Blonde Versace for women

This is dynamite on my skin. Whenever I enter a room, everyone stops in their tracks. Likewise with Gucci Accenti. Ninety-five was a good year.

If anyone wants the mini bottle, I am willing to swap.

Oh, Blonde, my Blonde, how do I love you!
14 years ago it caught me eye because of the gorgeous bottle.
I find it the best tubereuse fragrance out there. All other tubereuse frags I tried before and after Blonde were lacking something. Blonde has it all.
Wear it if you want to get noticed! You will stop people and turn heads. People from both sexes will pay attention and ask what are you wearing. It's mostly but not always positive attention, but with a fragrance like this it's always whether love it or hate it, it would leave nobody cold!
Blonde is sadly another discontinued masterpiece.

Why, oh why, I only smell rotten fruits (peaches?) here? Did I get an old and bad bottle?! Or is it me?! I swapped this one for something more wearable for me...

I am so disappointed this perfume is discontinued. I don't have it anymore, but when I did both women and men used to chase me down to ask what I was wearing. The smell is so sexy and intoxicating. I am going to try Fracas after reading these reviews. I hope it’s just as beautiful.

Oh my word! Why didnt I know about this stunning fragrance sooner? What kuxury. Its such an elegant statement; totally majestic, this is how I think queens should smell every day! I managed to get a tiny bottle of the edp this morning and I have tried it straightaway.

The huge gardenia hit has faded quickly - about 30mins but now there is a creamy, almost jonquil softness lingering. Its not going to be a stayer unless I have additional products to layer it with... but thats my skin type typically.

I have the pure parfum red box version, and i have to say this really is a top notch parfum! the rose is decidant it's creamy a little sweet but sicy, very wel balanced, lasts long time (edp and pure parfum)

Question from a newbie...
What is the difference between the blue box VERSACE BLONDE and the VERSACE BLONDE PERFUME EXTRAIT in the red box pictured above?
Thanks for your reply... I am new to this site and have become addicted!

Sadly this fragrance was axed and added to my list of mourned VIPs (very inspirational perfumes). *tear*

The gardenia in this one is so prevalent, it almost scared me!
(Allow me to explain...)
Now I'm typically not drawn to pure floral fragrances. A floriental, yes, as long as the spices override the florals. So this surprised me.
It's not a sickly-sweet flower scent that tends to make people think "too old"/"too young". This is just that perfect blend of smoothness that very few fragrances are able to accomplish, and I liked how feminine it made me feel.

OMG!! I bought it totally blind, only cause the rewiews are so genuine written and...... I could take a bath in it!!!
YES, I FELT IN LOVE WITH IT IMEDIATELLY!!! For me it smells exactly like Fracas, but a little bit fresher. The lasting power is not so good like Fracas has. The pure Blonde Parfum lasts on me 6 hours, Fracas EDP lasts 1 whole day and night in my hair.

Blonde has a little bit ugly bottle, who find medusa beautifull?? Maybe Giannini Versace found in his wife Donatela medusa and was inspired to make this bottle like it is!
Tuberose also feel better in a dark bottle herself to not lose her intensity.

You can combine Blonde pure Parfum and Fracas EDP, without any problems. Jardins de Bagatelle is also similar, but more more flowery and very longlasting. I´m such a big lover from tuberose......

I agree with everyones memories. Lovely tuberose blend, I am glad I experienced it back in the day. A real special occasion fragrance, you didnt need to use a lot so I rationed it. It is a collectors item, I believe I have a mini.

As I'm a Blonde lover I couldn't resist trying the Eau de Fleure version. I had no expectations, but when I bought it I read different reviews and learnt that it was referred to be kind of a bubbelgum tuberose, which is SPOT ON! Think of Blonde original minus the civet and the earthy violet. Then add a big pink sweet bubblegum, an a pinch of bubbely powder and there it is.

I like Blonde au Fleure but as it doesn't contain the civet that original Blonde has in it's opening notes, it lacks a certain character. I would say that Blonde au de Fleure is a girlie and more smooth smelling in comparision to it's older sister. But also it lacks the original oomph that I adore. I wear and enjoy it but I enjoy original Blonde a lot more.

Why do they have to discontinue such fantastic fragrances I really don't know...

This is one of the best tuberose fragrances I have ever smelt, so if you like tuberose you can't go wrong with it.

If you can find it of course.. It is already a rare frag though still luckily available on the internet.

