Rose Ardoise

If you're looking for a dramatic, rosy, jammy, sweet and thick rose, this is not for you. This is a rose drawn with charcoal instead of oil paint: luminous, breezy and slightly green/stemmy. Imagine a dewy rose garden on a spring morning: cool, composed and majestic! The spices help keep it sparkly and slightly warm, instead of going full overcast mode, so you still get sun's rays weaving through Rose Ardoise like silver fairy dust, as if dewy petals are reflecting the silver light back to you... The leather in the base is for texture, otherwise I'm not getting a pronounced leather note in here, so rose stays through to the end, although in a fully restrained manner as is the house's philosophy. As for longevity, it's long-lasting, but not in the traditional sense. It's not meant to be smelled across the room for 10 hours on end, but it will hum and glitter in a unique aura around you for a good long time to enjoy. Rose Ardoise has quickly become one of my top favorites! To me, this is a better structured version of L'Homme a La Rose by MFK. While not majorly different, LHALR allows sage to run untamed and very soon steal the show from rose, which I truly detest...

Sweet, woody and spicy rose. Perfectly blended! Very elegant. I mostly enjoy the dry woody/leathery base notes note, because you can feel them immediately. Rose is prominent and beautiful, but it’s has a supporting role in my opinion. And the mix of spices is so good! Going straight to my wishlist!!! Follow me on IG: scent.guide

Rose Ardoise is a different take on rose. It’s bright, clean and refreshingly floral, but has an underlying spicy muskiness to it which is both strange but undeniably captivating at the same time. The scent is actually dominated by pink pepper which has strong rosy elements alongside its fresh spicy floral nature. The rose itself then sits behind the pink pepper, nurturing its sweet jammy nectar through the base. Combine this with a contrasting element of warm nutmeg and aromatic sage, and you’re greeted by the duality of warm spicy and fresh spicy. Overall this is a very enjoyable scent to wear. As I said, a different take on rose which is pleasing and satisfying to pick up in the air around you. Unfortunately I find it’s missing something, I pattern I’ve noticed with many Atelier Materi fragrances. They’re all really well made but seem to lack a bit of life behind them.

Why does this only have a 3.44 rating? 😔 Alright, so here are my 2 cents on this fragrance coming from someone who hasn't had much luck with predominantly rose scents. As much as I love Rose 31 by Le Labo, something about it turns a bit like (bad) body odor on me 😫 Soo... here starts my quest to find a Rose 31 alternative. I can say that Rose Ardoise is *that* alternative for me. 🥳 I might even like it more because of the ambroxan, although not highly detectable. 🤔 Since I'm obsessed with Rose 31's bar soap, I will continue to use that and incorporate this fragrance. 🥰🌹 I'm slowly finding Rose scents that I love! Yay!

I have a sample of it after seeing a review about it and decided to get it and test it. It’s pretty and towards an aromatic pepper, musky rose DNA, Ima not familiar to Rose 31 so could not tell if this is 100% similar. The opening reminds me of Eau des Merveilles from Hermès, don’t know if someone else notice this similarity. Stays on skin longer and the silage is moderate not show stopper and somehow it reminds of this vibe of a French expensive bodycare line.