Blonde

This fragrance is unbelievably gorgeous! I have never in my life had a fragrance like this before. Blew me away. Opens with warm sunshine and stays warm through the whole life of the scent. I don't detect bergamot orange but rather a kind of dark honey and orange blossom. This perfume is linear and not very complex but you do have to really 'listen' with your nose to find it's special qualities. The florals that stand out in this one is the tuberose, gardenia and violet. Sweet, some would say 'much too sweet' tuberose. The tuberose and gardenia pairing are creamy and very rich. The texture is oily like some kind of luxurious exotic body oil. Carnation is really presenting herself too. An ylang ylang flower too. Mainly a tuberose scent. If you are super into tuberose, this one is enchanting. I can't get over this. The perfume fills your head and penetrates you in a good way. The creamy florals are warmed up with incense (benzoin note) and stays so close to the skin so that the smoky white florals don't offend anyone around you. It's an intimate perfume despite being strong and long lasting (all day kind of long lasting). A lover or special someone will have to be real close to you to detect the perfume on you. Rich and smoky. This is so womanly and grown up. This makes me imagine an amazing sunset in Miami Beach. It's a fragrance that was meant to honor Mr. Versace and his mansion in Miami and the blonde in the name of the scent is actually Donatella Versace. So as you can guess this is a classy but 'naughty' kind of a perfume for the woman has everything. She drives luxury sport cars, lives in a mansion, has connections, and the atmosphere of the fragrance is South Florida's big money scene - Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach. Beautiful tan women. Handsome tan men. The dry down is musk and civet. I'm sure it's not real civet but the dirty in a good way kind of musk is what you get at the end. A deep warm skin musk. It turns into an animalic fragrance but it stays sweet and warm and never too dirty for a musk scent. It's a floral musk of high quality. This perfume smells best on the skin and not clothes. It's too oily for clothes. This is best worn in fall and winter to warm up your skin. This is meant to be worn with more clothes on than less. Matches with furs (faux fur) coats and more of a Colorado wealthy socialite than a Florida one. Also due to the smokiness gives the impression of a strong confident woman who knows what she wants and usually gets it, smokes cigarettes with a holder is elegant but fierce. i.e. Alexis on Dynasty 1980s version with Joan Collins not the new reboot series. This is a bold and independent woman's perfume. She answers to no one! This fragrance is changing my life!!! Everyone is respecting me more now that I wear it!!!!! You gotta try this one. It's unforgettable!!

This smells very similar to Fracas de Robert Piguet to me. This perfume though is less bubblegummy than Fracas and it has more of a slightly spicy and animalic feeling to it. There is also a dash more camphor in here too. Blonde by Versace lasts quite a long time on the skin at just over 7 hours on my skin, but I think that Fracas lasts maybe 2 or 3 hours more on my skin. The sillage of this perfume definitely projects at about 6 feet, but I feel that Fracas projects slightly more than Versace Blonde. The neroli and then the bergamot give it a touch of bitterness. This perfume starts with the gardenia and Violet notes, giving me that lovely creamy and mushroomy feeling that gardenia gives and the powderiness and muskiness that violet gives too. The pitosporum note is the strongest here though and gives more of that slightly spicy white floral feeling at the top notes. It's not as sweet as Fracas, since it doesn't have that orange blossom note or peach note that you smell in Fracas. It's less fruity than Fracas for sure. It's all about the heart notes mainly though in Versace Blonde, which to my nose are mainly the slightly camphorous and slightly grapey and indolic tuberose first and foremost and a good dose of buttery and tropical ylang ylang. I then get some of that spice from the carnation and then short wafts of a slightly smoky smell from the narcissus. This is definitely all about the tuberose though and it smells very natural smelling to me here, more than Fracas does. It has some of that camphor that Carnal Flower has from Frédéric Malle, but dialed down and not as intense, mothbally or green thankfully. It's more the sort of camphor and spice you'd find in an actual tuberose flower naturally. Lastly, I smell a good amount of all of the ingredients at the base, those being civet, benzoin and musk. It's a very animalic, sweet and musky base that smells like raw sex and is quite delightful and raunchy smelling to my nose. I could imagine this being a very appropriate perfume for a woman at any nighttime event you go to and a woman being able to wear it all year round. It smells very sexy, bad ass and rebellious but also fashionable, elegant and chic in a non-traditional sort of way. This is a tuberose perfume for the inner blonde rock and roll bad ass chick in all of us! I also find the perfume bottle beautiful with its etched in Medusa face and the pretty crystal bottle cap with the Greek keys. I highly reccomend it to all tuberose lovers and I think it's just different enough from Fracas to warrant a purchase, since it's the slightly skankier and more rebellious version of the more prim and proper Fracas. 8 1⁄2 out of 10 for me.

