Bluebell Penhaligon`s for women

There is something so evocative in this. My childhood, walks in the woods, talking with God. This seems like it should be worn by a young maiden from another era, it has a fairytale quality to it. I also enjoy the I Capture The Castle reference this perfume has. Ultimately it felt too green for me, but it is haunting and rather long lasting. This would be fantastic on a girl with pale blonde hair and porcelain complexion.

I absolutely adore this perfume. At first I really did not like it, but I have tried it again and again and discovered that the smell is simply just fresh cut hyacinths!When I wear it I feel like I just cut some bluebells from the forest and the fragrance of the green leaves and the flowers is penetrating my skin making this wonderful spring scent.Then the middle notes make their entry settling the fragrance to a softer, more serious smell.

This is my all time favourite. Smells just like hyacinths at first, and then ends up smelling a bit like soil but in a good way. It's very fresh, earthy, spring like and very English. Captures the scent of walking through the bluebell woods.

I really wanted to love Bluebell by Penhaligon`s, but I dont... I am sorry, but it is way to sharp and spicy. Then strong tones of roses. I see all the praise this scent gets here - so it might be my skin in the summer time.

Bluebell has a cult following for a reason. It may not be alluring or sensual, but it is certainly a romantic fragrance. It conjures up "I Capture the Castle," blustery Spring days and the beautiful English landscape.

I think one of the reasons why Bluebell gets panned is the vast difference between expectations and reality. Judging from the name and the packaging, you would be more than justified in expecting Bluebell to be a delicate English floral. In actuality, Bluebell is a striking blend of assertive notes: chilly green galbanum, sharp clove and a very vivid hyacinth. Surprise!

I'll admit that the gorgeous packaging is part of my attraction to the Penhaligon's line. I'm deeply grateful for perfume that doesn't remind me of a cleaning product or an energy drink by virtue of the plasticky bottle and the lurid coloring. If saying so makes me superficial, I guess I can live with that.

Penhaligon's Bluebell is an interesting fragrance. The opening is very green.I don't get lemons or any citrus note. Fresh cutted grass with some hyacinth. After a few minutes is settles down to a little powdery- musky -hiachynt-lily of the valley with some cinnamon undertone. The drydown is very close to skin.

I think this frag is could be a nice daytime scent if it's works well with the skin chemistry.Actually I really like it, perfect for spring days.

Ok, let's stop for once playng the good boys and girls game.

Sometimes I forget how much a perfume can be ugly and annoying. Anytime it happens I reach for Bluebell as a reminder. Horrifying synthetic floral at its worst. Simply abominable.

Rating: 2/10

I liked this perfume, but was disappointed that I didn't love it. It was very linear for me: first sharp, wet and earthy, then cloves, then sweet sweet rose. None of it bothered me, and I enjoyed the mix of earth, spice and sweet flowers. Ultimately, the rose was just too sweet for me; the floral element has a real saccharine quality, so sweet it's synthetic.

I notice that different people experience the notes with varying strength. One of my sisters smelled straight cloves, and the other smelled wet earth and forest -- she loved it. I suggest giving this one a try! Not for me, but I can definitely respect people's love for it.

Did not like this at all. Too bad, because I had high hopes. Too green, too hyacinth. And I have to agree with Tessture, too much like frsh garden dirt!

Princess Diana wore Tearose on her wedding day, according to the mother of one of the flowergirls. She wore it also and had a conversation with Diana about how they wore the same fragrance. She also wore Miss Dior for a very long time.

It's very fresh, like soap, but the scent disappears from the skin within minutes, both for me and for anyone I've asked. Quite a nice few minutes, but very expensive.

I've red in magazine today that Princess Diana worn this perfume for years, even on her wedding day. Does anyone know if it's true????
I haven't had a chance to smell this perfume, so i was just wondering...

I see that Noelia mentions this fact too..

