Name: Blu Blumarine
Brand: Blumarine
Rating: 4.01 (85 reviews)

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Blu by Blumarine is a floral fragrance for women. Launched in 1996, this composition evokes the freshness of the ocean with a vibrant floral structure. Although specific details regarding the top, heart, and base notes, as well as the perfumer, are not provided in the available data, the essence of the piece remains faithful to its original conception.

Espartaco March 11, 2019

A bitter, luminous, and divine powder scent. At first, it reminds me a lot of Carmen with its jasmine and resplendent, bluish-white flowers, but Blu is more interesting because it starts as a dry floral on a wet, spicy, and precious bitter powder. It could also recall Myrurgia’s Maja, which, like this Blumarine, begins feminine but dries into an androgynous, ambiguous, and very cabaret-like scent. Blu was a shady, exuberant, and cheerful powder that didn’t make you think of night, but of day—a day sheltered from the sun in the courtyard of some Andalusian manor, with a table full of food and cold copperware, its fragrant jasmines, spiced and spicy carnations, and finally a harsh, refreshing soap air like that of an irrigation channel. I detect orris, violet, clove, and carnation; the jasmine, tuberose, and peach are potent at the start, suggesting an ultra-feminine liqueur in the style of the nineties Lancômes, but they fade quickly to give way to the first four notes. Curiously, it’s during the dry-down that I catch fleeting hints of the pale, milky tone of osmanthus and lotus, though they are residual; the form that defines Blu is a spicy, soapy paste. A spicy, cold powder that smells of Spain—a pre-war Spain, simple, cheerful, rural, and with an air of modernity. Finally, to say that for a perfume that’s already over twenty years old and which also draws inspiration from garçonne creations of the 1920s, it doesn’t feel outdated or passé.

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Ícara August 24, 2021

While I was typing the previous review, this Blu suddenly hit me from my right arm. It’s rich, far more so than one would expect from such a quirky and, frankly, ugly bottle. It has high projection and lasts well, at least on my skin, where powdery scents are a blessing. I detect quite a bit of violet and peach; my nose isn’t as refined as Spartacus’s, so I only noticed the resemblance to Carmen after reading his review; I never would have guessed it with Maja. Blu sounds very familiar, nostalgic, and mature, very much in the style of Lancôme’s Tresor; I even dabbed a bit of Tresor to distinguish them, and clearly they share many notes, with Blu leaning towards violet and Tresor towards rose. I suppose Blu didn’t bring many novelties to the perfume world, and while it remains current in its line, it recalls many icons from the era that were already famous when it launched. Perhaps that’s why they gave it the green light for its discontinuation.

Espartaco March 11, 2019

A bitter, luminous, and divine powder scent. At first, it reminds me a lot of Carmen with its jasmine and resplendent, bluish-white flowers, but Blu is more interesting because it starts as a dry floral on a wet, spicy, and precious bitter powder. It could also recall Myrurgia’s Maja, which, like this Blumarine, begins feminine but dries into an androgynous, ambiguous, and very cabaret-like scent. Blu was a shady, exuberant, and cheerful powder that didn’t make you think of night, but of day—a day sheltered from the sun in the courtyard of some Andalusian manor, with a table full of food and cold copperware, its fragrant jasmines, spiced and spicy carnations, and finally a harsh, refreshing soap air like that of an irrigation channel. I detect orris, violet, clove, and carnation; the jasmine, tuberose, and peach are potent at the start, suggesting an ultra-feminine liqueur in the style of the nineties Lancômes, but they fade quickly to give way to the first four notes. Curiously, it’s during the dry-down that I catch fleeting hints of the pale, milky tone of osmanthus and lotus, though they are residual; the form that defines Blu is a spicy, soapy paste. A spicy, cold powder that smells of Spain—a pre-war Spain, simple, cheerful, rural, and with an air of modernity. Finally, to say that for a perfume that’s already over twenty years old and which also draws inspiration from garçonne creations of the 1920s, it doesn’t feel outdated or passé.

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