Not bad for a eau de toilette! One of those scents I can very easily recognise. It's 90% the same and I have to be honest side by side it makes my moschino smell like cleaning spray. Light Blue by Dolce & Gabbana (£48.50, 50ml): This has notes of apple, lime and lemon and smells very Italian. The performance of Light Blue is undoubtedly incomparable to other deep and rich perfume DNA but it does cling on to my skin for a good 4-5hrs or even longer if I don't sweat much. Plus in my opinion, this is the only sexy scent with citrus as the main note. Thankfully, this goes away after a minute or so. I feel like I should go run a mile or two while wearing it and perhaps have a vegan lunch. The nose behind this fragrance is Olivier Cresp. This was my first perfume and probably the best blind buy as a newbie to fragrance. I get maybe 3-4 h wear of this one. At first, when the top notes faded a bit, I thought it was kind of masculine. It’s weak weak weak!! Many people call this a fresh scent, but it's heady and not breezy on me. Perfumes: 63114 Love this; happy sunny summer fragrance! On my skin, however, it is JUST lemon. Lasts up to next day on my skin whereas the previous bottles barely made the four hour mark...are the tester bottles made more concentrated that regular bottles in the suede box? The new bottle was purchased from a well known department store where much of their market consists of beauty products for women so it's unlikely to be a fake. What does the color red smell like? The only reason I only liked it but didn't love it was because it turned very woody on my skin and it didn't feel feminine enough for me, I had always hoped I would find a perfume one day that smelt like this minus the wood, ..I did...lanvin eclat de arpege is the closest I could find and I love it..BUT I do have a new found appreciation for this now, the wood does keep it from being too suffocating. So ok son and I ordered blindly the light blue for men and women. Comme des Garçons Rouge smells like a cold-pressed juice cleanse. Posting in the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook group, one shopper revealed that she's been a loyal … Smells a lot like Lanvin Eclat D’arpege, but less airy and fresh. I have been wearing this for years now. I picked up a rollerball of this at the store and fell in love! This is super fresh and filled with citrus. The result is a kind of olfactory moire effect, shimmery and (to my nose, anyway) quite pleasant. I enjoy how it gets warm and yummy on my skin. This has okay longevity, not the longest lasting but pretty good for an EDT. Whatever.. The best....very nice fragrance. It's the perfect scent for the summertime and I'd say you can hardly over spray this as it's so fresh and clean. Until that one (or two?) Can someone please have a go at describing what it smells like? On my skin the dry down is the most delicious part. Bergamot … Nothing in this fragrance wows me and I don’t love it but it does lighten up a hot summers day, although it’s not my favourite it does the job of freshening up.. The time came last week to replace the formerly much loved but now empty bottle of D&G's Light Blue. Both me and my colleague (who is not into perfumes at all by the way) rushed out to get ourselves a bottle of this magical elixir. I love D&G Light Blue. So, here I am, giving credit to a scent that even if generic manages to also be special. Answer for question: Your name: Answers. This oddly opens rather aquatic on me, which I was really enjoying (it was reminding me of a mellow day at the ocean), but settles down to a straight-toned lemon. It smelled like a rotten fruit on me! Not a love at first sniff coz you will like more the classic but in the long run, intense is better than the classic! 1 decade ago. I find it offensive. This is a very popular fragrance and has been compared to one of my favorite scents, Étoile by Fragonard. Blue may smell like the inside of a police station to some people but of the countryside in June to others! My signature by the way! LIGHT BLUE BODY SPRAY. Source(s): As above. I just can't imagine anybody who could seriously hate this fragrance- to me, it smells fresh, clean and light. Lasts a decent amount of time too. I was shocked to come across Azure Breeze which smells exactly the same as Light Blue and is £12 for 100ml! I read some of the reviews here, and I do agree that this does indeed smell unisex due to the masculine notes; this fragrance isn't quite sweet or girly at all. Trouble is, you want them to go away. Smelled this on a girl for years in a yoga class. It's funny how easy it is to become jaded and even a bit snobbish about insanely popular designer fragrances, and perhaps that's the reason why I haven't worn it in so long, but there is a reason why this has been a best seller for so many years. Nothing new. Now this is my day time office scent. but even in cool ac it just smells very "off" for me. My most recently purchased bottle of Light Blue eau de toilette is manufactured in France. Very cheerful, crisp and uplifting scent with endless longevity and enormous sillage, fantastic in hot weather. As bizarre as it sounds, lightning has a distinct odor. My husband wore the eau intense version of this for quite some time in hot summers and everybody around him (including me of course) loved it. Light Blue would be ideal for someone with a casual lifestyle. Is that too much to ask? FOR HER: Light Blue Body & Hair Spray is designed to be spritzed top-to-toe, misting body and hair with an uplifting and sensuous cloud of scent. It does definitely linger. She's still sad about the reformulation :(. Light blue smells like a citrusy, basil mojito with lots of simple syrup to sweeten it up. This perfume smells like a furniture polishing rag after you wipe Pledge off of wooden table cleaned with Murphy's oil soap...not a bad smell but to me nothing to wear as perfume...waxy detergent lemon..ick, This perfume was my choise for the summer of 2015. Like Acqua di Geo during it's heyday, Light Blue is part of the air you breath. A smell-a-like is a perfume that smells like a designer fragrance but with a different name and packaging, and at a cheaper price. blue is a colour smart one, and yes I am british not an american-colour colour colour! It is nothing like my previous bottle in terms of how it smells! Some people complain about that. 33.1m members in the funny community. My high school biology teacher used to wear Light Blue. What perfume smells fresh clean? She's kept up with her purchases but I let it go, until now. It's light and springy. I wore this to work one day and my boss announced that it smelled "like AJAX cleaner in here!" Used to buy this perfume all the time. I love this during the winter! Disappointed to say the least, not worth the hype imho. Cotton. I thought it smelled like lemon-scented dish soap and generic floral scents with some hints of bamboo. It's fresh citrus scent in a synthetic way, I couldn't really like the perfume. A way better alternative would be CK IN2U. Anyways I kind of liked this one until the intense version came out. I went out to dinner with a friend and could smell this monstrosity on her and gagged. ME. Summer in a bottle... beautiful, fresh citrusy scent that never grows old. This one, like Envy, has a double nature--, This scent smell like fruits and florals combined together, I don't love it or hate it, It's like i'm not that much of a big fan of this, The scent reminds me of summer, I haven't actually tried this in years but remember very well how it smells as both me and mum mum used to wear it so I had to write a review. Or a fresh rain in the countryside that cleans all the dirt away from the flower petals and gathers in small pools for birds to bathe in. I've known Light Blue for years, but when it first came out I was into different type of fragrances. No more flat cedar chips. All I can smell is harsh synthetic lemon. The lemon + cedar combo makes me want to polish furniture. I really detect more of the citrus than apple. Acrid, medicinal smell that stayed and would not go away. I really, honestly thought I had figured it out. 0 0. FOR HIM: Light Blue Pour Homme Body Spray offers a uniquely revitalizing way to wear this signature scent, simply spraying with abundance over the body. I see on these reviews that a lot of people aren’t impressed by this or think it smells like cleaner etc but everyone I’ve come in contact with that smells this really likes it. To those who say it's like lemonade, I feel it's more delicate than just lemonade, this is not straight on citrus, something in it makes it a little sweet but not cloying. Some people can. Included on my top 5, classic and intense dolce and gabbana light blue! One moment I’m in love with the beautiful citrus opening, and the next it smells like toxic oven cleaner. I had liked this so much. how would someone not love this frozen lemonade??? Ever since she ruined it for me, lol .... the slightest hint of this juice will turn me off. I love this scent. But I never know if anybody is wearing it, that's even funny. It was one of the most pleasant smelling scents during its time. Lemon, orange, sheer woods, and musk notes keep you smelling sweet, but fresh. My friend loves it but i don't. I stopped off in M&S for the sale and sniffed out the perfume. It has some citrus to give it the cooling effect, but it also has some depth, perhaps some masculine woods. I've used this fragrance a few years ago and decided it was time to buy a new bottle. On the tester paper I could smell all of the different notes. Stays gently crisp and masculine rather than too floral. This was my best friend's signature scent. Not here for the sugar shaming. My friend wore this and it smelled beautiful on her so I tried it as well but I got none of the beautiful freshness I