Elizabeth Arden, Blue Grass, 240 ml. or 8 oz. Flacon, Eau de Toilette, 1934, 1950, Paris, France ..

Florence Nightingale Graham lived from December 31, 1878 to October 18, 1966, who went by the business name Elizabeth Arden, was a Canadian-born American businesswoman who founded what is now Elizabeth Arden, Inc., and built a cosmetics empire in the United States. By 1929 she owned 150 upscale salons across the United States and Europe. Her 1000 products were found in the luxury market in 22 countries. She was the sole owner, and at the peak of her career, she was one of the wealthiest women in the world.

"Blue Grass was launched in 1934, and the perfumer who created it was George Fuchs of Fragonard. Blue Grass was created in order to celebrate the scent of the grassy pasture fields where Arden bred her famous Thoroughbreds. I find it especially endearing that she insisted her beauty products be lavished on her horses.

This scent is cool and green, sublimely subtle and finishing off with a powdery velvet-ness similar to the feel of horse nuzzling your palm. To analyze it more in depth, I will say the lavender and jasmine are especially prominent on it's opening and these have been woven together in an herbal, juicy fruity and crisp green combination that seems to be so, so difficult to get just right in a perfume. I attribute it's true grassy character to a sweet vetiver, backed up by a touch of cedar.

The cooling powdery feel lingers throughout, I believe because the lavender matches perfectly to the vetiver and cedar, although none of these notes is allowed to come out too fully. All of it is held in check by a judicious blend of florals, so that the aforementioned jasmine, along with lily of the valley, rose and carnation do not play heavy roles, either. There is a definite citrus open thanks to neroli, bergamot boosted by geranium, aldehydes and orange blossom. One source adds laurel to the list of notes and I'm included to agree to it, playing wonderfully well with the cool herbal notes of lavender and sweet grass." Courtesy of The Perfume Vault

Top notes are Lavender, Bergamot, Neroli, Orange, Lily of the Valley, and Orange Blossom
Middle notes are Jasmine, Carnation, Narcissus, Rose, Tuberose, and Geranium
Base notes are Sandalwood, Benzoin, Tonka, Tonquin Musk, Vetiver, and Cedar

Offered here is a wonderful 8 oz. flacon of this iconic eau de toilette in its original box. My mother wore this perfume in the 1950's and it always reminds me of her!!