Aqua Allegoria Rosa Verde

agree with the wellness garden impression. minty cucumber water on the spa patio next to the rose garden after the rain. while smelling within the first half hour you first get a soft pink rose that melts into cucumber and then mint, before the rose fades and the cucumber and mint start melting into a chypre scent. i'm not used to my nose being led in this way when it comes to soft floral designer scents, i am impressed. very close to the skin on a cooler rainy summer day, i'm sure it performs better on a hot day based on composition. while i'm clearly not the target audience, i'm often pleasantly surprised by how interesting aqua allegoria scents can be while staying 100% inoffensive and wearable to most. while i'd say the sillage underperforms with rosa verde (at least on this particular day), it's even more interesting than other aqua allegorias i've sampled. if you want to give the impression of a tall glass of iced tea/refreshing beverage of choice on a hot day to the people around you while exuding an air of sophistication, this is a solid contender. now i need to go watch a cure for wellness

I'm madly in love with it. I'm a lover of all fresh and clean fragrances but usually all my beloved perfumes have a very prominent citrus. This one is quite unique for me it's very green, fresh green leafs but there's also softness and feminine vibe of a very delicate flowery rose. It's delicious and soooo refreshing and green at the same time. Someone wrote here it's like a salad. I agree but in a good way. It's Like sitting outside in the a green and dewy garden, when it's cool and breezy and eating the most delicate and fresh salad . I love Guerlain aqua allegoria line for the beautiful vintage like bottles and and for making fragrances that focuses on prominet one note, I just wish it had a bit more strength to it. It fades out completely within 3-4 hrs.

I don't get why this fragrance is so divisive. Maybe it is because some people have bad associations with fresh rose scents? I cannot get it because I find this to be divinely beautiful. It has a well rounded combination of rose, fruits and fresh elements(cucumber and mint) and a hint of violet which makes it dreamy. The musks in here are also very creamy. It is a scent that evokes positive feelings, images of lying in a dewy rose garden in the summer biting into a watery pear. It is fresh, but voluptuous, airy but not lacking depth, happy but not childish. It has become one of my favourite fragrances! Please try it even if you don't usually like rose!

On my skin, it lasted for several hours with phenomenal projection - even in a nauseating train station setting. On me, Rosa Verde opens with the scent of fresh cucumber - those sweet, garden-picked ones I used to pluck right off the vine - blended beautifully with rose and a touch of iris. Feminine, but not sweet. It smells exactly the way it’s meant to: like a summer after-bath. To my nose, it feels more "moisturizing" or hydrating than aquatic, soft and soothing, strangely elegant. I loved it, I bought it, and I plan to use it as a base for layering, since it’s such an enveloping fragrance...

This smells exactly like dove cucumber deodorant spray that I used to put on when i was a teen, it's so refreshing!!! The first whiff is cucumber and a bit minty fresh. Nothing too sharp. I can't quite pinpoint the citrusy bergamot. Then the rose starts to creep in, It's very tamed, like a pink rose which just bloomed, not overripe, not overpowering at all, quite tolerable for sensitive noses. After a while of wearing it (2 hours), it did gave me a slight hadache. Update: someone said to me it smelled like an old lady perfume and i dont know how to take that.

I know this perfume has met a solid amount of criticism, but I can't find any negative feature about it. Actually, it earns me so many compliments. The opening is fresh and soothing, quite peculiar if compared to other fragrance with the same target. The cucumber and the mint are quite prominent in the opening, but then the rose overtakes the stage and gives balance to the entirety of the fragrance. The dry down is lovely as well. It will be my summer perfume, even though smelling it always gives me the feeling of a late spring promenade in Florence.

Yummy sweet lemony green earl grey ice tea with rose petals and a little dash of mint. On my skin cucumber does not stand out at all. Refreshing, happy fragrance for summer. Sillage and performance is good (6-7 hrs). Rose does not get soapy, the playful freshness remains at the dry down too. The opening has similarity with Hermès Un Jardin Sur Le Toit, but on the long run the difference grows; the later is more tarty, dry, green grassy, Rosa Verde remains sweet, sunny, juicy.