I really wanted to like this when I tested it when I went to London. I love the Alice in Wonderland style bottle (did Tenniel influence the designer?) and I love the smell of bluebell woods. However this doesn't smell like them, nor indeed, of any of the notes puported to be in it. Nailvarnish remover and wee and something stale. Did not appear to drydown into anything nice, just disappeared thank god. Unfathomable that anyone would buy this.

Starts off strongly smelling of hyacinth. Then it turns into mainly cinnamon.

I was hoping for lovely floral green, but what did I get in return? Something terrible. Sharp, full of clove and spices, the clove is so strong that I can't even feel any flowers. MUST SCRUB OFF NOW!

P.S. On the other hand - don't want anyone come near you? Wear this. This will scare off not only vampires (clove!), but every other human being. Or being. My cats are horrified.

I bought the bottle because it was so pretty, thinking the scent would be light and floral. I could hardly believe my nose when I sprayed it on my wrist. I wanted to return it but couldn't. It is extremely strong and smells purely like rose, black pepper, cinnamon, and sandalwood. Sounds revolting, no? Totally unexpected after looking at those delicate little bluebells on the bottle. I can't believe that any classy English lady would wear it, except for maybe the Queen (might be stuffy enough for an old lady). There is nothing quintessential English about it.

I grew to like it, but it's not the one I reach for regularly. Mostly it becomes tempting on a cold day when I'm just running errands alone. I wear it when I'm alone because, to be frank, I worry that others might be offended by it.

As for any mention of green notes and fresh gardens, I smell not one single trace of those things. It's more like grandma's stuffy, dusty attic or an old bowl of rose potpourri.

Test this one before you buy it!

UPDATE: I must be fair and add this. As I said above, this becomes tempting on cold days. I wore it on a cold, rainy day recently...and it becomes quite magical. The cloves die down and it becomes a warm, rosy cloud. I can see how this could remind people of England. This scent would be great for those foggy/damp days that they have. But I must stand by my original statement that this does not remind me of fresh gardens or anything green. The only plant to be found in here is moss.

Bluebell is very green at first then a strange smell of crisp flowers emerges, i do not find it particular pretty for my taste i do prefer warmer and floral fragrances, but for who loves green floral scents this is the right perfume

I really like the greenish-tinged floral opening of Penhaligon BLUEBELL, though I am not at all sure what bluebells smell like and so cannot say whether this abstraction resonates with reality or not.

Unfortunately, the cloves become stronger in the approach to the drydown, making this floral green a bit heavy and less natural smelling to me the longer it develops. I'm sensitive to cloves anyway, and I certainly have never smelled them in a grassy field of flowers. BLUEBELL might work better in cooler weather, so I'll try again at a later date--today it's 92F! I definitely had a better reaction to this composition last night, when the temperature hovered in the high seventies.

Not THAT horrid in my opinion. On my skin (after the first cold wave, chemical indeed) it turns into cloves and this spicy note is sexy in a way, sharp but calming. It remains bitter-sweet, like some medicine, perfect for April mornings and hot days as well, mainly for work. I find it unique and... smart (yes, some perfumes smell of intelligence!).

I really wanted to sample this, because I adore this shade of blue and think that this bottle combined with the name is soooo pretty! However, I am not usually fond of floral fragrances - could never quite say why exactly - but the (to me very long) opening of this fragrance gives me some clues: they just seem to be lacking some dimension, I think I am missing some musky or "animalistic" or spicy or powdery or deep notes, something lingering on your skin. They often seem to be pretty and frivolous and that's about it. :-D. For the first hour (or quite a bit more) all I smell here is the hyacinth and nothing else. No citruses or spices or green notes whatsoever, and the scent is not necessarily bad, but seems a little too simple/straightforward and monotonous after a while. I don't have anything really negative to say about it - it is indeed, fresh, spring flowers, pretty and optimistic. I don’t mind wearing the sample and could see myself wearing it...hm...say couple of times in a year...? But wait! That was before the hyacinth aroma suddenly disappears and I finally start smelling different notes. I can't say what it is, really, but it's rather delicious and soooo nice - I have tried it a few times just to make sure my senses are not playing up, because it's quite bizarre: the story is always the same - first hour or more pure hyacinth, quite plain and shallow, really and then suddenly when I think that the fragrance is not detectable any more, I start sniffing those beautiful notes - I have virtually walked around sniffing, trying to find out what the lovely smell is until realising that it's me! So would I buy a bottle? Hm...maybe a tiny one – to use it every now and then as I might to want to experience this transformation again...