Oh, how I love this. Who would have thought I would fall in love with a buttery tuberose, but here I am, someone who hates buttery florals, head over heels for this. Maybe it's a psychological thing, but buttery florals almost smell oily to me, as if I'm smelling a tub of butter. It kind of creeps me out. But that's not happening here. I'm perplexed by some of the negative adjectives I've read over the years used to describe this fragrance. Raunchy, trashy, dirty, skanky? It's what put me off to even trying this perfume in the first place. I don't think it's trashy (not that I don't appreciate a little raunchiness in fragrances at times), or dirty, or even necessarily loud. I think it is just perfect, somewhat big, but not extroverted, like Madonna or Fracas are to me. There's also a softness here which is a nice contrast to the voluptuous, full-bodied tuberose, and a touch of sexy from a dash of civet. And while tuberose is the most prominent note, it is not the only one. There's a fruity ylang; a lovely daffodil that's ever so slightly dirty to shake things up, (maybe that's the skank some are referring to?); a sultry jasmine; a spicy carnation; and a sweet, creamy gardenia, among other notes. But the tuberose is the star, shinning like the sun, and just like the sun in our solar system, all the other notes revolve around her. And what a tuberose it is. Big, buxom, sexy, and golden as if the flowers were sprinkled with gold dust. Blonde, yes, she's a golden blonde, but not a brassy one. Believe me, I have nothing against Donatella, but she doesn't spring to mind when wearing this fragrance - Marilyn Monroe does. Yep, this is Marilyn in a bottle! Voluptuous and soft at the same time - just like Marilyn! I'm so delighted with this fragrance that I now own an edt and an extrait. But the way I have been dabbing and spraying away tells me I am going to need replacements soon. Which will become harder and more expensive to do, now that it is discontinued. “Shame, Shame, Shame!" We should be screaming at the person who made that crazy decision.

Dear Reader's ♥ I will forever mourn and have fond memories of my former lush and provocative signature night perfume by Gianni Versace that I owned and loved from my adolescence to early 20's. Long ago in the mid 90's, when I was just sweet 15 yr old youth looking for a night perfume. I found out about this perfume and the ancient Greco -Roman elegant glass bottle had touch of lalique glass style enchanted me with its carved faced within the bottle because it was none other face but of the cursed gorgon Medusa, that left hypnotized . Luckily for me ,my mother bought it for me that day as an early birthday gift when we went to the department store♥. The magic started when I started to use this scandalous elixir , the perfume and my chemistry created the marvelous alchemical marriage and a force to behold and be adored. my chemistry brought out a warm, juicy , jovial and wild flowers out that enchanted the senses and the sillage was intense And now seeing it had musk, this explains why it made men's appetites wet and made me into a total man-trap. The memories of my past admirers, situations that brought intrigues, scandalous encounters in the realm of love, all created by this perfume, it brings giggles and smiles when I reflect back.♥ The horror came of the end of beauty and splendor came when Donatella pulled out the Versace jean's line, the cosmetics which the casings were fabulous and last out of all the perfumes her brother made, she beheaded the one perfume that was dedicated which was Blonde. And with that action she did, left us Blond devotees out in the cold and in mourning for years .R.I.P the original founder Gianni Versace for creating a beautifully lush ,modern and provocative perfume like Blonde that was cut to short- much like its creator. ♥

