La Rose Jacqueminot

This is the oldest perfume year-release wise that I own and I love it! Francois Coty, CEO and owner/founder of the Coty brand, created this beautiful scent in 1904. A reformulated 1980s bottle is what you can find today by authentic sellers on ebay. Starts off with at touch of citrus and green notes. The florals enter and they are sweet but strong. Other than the obvious rose, you can also detect notes of violet, lavender and a jasmine. It's mostly the rose that comes through. A full-bodied rose with stem and green leaves. It's sweetened up big time with the other floral notes around it. But rose the whole way through from start to finish. At the time in 1904 it was revolutionary because it smelled as realistic to the rose hybrid it represented as could possibly get. This may be good for layering with another floral perfume maybe a white or another softer rose perfume. It's strong as you spray it or dab it but it weakens very fast and gets into a quieter skin scent. It also does not last very long less than 2 hours. A little oily like rose oil. There is a little touch of wood at the end in the dry down. Absolutely gorgeous and worth the price if you want to smell a rose perfume from the turn of the century and want to time travel this way via a fragrance. It makes me think of roses on big hats from ladies in the 1900s i.e. the first class ladies with the flower hats on the RMS Titanic. A day time perfume to wear to tea or a nice lunch. Not as herbal or as 'flower shop' as other perfumes. It's just a very romantic and well-composed rose and violet perfume that is sweet but grown up.

I am rather amazed by this perfume. Something about it really must work with my skin chemistry, because I could still smell this on my wrist after 24 hours (and a bath during that time). I also sprayed it on my clothing, but it did not last long on the fabric. The sillage is good as well. For an hour or so, the notes were quite smoky and strong, perhaps a little bit sour since this is a vintage perfume. But it wasn't highly unpleasant. Soon, it mellowed out into a soft yet spicy rose. I think La Rose is quickly becoming one of my favorites. I bought this perfume when I heard that grand duchess Olga Romanov of Russia, the daughter of the last Tsar, used Coty's La Rose. Her sister, Tatiana, used another Coty fragrance: Jasmine de Corse. I was unable to find the jasmine perfume, but La Rose Jacqueminot I did find. And I am definitely in love with not only its history, but its scent as well.

After a very smooth transaction I received the coffret containing three 50 ml bottles of Eau de Parfum. One of them is the re-interpretation of "La Rose Jacqueminot" by Daphne Bugey, initiated by the François Coty Association. A fantastically realistic rose. I completely agree with roses44: this is an incredibly beautiful scent. As Mme Bugey had the opportunity to smell the original scent at the Osmothèque, I suppose this creation comes very close to the original. To me, who loves rose scents, this is a must. If you love scents from the past impeccably executed with all the headnotes still intact do yourself a favour and try this re-interpretation. I have bought many an old bottle giving only the shadow of a classic perfume. This is an alternative, in my opinion.

True vintages appear so rarely that when I spotted a full, circa 1960s PDT with crown cap at a reasonable price I purchased it immediately (the 1980s version is different). It is the most authentic-smelling rose fragrance I have owned. The scent is light but completely enveloping. It's got the flower, the stem, the leaves and even the soil as well, like a freshly-watered rose bush. It is also a bit boozy. Wish I could obtain it in parfum for more longevity, but am grateful for the one I found as it is indeed a treasure.

This is the most accurate rose perfume I have found. I have two small bottles (not the 1970s reissue). When you first put it on, it smells "off" but then becomes the most accurate rose perfume of all. I have about 27 rose bushes; the best smelling one is my Chapeau de Napoleon which is what this Coty Rose smells like. I'm always on the look out for another bottle of this.

This was the first perfume I ever owned. There was a lady in my hometown who owned a gift store, and she always had these and the other two in the line--Les Muses and Chypre. I always saved my allowance and bought it there. This would have been the 1980's formulation. I remember it being very rose heavy and sweet, and absolutely intoxicating.

Received LaRose today, happy birthday to me♡. Bought (Somewhat) blind after reading numerous reviews and searching classic vintage perfumes. As if the history alone was not enough to encourage me to invest, the true fruition began as the first beautiful cloud hit my senses before even fully unwrapping. It simply got better from that point.

