She says their blind date started off like a dream, with him bearing flowers as he picked her up in a luxury car to take her to dinner at Bette Midler’s trendy New Leaf restaurant in Fort Tryon Park.

But soon, something struck her about her date, then-state Sen. Eric Schneiderman.

After sitting down to dinner, “we started with champagne. Then I would say probably two bottles of wine. And then I really distinctly remember him after dinner ordering hard liquor, Scotch or whiskey, and just thinking, ‘Wow, this is a lot of drinking, and I have to get in a car with him,’ ” said the woman, who asked to be identified only as Jennifer C.

Still, Jennifer — who had been fixed up on the 2010 blind date by her friend’s banker husband — said she found Schneiderman “perfectly nice and funny and charming.

“I was attracted to him,’’ she admitted.

After dinner, they got into his car to drive her home. Jennifer said she let him drive her because she felt she didn’t really have a choice: It was late, they were in the middle of the park in Upper Manhattan, and there was no Uber in those days.

But she said that when they got on the road, she couldn’t help but “comment on how much he had to drink.

“He basically said, ‘I’m a state senator, and I rule this neighborhood,’ ” she recalled to The Post on Tuesday.

Jennifer, a Manhattan newspaper editor who was around 39 at the time, said that as the pair continued driving, she got a text from an old high school friend inviting her to a party nearby.

She said she asked Schneiderman to go with her, and he agreed. But as she texted back and forth with her male friend to get better directions, Schneiderman “started to get really strange.

“Suddenly, he changed and started to get really jealous and asked me who this guy was,’’ Jennifer said.

“Mind you, this was our first date. I thought this was really odd behavior.

“Then at a red light, he leans over and kisses me. But it was a really aggressive tongue-down-your-throat kind of kiss. And I pulled away, and he asked if there was a problem.

“And I said, ‘Actually, I just like a little bit of tongue.’ ’’

She said Schneiderman shot back, “ ‘Oh, do you just like a little bit of d–k, too?’

“I couldn’t believe it,’’ Jennifer said. “We had been talking about his daughter at dinner who must have been really young then. I couldn’t believe someone with a daughter would say that.

“I said, ‘Pull over, I’m getting out of the car.’ And he kept driving in the direction of the party. And I asked him at least three or four times before he finally let me out of the car.

“I remember walking to the party shaking,” Jennifer said. “I’ve had creepy dates before, but it was that he changed so fast.

“It was a very disturbing encounter.

“The drinking and the aggressive behavior … Getting a text from another man set him off? Clearly, the control issues that he has, the drinking, the jealousy, have been going on for quite awhile,” Jennifer said.

She said they never went on another date, and every time she would see his name in the news after that, “I didn’t want to read the rest of the story.

“When I would tell female friends [about that night], they would recoil because it was just so gross.’’

Jennifer said that when she heard about the abuse allegations against Schneiderman that were published by The New Yorker magazine on Monday, “I wasn’t surprised.”

Still, she said, up ’til then, “I just thought he was a repulsive human being who was used to talking to women like that and they put up with it.”

Noting Schneiderman’s recent push to prosecute sexual predators amid the #MeToo movement, Jennifer added, “Irony doesn’t even begin’’ to describe that.

Schneiderman has denied the abuse allegations levied against him by the four women in the magazine.