Aqua Allegoria Forte Rosa Rossa

ROSE UNEXPECTED...FINALLY. Thanks to the wizardry of perfumer Delphine Jelk. Beautiful rose-soda opens to a tropical, fresh, sparkling rose overlaying a woody Middle Eastern leaning rose. If you start with a sparkling tropical aquatic scent on one wrist, such as Aqua Allegoria Passiflora or Pera Granita, and on the other wrist you put a powdery, woody, spicy rose scent like Versace Woman 2000, or Rose 31 Le Labo, you would be in the ballpark. I tested this today in the store, on skin and on a card, and I don't really get a Delina Parfums de Marly vibe like I was expecting from this, despite the rose-litchi combo (litchi used to be listed in the notes pyramid). This is well-blended, beautiful & refreshingly different but with familiar elements. But it helps if you aren't new to rose-oud scents or iso-E-super. Well above average performance (it's 9 hours later and still going strong on the wrist & paper card, but some may be noseblind). New bottles require a few weeks in dark storage after first sprays to develop performance and elaborate the full scent profile. Seekers & collectors of rose scents won't be disappointed. Finally a zinger that can sail to the top of the wishlist. I'm quite taken with this - it's a love for me. Enjoy! Update 07/28/24: Sprayed this on after a shower this morning. Luscious, fruity rose with woody patchouli base. This time, as it's drying down there's a jammy stage that's a lighter - more of a lighter strawberry jam that keeps the rose underneath, rather than the usual darker berry jams I get with a jammy rose. Each time I wear this I love it more. 10/10.

Rose Rossa Forte is really beautiful, and I think my search for the perfect spring/summer true rose perfume is finally over. As much as I like the original Rose Rossa I think I love this one a lot more. What a gem this is. Beautiful fully fresh roses over juicy summer peaches. It is like being outside eating peaches or peach cobbler in a rose garden. The rose garden has all varieties of roses and in all stages of blooming. There are roses w/ soft spicy notes, the peach cobbler has the lightest touch of almond extract. There is a slightly boozy quality here as well. Like the smell of a rose and peach cognac that was newly made. Rose Rossa Forte will make you smell edible but not in a completely gourmand way. Guerlain perfumes are always classy and pull back just enough. They are never literal unlike many niche gourmands on the market today. This is classy, refined while still being absolutely scrumptious. Full bottle worthy.

This scent will be my new go to scent together with the original Rosa Rossa. My boyfriend bought the original by accident instead of Pera Granita, but wasn’t sure if he could send it back. So we went to the store and tried it out. While we were doing that, we got to try RR Forte and we immediately loved it. He even said he loved it more than the one he bought. So I kept the one I got and purchased myself a big bottle of the Rosa Rossa Forte! It is an amazing fresh rose scent that changes in a classy, slightly sweet and soft skin scent as the day goes by. Definitely a crowdpleaser for young and older. I’ll switch between this one for the evening and Rosa Rossa for the day this spring and summer! Great for those who love roses and juicy scents! (Also totally agree with the comparison by Ashbud)

I don’t understand the negativity about projection and longevity, on me it is performing very well!... A very classy rose smell that would be fitting as a signature because you can wear it all year round, but can for sure be a bit too much on extremely hot summet days! I still have to get a bit used to it I guess, as it is fruity, tangy, rosy and herby all at once... Because it is a natural perfume (90 to 95 per cent of the fragrance collection is entirely from natural ingredients) the smell stays the same - so it doesn’t develop much - and is very pleasant as you don’t feel there would be anything artificial about it! I think that is a big plus, as I sometimes can’t anticipate how fragrances develop and secondly I tend to get nauseous from artificial fragrances.

A very pretty, summery rose fragrance that has that same tart peppery rose that I fell in love with in Dior Rose Gipsy and Jimmy Choo edt., both of which I already have. It is a little closer to the Jimmy Choo because of the fruit notes, but as in that fragrance, they are not very pronounced here. As this wears on it becomes more delicate, but still has presence. It smells great right now and I think might smell even prettier in warmer weather. If I didn't already have similar perfumes, I wouldn't hesitate to buy a bottle not only because I love the rose and pink pepper notes, but because the performance, especially for something in this line, is surprisingly good.