Not a soliflore, at least to a modern nose; there is some animalic musk, a white flower, and maybe oakmoss hanging around in the background. Primarily a rose fragrance (different facets of rose--spicy, green, and sweet--are coming through loud and clear!) but not what I would call photorealistic. I love it!

this went on a little sour and oakmoss but that may have been because it went off as it is vintage; in the heart it is a sweet, grassy rose bordering on a little jammy but not quite so. I also detected a tad of lily of the valley.

LA ROSE: A ROMANCE OF ROSES Notes in Coty's La Rose Jacqueminot: Jacqueminot Rose And Every Other Rose: Red, Pink, Yellow, White Roses The Year is 1904 Francois Coty's La Rose Jacqueminot was launched when Coty literally threw the bottle on the ground, breaking it and releasing the fragrance to the people that had shunned him in the Magasins de Louvre in Paris. Upon smelling it, even with all the other perfumes at the convention, everyone went nuts. You'd think they had never smelled perfume before; and in a way they hadn't. This was an early period in modern perfumery and Coty is credited as the Father of Modern Fragrance. But his initial attempts to create a perfect and revolutionary new fragrance was difficult. He was desperate to sell La Rose a combination of every rose scent including absolute rose and the now extinct Jacequeminot rose but no one would buy it. Some sources claim that what happened at the Magasins was simply a publicity stunt. His mother in law was a sales woman at the Magasin and was paid to become excited about the fragrance as were many other sales girls. Whatever happened that day in 1904, it was the best day of Coty's life. Everyone was wild about La Rose. It was unlike any perfume that had come before. In 1889, Guerlain had sold his Jicky still the oldest selling perfume today. La Rose has something in common with Jicky in that it's a rose perfume made up of abstract roses that you can't quite make out. To my nose it's a heady, soft sweet rose scent that might even be artificial and synthetic. Perhaps that's only found in the reformulation. The vintage can smell powdery but that's not because the roses in it are synthetic chemicals but real roses and attar that turn powdery. Of significant mention is the fact that this contains the dominant note of the General Jacqueminot rose which is now extinct. It grew in the Caribbean before it was brought to France and it had double flowers and was extremely fragrant. The only way to smell this long lost rose is to wear this perfume. This fragrance absolutely divine and very romantic. I have a vintage La Rose circa 1905. To me it smelled of pink roses, feminine, soft, heady, and sweet. It was rose petals and romantic old timey old fashioned rose bouquets. This is like a sophisticated, beautiful, fashionable French woman of the Belle Epoque taking a stroll down any of the floral parks of Paris: the Bois de Boulogne or smelling roses in the Parc Monceau. It's such a romantic perfume. It takes you to the 1900's when men were still men and women were ladies who wanted to be taken seriously, respected, admired more for their charm, intellect, personality and to a lesser degree their beauty and clothes. This is not grandmotherly to me, it's sexy to me. It's not sexy in an aggressive way but in a coy, and sly way. I found it interesting that the fragrance has two distinctly different personalities. On my clothes it smelled like a smoky rose, a rose on fire with warm incense or tobacco. It was a dark mysterious rose with a sexual allure. It was as if the rose was trying to seduce both the wearer and anyone who is near the wearer. When I applied it on my skin it softened to such a sweet rose, like a baby bud that had not yet opened. It's youthful, flirty and airy. There are no realistic green notes or wet dewiness you get from other perfumes sold today with "100 percent natural" rose scents like TEA ROSE by the Perfumer's Worskhop or DEMETER FRAGRANCE LIBRARY ROSE or even ROSE DE FRANCE by HISTORIAE. This is more a fantasy of roses, a romance of roses, a Rose Queen at the Parade, in all her beauty and glory on a float made of roses. She waves at her adoring public from a horse drawn carriage that travels down the avenues and boulevards of Paris. I can imagine women going nuts over this perfume back in the years 1905 through 1912. This could have been one of the perfumes taken aboard the RMS Titanic and worn by a first class passenger. This will delight rose perfume lovers but this is not a realistic rose. If you like powdery, fantasy perfumes that make you dream and fires up your imagination, this perfume is for you. It will suit writers, artists, fashion designers and history lovers. Vive La Rose, Vive Francois Coty.

