Grass
Gap (1994)

I wish I could return and give my 13 year old self this beautiful fragrance.

It was after days camping at a concert festival in blazing hot Eastern Washington (State), on the way home...late July 2003. This was at an outlet mall, my family and my best friend stopped to shop. We had just spent 4 days in the literal desert.

I recall how this smelled in my mind (this is a memory snippet, not a true review)...but the situation couldn't have been more striking.

It was likely partially due to the experience of heat, dryness and camping (also concerts, sweaty bodies, greasy food...) but this was the freshest, cleanest, most wholesome scent to ever assail my nose.

Wet grass, and yet, freshly mowed. Ozonic, aquatic, dripping wet clover sparkling with dew. Clean laundry, windy crisp air, and sunlight.

I mean....it was a fragrance *moment*.

But my friend?...She exclaimed - "Oh ewwww!!! It smells like you stepped in mud!"

I was so embarrassed for loving this, I quickly sniffed it again and said something like - 'Oh yeah, it smells so gross...'

I had no self-esteem at the time, I was an idiot kid. I wish I had stuck up for my taste and bought this when I had the chance. I've forgotten about it for years. This was surely excellent, and my impression of it certainly was, but the memory fills me with a pang of regret.

Believe it or not, before the Gap launched this fragrance, it was marketed by another company, with a few of the other original ones: earth, maybe, and air? They sold cubes of glycerin soap too--great packaging. The mom of an old friend knew the chemist who was responsible for creating the grass fragrance--I'd love to know more!

This review is of the small aluminum bottle from the early 2000s. It smells more like grass than any other fragrance. Opens with a fresh mown lawn, lush and green. Fairly linear and longevity is decent.

It smells like cut grass with laundry detergent cleaning it up a bit.

I love it, and I will spray it whenever I a. need s hower but want to smell fresh b. whenever I wear something green.

I have even blended this with Thunderstorm by Demeter to add the clean smell to a thunderstorm that Grass has.

I was introduced to this when I was 14 and sought it out ever since...until I found it in 2009.

This is the only reason I go into a GAP.

The original GRASS began with an intense top note of fresh green clover which eventually dried down to a muted, shimmery, smoky ghost of itself. Whether or not you will like the new reissue depends on which of those stages you liked best. If it was the top note, you're in luck-- the new GRASS is nothing but. It stretches that sunny green prelude into eternity, like the perfect endless summer. As for me, the incense-like, autumnal drydown was what I adored, and that's gone.... as is the last of the sprayers I snapped up when the original was being discontinued. I would have given the original GRASS five stars. Sadly, this dieted-down version only gets three from me-- c'est la vie.

I was thrilled to see this fragrance return. I loved it in the '90s. To my nose, this reissue is not substantially different from my memory of the fragrance. It's a warm, round, sunny, sweet grass scent that's at once pure and very sexy. It's both naive and witty, and it still gives me great pleasure. I'd tried several grass scents after this one was discontinued, and none came clase. I bought two small body sprays and two large EDT bottles this time around.