Lady Rose Lion (Monkey Unicorn)

Oh! I am quite surprised to find 3 negative reviews for this one, I rather like it. I have had my bottle a good while, since well before this scent was listed on here, and seeing the new bottle design plus the negative response it has garnered is making me wonder if a detrimental reformulation has happened? Well, I have to say this one is lovely on me. I am not normally a fan of anything blackcurrant like, but the blackcurrant leaf and peach combo here along with the rose makes a real "winter berries" scent fruit note that is lovely, really rounded dark and juicy feel. The oakmoss, green notes and resins start to come out during the mid section of this scent, and into the drydown adding a typically chypre character to the rich fruity start. There also feels to be a slightly musky note here, there is a faintly animalic nuance during the heart and drydown that seems to get a very good response - every time I have worn this perfume I have had compliments, mainly from men. I don't know which note it is they like so much, but who cares this one (for me) is a compliment getter! This has good longevity for me and pretty big sillage too - I would say 2-3 sprays and you will project about 4 -6 feet and last all day. I like this one best in winter or spring, it feels like it would fall apart a little in hot weather. Not a safe blind buy!

Ive never really been a fan of chypres but this extraordinary fragrance changed my mind. Let the alcohol dissipate and its all lovely warm rose but mostly mossy spicey greeness. I can just about identify the oak moss, peach, rose and blackcurrant leaf which acts as an accent but its very smooth and well blended. The resins and cedar make a lasting base. It really comes alive on a warm cloudy day. It can fill a small room with its spicey mossiness. Very lovely.

This is an old-fashioned dressing-table style of Chypre and I love it. Beyond leather and peaches, and a low-key rose, I struggle to pull out individual notes, but I'm fine with that. I'd rather look at a flower or butterfly than dissect it. Longevity is great- over 12 hours and it's still identifiable as itself (if a bit more "haylike". Possibly my fondness for this scent stems from a teenagerhood spent hanging around the riding stables).

This one seems to have a terrible reputation...however, I find it quite lovely...I get a lot of peach (the lady), rose and woody/hay notes (the lion)...this is a very complex fruity fragrance that has a very old-fashioned feel to it...

the exquisite chypre that revealed my love of chypres. the peach-basil-hay combination is so beguiling.

This is a soapy red roses with peach and hay, oakmoss and mint besides more soaps notes. Quite interesting as the kind of soap there isn't the bubbly ones but the natural mostly unscented ones. It's not a splashy roses peach fragrance rather than a soapy CLAY peach essense. Another good creation from 4160 Tuesdays.

Very very loud, very very sticky. Lots of rose. It works somehow. Not FB worthy, but I can see myself reaching out for the sample when I'm feeling particularly flamboyant.

I can see why this divides opinion. The basil early on is great and so is the resinous base. The rose is unisex - soft and not too sweet. I’m not sure the peach is completely convincing though; it seems offset by a note I interpret as mint. It sucks the oxygen out of it leaving it flat and stale - a little artificial. Lasts long with low sillage. Works best as occasional wafts from underneath clothes rather than smelling direct from exposed skin.

4160 Tuesdays really loves that peach note, and Lady Rose Lion opens with peach peach, and even more peach. Obviously, my body chemistry really accentuates that note, which is NOT a good thing. The blackcurrent leaf seems to add a powdery cosmetics vibe--the whole thing is very plastic and chemical-ly. Blech. This is most definitely my absolute least favorite of 4160 Tuesday's scents that I've tried, and I've tried a lot. I'm a fan of their line-up in general, but Lady Rose Lion is absolutely horrid. It is not green, not fresh, and not earthy. It is just chemical, cloying, and yucky.

edit: I actually had to physically throw the sample in the garbage it was so headache inducing...normally I save samples I don't like and send them to my sister (we have very different tastes) but I couldn't stand to have it in the house! ugh...pure 'scrubber' for me. my chemistry and oakmoss do NOT play nicely together :( NO peach, NO blackcurrant leaf, NO rose...very sharp and peppery.

Agree with the below reviewers. Total scrubber. Screechy, synetic, harsh and headache inducing. The peach does NOT play nicely with the other herbs, makes it sickening. Not a safe blind buy.

Plasticine, peach and hay. I think my skin just picks up the hay in this and Paris 1948. Sorry, Sarah! It's nicely combined but my skin won't play ball

I had been a little reluctant to try this as I am not always in to chypres and can find them too sharp. However, I received a sample of this with an order of two other 9ml scents. I agree with nexangelus that this is primarily grassy, herbal and green. It has a lovely fragrant grasses and green fields feel to it, and I get the basil and herbs really clearly. I love her image of a medieval joust which works brilliantly. It is lovely in a way that reminded me of my surprise enjoyment of Vie de Chateau by Parfums de Nicolaï. The peach is not immediately apparent, and emerges a bit later, more with an effect of rounding out the scent than of creating a strong fruit note. I would also have guessed at some additional white florals here. This is a surprise love for me. I'm still on my first wear and will edit to report back on the dry down, but I'm feeling great about this so far. And what a cool name!

Just discovered it for me today and am surprised by such a low rating here..well this is a fruity-rose chypre totally in 4160 Tuesdays style. Since I love the DNA of this brand I love this fragrance. It has a signature juicy note of Sarah that is first not very loud because the moss is the first thing that stands out in the opening. However, over time it becomes soft, very sophisticated and I just love the sweet woody-rose in the drydown. As it says in the official description: "It is not for the faint-hearted."

This is surprisingly good. I was not expecting too much here, but the hay, the deep greens, soft herbs and peach, bring together a beautiful very niche rosey perfume - this is definitely one of the high quality ones even though this is not my genre at all. Smells a touch like one of the imaginary author's very quality niche. ** sample swap UK - 200+ samples, many on my custom shelves and many more yet to be listed - pm me! **

I have to agree with you, Coco76. The ingredients sound so exciting but the scent just dies on paper but worse, goes screechy chemicals on skin. Most things I have tried from 4160 Tuesdays have had the same harsh synthetic edge on me that spoils the imaginative creations.

Really really dislike this one :( It’s an odd scent of rotting rose leaves Yuck

There aren't many perfumes that make me want to gag but this is one of them.