Fragrance Reviews by BlueIsis

Jolie Madame is elegant without being stuffy, charming without being girlish, flirty without being sexual. This scent is the Gal Friday efficiently organizing your filing system while Miss Dior Cherie sits at her desk munching cotton candy and filing her nails. The Jolie Madame isn’t all work, however - glove-soft leather in the drydown adds a warm sensuality. This scent was created in the mid-1950’s and is still au courant over 50 years later.

A wonderful scent, evocative of a simpler time and place. I see countryside at dawn, splashes of cool water, and pale golden light swirled with soft violet when I wear this perfume.

The basenote is a simple sweet vanilla unlike any modern fragrance that I’ve encountered. Modern vanilla in perfumes seem so fake and forced, while L’ Heure Bleue seems to have an authentic natural sweetness – think about a hard sugar cookie taken from a package compared to one baked at home, with warmth and sweetness fresh from the oven.

All that being said, this fragrance seems almost too delicate for the modern world and I certainly would never wear this too work. What that says about my life saddens me a little.

I own both the EDT and the perfume, and prefer the perfume.

This is a wonderful scent. It starts with a sharp metalic note and a spiciness from the carnation. There is a vanilla note but it is creamy and subdued and not particularily sweet. I have a small sample of the EDT and have started a quest to find a full-size.