This is a difficult perfume to review. I am reviewing the parfum version. At first I thought, wow, pure gardenia! Today I compared my blooming gardenias with Blonde, and no, it is a heady combo of tuberose/gardenia. I suppose if it had the subtle green notes of real gardenias it would be worth its weight in gold. I've never smelled any gardenia based perfume that came close in subtlety to the real thing. That being said, it is very nice and does have some subtlety to go with cloying tuberose. This is almost the antithesis of modern perfumes, the edps of which are so watered down it's shameful. It is full bodied, cloying without any synthetic notes, but also just complex enough to keep it from being cheap. It doesn't have enough sillage to be offensive; but it definitely has some sillage. It isn't for the faint of heart. It isn't for everyday. It is a flowery sexpot perfume, probably the civet enhancing it. Any lady wearing this is absolutely screaming, "notice me!" in a positive context. On me the perfume lasts a good six hours, which is excellent. There is still fragrance there after six hours, but by then it is a skin scent. It is nice without knocking people down across the room, as compared to Norell, for instance.. All in all, for the brave few who still love real perfumes, this is great. Cloying and sophisticated at the same time. I got a great deal from one of the internet perfume monster outlets even though it has been discontinued. I suspect .5 oz parfum will last a long time, and the bottle is lovely. I love reading all your reviews and I hope this helps.

Blonde is (was) a knockout tuberose. As if Donatella took Fracas and glamorized it; a bit of blush here, a bit of shadow there...Fracas dressed for a party, 50 years later. So where do you go when you come from the 40's and you suddenly time travel to the 90's? My bet? A private party. Leaving aside the obvious, Blonde is a massive buttery tuberose, far more buttery than any other, to the point of turning nutty. Rich, full on cream with a side of gardenia, ylang ylang and pitosporum, a tiny white flower with huge scent. But how do you balance such headyness? Throw in some spicy carnation, a dollop of civet, a hint of narcissus and you have Versace Blonde; better than what Fracas was in the late 80's/early 90's. Massive sillage, day long longevity and a joyous laugh; after all you were modeled after the Queen but just in a different era. Younger, naughtier, sexier, Blonde throws its narcotic spell without a worry in the world. Sensual, decadent, narcotic, this tuberose is not for the faint of heart. It takes some appreciation to enjoy and discover the glamour behind. But like most good things, Fracas was suddenly resurrected and brought back in a good as ever shape. And Blonde had to leave. I guess there wasn't room enough for two. Highly sought and still around if you search hard enough, Blonde is one of the better Versace's, and the one I enjoy the most. If you love tuberose and white florals try and give Blonde a try; decadent and glamorous, narcotic and sexy, it wouldn't disappoint Germaine Cellier had she been alive.

Who on earth decided to discontinue this, it’s a beauty. Snagged a vintage on eBay for a silly price as there was a spelling mistake in the listing. It is incredible. Think I prefer it to my faves, Fracas and Truth or Dare. Definitely similar to both of those but perhaps a little greener in the opening. Only just sprayed it on as it’s just arrived in the Mail so not sure about longevity yet, although sadly most tuberose perfumes don’t last or project as much as I would like on me. Why oh why did I have to love this one?! 😫 I love bubblegum-esque interpretations of tuberose and this is very much in that camp. If you are keen to know what this smells like and can’t get a bottle, that curiosity can be satisfied with Fracas, which is a bit “lusher” but similar enough. The bottle is a work of art, this is the embodiment of the 90s Versace we all knew and loved. I feel like George Michael’s Too Funky should be playing loud when I wear this fragrance! I reckon if they released this at a more niche price point alike the more expensive Diors and Chanels there might be a market for it. With the exception of Crystal Noir, Eros and their mens fragrance line, Versace’s perfumery these days is a bit of a travesty, they churn out the same old bland, shampoo-smelling stuff a few times a year. They are such a fabulous larger than life brand that has the potential to produce some truly beautiful perfumes like this one and Crystal Noir.

