Charlie Blue

August 27th, 2014. I bought my Charlie Blue (eau de toilette) yesterday, after having looked for the original without having found it. To me, Charlie Blue smells similar to its original version. It lacks the aldehydes, but still, very similar. Another interesting thing: there is no oakmoss in the formula, but Charlie Blue delivers a strong chord of that. I believe the chemists managed to assemble the ingredients in a way to simulate it, or else, they used synthetic oakmoss (if that exists, of course), and believe me: it is very strong and convincing. Sillage and longevity are huge. Mossy-woody, musky-floral; Charlie Blue is an uplifting spirit with a fresh character. It might be a nice option for those who even like the original Charlie, but happen to have aldehydes not working that well on the skin. If you like the original, like I do, but do not find it available, give that Charlie Blue a try and enjoy it. Edit1: Charlie Blue and the classic Charlie are distinct fragrances. Edit 2 (on Oct. 8th, 2014): The more I wear Charlie Blue, the more I love it. It has been revealing wonderful facets on my skin along its dry-down and lifespan. Sometimes, day or night, I find myself asking where that beautiful fragrance is coming from. I smell my shirt, the sheets..., and find it is Charlie Blue on me. I am so glad I have it! Edit 3 (on Dec. 20th, 2014): Charlie Blue is a perfectly acceptable unisex fragrance: it is woody, but still, fresh enough to work very well on a man's skin. I recommend: men, try this Charlie Blue. For those women who look for a fragrance with a masculine touch, Charlie Blue is vivacious with some woody depth. Very good option for an after-shower moment. It makes you feel clean. Now, very important: I have tried the eau de toilette and the eau fraiche. If you like a fragrance that lasts, huge sillage and longevity, yours is the eau de toilette (the eau fraiche will be a total waste of time for you). But if you prefer a lighter and safer one, than yours is the eau fraiche. The eau fraiche, by the way, is the one shown on the photograph here. It comes in a metalic-fading-light-blue box and brings the words eau fraiche very clearly. The eau de toilette, visibly writen, comes in a solid dark blue box, one which reminds us of the original Charlie box. Just type Charlie Blue on Google images and see the difference.

A soft, fibrous, earthy green scent. like walking deep into the woods alone and finding comfort and serenity there. The Charlie names and bottles are so nondescript that I had no idea what to expect and this was a really nice surprise. Charlie red is lovely warm sweetness with a nice retro depth that i recently tried and liked. This however is its deep, mossy sister that is a little more subdued and serious but still quite alluring. woodsy and grounded but not dirty. much more sophisticated and expensive smelling than its price tag would have you believe. It opens like smelling a handful of dried fluffy moss in a field of tall browning grass and it gradually settles into rich shady depths like the forest floor in the woods from a storybook. I love the affordability and longevity of the Charlie scents, and I’m especially taken with how this one is so different from the others i've tried. this is the kind of interesting, confident scent that could easily be found in a much more expensive bottle from a niche brand today. out of the charlie line I feel like blue is the real treasure for me. projection is good and layered, this fragrance has dimension to it. i pick up on different elements depending on how close i am to my wrist. charlie red lasted all night on me and lingered subtly on my skin the next morning. so far blue is slightly less loud but i can tell it's going to hang around on my skin for a good while. one of the things i love most about vintage scents is their committed staying power. even after reformulation they can still last longer than a lot of modern perfumes. i would love to get my hands on some vintage charlie bottles because i bet they were total longevity beasts back in the day. I can tell i will be reaching for this often. i find it calming and grounding and can see it becoming a staple for me. a fantastic blind buy surprise.

A slightly less sweet version of the original Charlie she's still a slightly rank old fashioned soapy chypre... And it's great! "But Cassi, you just said it was rank..." Yes I did, and here's why that's wonderful. The pungent oakmoss and slightly bitter geranium are completely amazing when used as a layer. I am absolutely serious. It layers with everything. (although on some people the scent does turn into a wee wee or poo scent. In those cases, skip this one. That's true of any scent though.) Picked up that new Celebrity Sugar FragranceTM and suddenly you realize you feel like this makes you feel like you're 12? Add Charlie Blue first. That new Bath And Body Works body mist is nice, but some jerk said you smelled like kiddo shampoo while you were out shopping? Put on an inert (low scent or no scent) body oil, then the body mist, then two shots of Charlie Blue, then more mist on your clothes. Found a vintage bottle of an aldehyde fragrance and paid handsomely for it but now you're sad that all you smell is baby powder? Yup, that's right, oil up and try two shots of Charlie Blue on first. Someone tell you that new version of Joop! makes you smell like their mom? Yup, Charlie Blue's for you too! And the absolute best part is that even if you don't think it works for this it's so inexpensive you can feel ok just giving the whole bottle away. I'd gladly accept it. 👌😉

I didn't really expect anything, but I'm just blown away. This isn't just vintage but I would say this is like a historical chypre in the best way possible. It could have been made in the late 19th or early 20th century. And that is a good thing here. It's definitely unisex, but somehow I think it smells more interesting on men. It smells very seductive ja mysterious. If Sherlock Holmes had really existed, he would have smelled like this. There is that slightly indolic nuance from jasmine, and I love it, and compared with musk it's really sexy and animalic. Warm and quite sweet but still earthy and mossy. Still jasmine is the most prominent note on me. And really, If you don't like jasmine, you won't like this. Simple as that. This is so underrated perfume. Powerful and long lasting and it costs almost nothing. Still there is that feel of quality in it. It's so different and I want to be different. This isn't like those clean smelling mainstream perfumes and that's why we are so lucky. But this could have been made today by some niche perfume house and it could be sold at a ridiculously expensive price.

