Rose Tonnerre

Une Rose (AC9, 2019, 50 ml., barely use - 70% Alcohol ratio) Extension 2 on Friday 24 January 2025 00:47 hrs. FINAL ASSETMENT I declutter my fragrance collection down recently. Currently, Geranium Red Rose is my weapon of Choice for Charm and Alluring mood. I do 2-3 times wear of Une Rose recently in past 3 months. I think this is the "Best Dark Rose Fragrance".. But it is not a rose in their true habitat, it a manmade rose. During the wear, The scent prime time is around first 4 hours. Just enough as a weapon of choice of the night. The harmonic of Bloom red-rose until it starts to be a mist of shopiticate red musk is just right, vanish sleek. It smells Naturally correct. However, once it post 4 marks dry-down it the aroma chemical woody-amber. Start taking the stage, then it is not a really good show. It's ok, kind of crisp musk amber experience you often meet when it reach far dry down of these rosy scent. Une Rose is stable during the wear; gives a moderate silage (slight stronger than arm range) and strong scent tails. It's kind of covering you with good charming silage. In the first 4 hours. Still, it will be in my collection as one of greatest manmade rose with beautiful dial facet. I will use this as weapon of choice at night along with POTL (It less mysterious). For personal likeness, I really enjoy how "Love Kills" walk. It seems to have higher Natural and Envelope across the wear. And Closer to nature of Rose. I don't think I need any further assessment for Une Rose. Extension 3: 28 Jan - I remove POAT from a list and with venture future. ===== Extension 1 on October 7, 2024 NOTE on REFORMULATION My perfumer friend, creator of Butterfly Reserved Collection (local brand in Thailand) told me that only 1 ingredient missing is “Karanal”. Karanal is super amber found in 1987. As fragrance ingredient, Super Amber always extend the longevity of formula well as projection. Unique quality of Karanal is being Amber with Green leaf tint, to date still much a unique profile for Karanal. They is no replacement yet. Due to recent IFRA registration, Rose Tornerre, revamp of original Une Rose is missing this ingredient however no impact - how rose construct, only lower the performance / projection. I don’t think you have to hunt down Une Rose.. Rose Tornerre will be just fine. ===== First impression (July 12, 2024 10:10 hrs.) I would totally agree & disagree at the same time That this smell like La Fille de Berlin by Serge Lutens. It’s yes and no. Yes, they both are rose fragrance and they both are properly constructed in the name of rose solifores. Rose solifores fragrance are based on nameable repeating materials (Phenylethyl alcohol, Geraniol, Citronellol), sometime natual ingredients like Rose Absolute or Rose Essential Oil and support ingredients like β-ionone, β-damascone, β-damascenone, Rose Oxide, Raspberry ketone even patchouli. What’s make them difference? It is all about dial ratio to make a perfect rose solifores. MOD after MOD, If you keep sniff rose fragrance, you notice - sometime, some rose leans fruity, some rose leans velvety, some rose leans jammy. It all about dial ratio... Une Rose, might be only fragrance that use all rose material I can name of, pure rose EO resulting in balmy quality, velvet feel, no sharp patchouli, metalic rose oxide is noticeable yet merge to profile, develop to strong rose and dry down powdery, with green touch all of this is very natural smelling, perfect rose with stem. However, after all, you can conclude that This is just another rose solifores, and I agree. I don’t mind admit the truth. There is no such a big gap between Le Fille de Berlin and Une Rose, but For me Une Rose, is, in all regards, perfect-ever-created rose solifores, seamless, masterly blend. I am truly happy with my 50 ml. bottle. As appreciable wearable perfect art... Do you need a bottle of Une Rose.. (?) My personal assumption as any rose lover. Any rose fragrances are easily appreciable.. from us. (Ps. I received this bottle from my friend on swap, thank you, thank you..)