Add me to the list of people that mourn the loss of this one of a kind fragrance. I do not normally find flamboyant fragrances alluring but this was definitely an exception. The bottle, is and was GORGEOUS. I loved how you could place it on a mantle and walk past it and it looked like the face was always following you (much like some statues in the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland). The intense hit of gardenia and other strong heady florals swept you away like a sort of Pied Piper. Male...female...didn't matter...EVERYONE shall stop for a moment to take notice! Its one of those fragrances that is demanding but beautiful, intriguing but unmistakably floral, a bit mature but still wild at heart, it was the scent of a bon vivant, and its sillage was much like a radiant heat similar to the sun but just like the sun, it had this air of unattainability. No wonder my brother likes it (and even wore it LOL) -sighs- Needless to say, I am saddened to see this fragrance go off the shelves, I have no idea WHY Donatella would allow such a thing (this WAS a tribute to her, afterall) especially since taking over the Versace legacy. Well as they say...in life, all good things must come to an end. It is unfortunate that future generations shall be missing out on this luxurious perfume.

What's in a name? This name might suggest a hair color, but please... how many truly natural blondes out there? I despise people who link intelligence to hair color as it's a factor of very low intelligence in itself. I'm dye my hair golden blond (dark colors just won't go with my facial features) and endure back stabbing comments about being "stupid" hair-wise. Why? I have a very simple rule: I do and I wear what I like. So why should you "resist it"? And this line is really laughable: "created for blond Donatella". Maybe they meant blonde as a state of mind. Whatever stereotypes are supposed to mean. I think it failed due to bad marketing and moronic name, as most brunettes (about 80% of women on the planet) are really proud to be brunettes, which is another myth born out of myth that blonds are morons. Please note, this rant is a fruit of my third glass of wine.. Now, the perfume. The fragrance itself is pure indulgence in a bottle - a thick and heady tuberose in many ways reminiscent of Fracas, however this one features a strong earthy violet note. I can totally see myself as a sultry brunette, a vivacious redhead or sunkissed blonde on a hot summer night while wearing it, rocking the sweet and spicy earthy notes. Terrific!

This treasure is my most persistent fragrant love. I always have a bottle of the edt AND a pure perfume in my perfume cupboard. As I love to shower myself in many sprays from a big edt bottle, I also usually layer it with pure perfume to enhance its longevity and to get more of the broader floral qualities that comes with the perfume. It was my signature for many years during the 90's and for me Blonde is all about youth, student life, summer and big emotions. It is cycling to the sea with friends in the morning to get tanned, and then going out in the warm summer evenings. Evenings with a lukewarm wind that caresses your bare arms and that pink sky that follows after a hot day. Blonde is walking between bars and restaurants when there is still sunset at 10 in the Scandinavian countries. It is clubbing all night and when leaving the club at 4, it is almost daylight and the birds are singing their morning song. Blonde is long blonde hair, a little black dress and bare tanned legs. It is student life, constant lack of money and abundant dreams about the future. Blonde is dating somebody over a Cafe au Lait as all this happened before the Italian Latte was introduced in Sweden. And at that time, Blonde was always in my purse.

I already left some thoughts (below) on Versace’s Blonde a few years back, but I’m compelled to revisit this magnificent scent again. I previously likened Blonde to a tuberose that’s been in and out of rehab, a ciggie perched between her lips. But as I’ve worn it more, I don’t think Blonde just has substance-use issues. She’s a sex-crazed nymphomaniac too! Oh, the comorbidity! So many grand tuberoses have been created over the years, but this is the first that’s screamed “SLUT FLORAL!” to my nose. Seriously, this is tuberose with a little gardenia, and everything is smothered in stank—a good thing! Imagine a hothouse greenery, and in Toy Story style, the plants become animate when their caretakers are away. After a long day photosynthesizing in the sun, these flora need some release. Look o’er yonder, where the term “flowerbed” is being redefined. Stamens positively gush with pollen; the pistils, swollen, insatiably beg for more! “Chlorophyll” used to be their safe word, but anything goes in tonight’s bacchanal. A perverted civet runs amok, saturating their soil with its juices. Oh my! So, yeah. Blonde is gorgeously slutty. Is that a trowel in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