Clean and sparkling. Long lasting. Inexpensive. If you love Joy, you will like Charlie original and Charlie Blue. There is something woodsy about this, a chypre smell to me. I think this is a wonderful value. And I do use this one for layering at times as it makes a wonderful base. I will spray this on my skin right out of the shower and give it a bit to dry down. Then something that meshes with it on my clothes. A coworker mentioned to me that I really never needed to try another scent because she thought mixed so well with my chemistry. Always nice to hear. Update: I am wearing this today for the first time in a long time. I am hit with how powerful this is and how well it seems to go with my chemistry. It seems to me that this scent has a lot of the things that we look for in a perfume that we love but because it has been around forever and it's inexpensive, it gets overlooked. I'm wondering if today I had met Charlie Blue for the very first time and not 50 plus years ago, would I be be feeling like I had discovered something really special? Would I stop looking for that signature perfume? Maybe ...

I saw Charlie Blue mentioned in several places here on fragrantica but for some reason was under the impression, that it is discontinued. So I asked my mum whether she remembered it, which in fact she did, but just the look of the bottle and not the smell. A week later I spot it at the local Rossmann drugstore and blindly buy it for 5€. It definitely is "of its time" and does not smell modern. The certain harshness and boldness of the oakmoss and geranium fascinate me and give me a feeling of calm strength. The sandalwood grounds it. The staying power is surprisingly good, as is the sillage. I can however see how one might find it unpleasant, if you're not into that kind of perfume. My parents both sniffed my wrist after I sprayed Charlie Blue on it and were surprised by the "girly writing" on the bottle and asked me "This is a men's fragrance, right?". So you can definitely wear it as a men's fragrance or just wear it as your fragrance, no matter what your gender identity is.

I hadn’t smelled this since I was a kid in the 90s, but kept hearing really good reviews on YouTube, so I went ahead and bought some. I normally way overspray. This one has me good after 3 sprays. All our noses are different, and so is our skin chemistry, our biases, our preferences, and so are the background smells we have going on when we spray something. Still, I’m shocked at how bad some of these reviews are. Here’s what I get— for the first 5-10 minutes only, I get a floral aldehyde smell that’s just a little too strong. Then it calms down and smells clean and beautiful. I don’t have another perfume like it, but when I was doing my hair before work, I realized it smelled very similar (on me) to Biosilk serum. I’d say about 90% similar, but with a hint of musk. The longevity is good on me. I can almost never smell something the next day if I’ve slept in it. I could faintly smell this the next morning. This is going to be in my rotation forever.

Woah- what a difference a few weeks makes! I have been digging the nostalgia scents lately and decided to add a bottle of Charlie Blue to my collection- based solely on reading descriptions and reviews. My initial impression of this one was NOT GOOD. Bitter, dirty, pungent. I thought it was straight up H E I N O U S. But for some reason I kept coming back to it every so often. Its been a few weeks now, the weather has cooled a bit, and DANG. The formerly acrid bitterness is now a citrusy oakmoss, the sickly sweet is a musky powder. A total POWERHOUSE. It's everything I loved about wearing men's colognes.... but with a very high-femme twist (likely due to the addition of the floral notes). I was too young to wear this when it first came out, so while this smells vaguely familiar, I don't have any strong associations with it, so it smells totally fresh and new to me, and not dated at all.

I was looking for the original Charlie but could not find it. I remember a very fashionable and lovely aunt who had the original Charlie that she had her white pekingese dog wear it regularly in the 70's. When she got married and migrated to Australia, she left her dog with us. Last year l remembered Charlie again but got the Blue. I am absolutely sure Charlie Blue did not exist in 1973. It is a straight floral. The original is a floral aldehyde which l prefer more even if it reminded me of the dog. I like Blue though. It is strong compared to the tutti frutti, light colognes for men nowadays. This is unisex with masculine qualities. Inexpensive like the other Revlon colognes l have - Ciara, Fire & Ice and the new one l discovered Jontue. As a man I love them all.

Well, hello oakmoss, up until now I didn't know we were such good friends, since you were only lingering around in the background of some of my fragrances. It's a good thing that we have been introduced by Charlie Blue, which is by the way the umpteenth scent of the Charlie series I have blind bought and gladly added to my collection. This scent is earthy-mossy, like dense conifer forest after rain, with a hint of flowers and spices, it reminds me a little of the more floral Vanderbilt. Longevity is spectacular, sillage pretty heavy, and its very inexpensive. Just hold you breath for the initial 30 seconds, as SuzanneS mentioned, that particular blast is not so pleasant.

