Blue Grass Elizabeth Arden 1989

Version from 1989

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A perfume by Elizabeth Arden for women, released in 1989. The scent is floral-green. It is being marketed by Revlon Inc..
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Main accords

Floral

Green

Spicy

Woody

Fresh

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lavender

Geranium

Lily

Orange blossom Rose

Rose

Jasmine

Heart Notes

Clove

Vetiver

Laurel

Base Notes

Virginia cedar Musk

Musk

Sandalwood

Ratings

Scent

7.498 Ratings

Longevity

7.683 Ratings

Sillage

7.081 Ratings

Bottle

5.884 Ratings

Value for money

8.731 Ratings

Submitted by Cincy, last update on 07/03/2025.

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Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/05/2016

5
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 8
Scent

DorothyGrace
106 Reviews

DorothyGrace

Helpful Review 2

Blue Grass - Older than you think.

Blue Grass

I was given a small glass sample bottle of this as a child, probably in the late '60s but the sample could have been from much earlier. The sample bottle was large by today's standards and lasted me a long time as I only applied little dabs just to catch a whiff.

So was 1989 (as in the description) a big re-launch? I am sure I have read elsewhere that it originated sometime in the 1930s and I certainly had some as a child.

This review is for a bottle from around 2012.

Herbal and spicy, cool green vegetal springtime floral, with a soapy animalic musk.

Yardley used to make some herbal lavendar soaps; lavender and thyme; lavender and rosemary. Bronnley used to make a large wooden gift box of soaps with some herbal mixes. The bay in Blue Grass is quite strong, vegetal, sharp lemon, and soapy - with a feel similar to one of those herbal lavendar soaps.

The dominant florals to me are lavendar and daffodil with a tiny dab of carnation and tuberose along with an undercurrent of sweetness that is almost but not quite rosey.

As it drys it has a musky generic woodiness with a silky soapy sandalwood peeping through - still with the lavendar and crushed bay keeping it bright.

Brought up on highly perfumed herbal soaps means I am very familiar and used to that type of smell so I don't find Blue Grass unusual but I think many people will find it unusual and perhaps strange.

Moderate strength, sillage, projection, longevity.

Bottle purchased around 2012 (Eau de Parfum).
Batch number H2NA comes out as October 2012

11/25/2024

10
Pricing 5
Bottle 9
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Viktoria127
5 Reviews

Viktoria127

5

An Underrated Vintage Classic

Aldehydes, Lavender and Spice is what this smells like on me when it opens. It also has a slight fresh green smell in the beginning but that quickly fades. The benzoin gives this a lovely soft sweetness to it. To me this fragrance is powdery, spicy, lightly floral (especially the lavender and carnation) and has a lovely dry earthiness. To me in a deranged way this feels like Chanel No5's sister who lives in the country side. I love this fragrance with heat and humidity, it wears beautifully on a hot summer day. This does have a strong vintage vibe to it but that's honestly why I love it so much. A gorgeous fragrance and at such an affordable price! I saw some things online that it got discontinued around 2021, my batch code says it was produced 2023.

06/20/2023

10
Pricing 4
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Ringtale
129 Reviews

Ringtale

3

I don't know how to love her :-)

Blue Grass...what a mesmerizing scent!
But....is she a perfume? She seems to be more of an aromatic scent that will have you reminiscing.
Every time I wear her, I feel embraced, safe, happy, joyful. But also: 'bewitched bothered and bewildered' as in the song.

The scent of herbs and flowers make me think of those vintage posters by David Hamilton with girls wearing flowery dresses, holding baskets filled with fruits and vegetables. That's not the scene intended by Elizabeth Arden, because I think that was more about horses, but I can't relate to that so I get other images :-)
Blue Grass is either hated or loved which is why I always feel a little 'self conscious' when I wear her in public. But I'm enjoying her sillage so much!
It feels like you get an extra dose of oxygen, 'beautyfully scented oxygen', which is impossible, but I really don't know how to put it otherwise. What I mean is that the powdery notes are creating an almost diaphanous aura around you.
Sometimes I find the clove in the drydown a little too prominent, but that's only in her latest moments, in the morning for instance, when you wake up after wearing her and that is when you will take a shower anyway :-)

Blue Grass.....I don't know how to love her....but I do....

Edit:
Just ordered and recieved it again, It really is lovely!