could smell on her. so so very sour and acidic.. dislike tremendously. I will preface this by saying I know this is uber-popular. I don't expect it to last 8h but this is unacceptable...and as far as I've read in the comments, I'm not the only one. It smells very good, actually. As someone who likes non-citrus frag, this scent is actually quite pleasant. I actually prefer the Byredo to the Light Blue, as Byredo has a different, slightly warmer DNA. It's light, fresh, and clean. That's all I get out if it. I have a slight headache now. Its fruit notes are sheer rather than syrupy, so the overall effect is crisp and bright – like biting into an ice-cold Granny Smith. It leaves a sillage trail for quite awhile. To me this is one of those perfumes that everyone, particularly guys, seems to love, yet I don't and cannot see why it is such a crowd pleaser. This is a safe and delightful fragrance. It is a brilliant technical composition that fell victim to the usual overexposure and copycat curse that befalls when innovation reproduces with popularity. Plus on a day too hot and humid to wear almost any perfume Light Blue is still perfect. I don't know but I personally often sway towards this one in winter more than summer. But it smells very cheap, musky, very artificial smelling citrus, sillage and longevity very weak, it becomes a skin scent very quickly. The top notes are lemon and granny smith green apple but in the original version, it is added with cedar and bell flower. This is not one of my first go to choices. Red doesn't have a smell. On my skin it's all about citruses, zing, lemonade and cedar, on her I smell rose, jasmine and amber. But Light Blue is more than just citrus florals and sharp woods. To my nose and on my skin it has very little depth or character and smells like a laundry detergent/dish soap/fabric softener. It is a beautiful, fresh, uplifting, crisp citrus fragrance. Yellow doesn't have a sound. A perfect scent for confident, upbeat guys who like crisp fragrances. It's fairly minimalistic with decent longevity and intimate sillage. I get why the hype, really. It smells wonderful on her. The spectrum of blue colours moves from lighter blues with more white tones such as powder or sky blue to the greenish blues of aquamarine or teal or brilliant blues like ultramarine or cobalt through to blues with further black or grey tones like navy, indigo or midnight blue. What else? I just purchased my fourth bottle of this and it's a 'TESTER" bottle that says made in France. I think blue smells crisp and clean. But on it's own, it just doesn't work for me. The edt never worked on my skin.. the refreshing body cream is gorgeous! Bought a partial as I've been loving my love love and this is the dupe. The only citrus fragrance that doesn't give me a headache or nausea. Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue and Light Blue Intense Notes When looking for a fragrance, the first thing we have to check is their notes because this will give a clue about how the perfume will smell like. notes do not smell like a typical 'lemon' note. There’s a sweetish woody cedar, too. Basenotes is an online guide to perfume and fragrance, featuring news, features, a database of fragrances, , fragrance forums, user reviews and more. Me and my mum used to wear the male and female versions of this around the time she died so has a special place in my memory. I don’t see the hype over this other than it being dolce and gabbana. Although I like the smell of this, I will not buy another bottle as when I had a bottle I wore it to death, and now I can smell it on every other person who walks by, and it smells the same on everybody. It gets right up my nose in an unpleasant harsh way. Perfume isn’t about how long you smell it on your skin or how it initially smells. But as the scent dries down on my skin it leaves a sweet but cooling and woody smell that is super pleasing to the nose. Smells like lemons, other citrus, woody musk with a bit of green and mojito in there. If you've taken a bath within the last 24hours, then well- blue is you!!!!! But I grew to like it because it's a happy scent, uncomplicated and can't imagine and appropriate for pretty much any occasion /season. It lacks depth and base. Fragrantica® Inc, San Diego, CA United States. I think you could gift this fragrance to most women and they would like it. Very light in sillage and longevity. Perfume lovers: 596697 Perfectly refreshing, especially in 100+ degree heat. I would describe it as a mind bending perfume. Would probably last longer on clothing/hair? I bought this expecting a light lemony summertime scent. It smells clean and fresh but it's not for me. I could easily see this being gifted to a teen, career woman, stay at home mom, or social butterfly grandma. A light … Light Blah. The sillage (trail left in the perfume’s wake) of Light Blue is marvelous—gossamer light, yet distinctive, and