I just bought a bottle of Charlie Blue. My memories of the original Charlie were not the greatest since the last time I smelled it was in 1993. A bit too strong for me back then. In the last five years I have begun to crave more powdery comfort scents plus I am also on a tight budget. I decided to give Charlie Blue a chance. Glad that I did. Very beautiful,spicy,powdery floral wonder. The florals (smells like carnation even though it is not listed),oakmoss,and musk really pack a positive punch. I got over eight hours wear time with this. I find this fragrance to fit all of my crucial requirements for a scent. Fantastic price,scent, and lasting power. A+++ fragrance.

When I first smelled this, I didn't like it, didn't understand it. I thought the bottle needed to rest, so I left it for a while, and then, every now and again I would try it, then still not like it. I figured I had a bad bottle. Today, around 3 months after receiving it, I fancied something just a little different for the evening. It's 28 degrees and heavy-humid on this early August evening. I sprayed the normal 5 spots and waited for that familiar flat, sourish experience I usually get. But it seems my little bottle has sorted itself out; this time I GET IT! How is it possible to go from suspicious dislike to love so fast? YAY! At last.

Charlie blue is an old school fragrance with a dominant scent of oakmoss which has very strong earthy nuances and is very bright, I can say this is a perfume concentrated from oakmoss with a floral touch, a good mix of geranium, jasmine and rose in the opening, and sandalwood, musk with powdery nuances in the base note phase.....this fragrance is not for everyone, but I really like it and it is very rare to find this fragrance nowadays....very long lasting at such a low price this is an amazing treasure.... it's suitable for both unisex and masculine....i really appreciate this fragrance, even hesitate to give it 3.4 points

This opens intensely with aldehydes and hints of bergamot before drying down to a white floral with a green chypre edge to it from the oakmoss and galbanum. I also smell a soapiness to it. It weirdly reminds me of Calvin Klein Eternity but heavier on oakmoss, more 70s smelling and admittedly not as complex. Really love this. I Just got this for Christmas, the batch code says it was produced April 2024. My bottle is made in Spain. The name of the fragrance is not printed on to the front of the bottle, it has a clear sticker with Charlie Blue and the details about it.

when i was a kid, mom used to wear the charlie cologne, it was from overseas, it smelled so up class and amazing, this blue is close to that,i just bought it today for my own collection, love the subtle musk and floral in this. just like jovan musk, i love this for indoors, at night it smells fantastic, like the 80s and 90s, weekends, i dont know why but it gives me feel of iris note of Dior Homme, at a very good price point, longevity is decent, very unisex in my opinion, sophisticated and classy.i will always have a bottle, this is my childhood in a bottle :)

When my mother was alive, she wore Charlie Red and I wore Charlie Blue. I will always associate this oakmoss rich fragrance with her. Such loving, sweet memories. I miss her. I haven't had a bottle of Blue in several years, and I ordered one today. It used to be my signature, but it was hard wearing it in the years following her passing. It can be classified as a unisex perfume, I believe. It is strong, simple, and has great longevity and sillage. The weather is warm and I do believe I will be wearing this one a lot this summer. It's a confident, fun scent.

Charlie blue takes me back to my childhood I was 11 and my mum brought me this fragrance I felt so glamorous when I sprayed it fast forward I’m 37 now and still wear it In my daily rotation of fragrances and I couldn’t believe it I went to work and gilt loads of lovely compliments from customers and staff wanting to know what fragrance I had on and they couldn’t believe it and for £5 you can’t go wrong I still love it and will continue to keep wearing it but I only like the Charlie blue edt in the dark blue box not the eau frachie blue shiny sliver box

Like Charlie Gold, Charlie Blue is so much better than its price tag indicates. It’s much better than a 3.43 rating. The longer it’s on, the better it gets. It’s very sharp and strong in the opening, lots of earthy woodiness and oakmoss. The floral notes are a blend, not individually detectable to me. I sure don’t detect rose as an individual note. There’s nothing sweet about this on me - in fact, it comes off as a lightly floral chypre. The longevity is insane. The final drydown is soapy and clean on me. Very impressive. I love it.

I can't believe it's taken me this long to discover these Revlon perfumes! I recently bought Charlie Blue, Charlie Gold, and Fire & Ice, and I'm absolutely in love. Today, I wore Charlie Blue for the first time, and it’s stunning! Blue is a classic chypre with rich oakmoss and rose, giving it that old-school elegance. Charlie Gold, on the other hand, is a sweet, peachy amber—so feminine and charming. If you love vintage scents, you need to try these three. Plus, they’re super affordable, yet so long-lasting!

Magnificent classic chypre! It’s so good that i don't know how to explain my feelings for it. I just say this comfortably, this is one of the best fragrance i ever had. (in this price range) It’s very heavy on Oakmoss and Musk and Oakmoss is my favorite note of all time. Warm and sensual, dirty and clean, delicate and smooth, noble and aristocratic, very emotional and nostalgic. I just love it. I highly recommend this, if you are into classic chypre fragrances or big dose of Oakmoss or masterpieces.