Aqua Allegoria Flora Rosa

I always wanted to try aqua allegoria line of guerlain but they're not widely available here.flora Rosa is the first and only one I've tried and I'm so impressed that decided to buy it even if I have to order it abroad I didn't expect to love it because red berries translate as very sour for me and I don't like sour zesty fruity scents.luckily they're not really sour on me.I'd rather call them tart and sweet Flora rose opens as a super pretty fruity floral.a burst of juicy,fresh,tart and sweet,sparkly red berries(very much like raspberry)blended with a youthful rose which is very natural and not over powering.I can also detect slightest hint of something like green tea sometimes,but not that I can call it a green scent It's so beautiful,refreshing and uplifting.I expected it to be very light and faint,something I can just smell by pressing my nose to my skin but on me,it projects quite well! I can smell pretty wafts of this fresh çcfrose-berry scent all around me at least for an hour.it takes two hours for it to calm down to an almost skin scent,this usually happens for me in less than an hour so I'm pleased with it's projection not just because I can easily smell it.I've already received two complements and it was not even a full wear!(I don't consider 2,3 sprays as full wear) longevity is about six hours on skin Another surprise was that I can detect iris while I usually can't pick it up when it's not prominent in a scent.this blend of raspberry,rose and iris in it's middle phase have a lipgloss kind of smell which I die for Dry down is a musky rose,powdery and clean.in this stage I sometimes have an illusion of smelling a whisper of white florals in background I can't choose which stage I enjoy more,all three are very lovely It can make an easy to wear,ageless spring,summer perfume. I wish I can manage to find a bottle as soon as possible,there's just 2mil left in my decant it's a great blend of my favorite notes and I love it very much

This turned out to be more unique than I expected. Berry and rose accords are very common pairing, but Guerlain made its own version stand out. It opens very berrylicious. But instead of the scent of generic sweet fruits, it’s very tart and realistic. From the nozzle it smells a lot like a Japanese plum wine (if you have never had it it smells like rose wine with an abundance of very tart berries), distinguishing itself from a teenager’s perfume. Out of the bottle I smell berry, rose and iris all equally intensely. The rose is light and feminine, the iris is earthy and powdery, all together making it a unique and beautiful concoction. The only other perfume that gave me this vibe was YSL Parisienne, another berry and rose concoction, however a lot sweeter and not at all powdery. Flora rosa definitely has more character. The longevity of this is only 2-3 hours. But I never expected much from that. This is the first one I’ve tried from Aqua Allegoria line. I will certainly pick up some more.

I was holding myself back at buying this on the spot. Such a beautiful scent! (I went back to grab it, anyway) I am biased towards perfumes with red berries note in them but this is done beautifully. It is lightly sour with a delicate little rose. I can't detect musk - the tart berries and rose take centre stage. It almost smells like roses and berries steeped in tea with a drop of honey. When I sniffed it closer to isolate the rose note, I was delighted by a blast of startlingly realistic fragrant white/pink roses in full bloom, hiding under the ripe berries. It is sweet, luscious and just mildly green. I originally mistook it for a simple scent( I liked it anyway) but it is not. This smells very tart in colder temperatures and more rosey in warmer temperatures. Sillage is actually moderate. I got a friend to sniff me XD Then again, this'd be a good "second skin scent". Lasted around 6 hours for me. P.S: the sprayer works excellently. It delivers a fine cloud of perfume.

This perfume is a beautiful, floral, rose scent which on my skin is fairly linear in that, what you smell at the first spritz, is pretty much what you get throughout. Some reviewers say that they can't smell rose in this, I can smell the rose, which to me, features predominantly in this fragrance, but there are also other floral notes which are unidentifiable to me (possibly white florals) and slight musc to freshen this composition. Ok so now that the basics of the notes have been mentioned, what do I think? This is gorgeous and fresh, light and inoffensive. This fragrance would be the safest blind buy in the world, as it's so light and pretty. The down side is that it doesn't last on me at all, I do need to keep re spritzing throughout the day and I would say that this fragrance can also be used as a layering scent. I'm glad that I have a huge bottle of this and I really enjoy wearing it, buy this with confidence and enjoy! It's beautiful!!

I know that Flora Rosa havn't got roaring and wowing here on fragrantica or massive followers, some complain it doesnt last, some its not rose-y enough, some that its one-dimensional. No intentions to persuade you. I already learnt that certain fragrance-profiles die on ones skin and blossom on anothers. Simple as that. On me is a charming fragrance, which keeps its depth during long hours, I smell dozens of things in it, - crushed stalks of green parts of plants, red berry bush which grows near roses, crisp and sour, even peonies on the morning, musky-citrusy... About such compositions I can say - all most complex things hide inside simplicity and other way round. Its a young musky morning rose in buds, surrounded by berry-trees and tiny droplets of morning dew on the grass, indulge yourself in barefoot walk at 5 am. If you have got a garden like that)