I wish they could bring this back without ever reformulating it...

This one is most unusual - in a good way!! I remember wearing this one years ago when my hair was blue/black, and person I worked with asked what fragrance I was wearing. I said "Blonde" and she said, "but you've got dark hair!" My response was "well, therein lies the paradox, doesn't it?!" Needless to say, there were no more comments from her. Blonde/brunette/redhead, whatever, it's a bold, magnificent scent that is peppery, intriguing and just plain ballsy (if I can use that expression!) If you do wear it, wear it with pride and don't be shy!

Blonde started it all for me! I never really paid much attention to perfume before it. And it was by fluke. It was at a discount store and I was immediately drawn to the name alone. Then the beautiful box and then the bottle. But when I smelled it, I immediately fell in love! I think it is one of the most beautiful perfumes ever made. It fills the room with lush elegance. No one ever knows what it is, yet I get so many compliments on the rare occasions I wear it. I spray it in my hair and I am in a Blonde cloud all day!

Let me just start by saying that "Blonde" it is not made just for blondes so try it first. Indeed it a special perfume and it does not fit everybody just like that, but don't believe it is just for blondes.

Blonde on my skin it develops into this rich floral fragrance: Gardenia, Tuberose, Carnation, Ylang-Ylang and Narcissus. Then Benzoin and a little Civet. In my opinion The Benzoin combined with all the superb floral notes could be the note that gives this perfume it's charm.

Smelling from the beautiful round bottle I can only feel the strong Benzoin that smells almost as Incense.


It is elegant, sexy and feminine. Apply carefully because it is a really powerful fragrance.
Powerful but delicate in the same time.

It is really sad that this charming perfume was discontinued.
Great sillage and great lasting power.

Sublime fragrance and a very elegant matching bottle.

Nice and natural tuberose.If you cannot to find this perfume anywhere you can bay "Tuberose" of L'Erbolario,it's same identicale sweet tuberose,but more strog and persistente. I know other similar at Blonde perfume ,it's Fracas of Robert Piguet.

Blonde definitely outshine Fracas because is more elegant and less intoxicating.

Excellent quality fragrance, long lasting even in the EDT.

Beautiful tuberose fragrance!

Before reviewing Versace BLONDE, I may as well simply confess that I steered clear of Versace perfume offerings for years as a result of my fairly longstanding view that Donatella is empirically indistinguishable from a drag queen just sprung from rehab.

How wrong I have been! My goodness, BLONDE is a beautiful perfume, which I impulsively purchased blind on the strength of the positive reviews here at Fragrantica (it was also on sale...). In fact, this was my best blind buy in recent history: a gorgeous, sumptuous, floral perfume featuring tuberose but also several other detectable notes which make this composition both complex and unique. This is not a copycat of FRACAS.

When I received my .5oz bottle of extrait, I initially worried a bit, as the waft off the top (before application) was ever-so-slightly rank. Looking at the notes, I can attribute this sensation to the civet note. Happily, upon application, the various components of this perfume meld together perfectly and absorb into the skin to produce a rich and delightful scent with fairly big sillage and great longevity.

Highly recommended for blondes and brunettes alike--whether in or out of rehab--provided only that they adore big bodacious bouquets. As an added bonus, my cat likes this one a lot. Must be the tuberose...(-:

I am a blonde and I absolutely love this fragrance, it is my all time favorite. When I smell it on my skin I don't want to stop...it is as if I can not breath it in deeply enough. I find this feels like a warmish scent with a hint of frost. I wish I could have an endless supply.

@lialu - Blonde actually does come as an edp. I've seen it on ebay once or twice but the price for it plus the freightcost to get i to Sweden is too costly for the tiny 10 ml they sell as edp. The bottle is cute though (it's the blue one with a velvet pouch).

I'm quite pleased just to layer perfume with edt. I soo love Blonde and I really agree to the fact that you don't have to be a blonde to wear it ( I'm hardly a blonde nowadays...). I'ts just a great tuberose scent. Really great. Try it and love it.

Love, love, love it! HOW can this be discontinued?

