Bill Blass for Women Bill Blass for women

Looking for this exact bottle of original Bill Blass if anyone knows where I can buy one. Mom has dementia and Dr says perfume that she wore might help.

Somebody here paid $100 for a 100 ml bottle. My oh my!
I just bought a 50 ml bottle for 6 euro.
Inoffensive scent but suitable for office, similar to Cabotine by Gres, only that the latter lasts way longer.

A fresh bouquet of flowers and green notes suitable for spring— and if the temperature does not regularly exceed 100 degrees for summer as well.
No aldehydes; which predominated in the 1970s. Longevity is about 4 hours and sillage is about 4 hours.
Office appropriate.

I’ve been hunting this specific perfume down for years! I don’t believe in sites such as eBay or Amazon — where there are many counterfeit products.
Once I’ve recently discovered that there was a store that was selling it at around $100 USD — for a full 100ml. bottle, I seized the opportunity and got it!
It’s such a shame that this gem discontinued a very long time ago. It really is a work of olfactory art!

Bill Blass by Bill Blass for Women takes me all the way back to my childhood, when my mother would wear it consistently. That’s the reason why I got it in the first place — as a birthday present for her. It was one of her all-time perfumes, and I just felt the urge to get it.
As soon as I lifted the cap, I instantly recognized the scent. Truly astounding how I managed to finally snag a vintage bottle! If I had to label this fragrance, it’d be yellow AND green — freshly-cut grass green, a bit mossy, but very clean and floral.
For an EDT, it’s quite strong!

9/10

$4.99 Full vintage bottle at a thrift store ! Old school "greenie" with a list of notes that just becomes "note soup" (NO- you cannot smell PINEAPPLE in this!).
Like most "old schoolies" this blasts out HARSH n' loud , then simmers down to something pretty substantial and nice! You may get a hint of iris / orris , carnation , LOTV and some of the yellow notes -- so it's really a "not so Greenie". They kinda go back and fourth - which I love. Happy to have this in my collection.

Lovely, lovely, lovely.

If you are a person who enjoys old fashioned boudoir scents or elegant florientals, Bill Blass is a treat to savor. I've had my bottle for almost 7 years now and have not grown tired of her or been sorry for my purchase. Powdery, fresh, musky, floral, and creamy all at once. The feel of this fragrance is a womanly, sweet (but not sugary) feminine triumph. Rather hard to describe. I have Sung, and it has never smelled a bit like that on me. It has green florals, but also a good deal of powder, white musk, wood, and pineapple! It's the only fragrance I've ever had with a pineapple note that actually appealed to me. The pineapple softens and rounds out the florals and base notes to a charming warmth.

What fragrances is this like? None. But like another reviewer I am reminded of the same airy, rounded, floral beauty of Vanderbilt and Beautiful. I can't stop sniffing myself while wearing Bill Blass, and I get complements automatically and often. Is Bill Blass modern or trendy? Not even slightly. But if it were released under a new name with more orange blossom and less powder, it would sell well today! Totally 5 stars.

Very fresh and pretty after about 30 minutes. When first applied, I get a definite furniture polish note, but that goes away, thank goodness. At that point, it’s lovely. It would be hard to be in a bad mood wearing this! Great value for a very nice everyday/office scent that is an outdoorsy girl next door.

This was one of my favorite fragrances to wear in the late 70's and early 80's. It's a beautiful green and floral scent with a bit of soft powder added. I only have a mini perfume of it now and don't want to use it as I like to keep my collectables full and it costs a fortune to buy a vintage now. I have found that catalyst by Halston is very similar and can be found easily and at a reasonable price. I sure wish it would be made again.

