Rose de Grasse Pour Filles

If you are chasing the most authentic "natural bottled summer rose" on Earth: this is it. Whatever that fragrance means to you, will decide if it is overpriced. For the price of $260 per ounce, that memory can be relived whenever you want. A priceless moment in time. Unplug the stopper on this white glass vial and remember: Summer evening in the perfect dark green, cool grass of your family home. You are young, light, free. Bare foot in the shade of a grove of trees. A flawless fully bloomed pink rose, with its cool velvet petals on your face, as you lean your nose in to savor its beauty. Rain is coming tonight. Everything is lost in that moment, nothing else exists. Innocence. Joy. Peace. Purity. Optimism. Cleanliness. Perfection. Simplicity. I have searched for that fragrance for years. Most rose perfumes are synthetic and smell oddly like pickle juice doused with harsh/fake disinfectant like white florals. Badly mixed hotel soap. Salty green gardenias. The almost natural rose, but stop short of Mexican laundry detergent. This Aerin Rose De Grasse is quite overpriced (in my opinion) because it is so natural and simplistic. But this fragrance is the only portal to the past I have ever found. Maybe that is why it is so expensive; they know we will pay for that memory. The silage and projection are weak, but that is not a problem for me, as I don't use it for wear. I use it for comfort. Purchase for its beauty and magical transportation properties. Don't purchase because you need a working perfume.

The pretty bottle suits this perfume well. This is the ultimate scent of innocence, youth, purity and optimism. The name "pour filles" means "for girls" (not women) fits the bill. I'm a woman, but I love this perfume for the way it makes me feel. Optimistic and happy. Comforted and calm. I wish I had a bathtub so I could sprinkle pink rosepetals in the water. That would sum up the serene feeling of bliss this fragrance gives me. It opens up juicy and sweet with a hint of pear behind a bouquet of cyclamen and pink roses. It continues to sprinkle airy rose-petals that fall gently onto your skin throughout the wear. By the time it reaches the heart and you are stepping out of your rosebath you are met with true, authentic and fresh orange blossom as if your stepping out into a mediterranean garden of blooming orange-trees. Like all Aerin floral fragrances you get amazing quality ingredients that smell authentic, and the fragrance lasts for a decent time even without any prominent base notes. This is not so much spring as it is summer to me, due to the orange flower note that gives off a summer-holiday-vibe to me. I really really love this, and I think it's a lovely rose interpretation by Aerin.

Bought the sample set primarily for the original Rose de Grasse, but I was mildly curious about the other flankers as well. I tried this without even looking at the notes first and the orange blossom is unmistakable! However, despite it being front and centre it actually isn't intense nor does it have any indolic facets that it can sometimes have - the pear and rose give it a really dewy, youthful profile instead. Definitely useable in the spring but this screams "SUMMER" to me! Smelling it almost tricks my brain into thinking I can feel the sun warming my skin... it's only 7°C as I type this lol. The last thing my collection needs is yet ANOTHER fresh spring/summer scent, so this'll be on the backburner as a potential future purchase, but wow, this really is beautiful!!! If you want a fresh, watery, zen orange blossom scent, this is the one.

To my novice perfume smelling senses this smells more like true rose to me that the original Rose de Grasse by AERIN. The opening is very soft, even at first spray the sillage is no more than moderate, but it quickly fades down to a skin scent on me. Although it is an eau de toilette it has the same longevity (or even a slightly better one,) than the original Rose de Grasse. After 30 minutes or so some of the orange blossom peaks through the rose but those are the only notes I find - aside from the general musk that is a core scent in both perfumes. I think the idea of this being a young girls first perfume is sweet, but no teenage girls I know would want to smell like their grandmothers bath powder. I love this scent, it is not modern, but it is rose heavy and I feel pretty when wearing this fragrance.

During the 1970s, people who were middle aged and older would often provide small fancy soaps for their guests to use in the bathroom. There would be a large handheld bar soap, such as DOVE brand, that was for household members to use: this would be placed in a dish on the rim of the bathroom sink, and would be displayed in whatever stage of use it happened be that day. But when guests were being entertained, the host would put out a special dish with a variety of unused tiny solid soaps, of various pastel colors: these were higher end in quality and virtually always smelled of flowers. Aerin's Rose de Grasse Pour Filles smells like one of those guest soaps. I picture it as pink and rose-shaped, just as was very common at that time. To me this is a pleasant, high-end soapy rose scent. 🦋🧡🦋