I love Blonde. I bought it in the 90's. It was quite unknown at that time here in Sweden which for me was a good thing. As my signature scent I wanted to have it completely for myself and I used it everyday for years. Then suddenly it disappeared from the Swedish market. I used it sparingly and eventualy I only had the empty bottle in my cupboard, which I treasured for years. I loved that smell of sweet bergamot opening, the buttery tuberose and the little civet to enchance it's personality. I loved the warm honeylike notes it developed into, and all the compliments I got for smelling so good. And I sprayed my empty bottle, and sometimes i got a tiny tiny drop of fragrance out of it. It took me about five years until I found Blonde again. It was when the internet market was fairly developed, and perfumes became available on internet shops abroad. After a long time searching I finally found it and I instantly ordered a pure perfume, without considering the cost. It was just so worth it whatever it would cost me. Since then I have stocked both perfume and EdT. Today I have many perfumes and I don't use Blonde as often, but it is my alltime favourite that I always return to.

I didn’t like this when it was first issued. I had to grow into tuberose and into Blonde over time. Its not a young girl fragrance. I have three second hand vintage bottles. The blue oval shape edt is the best of the bunch - it is simply a delicious heady tuberose civet with a bit of benzoin and just enough other notes (carnation etc) to keep it interesting blended in, from times when perfumes were not linear but still blended properly. Had I not received the oval bottle, which seems to have kept the original scent the best, I would not have appreciated Blonde as much as I do now. It is a delicious and sexy tuberose with a hint of cognac, thats it, the undercurrent is not spice its cognac. It is hard to showcase the best facets of tuberose but Blonde really succeeds in this, the other notes really supporting the centre of the show and the civet, which I am a big fan of, bringing its own rawness in the picture. Blonde is kind of like a well dressed woman who is in a deliberately sexy dress but yet she would be equally as sexy even if she were wearing dungarees in the back garden - except she never would, oh no. She would dress up even for gardening.

As I'm a Blonde lover I couldn't resist buying the Eau de Fleurie version when I got my hands on it. I had no expectations except from Blonde itself, but I read in one review that said it smelt like kind of a bubbelgum tuberose, and in another that it was "champagne-like". And yes, it is lighter and a little powdery with an airy sweetness. You will have to imagine Blonde original minus the civet and the earthy violet (or at least significantly less of both notes), then add sweet and slightly powdery notes. Eau de Fleurie translates into "flower water" which obviously means something less strong than the original edt. I like it a lot except from it's staying power: after a couple of hours it's gone. It also lacks certain character as it doesn't dry down as honeyed as the original. I would say that Blonde eau de Fleurie is lighter, more girlie and smooth smelling in comparision to it's older sister. I wear it as a light summer fragrance on warm days, and I enjoy it. But I enjoy original Blonde a lot more.

In my opinion, Blonde doesn't quite smell like Fracas, nor Truth or Dare. I dismissed it for so long because of those two comparisons since i have both Fracas and ToD, and because of some negative reviews. Last week, i scored 1oz blue oval bottle for 20 bucks, and after couple of wearings i can say this is probably the best tuberose perfume i own (tuberose junkie here). I can not for the life of me wear Fracas. I have a bottle, and i will occasionally smell the cap, but in my opinion, there is not one appropriate place or situation where wearing Fracas would be acceptable in 2021, aside from a crazy evening with a bunch of other perfume junkies who would "understand". Blonde, however, is quite pretty and quite acceptable, although i must say that dry down at its final stage is not my favorite part. It's a complete Cinderella fairy tale in a bottle: spray, go out, but make sure to leave before Blonde enters its final stage. I do love it though!