Bill Blass f. women is a lavish floral bouquet, green notes mixed with big florals. I've had this fragrance for a while, but somehow it slipped my mind. Then another mini arrived, and now I'm so happy to have two of these lovelies. There's something special about the late 70's fragrances: I don't love every one but they are unique.
There's no pineapple in BB as far as I can tell. There is a fair bit of oakmoss, which can make or break a fragrance. In BB the oakmoss doesn't take over, nor does the orris root or the musk. It's a very well blended perfume, classy but not stuffy. BB smells feminine to me, but it's not girly.
BB is a perfume of a different era, and yet there's plenty about it to appeal to younger wearers. BB will stand out from the current slew of sweet and/or aquatic fruit whatevers, but it won't come across as old fashioned or grandmotherly. Honestly, one should be so lucky to have a grandmother who wears BB!

I LOOOOVED Bill Blass as a kid. My mom wore it and it was my favorite of her perfumes. Mossy and green, yet deep and voluptuous, this was a big glorious stonking creation. Reminiscent in its greenness of Pheromone or Chanel No 19, but with the deep florals of Beautiful and Red Door.

I revisited it via a mini sample, and realized this fragrance style will never come back. It was a great olfactory memory but I can't imagine wearing something this ornate and room-filling now.

When I think of green fragrances, Bill Blass is the first thing that comes to my mind.

I don't mean green sitting on top of patchouli, or vanilla, or amber, or calone. I don't mean green with rich spices, or resins, or wood. I mean GREEN--a sun-drenched, well-manicured lawn. Springtime, rich, sweet, clover-y grass. That kind of green.

Sweet hyacinth and mimosa dominate. After about half an hour, there's a distinct pineapple note. A very light application might tend to be somewhat powdery after about an hour.

This 40 year-old beauty is a stand-out today's sea of fruitchoulis (which I too love). Wearing BB in 2018 is probably a good way to get remembered, and in the best way. You'll be the one who smells like a bright late April day.

Dusty floral, and slightly nursery plant.

I do sense allot of hiacynth, & galbanum, under dirty vetiver, & mimosa. I do sense pineapple, lily of the valley, and oakmoss.

Mostly it's a slightly, dusty floral with some hidden sweetness.

From what i have witnessed being infatuated by exploring vintage, i realized that only certain very few fragrances stood up while the rest are just either a duplicate or a variation of the main new creation! The history is repeating itself! just like "Nur" (Sooud), & "Black Afgano", how many houses have repeated those revolutionary blends!

The vintage era now is finished as i am partially (if not fully) satisfied with this curiosity and i won't mind checking vintages from time to time just out of curiosity. Now my curiosity is heading towards Russian perfumers as i liked few artists explanations of their new fragrances while i had a tiny sniff of some Russian perfumers and it was quite weird (which is my infatuation). Let's see where i'll begin!

I inherited a vintage bottle from the eighties so many of the lighter notes have dissipated but it has been refined with age. A buttery hyacinth, Tuberose and sandlewood. Very elegant, elusive and playful like a young child in a well loved garden.

Never smelled this again since the 80s. For me, the spirit of BB is in this word: champagne. I don´t know why, but I associate it with bubbles and light coming up and down in a wine glass (I was a teenager then, without permission to drink LOL). It surpises me the comparison with EL Pleasures and Sung, two scents that make me sneeze.

My friend in high school used to wear this. It smelled really good on her. It smelled ok on me. Not now though

Very strong chemical type floral green smell when first applied, then it diminishes to almost a hairspray smell.

I have a 3.4oz spray bottle in box that I should try to sell on eBay.

I got to thinking about fragrances I wore way back in the early 1980's when I was very young: Sand & Sable, White Shoulders, Shiseido Inoui, Halston and Bill Blass. I remember particularly my fondness for Inoui and Bill Blass. Inoui has been difficult to track down, but Bill Blass is still readily available, so for nostalgia's sake I ordered a mini.

