R de Rose

Ballet was my childhood/teenage passion. Instead of doodling hearts on my notebooks, I'd doodle pointe shoes or ballerinas. I gave it up sometime in high school as the social pulls of cheerleading and drill team were hard to resist, yet I still retain a passion and love for all things ballet. I can't hear the Nutcracker score without mentally going over the choreography, and I have a ballerina painting in my bedroom which I adore. I say all of this because for some reason, this perfume makes me think of ballet. It amuses me that it never fails to pop images and memories of ballet into my head. I sniffed, enjoyed, yet passed on it many times at my local Whole Foods grocery store thinking I don't need a rose scent, really. I'm picky about those, and I already have a couple. However, I realized one day as I shopped after spraying it on, that though it has rose in it's name, rose is in the corps de ballet, as opposed to the prima ballerina. It stars, as sherapop mentions, geranium. The clean rose petals and touch of freesia sweep the geranium in a feminine, soft direction, rather a than sharp, or masculine direction. My favorite part, which lasts for several hours, is a clean, natural, never-too-sweet rose-geranium tempered raspberry. It stays this way until entirely evaporated. (The box proudly states this line's use of all natural ingredients, including "no synthetic musks.". This was a huge plus for me, as musky dry-downs of even the cleanest kind, and I, do not play nice.) I have a rose-pink colored cut crystal juice glass from Anthropologie which I love using for the sheer joy of looking at it. The dry down smells the way that crystal glass looks. This perfume is quiet, serene, clean, sheer, whispery, utterly natural smelling, and just...pretty. I love it for the peaceful, focused, "ballet" mindset it puts me into, and the memories it brings back. My husband tells me it's one of the prettiest, most refreshing perfumes I wear, and I have had several compliments from people who have come close enough to detect it. I'm glad I finally threw a bottle into my grocery cart. I have the urge to go doodle some toe shoes and tutus now.....:)

R de ROSE is also R de ROSE GERANIUM, the flower featured in this Acorelle composition. Although I did smell upon initial spritz a bit of rose, the geranium swiftly swept in to steal the show. That said, if you like geranium, you will like this presentation: a simple yet beautiful framing of geranium with a few rose petals and a tiny bunch of freesia, with just a touch of sweetness imparted by the raspberry but barely detectable (which leads me to believe that it might--as advertised--really be natural, since so many synthetic raspberry frags go way over the top...). I like R DE ROSE, and can recommend this fragrance of medium sillage and longevity to all those who appreciate geranium perfumes. If you do not like geranium, you will not like R DE ROSE.

A very real rose scent but alas the lasting power isn't there. The scent dissapears within an hour. It's literally like smelling rose water or smelling an actual rose so not a complicated scent but a straight shooter.

I like this rose scent enough to wear, but nothing stunning here. It's fresh and a little pungent in the opening, so nothing like a voluptuous warm rose. If you like rosey scents with lots of geranium and a raspberry edge this is nice. Not so long lasting, only average and little sillage.