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ROSE PERFUME OF ALL TIME In our fragrance universe, there are so many rose scents. Rose has been used in perfumery since ancient times. It is said Cleopatra bathed in rosewater and seduced Mark Antony with roses. It was the favorite flower of the French and English during the Renaissance. The term "English Rose" referred to the beauty of Anglo British women whose cheeks were blushing pink like roses. Rose scents are found in hand soaps, talcum powder, and sachets for wardrobes and drawers. But this is nothing like any typical rose scented bath product or household item. It is set apart as a magnificent rose. It's a pity we can't really take a whiff of the original 1906 fragrance which was the perfume that launched the career of Francois Coty and lead to the formation of his perfume empire. It was said to be such a powerful and unforgettable aroma of a thousand roses that it filled an entire perfume convention. In the 1980's, several Coty fragrances from this period and his masterpieces such as L'Origan, L'aimant Chypre and Emeraude were selling in newer bottles but advertised as smelling like the original. I have a set of 6 glass spray bottle of this perfume. It smells like a spicy rose when you first spray it. There's aldehydes and something citrusy, perhaps even an additional floral note of orange blossom. But it turns spicy quickly. It's a heavy smoky rose, like an incense-and-rose combination. It also smells like tobacco. The spicy smoky rose floral scent evokes images of Cuban Spanish ladies who smell of tobacco that was rubbed off on them by gentlemen smoking cigars, whereas they are hanging on to their rose perfumes. This is a sexy, rather potent potion. I'm sure it was meant to be worn as an evening cologne for the aristocratic French and English ladies of the period. It matches up with a bold red dress, or the black off the shoulder evening gown worn by the notorious Madame X in that famous Sargent painting. It's also a perfume I could have smelled on Sarah Bernhardt the greatest actress of all time. She would have worn this perfume both on and off the stage. At times green, herbal, with touches of vetiver and moss, and smelling like patchouli leaves and the aforementioned tobacco and incense, but at times surprisingly soft and sweet, powdery, delicate, and tender. It has a strange progression. At the beginning she is a seductive and mature woman smelling of sex, tobacco and roses, like a 19th centjury courtesan awaiting her next client in a brothel, and as it finishes, that dry down is sweet and innocent, like a little girl who still needs to hold her mother by the hand. Absolutely beautiful and fascinating.

A sweet little rose perfume the likes of which I'd never experienced before! Forget about any other rose perfume you can think of: Stella McCartney, Tea Rose, Jo Malone, this is a rose perfume that is set apart from the rest. I won this fragrance by bidding for it on ebay. I have a 1980's edition spray bottle. I'm not sure if it's a cologne, toilette or parfum concentration. Because it doesn't last very long on my skin and it seems to eat it, I'm guessing it's a toilette. I was interested in this fragrance for it's history. I'd read the reviews here, all of them, and this perfume sounds like my cup of tea. I was not mistaken. It's such a dreamy rose. This is an innocent child-like rose. She is sweet, too sweet, almost but not quite sugar coated. Like the previous reviewer states: a rose dipped in beeswax. Smells like honey. This is a rose & honey scent with a cloyingly sweet scent. The pretty florals are not limited to roses (pink, red, white) but also violets. I smell quite a bit of violet. There is also a lily note, ever so soft, in the background. There's faint green moss, woods & vetiver. Because of that super sweet honey there's no way this can pass for a chypre or rose chypre. A lot of people smell different things about this one. It's one of those perfumes that changes her face for each individual. For me this is a sweet honey rose bud, very dainty & pretty. This is evocative of a little rich girl from the 1900's Edwardian Era, with a pink bow on her light brown or blonde hair, a pink sash on a red dress; almost like a living Victorian doll. I'm thinking: "Poor Little Rich Girl" starring Mary Pickford? The 1917 silent film. Smells of a pampered very sheltered girl who wore a little splash of rose toilet water every day to smell as sweet as she looks. This is such an adorable & complex scent. At times if you put your nose to it there's more going on, a mystery chypre. Green notes, moss, woods, a wild forest berry, perhaps patchouli oil, honey, a secret garden; tobacco leaves. It's a beautiful, romantic rose perfume and very VERY old fashioned, so outdated as to belong to even another century and it does, this fragrance was released more than 100 years ago in 1906. I want to thank reviewers kmarich Lucia Lawson & Gigi the Fashionista for your terrific reviews on this absolutely beautiful and delicate rose scent of floral sweetness.

