Cabotine Rosalie

My latest addition to my cache of Gres...Rosalie. When I first sprayed it. It was quite strange roast almonds? Hairspray? I was confused, where was that rose.. I was afraid this was yet another perfume that promised rose and didn't deliver.. The elusive rose. I let it sit for a few days to recover from its travels before delivery. This morning I gave it another spin. This morning top notes are a kind of lemony, almondy biscuit. Is it a gourmand, maybe. The rose was somewhere in the background. Left it for an hour and on the skin intimate perfume... And the rose emerges.. A deep mysterious damask rose... The lemon still hints.. And the biscuit becomes creamy delicious hovering. I think I'm loving it now, its hard to define... But I'm intrigued, my faith in Gres is untarnished... Each one of the three cabotine I now own are so unique. So I guess I should cave in and buy the Cabotine rose.. As my final, So I can compare. Always on the lookout for the perfect rose heaven, so hard to find. I can see this is not everyone's ideal, it's hard to pin down. The cabotine 100ml bottles of EDT all sell for under 20.. That is a major success story, I'm happy I found.

ABSTRACT HELIOTROPE. Opens with a fresh burst of Waldorf salad (nuts, mayo, apple, celery, grapes), that deepens into a rosy heart that has powdery, velvety, violet, sweet & plum-y nuances, all resting on a vanilla benzoin base with cedar & peach tones. Overall when I take as step back, what I get is an abstract composition of heliotrope (sometime called the "cherry-pie" flower with nuances of vanilla, baby powder, almond extract, deep & sweet fruit), going from lemony-green buds to full bloom. The heart & drydown smell a lot like heliotropin/heliotrope essential oil, most of which comes from Peru. Average or slightly above average performance. Contrast to Cinema Yves Saint Laurent: Although these have been compared, I find them different, however there are similarities with almond(blossom) and benzoin. Rosalie is more lemon forward in the opening, while Cinema dries down heavier with more benzoin. Cinema outperforms. Overall: Average or slightly above average performance, with a beautiful scent profile, this is the perfect scent to wear trekking the Inca Trail It's a love for me. Enjoy!

This is just lovely. I don't get many gourmand notes but the rose is astounding. Fresh, slightly sweet and so very casually elegant. Something you can wear in hot weather, very office friendly and also quite distinctive. In the same spirit of Chloé by Chloé or Agua Fresca de Rosas Blancas by Adolfo Domínguez. I still prefer the original Cabotine but these flankers are really nice and much more wearable. So pleasant you'll want to bathe in this. And its very cheap too. Unluckily this is not easy to find but if you find it get it, it's a pretty safe blind buy and you won't regret it Edit: did a side by side comparison and this reminds me of Rochas Tocade somehow but much lighter. I think the rose notes in Tocade and Rosalie are very close.

I just opened my bottle, a blind buy as I read people mention the links to Hypnotic Poison. Now, it's been decades since I last owned a bottle of that, so I don't really see any similarities although I suppose this has something mysterious, something maybe medicinal? In a good way! There's something I can't put my finger on about this fragrance, which makes me keep sniffing my wrist wanting to experience it over and over again... I get the floral, powdery notes too, making this soft and delicate to wear, like a soft knit or comfy PJs. It's an instant favourite for me and it was so affordable, too!

This is great for spring and summer and an amazing value for money. Incredibly complex and sparkling. It opens as a lemony/ limey pie and almond, like Hypnotic poison kind. Then the fresh rose or rose with peony/ petalia comes forward, but the almond and lemon are still there. The scent sparkles like this for quite a while until it dries down to a vanilla warm and cosy dry down. A totally different perfume to the green Cabotine, literally they have nothing in common besides the bottle shape.