"Une Rose" is, it seems to me, a misnomer because this fragrance smells like a few different roses: the opening rose is pure, strong, sweet and jammy--If you have ever had the experience of opening a floral cooler containing roses after it has been closed for a while (I once worked in a supermarket with a floral section), that is what this aspect of UR recalls for me; the next rose note I get from this scent is a green, bright rose that has not yet come to full bloom and is cool and crisp; & the last rose I experience is dried, earthy, roses in an urn at a grave (but not in a morbid way). In fact, as I write this blurb, I've begun to think that perhaps it really is just one rose note here and that it is being influenced by the notes surrounding it. The incredibly sweet opening may involve the honey adding to the rose. The green geranium and pelargonium morphing the rose into a minty, green iteration of itself may give rise to the notes in phase two of the scent. In phase three, the truffle and musk may giving rise to the dry, earthy rose also encountered in this fragrance. Either way, this rose scent is fulsome, complex and far from being a mere solifleur like rose oil on skin. While this scent is all rose, it is rose that is evolving and changing its character. I believe this scent is unisex even though it is marketed toward women. The closest fragrance I can think of when considering smell alikes is Toy Boy by Moschino which has similar transitioning rose notes and is marketed towards men. I am a guy who wears Toy Boy and UR and enjoys both. Projection here is strong and longevity is considerable. In high heat, this scent is too much for me. Indeed, while the sweetness in this scent is made tolerable for those who do not enjoy syrupy scents by the moderating effect of the red wine (still in the barrel) note in the opening, this fragrance can easily fall across the line into sickening sugariness in summer heat or if you over spray. Use this scent judiciously and it is delightful. In fact, given the prices it commands, you will probably want to spray this fragrance cautiously just to reduce the hit to your bank balances. I do not use this scent for business situations because of the formidable way it fills a room with the smell of roses. I do not like to wear powerful fragrances in work settings. But for a night out, this stuff is great. (If you are compliment driven, I will let you know that this fragrance has garnered many unsolicited compliments for me in party and club settings--even in Dubai where heady, strong scents are, shall we say, rather more generally used than in many other places.) I like rose fragrances and love this scent. If you are a rose lover, you will almost certainly love Une Rose too. If you're not a rose fan, give this one a miss. Now, is this a single rose like the name suggests or several different roses playing together? I guess I don't have a clue. But whatever makes this scent smell as it does, I love it.

This perfume has been quite a personal journey for me. I bought it rather quickly after discovering it on paper one day, and then wearing it on my skin the next. I grew up in Bulgaria, and one side of my family was of Turkish origin. My childhood was naturally full of that sweet Bulgarian-Turkish Rosa damascena. It came not only as flowers in gardens, parks and vases, but also as rose oil vials that are somehow always lying around when you live in Bulgaria, as my beloved rose petal jam spread on bread, as inexpensive everyday rose-scented soaps and cosmetics, as rose-flavoured Turkish delight, sometimes even covered in dried rose petals. Having grown up with all this as a given condition, I never really cared that much for roses in perfumery, because they often smelled either too familiar and commonplace to me, or worse - simply not true enough. The rose of Rose Tonnerre captures all the memories and experiences I have ever had of rose and condenses them into one larger-than-life idea of what a rose is. Beyond all the forms and incarnations the rose has taken throughout my life, it brings me back to the rose bush in my Turkish grandparents’ garden, blooming in a soft orange-pink and smelling strongest in the morning - right back to that core, perhaps universal experience of discovering the rose as a child: sensing its sweet scent from afar, burying your face into its large flowers to inhale it fully, the golden pistils tickling your nose, your mind lost in pure bliss while your body remains subconsciously alert in fear of leaning too far into its thorns, as inevitably happened the first time you encountered and lost your guard around a rose. I have heard this perfume described as a photorealistic rose, but I think that description somehow falls short, because it is not merely the smell of a rose flower that you encounter here, but rather the idea of a rose. It is like the most magnificent rose you can imagine, purer, richer and truer than any real-life rose you can recall having ever smelled before. For me, the other ingredients no longer stand apart on their own, but are completely absorbed and fused into that rose to reveal its own sweetness, its own pepperiness, depth and groundedness. Together they conjure not simply the real flower, but the myth of the rose. I have read reviews calling this rose Gothic, vampiric - someone below even mentioned that Dracula himself would have worn this perfume. One could perhaps add The Name of the Rose to that dark-fantasy lineage as well. But to me this rose feels more glorious than dark. Still, I am curious to explore that vampiric interpretation too, having just sprayed myself all over with Rose Tonnerre, an unread copy of Dracula resting on my lap.

