China Rose

This is all about the roses- fully blown and richly fragrant olde English roses in a summer garden, just about to drop their petals ready to gather and make rose water with. I love this perfume, it was my signature from when it was released until it got discontinued, I had the body lotion and the bath foam and it felt so luxurious to be layered in this scent from head to toe. On hot days, the fragrance really intensifies on your skin and becomes more spicy, but generally speaking this is an old fashioned rich and a little powdery rose scent. A slightly herbal and subtly fruity opening with a hint of fuzzy peach,gives way to the roses,with hints of geranium, clove and woods but to me they only serve to highlight the rosy intensity, rather than disguise it. Long lasting and with a heavy sillage, I would personally recommend for wear in the evenings.Totally feminine and utterly gorgeous !

Something about the clove I personally find really lovely in this scent. The very beginning i swear i can smell apple. The rose is not a fresh garden rose, but it is very rosy it is soft something about it reminds me of my childhood and this place my grandpa used to take me. It is so comforting to me. I have been having a hard week but every time i sniff my wrist i feel automatically at home and at piece protected and taken care of. Nothing could ever harm me. China Rose has automatically captured my heart. I would not wear it out to dinner or something unless i was very close to the person i was with. But i would simply buy this perfume to keep around for anytime i felt like the world was getting to me. I can see how others without these comforting memories of loved ones might find it a bit too much with the cloves, but i love it. I think it is absolutely perfect!

This is a beautiful, very very strong perfume that lasts until you wash it off. The rose is full and lush, soaked in peaches, with a light raspberry kiss. These fruits blended with amber, create a sultry, boozy drunkenness enveloping the rose. Super strong cloves add spiciness and incredible staying power. China Rose EDP is intense, rich, full bodied, and very feminine. It's every bit as strong, long lasting and intense as the original Opium by Yves St Laurent. A little goes a very long way. China Rose is "LUSH", in every sense of the word. I LOVE China Rose EDP, and am anxious to try other rose scents from Floris. Thanks to all who wrote reviews !

This is fabulous. Based on the reviews I almost didn't blind buy it. Glad I did. This is a sharp grassy AND jammy rose combined thanks to the geranium. This is all about the rose and geranium. I don't like fruit scents. The raspberry and peach are there just to sweeten the deal but not to create a fruity floral by any means like the modern ilk for young babies, those immature scents.

This perfume was horribly disappointing. I bought it when it came out because I love rose fragrances and all the notes sounded fabulous. Rose, violet, geranium, patchouli, vetiver; what's not to love. I even bought the soap and I think the talc at the same time. It doesn't smell like any of those notes. Or maybe a muddle of them overlaced with I never could determine what. Maybe sandalwood, although that's not in the list, but I see other reviewers smelled it. To me anyway, it was like a committee designed it and then the boss said, "that's way too much rose," and took it all out. "But rose sells in a perfume name," so they put some of the rose back in but left it muddy. I stopped trying to like it and moved on. Maybe 5 years later I tried again and thought maybe it would be alright if you weren't expecting rose. But it doesn't smell particularly Chinese or oriental either. I also thought maybe my bottle was so new when I bought it that 5 years would have improved it. Didn't happen. Not one of Floris' big successes, to me anyway. P. S. The more I think about it, Floris actually warns the buyer here. It keeps the name China Rose, and most people would expect the packaging to be a vibrant Chinese Red, one step up from fire engine red. But you don't get it; the packaging is this muddled pink/tan, the color of no actual rose hybridized by 2004 anyway. And you're expecting a vibrant rose with maybe a lot of Asian notes, and I don't think you're getting them either.