Dolce Rosa Excelsa

I love this fragrance and I'm sad that it's been discontinued. It is a true floral smell to me, very rose but it's like a sweet and fresh rose with other floral notes. Not just strictly rose. It's a very romantic scent to me, and guys in my past have complimented this. A lot of people saying it's generic I really don't get that in my opinion! I think the cashemere wood ties it to make it sweet and all the notes in the middle row is what I smell most. Lasting power isn't the most strong but it's decent :) so sad I can't buy again!!

Lovely and rosey I like most of the D&G range this one is very nice for day wear I also have Light Blue, Rose the one and Dolce garden all of which I love this one is a welcome addition to my D&G perfumes we are currently coming into our Spring in NZ so this fragrance is perfect for now light and not too overpowering. I love roses I also own Stella and Paul Smith Rose which I love as well. so this perfume get's a thumbs up from me.

Love this perfume. This is the first perfume I have bought twice because I loved it so much. Very light and floral. The top papaya dries down almost immediately on me and the rest smells of roses and very lightly. I love it. Only downside is that there is barely any longevity. With higher end fragrance I expect at least a few hours of wear...this wears off after an hour on me.

I absolutely love Rosa Excelsa! It opens with a strong Neroli note, which is one of my favorites. The heart is like a tour of an upscale florist shop. There’s Turkish rose, lily, amaryllis, and narcissus. They interact in a very comforting, calming bouquet. The base is more sandalwood than musk, so it avoids being overly sweet. This is a great everyday scent for warmer months.

This perfume is truly fabulous. I loved it the instant I sampled it for the first time. Sometimes it takes me a while to make up my mind about a perfume but in this case, I just fell in love and had to have it. It's floral and sweet without being too much and the rose adds a delicate-ness to it. Rosa Excelsa is probably my new favorite perfume and I JUST got it. AMAZING.

Very strong on me ! Projects very well strange how skin is so different when it comes to perfumes ! This is my fresh out the shower sent to me this is a very shampooy fresh smell, dont really smell any rose at all , but that's okay with me really like this it's a good one for work or just a girls shopping day very nice

Shhhhh, my new "Secret". A lovely bouquet of mixed flowers with a youthful blend of well-known and new ROSES. The sandalwood base note is long lasting.....the overall fragrance, packaging and marketing is a love story with re-"generational" life! Such a beautiful bottle too. Well done Dolce&Gabbana, Thank You.

It's a bouquet in a bottle, a floral print sundress in olfactory form. Perfect for any occasion that requires a sundress. Wear it with your favorite cotton dress and a large straw hat. Also good for those days when your haircut ended up shorter than expected, and you needed a boost of femininity

Stylish and romantic. Luminous but also has depth. This replaces my first review because I said it smelled like fruit punch and candied roses and left it at that. But I’ve had it for months now and while it does smell of that to me lol it’s more beautiful and elegant than that sounds

For me this is the beautiful good-humoured scent. Rose is delicate and quiet. This scent is more gentle from the original Dolce edp ( I have it). The beautiful bottle.

This is rose in the most simple & most beautiful form! I love it! Classic & elegant, yet versatile & cozy enough to be causal. Love it!

Nice, easy to wear, very pleasant and feminine.

Don't fall in love with the first notes of Rosa Excelsa because the amazing, sweet neroli bouquet that greets the nose is not going to last for long. On my skin, this flanker of Dolce evolves rapidly (less than two minutes) into a fresh rose, with a touch of sweetness and powder. It's maybe slightly soapy at some point, when the roses are at their peak, but that's not going to last either. The actual fragrance is marvelous: a well blended, balanced and modern rose, with more transparent, fresh, hydrated and sweet flowers. At this point, it stays pretty much linear to my nose. Think about a peony scented hydrating body cream, I do get this vibe. The woody notes in the base are absolutely tamed and nowhere to stand out, they just help a bit with longevity and a touch of deepness that takes this apart from teenager fragrances. In terms of performance, Rosa Excelsa won't leave a trail unless you overspray. It is reduced to almost a skin scent in the amount of time it took me to write this review, but it usually lasts for at least 5-6 hours on the skin. You need to enjoy shy and subtle fragrances, but this is a lovely, feminine scent for spring and the bottle would be such a nice addition to any toilette table. It's a safe blind buy for any sweet flowers lover, especially for a younger lady that needs a formal youthful fragrance. Office safe, school safe, preppy, happy at heart and dreamy fragrance.