Bah! Horrid!! I was sold on the marketing and bought it from the lovely boutique in London before my wedding. I wore it on the day and luckily my bouquet (Hyacinths & Peonies) eclipsed it. It smells nothing like the English countryside!! I live below a native bluebell wood and they smell very delicate. This is full on synthetic garden hyacinth and my husband hated it.

I love nearly all the notes listed for this perfume - including the sometimes-difficult galbanum and cloves - and was really excited to open a sample vial, especially when the first whiff was a very realistic hyacinth, just like the ones I bury my nose in every spring.

Unfortunately, the spicy goodness of hyacinth dissipated within fifteen minutes, leaving behind a very synthetic-smelling, chemical-nightmare shrieking mess. It's rare that I can't suffer through the whole scent trajectory of a perfume I'm testing, but I couldn't stand Bluebell after an hour and had to wash it off.

I'll point out that it may simply be my skin reacting badly to the scent, but I did find this horrendous.

hyacinth, white lily and forest floors. With a little spice. Strange and complex while still feeling like a little girls' scent. CaraMia is right: without the spice and an addition of moss or cedar, this would be a garden in the shade of huge ancient trees. As it is right now, the spice makes it odd. Not bad, and actually very interesting, but odd.

Love this stuff, Perfect for Spring. Tessture did a great job describing it. It is scentsational! Clove and Cinnomon, makes this very interesting!

I have to echo here what previous reviewers have said - it smells like a garden, or like the countryside. It smells like stepping outside in the very beginning of spring, after all the flowers have just opened up, and a breeze carries their scent around the neighborhood...

Unfortunately, this scent is both as beautiful and fleeting as a spring breeze.

On my skin, Bluebell opens as a slightly soapy floral. Not too long after, the clove emerges. Cloves are the bane of my existence, so I was planning to get up and go wash this off... but it disappeared before I got the chance.

All in all, if you do not fear or loathe the cloves, this is a fresh, springy, clean floral with some unexpected depth. The spices do not come across as spicy, but they do keep it from being "just another floral".

this perfume smells like the english countryside in late may after a shower of rain. wore it once on such an evening with a blue linen dress, it was just perfect. just seemed to blend in with the whole picture of an english village on a summer evening with the rain just gone and a bit of mist rising.you have to be in the right mood for it, sometimes i really don't like it. don't use it when you've got hay fever!! it is a smell that seems to follow you around. maybe my bottle is getting old, but i can't smell the citrus top note at all, with me it goes over very quickly to cloves and cinnamon, and hyacinths that are going over a bit, kept in a vase too long. a strange, rather eccentric sort of smell. my father liked it very much.

A fascinating scent. The opening is sharp citrus and heavy duty springtime hyacinth. The middle is a complete floral bouquet and almost hothousey(if there is such a word) and the ending is a combination of a very green galbanum melded with cinnamon and clove.

So it starts out like spring then brings you back inside for a spicy cider.

In a perfect world, I'd dump the spice and and add a bit of moss or cedar.

I'm suprised I could even put this near my skin what with the Hyacinth note (its pretty much my most HATED note) but I could not smell it. I don't know what a Bluebell physically smells like (although I found quite an interesting article about the disappearance of Bluebells in their native Britain, and conservation attempts of this beautiful flower)but I found this perfume to be suprisingly 'spicy'. I'm sure it must be a combination of the cloves and cinammon, but I was surprised to even see cinammon listed in the notes! Although this is a beautiful scent i'm not sure its for me.

Green, dirty galbanum and iris, like fresh garden dirt in spring. The dry down is more like perfume, but the opening is evocative and lovely.