05/25/2023

10
Pricing 4
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 4
Scent

Anamandy
106 Reviews

Anamandy

2

A Negative Experience

I try not to write reviews right away after receiving a fragrance unless I am blown away, in a good way, from that scent. Regardless of whether my reviews are favorable or not, I've found too many times when I do leave a first impression review it is often subject to change, for good or bad. But here is one perfume where my first impressions haven't changed one bit. Just a caveat, I have never smelled the original or reform before in my life and know no one who wears it either.

Super synthetic opening that calms down throughout the wear but never disappears.
Monster silage with one spray that stays even after you "scrub" it off.
Excessive spiciness that brings to mind red hot candies.
Wish it were much weaker.
Seriously in need of a modern makeover.
Suffocating

Maybe this was a great fragrance at one time because smelling it at a distance gives me an idea of what it might have been. Now, it is a chemical mess. The heavy synthetic top notes are spoiling this for me, and though it lightens up somewhat it stays throughout the duration. The clove and other spice notes are so heavy and overdone it is literally breath taking. It is too sharp, too much, and overwhelming loud. Considering that there is supposedly a boatload of florals in this, I didn't notice because I couldn't get past the synthetics and excessive spice. The only exception is the lavender, which is so overdone that it goes beyond a floral note into pure soap.

The lack of quality here is very apparent. That seems to be an issue with a lot of the great EA fragrances of the past that are still in production today. At one time they were fantastic quality scents that sold in department stores. Then they started showing up in discount stores. Instead of discontinuing the scent or giving it a major facelift or keeping the quality the same but raising the price, like other manufacturers would, EA continued to produce them at their now discounted prices, cutting the quality in the process. If EA is going to keep this on the market, at the very least it would be nice if they updated it into a lighter version. They can start by watering it down, lightening up the spices so it's not so spicy hot it feels as if you just got hit with tear gas, cut back on the ingredients and substitute what's left with quality ingredients. Maybe then it would be a nice fragrance, though I doubt EA would ever go that route because I think they are just going for the fast buck here and the hell with quality.

I thought I would keep this to use as a bathroom spray, but even one spray in those rooms fills my whole house with this scent and had family and friends who came over complaining about the "smell" as in "what's that smell?" Though I still see vintage bottles of this available, I have no interest in trying to acquire one because this experience has tainted me forever. If it works for you, that's great and I'm happy for you, but it doesn't for me.

02/18/2019

6
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Ttfortwo
41 Reviews

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Top Review 36

A sentimental journey

Blue Grass is the penultimate of my mother's fragrances, which have now moved in with me again.

Actually, all her scents were always a bit idiosyncratic, a bit repellent, distant in any case, sometimes a bit creaky and almost always gently melancholic.

She wore Mitsouko, Je reviens, Soir de Paris, L'air du Temps, Paloma Picasso's Mon Parfum, Jicky and Blue Grass. Jicky falls a little bit out of the line, but also only a little bit, because Jicky isn't really pleasing and catchy either. She wore Jicky only on really festive occasions and he stood her perfectly. It's still too big for me, but who knows, maybe it'll stand up to me someday.

Blue Grass is perhaps the most idiosyncratic and unwelcoming of all. I have never forgotten the scent, although I have not consciously smelled it for decades, because one day you could no longer buy Blue Grass. Just like that. So she used up her leftovers, and that's it. The fact that there was a new edition of Blue Grass at some point passed her (and me too - back then I just wore perfumes without any deeper interest).

Only here on Parfumo did I come across the name again and was able to remember the old scent colour, the sound of the scent, so familiarly that it was soon no longer a question: Should I encounter Blue Grass at any time at good conditions, then I will take it to myself - including the new version
And now it's here, the new version and I'm really surprised: It's so much in line with my scent memory that I'd probably need the direct comparison to spot differences.

The top note is as characteristic as before: very cool, cloudy, with a matt texture. Brittle and distanced lavender dominates, with strong soapiness and something herbaceous. Lily? I might. Rosengeranium? I'm sure it is. If I should assign a face, then it would be that of Greta Garbo, shaded look, flawless marble features, latent sadness.

The heart becomes spicier and softer in slow motion, the vetiver, with which I am not really good at, is perfectly arranged and is able to integrate and complement the spice with a hint of delicate grassy sweetness. A little powder, some soap. Gently. Melancholic.

A sentimental jorney.

I read flowery-green in the perfume description. No, that's not Blue Grass. Flowery-green, that sounds like light-hearted summeriness, like laughter of happy afternoons in nature or in the garden, like youthful freshness.

Blue Grass is ageless, cool, soft grey and gently fogged. And unmistakably quiet.

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