It is fresh and soft, a bit tangy, subtly green and sweetly floral. Very nice for Spring and Summer, I do like it very much now but it's not quite love. My skin picks up the pineapple, mimosa (one of my favorite notes), lily of the valley, hyacinth and a fleeting suggestion of oakmoss. Lately I've been wary of perfumes with fruit notes, especially acidic ones as they have a tendency turn sour on me. But the pineapple here does not go sour and is not too strong. This is an exceptionally well-blended fragrance in that all the notes complement one another and no single one shouts out its presence over the others. I am so glad to have rediscovered it!

It's amusing to me to hear others speak of it being "a New York" fragrance for women in crisp business suits. When I wore it in the 80's, I was working in a cocktail lounge wearing a skimpy cheetah-print outfit with black stockings and stiletto heels. And wearing Bill Blass perfume! I liked it because it was a fresh clean scent which contrasted with the heavy booze-and-smoke-filled atmosphere of the nightclub. And it did make me feel sophisticated at age 20.

All in all, it is just as I remember it and I will wear it when I just need to feel clean and bright again.

I inherited a perfectly preserved original Prestige Fragrances version. Bill Blass was very progressive for 1978. The competition was Halston, Oscar, Lauren, Opium, First and Calvin Klein(red). The powerhouse era was yet to evolve. Bill Blass blatantly paved the way for the powerhouse. This was the era of the "American school" of perfume.

It is a major floral chypre that has plenty of green notes. The floral notes are enormous and lively. Today it seems all too familiar. It was copied many times since. Estee Lauder Beautiful comes to mind as does Sung.

I get plenty of mimosa and hyacinth that lifts your spirits. The rest of the composition blends perfectly into clever bouquet. Galbanum clearly dominate the first 20 minutes paving the way for the oakmoss vetiver and patchouli. It is the brightest chypre I have ever encountered.

There is no musky civet or any other dirt notes to drag it down. It shines like the top of the Chrysler Building! Its a very New York City perfume.

My box states the suggested retail price is $15.

update 9/23/2014
I have looked everywhere and cannot find the nose for this. I am willing to guess this is an early Sophia Grojsman. The style and the bounce remind me of her beginning style, especially Vanderbuilt a few years later. I would love any feedback on this.

Used to love it. It was my signature scent in my 20s. Perhaps I just got a bad bottle because the last bottle I purchased STUNK. It was garish and not the inviting scent a recalled. I am going to hope it was just a bad bottle, or I am going to wonder how I ever got a date in my 20s smelling like that!

I so wished I would love this but......It just has these very high pitched harsh accords. Anyone who would like a swap,pls let me know

When I first sprayed it I thought that it's really intense and rich in a floral and fresh way. But not laundry fresh like nowadays. More "perfumy". Looking at the creation date it is clear why this is :)

So, while I personally loved the scent I was always a little cautious. I wasn't sure if I could pull it of but yesterday morning I thought what the heck, let's go Bill!

When my boyfriend sniffed me he immediately took another sniff of my neck and said that I smell really really good, like summer. Don't be afraid of this smelling dated - it is wonderful and also very luxurious! Lasting power is excellent and when sprayed with a light hand there's no need to worry about going overboard.

WORDS are not adequate.

You must Meet this scent in order to understand how lovely and uniquely appealing she is.....

6 Stars for this wonderfully smooth and full bodied beauty!

Fresh, clean and vivid green with that sensual goodness of the pineapple. As a young girl I smelled BB and thought it was a high echelon perfume, somehow always worn by working women in serious business suits. Now as an adult I think I might try another BB concoction, not this one. It's a well thought out, well executed scent.

This one is fresh and pretty! I love the pineapple and cinnamon. Bill Blass is rich, clean,a little soapy, creamy,slightly sweet and really an elegant and timeless fragrance.I am enjoying this today. Heavenly.

Wonderfully fresh and green! Smells like delightful mimose soap -- I wish I could find soap that smelled like this. The galbanum makes it very soapy and a little sharp as it usually does. The hyacinth is also green and prominent. The mimose is sweet and seems to me to be the most outstanding note. Would be a great scent for spring, very fresh and clean. Also good for just out of the shower if you'd like that soapy scent to come with a little floral.

remind me of childhood..This perfume my parents.

