down it has a slight musk to it, but still the exact scent I missed so much but...underlined, if you like, with the stabalising musk. I can pick out lime, litchi and vanilla, with the powder giving the slight musk. I must stress that it is very slight musk. Will see how a longer dry down goes. I have to say that I don't think this is a wedding scent. At least not a traditional wedding scent, I.e. a church-and-hotel / hotel civil ceremony style wedding. It would be perfect for an outdoorsy wedding in a rustic barn, or on a beach.* If this scent had been around when I got married, it would have been my wedding day scent (Dominican Republic beach wedding). This is a classy scent, I don't find it soft, it is a very bold perfume, but perfectly blended and strong in a good way. It lifts my spirits. *IMO, of course. It's your wedding, wear what you like, and it will be perfect :) Edit: it doesn't get any muskier, so I love it even more. After sleeping in it it had faded by morning to a simple vanilla, but that's fine as I don't care if my perfumes last through the night when I'm not awake to smell them!

Top: linden blossom, neroli, bergamot and mandarin Mid: stephanotis, lily of the valley, narcisse, litchi base: musk, vanilla, ambrette seed, ambergris and warm cashmere wood 7/18/19 - I only know a few of those scent notes listed so I’m no help telling you that I can smell exact notes. All I can share is that this is so beautiful: clean and floral. I imagine Alice in Wonderland would have smelled like this as she experienced the fresh garden landscape around her on a sunny day, hair blowing in the wind and not a care in the world. I can see how this would be chosen as a bride’s scent as well. It’s one of those that’s a good pick as a teen’s first try too because it’s all white florals while skipping the typical vanilla berry syrup crap that is marketed to that age. This is a much better choice because it’s innocent and pure without being sickenly-sweet. I love it so much. Usually I hate when scents mellow and morph into heavy base notes so I was worried about the musk and cashmere wood. But this has been nicely balanced and still finds a way for this frag to stay with its spring-summery-sunshine-simplicity.

This is such a lovely light floral, the best "designer" fragrance I have smelled in many, many years. This is a real classic beauty- so perfectly blended. I was convinced I was smelling tuberose in the middle notes, but I was not, that beautiful white floral was linden, stephanotis and muguet de bois- it fooled me, but boy was it gorgeous. Congratulations, Oscar de la Renta, this is a winner and an instant classic. This is better than my Biehl e03 and that's saying a lot for me to rate a designer fume more highly than a niche scent. If I were a bride I would definitely choose this as my wedding day scent. The drydown is great too. After about 5 hours the scent is still very noticeable on my skin and I can smell the woods and the slight saltiness of the ambergris. The musk is not overpowering at all, just keeps the scent going longer. Thank goodness the vanilla is very faint as well, blends perfectly and does not take over. I am so tired of vanilla prominent scents. This is truly a breath of fresh air in the world of modern perfumery. Kudos to Sr. de la Renta and Ms. Gottlieb.

So I'm standing there at TJ and trying to access my Fragrantica (rarely buy without first consulting) but internet was down! What to do.. Oscar and me have alway got along so I took the 19.99 plunge-I blind buy all the time but always go to the blog. Welll- I love this! It opens clean and fresh with the linden flower very light on lily of the valley(thanks god). This is not aquatic fresh or laundry fresh, this is a green musky citrus fresh. I do not get the Michael Kors at all with this perfume, not even close. The floral is subdued. If you like Chanel Cristalle, I think you would like this, I actually prefer this to Cristalle, Dry down is alittle woody but it is silky like cashmere wood, Just a happy fragrance. Do you know what woman I picture wearing this? The absolutely gorgeous woman who walks into a room , she has great confidence and a winning smile but she has no clue how beautiful she is, just a natural. Give it a try it smells much more expensive than it is, it is not sweet so don't buy it if that is what you crave, it is a honey natural sweetness.