I've read some scathing reviews of this, but I like it, for what it is. Frankly, I expect nothing from new fragrance releases, so when one catches my attention, it's pretty exciting. I am a lifelong rose gardener and roses continue to be one of the greatest passions in my life. This does not smell like only roses, really. It smells like white flowers with some rose scent in the background, and even though no citrus notes are listed, I smell sweet lemon in the rose tones. There are roses with strong citrus bouquets, but my mind conjures "lemon" upon first sniff. Rose Excelsa is extremely "clean" but it doesn't smell like air freshener or laundry detergent. It smells like "perfume" as far as that goes since IFRA went insane. The bottle is very pretty, and this is a lovely hot weather fragrance. I really enjoy Dolce Rosa Excelsa, and it's a good purchase for me. If you like Florabotanica (I LOVE Florabotanica) you'll probably like this as well. They don't smell alike, but they are both fresh scents haunted by rose. Rosa Elcelsa's lasting power on skin is good. It lasts a few hours, especially when I'm warm. My husband thinks is smells wonderful...always a plus! In addition to enjoying this fragrance, I adore the video with Sophia Loren. So much fun!

A lovely scent. Just rosey and lovely. Clean and not powdery. No big deal. No imagination in my opinion. But if you want just a rose perfume, this is it, blooms in hot weather and wraps the skin softly. Not totally flat, but not very complex either despite the considerable amount of notes. In my opinion Rosa Excelsa is in desperate need of sandalwood, as the wood notes are not prominent at all. It is enough musky for an EDT but layered with a musk-centered perfume it will last longer. As for me I would layer it with patchouli. Opens like alcohol and soap; neroli. Very herbal, but it softens gradually in a soft borderline creamy rose. Feels indolic for some minutes, definitely a lot of flowers that I could not tell apart in Sephora, (and I don't know how to identify), dance around the rose. I can read them now, seeing the notes, but still, my nose needs to be trained on the different types of lilies, narcissus; never heard of papaya flower. Floral, rose, musky, fresh? Yes. Aquatic? No. I detect a creamy feeling. Nothing extraordinary or groundbreaking but at the same time nothing wrong or terrible. A well executed fresh rosy eau de toilette.

While I don't use this perfume as much as I thought I would I still can't hate it, it's not a perfume I would personally use everyday but something to use on days where I'm feeling romantic, maybe even a bit flirty but not sexy, it's just like a rose: beautiful on the outside but protected by thorns. The scent is elegant and sweet, the rose calmly fades away with the drydown and ends up smelling similar to the other dolce with the white top, fresh and sweet. Generally inoffensive scent but with just that hint of femininity that makes it special, I wouldn't recommend this if you want something powerful and bossy that will make you stand out immediately, this is a gentle scent. The bottle is absolutely adorable, the rose top and the simple black bow make this a beautiful addition to your collection, even if like me you don't use it often, you just can't shun it away. Would I buy it again? No, but that's because I use this so rarely that I think it will last me quite a bit, but even when it finishes I'm not sure how quickly I might be re-purchasing this, it's a nice scent yes but personally just a bit boring.

I definitely wouldn't consider this a rose scent, and in their plain dolce rose l can't even pick out any rose. But almost all of the flankers are misnomers. Garden doesn't smell like a garden, lily doesn't smell like lily, I wouldn't smell their jasmine and think of this smells like Jasmin, and don't even get me started on their peony. I am about to try their dolce violet. Violet is hard to screw up, but that doesn't seem to be the problem here. It will probably be a totally different scent with a violet note hidden in there. This is what happened with lily and the rose, but that isn't necessarily the problem. I truly love peony,, jasmine, garden, rose excelsa, shine, drops, and of course plain dolce. D&G always self title their best perfumes, including the only one ; )

This is a really pleasant, light, and inoffensive perfume, that I think younger people would enjoy more. It's subtle, it's sweet, and the sillage sits close to the skin. Unfortunately, I don't find this to be overwhelmingly rose scented (which is what I was looking for!). It's definitely floral, but on me, the floral scent is a bit vague. It smells like flowers, but the rose is almost indistinguishable from the white floral notes. It also smells a bit soapy too, like a Dove bar or laundry detergent, but it doesn't overpower the florals. For a brand like Dolce & Gabbana, I was expecting a bit more, honestly. It's a nice scent, but nothing that's remarkable or a must have for me.

I wanted to love this and I got so close, but this turns just a touch too 'dusty' on me before fading into oblivion at a pretty rapid rate. I really do like the initial few seconds where the beautiful full red rose is able to shine, but then the original Dolce comes out and while I like the original Dolce for what it is, I wanted the rose to shine here and the intensity of the musk just smothers it out too much for my liking. If only the musk were eliminated or it had a shot of aldehydes to make it clearer...

I was given this and it has surprised me, as it’s a perfume I would have walked right past. It’s a pretty straightforward fresh and bright rose, with musk and citrus. I’m not a huge rose lover, and the ones I usually choose tend to be dark/moody/sultry, but this is a delight to wear and I will happily work my way through the bottle! It’s quite a quiet close-to-skin scent, but the longevity is decent on me. Edit: ok, I’m too impatient and this isn’t enough of a love for me so I’m gifting it away!