I love this one. I love rose and in my search for “the rose” fragrance for my collection, this one really hits the mark. I currently have a sample of it, and in my sample testing today I compared this to MFK’s A La Rose—one on each wrist. While I think both are beautiful, FM’s Rose Tonnerre is more dark at the open and complex throughout its wear. A La Rose is a bright, young rose with that high-pitch juicy floral rose note at the open and pretty much stays the same throughout. This particular scent or “note” I’m describing is one I have noticed in a lot of feminine, rose marketed fragrances, so while it’s not unique, I like it. It’s the rose that’s in A La Rose and Delina, but not in POAL, for example. It’s the juicy, enveloping, delicious floral rose. And when I think of my designated rose fragrance, that bottle’s got to have it. I did this one-on-each-wrist test before too, but didn’t really evaluate them the first time, but I remember thinking at one point when I took a sniff of each of them “wow, they both smell extremely similar”. Now I know it’s because, at least on my skin, at one point they do. But that’s only because RT changes and evolves in such a beautiful and masterful way Here’s how RT evolves: 0-1 hours: deep, dark, juicy rose. It is floral and smells like straight up rose but darker. It’s a sexy, enveloping feminine rose. 2-4 hours: Still lovely and predominantly rose. Around the 2 hour mark it is very similar to A La Rose to my nose on my skin, this is the point that as I sniff both wrists, they smell the exact same. Around hour 3 it transitions to a greener and fresher scent. You can smell the whole of the rose plant, leaves and all. Still rose but it really evolves here. 5-6 hours: Much more musky than rose. This part surprised me. It reminds me a lot of Musc ravageur at this point, but maybe with more with that greenery and rose overlay. More of a skin scent at this point but still beautiful. Overall I love Rose Tonnerre. I enjoy most rose fragrances but what makes this one special, and why I’ll probably purchase a full bottle of this over other rose fragrances (such as MFK’s A La rose, diptique’s Eau Rose) is because this feels more masterfully done and more complex. FM is just so, so good at that.

I've never smelt anything so wonderful in my life! Went to Target and was standing in line, and a whiff of scent passed my nose. I followed the scent and realized a man and a woman standing there. I didn't want to be rude, or embarrass myself for being a curious nose. But I just had to. I'll be kicking myself for the rest of my life if I didn't find out what this scent was. I asked, and the lady said it was "Une Rose." I knew what that meant as I took French in school. "A Rose," never heard of it. And of course she says they only sell it at Barney's. A store I've never been to and am nowhere near. This fragrance surprised me and open me up to a whole new world of fragrances. Mind blowing fragrances that really change the way you feel. Not the kinds that you see at smaller malls and fragrance shops. The scent was DANCING around the whole place. It was unique, never smelled anything like it. It has a woman quality to it, but not exactly feminine. I wouldn't say I smelt "Rose". All the rose scents I've ever smelt smelled sickly sweet or too rosy to wear, this on the other hand, was nothing like that. There was different notes popping out all at once and it was difficult for me to distinguish them. It was all one in unity, but changing at the same time if that makes any sense. The only reason why I might hesitate to wear this scent is that it's explosive. In a good way, but still drawing ALL the attention to yourself. And I'm not the kind that likes drawing attention to myself. But I'd probably buy it for my own enjoyment. Not only is it an explosive attention-seeking scent, it's also very confident and powerful. DOMINATING beautiful is more of the correct description. Thus, why I know it can't be my signature scent. Yes, it's those kind of scent where you're in a crowded room and wondering who's wearing the wonderful perfume. Surely this perfume is beautiful and amazingly delightful to my nose. I've only experienced it for a few minutes and a few notes, and it left that kind of impression. I just don't know if it'll have the same affect on my skin.