it is one of the most fascinating aspects of wearing it. And my I like it on my wife too. A good D & G, even one of the best. But your cedar proved to be just the right touch. Like the colour green, blue is essentially soothing and relaxing. I was shocked by this perfume. I have the same experience as the reviewer below me...this scent is very 'citronella bug repellent' especially on me. I smell mostly lime. However, if you notice a light switch is hot to the touch or smells like it’s burning, don’t ignore it. Roses actually don’t smell “red” but smell “white, light pink or light blue” when tested under MRI, scientists conclude Roses don’t smell red. It garnered such popularity and all I smelled was old lady powdered wood. 8.5/10. It smells like mojitos! This is much too woody for me. Sort by reaction score Thread starter ponygal12; Start date Dec 13, 2009; 1; 2; Next. Maybe I need to spray more. D&G Light Blue became my signature scent since 2018. Support Hyperallergic’s independent arts journalism. So fresh, such a beautiful perfume. It's unlike any fragrance I've found. The entire effect was so well balanced and we both smelled something that neither of us could identify. Fresh cut apple/citrus. This is not a "clean, non-offensive" scent. I wear it before I go to sleep. NOPE. Hope this helps. Easy daily/office scent. It’s one of those classic fragrances, where if you walk into Sephora or any dept store and they still sell this and it’s a best seller it has to be good. She went to buy a bottle and returned it because the new formulation smells like burnt plastic and cedar. If it were a little more of a sweet lemon, I think I would like this more and I'm honestly contemplating layering it with another "warm sugar" type that I have, so I may update this. Most of the time, urine does not have a strong smell if you are healthy and drink plenty of fluids. You can wear it during the day because its not a very overpowering scent. Light Blue by Dolce&Gabbana is a Floral Fruity fragrance for women. It's a good refreshing fragrance, probably the b est of the aquatic-fruity range. I can see why this is so popular and why men love it so much. This was the favorite scent of one of my ex-boyfriends and it's a pretty unisex fragrance. You call this boring, try Lanvin. Special about Light Blue is that it is completely unisex with its soapy powdery lemon and woods but still beautiful on a woman and hot on a man. It smells fresh, but it's too generic and synthetic for my liking. Online right now: 1575, Fragrantica in your language: 5 / 5; Caron Hill. I think the ad campaign had a huge impact on its popularity. What is a fresh … Sadly the poor longevity ensures that the 30ml bottle is still half full. Generally, the Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue perfume is said to smell of citron and granny smith apple, with additional scents of bluebell, bamboo, white rose, jasmie, sambac, and musk. On some people, this smells like fresh squeezed lemonade on a breezy day at the beach. But there is something about Moschino that I love, the musky drydown. Bought this for myself about 10 years ago and my mum went and bought some too - we share the same skin. I don't miss it at all. It has a unique scent that unfortunately everyone is wearing. Swayed by the many You Tubers gushing over how great Light Blue is, I purchased a bottle and the lotion as well as I like to layer scents. I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!! Beachy, breezy, serene. This perfume made me search for alternatives, sadly, and try to find out and avoid whichever note made me feel like gagging. This smells exactly like freshly made lemonade. Is it me, or is this a carbon copy of Hugo by Hugo Boss, but more expensive? that's the part i also dislike. I have been searching and searching the internet for any information. I love to smell it on others in public. Light Blue consistently comes in at the top of the bestseller lists in the United States – and with very good reason: it is hard to beat in the summer refresher stakes. I'm not one to enjoy sweet fragrances, nor the pungently floral ones. “Cheap perfume that smells like designer fragrances, at a fraction of the price!” We sell the best quality cheaper alternative perfumes, cheap perfume that smells like designer fragrance brands scents – providing you with inexpensive fragrance alternatives minus the price-tag, in the UK. The line also includes another four scents: Sweeter Tings, Williamsburg Sleepover, Good Thoughts, and Muskoka, which "emulates the smoldering warmth of … Unisex. Any info would help, thanks! This is lovely in the summer heat. It smelled much more like a mojito than the fragrance. ... Australians smelled blue. This perfume is not the most unique that I’ve tried, but it’s definitely has it’s own charm. Beauty Almanac |. Light Blue is simply wonderful. 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