This is a very strong tuberose smell, but is smoother somehow than the other 2 tuberose masterpieces i know: Fracas by Piguet and Silver by Prairie. Blonde is equally wonderful and has an equally strong projection, thus being a must for women who like potent scents. Blonde, however, has a distinct sweet base, and evolves more on the skin, going through different phases as time goes by. Its other flowers ( gardenia, ylang, carnation, narcissus and violet )come in waves and will possibly show their colours differently on each of us. The sweet benzoin base is an extra compliment of the perfume. The whole, strangely, doesn't come out as floral as today's florals - this statement sounds weird but i don't know how else to express the feeling i get when smelling it! It's lasting power is average, i think of the 3, Silver lasts the longest, nearly 9 hours! Having civet is a loud minus, i hope people are starting to become aware of this....

Substantially similar to Fracas, which means it is very good. I do not really detect a civet note, even in Texas heat. It's frankly not as animalic as Fracas to me. What is animalic here is coming purely from the tuberose, which is gorgeous. It's creamier here than in Fracas, which is more buttery and even a bit smoky sometimes. It may be the ylang that is creating the sweet, creamy aspect. I think Fracas's base is more substantial, and I prefer it, but Blonde is a really lovely perfume. My bottle is a large EdT intaglio bottle. I'd say don't spend a fortune on this when you can get Fracas, even reformulated. But if you can catch it for a reasonable price, this is a great buy and the bottle is cool. It's funny to me that if the bottle just had the intaglio Medusa, it would be purely classy, but the Greek key frieze and irregular crystal top make it that wonderful vulgar Versace style. It's a shame this isn't still in production.

Having hunted high and low I finally got a 5ml EDT bottle on e-bay, hurrah.One of my longed-for perfume experiences has finally happened and I was not disappointed. It's top-loaded with the heavy decadent smell of succulent over-ripe jungle fruit, and the carnal sexiness of tuberose. But I kept finding a curious little-girl-lost sweet innocent powdery note in there. Even in EDT it's strong and clings to clothing. It would be great in passionate intimate boudoir moments. If Blonde were a woman, she would be a Piaf, or a Garland, a woman not beautiful but vibrant and exciting and endearing, child-like and vulnerable yet capable of wildchild abandoned sex and stormy relationships with rugged and unreliable lovers. What can I say? Versace Blonde satisfies my soul. It's all I would ever wish for in my favorite type of perfume, sumptuous big animalistic tuberose.

I thought this beautiful perfume was going to stay in the stores like forever...?? I bought my 1st bottle about 1998, the little blue flat beauty, l just had given birth to my youngest son, so, therefor this perfume is special for me! I have been hunting high and low for a new bottle, or looking for it's replacement, and now so suddenly, you should see my happy-dance, Tina Turners girls, Steamy Windows, because l got a new bottle! This perfume makes me feels young and beautiful again, and sexy and enegetic, and very Blonde! And, it blends so very well with my skin, it's the tuberose, gardenia and neroli, wow! And, thank you so very much to the Lady who sold me this new perfume, a full 3.3oz/100ml BIG mama bottle! May we all live happily for ever, and, happy Easter to all of you!!!

Warm flamboyant bombastic buttery tuberose ~gardenia scent. Its a powerhouse richer than fracas. I have vintage fracas parfum and this is damn close in blonde edt, but richer with the carnation and ylang. Vintage fracas was skanky too folks. I bought this in 95 and rocked it thru college. In a sea of fruity tresor madness this tuberose bomb was actually something different to stand alone without fruits in the mix. This was a volume turned up rich bitch floral in your face versace style. This is an italian house, with sexy as a requirement. The heart notes settle the big tuberose punch into something beautiful and seductive. This seems to have Giannis sensibilities rather than Donatellas. Its the one buttery tuberose floral to top them all. The extrait is gorgeous.