Coty La Rose 80s Edition EDT Rose..then a deeper mysterious rose..with a hint of lavender, citrus and violet with a little green leaves as a whisper. They do not make them like this anymore. It is definitely from a different era, a different smelling rose than what I am familiar with, but still beautiful. Give this at lease two hours to develop to discover it. Its perspective on femininity, perfume ideals, is all encapsulated in this vintage piece. Its release was 80s, but it has no hallmarks of a 80s release perfume, so this is definitely a tribute to the original version. This is a unique rose with gravitas. It feels like a darker velvety rose with either a slight musk or amber. Its a spicy, sandal woody rose that stands alone in its ways. If you are a lover of roses, this is one for you to definitely experience. From the internet the technical details: The fragrance was based on cabbage roses and composed of aldehydes, attar of roses, jasmine, violets, sweet and green spices and synthetic materials called ionone and rhodinol. It is described as a creamy, dark and rich honeyed rose, slightly animalic, powdery, mossy with jammy rose notes. A rose chypre to end all desires...of orange blossom then comes jasmine, rose, heliotrope, and ylang ylang. Top notes: aldehydes, tea rose, Bulgarian rose, jacqueminot rose, green accord Middle notes: jasmine, cabbage rose, damask rose, violet, ylang ylang, honey, orange blossom, lavender, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom Base notes: oakmoss, amber, musk, sandalwood, tobacco If I were to give it a concept and describe it to someone..Id call it the mythic black rose. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Fragrantica>>Where is the listing for LES MUSES/MUSE by Coty?! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Possibly the most gorgeous rose scent ever created. The purity of the rose notes, their intensity and longevity, the sweet green citrus notes, the way the fragrance mellows as it dries down without ever losing the rose for which it's named - all these factors make it truly breathtaking. It's so sad that Coty have discontinued it, but at least it can be found in small samples online. The samples are very expensive, but worth it if you love roses. Someone wrote on a blog that the problem with sampling vintage scents is that you risk having your heart broken by a perfume you can't find any more. This, for me, is that heartbreaker! I have a small sample and use it from time to time when I need something really special and comforting.

This is a very sophisticated rose fragrance and the silage is amazing. As Kiku says, it is certainly "not a polite rose", but right up front, not brazen, but definitely assertive, spicy, woody and with maybe just a hint of tobacco? This assertive rose makes me wonder how exactly this composition was meant to appeal to the woman of the early 1900's. Did Coty perceive his market audience as women who would appreciate this bold rose? I own several of Coty's 80's relaunched fragrances. I agree with Ian Johnston that reissues of these early gems in their original formulations would be very nice and much appreciated by many people.

I have a bottle of this which Coty relaunched in the late 1980's along with Chypre and Les Muses, and agree that it is very fine as were the other reissues which now seem to be no longer available. In some ways it resembled the then available Rochas perfume Mystere. Whatever it would be nice if some of the old Coty masterpieces were reissued in a formulation which matched their former glory - something Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez also argue for in their book Perfumes, the A-Z guide.

The queen of all rose fragrances. This is not a polite, delicate rose. The opening is practically an assult of heady and spicy roses. The dry down softens into a softer, warmer version of the opening. Some sites say this perfume has been discontinued. Others say it is in production. One said Coty is planning a relaunch. If you can find it buy one and give it a place of honor on your dressing table.