Blu

2 reseñas

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• Espartaco

  March 23, 2019

  

  A bitter, luminous, and divine powder. In the opening, 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 can also recall Myrurgia’s Maja, which, like this Blumarine, starts 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 mansion, with a table full of food, cold copperware, fragrant jasmine, spiced and spicy carnations, and finally a harsh, refreshing soap air like that of an irrigation ditch. I detect orris, violet, clove, and carnation; the jasmine, tuberose, and peach are powerful at the blast, leading one to think of an ultra-feminine liqueur in the style of 90s Lancôme, but they fade quickly to give way to the first four notes. Curiously, it’s in the dry-down when I perceive lingering hints of the pale, milky tone of osmanthus and lotus, though residual; the form that defines Blu is a spicy, soapy paste. A spicy, cold powder that smells like Spain, a pre-war Spain, simple, cheerful, rural, and with modern airs. Finally, to say that for a perfume that’s already over twenty years old and that also draws inspiration from 1920s garçonne creations, it doesn’t feel outdated or passe.

• Ícara

  September 15, 2021

  

  While writing the previous review, I got whiffs of this Blu from my right arm. It’s rich, much more so than one would expect from such an odd and, frankly, ugly bottle. It has high projection and lasts long, 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, since I only noticed the resemblance to Carmen after reading his review; I never would have guessed the link with Maja. Blu sounds very familiar, nostalgic, and mature, very much in the style of Lancôme’s Tresor; I even dabbed some Tresor to tell them apart, and they clearly share many notes, with Blu leaning toward violet and Tresor toward 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 the green light to its discontinuation.