Blonde is available in EdT and perfume. EdP would probably be the ultimate. :-) It is like a delicate Fracas, a babysister. I love it. Wonderful for daywear, lots of tuberose but a bit less sharp and more flowery than Fracas. Recently lucky to purchase a 100 ml bottle from a kind fellow fragrantican! :-)

Sure right about this one my love Persephone! I am a brunette ALL THE WAY, and I LOVE IT!!
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What's in a name? This name might suggest a hair color, but please... how many truly natural blondes out there? I despise people who link intelligence to hair color as it's a factor of very low intelligence in itself. I'm dye my hair golden blond (dark colors just won't go with my facial features) and endure back stabbing comments about being "stupid" hair-wise. Why? I have a very simple rule: I do and I wear what I like. So why should you "resist it"? And this line is really laughable: "created for blond Donatella". Maybe they meant blonde as a state of mind. Whatever stereotypes are supposed to mean. I think it failed due to bad marketing and moronic name, as most brunettes (about 80% of women on the planet) are really proud to be brunettes, which is another myth born out of myth that blonds are morons. Please note, this rant is a fruit of my third glass of wine.. Now, the perfume. The fragrance itself is pure indulgence in a bottle - a thick and heady tuberose in many ways reminiscent of Fracas, however this one features a strong earthy violet note. I can totally see myself as a sultry brunette, a vivacious redhead or sunkissed blonde on a hot summer night while wearing it, rocking the sweet and spicy earthy notes. Terrific!

Being a blonde is something that won’t happen to me in this lifetime, but I can still enjoy Blonde, the EdT. My first thought when I smelled it was “daffodils!”, but the top notes are also like a blooming acacia tree, with that warm, honeyed, golden feeling. I can smell the powdery violet, but the violet doesn’t dominate, it just lends a fuzzy, light touch to the gardenia and tuberose, creating the daffodil-acacia scent, which is absolutely beautiful.

As the top notes die down, the tuberose really comes through. I like this tuberose slightly better than the one in Fracas, but it still has that strange sourish smell that keeps me from loving tuberose in any perfume that I’ve tried. Maybe the horrible truth is that only blonds can wear tuberose to good effect.

I don’t really see this as being a loud 80s scent, but rather a straight-up floral that’s happy and golden in the beginning, sad and sour and white in the middle, fading off to oblivion within several hours. If only the top notes lasted, I would love this. However, the wilted tuberose comes all too quickly and spoils the party.

I definitely see the resemblance between this and Fracas, but Blonde is colder. It almost feels like a grape slushee has been thrown into the mix. I prefer Fracas for its warmth, but some may enjoy Blonde a bit more as the cold makes it more modernized. It also stays closer to the skin which makes it easier to wear. The name and packaging are pretty as well.

I use to have the egg ovale dark blue shape of it (4th picture) smells like kenzo jungle.

Somehow for me, the sum of the ingredients in this massive floral perfume comes to a reminiscence of orange groves, the mythical zagara, quintessential smell of the south of Italy, which is where the Versace family is originally from. Bergamot exclusively comes from Versace's native region of Calabria, and it features in Blonde with almost nostalgic reverie: a persistent, heady sweet scent of animalic/indolic nature.

Easter cakes made with wheat, candied fruit and orange water by loving grandmothers, a walk in a fragrant citrus grove in April, white flowers scattered on the ground like a wedding themed carpet. The start of the love season with its seductive calls... it's difficult not to love it.

Versace's aesthetic itself is very much to do with the larger than life, the Mediterranean, the baroque, the gilded side of beauty. This is Blonde, a typical expression of Gianni's character as it was, and always will be remembered.

it was a gift, and one of those perfumes I always got compliments on or was asked what I was wearing, which is always nice. for me personally I found it too sweet and candyish and I always had to be in the 'mood' to wear it but when I did, always came the comments, which always made my day, so.... hmmmm

I used to love it but now it would be too much tuberose for my taste. It's heavy and smells posh. I find it a very grown up smell.

This treasure is my most persistent fragrant love. I always have a bottle of the edt AND a pure perfume in my perfume cupboard. As I love to shower myself in many sprays from a big edt bottle, I also usually layer it with pure perfume to enhance its longevity and to get more of the broader floral qualities that comes with the perfume.

It was my signature for many years during the 90's and for me Blonde is all about youth, student life, summer and big emotions. It is cycling to the sea with friends in the morning to get tanned, and then going out in the warm summer evenings. Evenings with a lukewarm wind that caresses your bare arms and that pink sky that follows after a hot day. Blonde is walking between bars and restaurants when there is still sunset at 10 in the Scandinavian countries. It is clubbing all night and when leaving the club at 4, it is almost daylight and the birds are singing their morning song. Blonde is long blonde hair, a little black dress and bare tanned legs. It is student life, constant lack of money and abundant dreams about the future.