Review is for 2007 version.

It comes in a more beautiful textured, tall square bottle. The scent is half
Diorissimo, sharp floral and half Sung, green and mossy. Weird, but it works.
I think Oscar de la Renta Live In Love copied this!

The Original Vintage formula is best....not the 5 star version of today...

This fragrance has a strong scent of white flowers, like a spicy tuberose. I wore it in the late 1980's; my family had a home in the Cayman Islands and I would wear it on the humid sultry nights, dancing on the beach. It was strong enough to last and be intoxicating, but not so sweet that the sillage nauseated others in the heat. It is quite fresh, and on my skin I do not get much "green", as green scents generally turn "grassy". For me, this will always be my Caymans scent, recalling the thrill of becoming a young woman and the primping before going out dancing, boating, and having fun on a beautiful island... Even if this scent does not conjure such memories for you, it is a special scent capable of making its wearer seem confident, fresh, classic, and slightly sexy. Wear it as you make some lovely new memories!

Green green green - that's how it starts. Then green green and a strong hiacynth. Other than hiacynth, I cannot get any separate flower, they mix all together. That's a definitely older-style scent when all notes rush forward together, they are a bit too exuberant even. But very lady-like - not oldlady-like, but Audrey Hapburn-elegant-lady-like. If I were a lawyer or a CEO I would wear this gladly - in my opinion, Bill Blass for women goes exceptionally well with luxurous clothes and wide-brimmed hats. But I'm afraid CEOs would be deterred by its low price tag....

Can someone tell me...is there a drastic difference between the edt and the edp?

Very unique and unusual spicy floral scent. I wore this in high school. Not sure if the modern version is the same but guys loved it and I got a lot of compliments.

This scent was a delightful surprise for me. The words that come to my mind are vivid, lively, clean. With the exception of the geranium and orris it's difficult to pick out individual notes. And when I say clean I don't mean "soapy", I mean crisp and fresh, like it draws a sharp line. The persistence is sensational: if I apply it in the morning I'll still catch whiffs when I'm getting ready for bed. This is an underappreciated classic and a mood brightener to boot.

Persistence: excellent 10-12 hours
Fabulosity: Lauren Hutton
Value to price ratio: excellent
8/10

This is an oldie but goodie anytime scent. I liked its sweet sophistication...It reminds me a little of Estee Lauder Private Collection however PC is a little stronger floral as I recall. I like both fragrances they are classics.

I had this perfume in the 80s and loved it. Unfortunately it can't be found everywhere. If you want a soft,powdery/feminine scent this might work for you. It is probably one of those perfumes that works well with your chemistry or not. On my skin this scent lingered for hours.

I never wore this scent, but I received the scented votive candles and porcelain votive candle holder as a Christmas gift and they were a favorite of mine. I only burned them on special occasions so they'd last. I kept thinking of purchasing the fragrance for myself, but never got around to it.

Great parfume!!
I could smell it all day long and never got tired of it.

Just look at the amazing notes of this perfume!! It can only be beautiful with such a selection of ingredients! I find this beauty very well constructed for a WONDERFUL price! There were made a lot of gorgeous perfumes back in the 70's! LOVELY!

I love this scent....very clean and fresh!

I have it thanks to Magie and this is sooo wonderful! This should be in one of my threads about GREAT perfumes for a GREAT price! If you are in to the great galbanum classics, this one cannot be missing from your collection!!
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This is a nice classic scent. I wore this many years ago and still like the fragrance alot. Im not sure if i would ever again but-yeah-I would if it was in front of me but not on a regular basis, there are far too many fish in the sea of scents for me to just stay on one for too long.

very pretty floral. not to strong. is great with my chemistry.

I agree with the previous reviewer; I too cannot decide whether I like it enough to wear....