Blonde is dating somebody over a Cafe au Lait as all this happened before the Italian Latte was introduced in Sweden. And at that time, Blonde was always in my purse.

Blonde is pure Versace. It is about power and abundance, positive (and feminine) power and abundance: self-confidence, optimism and a wise acceptance of life. A woman like this doesn't need to imitate men neither to use seduction in order to get what she wants. The perfume is "heavy", but I would like to wear it every day, while living a Blonde worthy life.

I didn'T liked it. Too suffocating and caused me skin alergies.

I bought Blonde blind based purely on its notes, reviews, and reputation. We are currently in a hard and fast love affair which, I believe, will last a lifetime.

Goes on with violety but watery gardenia a la Marc Jacobs, but immediately honeys down to buttery rich creamy tuberose heart. Thick comforting expensive smell, with something dirty down there in the base. Blonde is a bombshell voluptuous WOMAN in lingerie. Sexual. Provacative. Barely decent.

I don't want to spend too much time dissecting its magic. Suffice to say that it suits my tastes perfectly. Heavy White Floral haters beware.

P.S. My only wish were that this came in EDP as well as EDT. EDT only lasts 3-4 hours on me before losing thick creaminess. Next project, get the Parfum . . .

Wow! This smells exactly like tuberose to me. It starts out with other florals mingling about, like a bouquet from the florist just arrived, but the bulk of the bouquet is tuberose. It smells wonderful!
Really the best way to describe it is a brand new large bouquet of flowers. True to their scent and not chemical. It starts out strong but I noticed within a couple of hours it was completely gone. Otherwise this is a must for people who love the smell of flowers, in particular tuberose, when it's blooms have just opened.

This is a very plesant smell,it feels happy,warm and sparkling.Like a summer sun.Very very nice!!!

I love this Fragrance...!!!
I wore it to death ...day & night
its floral sweetness tempered by it's
mysterious warmth

Ahhhh.. BLONDE!

Golden, buttery, spicy and sweet.. very sexy and different.

this smells exactly like Fracas-nice ,thick tuberose scent

Beautiful soft floral. One of the best tuberose scents. Not too strong for a day use, and sexy and flirty enought for a evening. Beautiful bottle. I would imagine Gwen Stefani rather than Donatella to smell like this.

I found this to be a good alternative to Fracas when my aunt was having trouble finding it. It's like a sexier, ditzier version of Fracas.

One of my all time favorite Versace perfumes. The scent of white flowers are abundant and the gardenia with all it's sweetness is at it's best. The dry down is pure warmth with a hypnotizing effect. Best to wear in the evening, albeit, on certain days in the winter I can wear it 24/7 with ease. The staying power is excellent. A one spritz application and you are good to go. I prefer the EDT to the EDP but unfortunately it is not readily avaiable. I cherish the remains of my almost empty bottle.

A blast of soft, powdery tuberose and gardenia. It lacks the sharp notes these two flowers sometimes have, and also lacks the fleshy, over-ripe edge common to gardenia perfumes. There's something almost like incense in this blend. It smells inexplicably golden, like autumn light falling through a shaded window onto these white, fragrant flowers. Those who don't like white florals need not apply.

I love Blonde. I bought it in the 90's. It was quite unknown at that time here in Sweden which for me was a good thing. As my signature scent I wanted to have it completely for myself and I used it everyday for years. Then suddenly it disappeared from the Swedish market. I used it sparingly and eventualy I only had the empty bottle in my cupboard, which I treasured for years. I loved that smell of sweet bergamot opening, the buttery tuberose and the little civet to enchance it's personality. I loved the warm honeylike notes it developed into, and all the compliments I got for smelling so good. And I sprayed my empty bottle, and sometimes i got a tiny tiny drop of fragrance out of it.

It took me about five years until I found Blonde again. It was when the internet market was fairly developed, and perfumes became available on internet shops abroad. After a long time searching I finally found it and I instantly ordered a pure perfume, without considering the cost. It was just so worth it whatever it would cost me. Since then I have stocked both perfume and EdT. Today I have many perfumes and I don't use Blonde as often, but it is my alltime favourite that I always return to.

Heady tuberose soap! It's got great sillage and definitely will be noticed. It's too soapy for my tastes, but smells nice on others.

I remember I liked the fragrant flowery smell of it when it came out. It doesn't seem to be available anymore. Is it discontinued?