I wanted a perfume to replace Jardin Sur Le Toit. This is a nice update to that. It’s very similar but no apple. Although Magnolia isn’t listed as a note in this , something in it smells like it. This is nice projection the first hour but then becomes a skin scent. I smell mostly rose, pear, and violet with a nice soft musk base note. A very nice spring and summer day scent. It lasts longer than others in the allegoria line - about 6 hours on me.

I was very excited for a green minty rose scent. Had high expectations as I thought this might reminecence my beloved 90s Smith's Rosebud salve in minted rose. It didn't give me retro minty rose vibes rather more cucumber heavy. It's weak for such a high price point. Very fresh though and has a pleasant violet note. If you want a dewy summer rose scent this might be for you🌹

Fresh, youthful, only slightly sweet rose water with cucumber. Comparing to this, Garden Party is a sweeter, more obvious rose and no cucumber (but a better price), You Or Someone Like You is a fistful of rose petals thrown on a soda (but like twice the price) - so this one is a good compromise, and to me a spot on, not too cloying and not too delicate.

First impression: 😍😍😍😍😍you know, when it's hot outside and you open the door of a very chic flower shop, this feeling of freshness, green leaves, delicious subtle flowers scent, water, dewiness. I have to try it again , and if I have the same experience, I'll consider giving some money to Bernard Arnault ( owns Sephora and Guerlain)...

Это очень хорошо! Очень сильно выделяется мята и бергамот с цветочным акккордом. Одновременно сладкий и свежий!

smells exactly like cucumber w a little bit of sugar, I love it

Starts with cucumber, mint, and pear. There is something deliciously acidic and fruity that evaporates quickly, so that's disappointing. This perfume becomes very weak after a couple hours. I'm not getting rose or musk honestly. Not getting chypre either. I just get fading cucumber and violet. Cold fragrance. Summer. Too weak and ethereal for spring, unless you live in an area where spring is hot. This is really more something to apply in August when it's hot and gross and humid, and you just took a cool shower. Edit 2026-03-16: Actually I am getting rose. I had it on my collarbones yesterday and after about 45 minutes I smelled a gentle rose scent and I couldn't figure out for a minute where it was coming from. Not honey-sweet like Arabian, and not acidic like European, but a very fresh, light rose.

Aqua Allegoria Salada! This is very green indeed and smells like the sensation of munching a vinaigrette lettuce salad. This is not a bad thing, I love salad... The rose is minimal. I feel 'rose dew' more than rose, almost the wetness of a rose bud opening rather than a heady damask rose. I could imagine this being part of the old line up of Un Jardin de Hermes in the JC Elena era. It also has a nod to the most subtle of Cartier's offerings (Oh how I miss Baiser Vole in EDT!). I've bought it in November. I can't wait to smell it in the spring time as it needs skin, not jumpers. I will only wear this now straight from the bath to bed. I think it would be calming for sleep. It's quite odd, rather lovely and definitely not boring.

Every summer I end up with at least one AA and, as long as you take them for what they are , a light summer splash ( and don't pay too much !) they're great. This one isn't as good as my other purchase , Rosa Magnifica ( if you REALLY want rose, violet and iris, get that ) but considering we're in a heatwave, it's perfect. Seeing words like cucumber and "oceanic" I thought it's going to turn 90's ( not much of those have stood the test of time, one the best survived and there was a lot that were mediocre ) but thankfully, not. Add sweetness, you turn the cucumber to melon or amp up the ozonic notes and you get detergent. But they didn't. Instead it's a ( real ) rose lemonade with a cucumber and mint . Light, floral and fresh.

The opening of Rosa Verde is a generic soft musk. However, after a few minutes, a floral symphony starts to appear, but no distinct rose yet. Suddenly, I get an impression of vintage floral perfumes, maybe those chypre notes are responsible for that. A soft rose then makes an appearance, but I feel that it is more distinct in the sillage than from up close. There are also green notes enveloping the fragrance, but the cucumber and mint are not clearly cut, the greenness is rather an amalgamation of both. The rose in Rosa Verde is delicate, and so is the whole fragrance. Rather than taking center stage when wearing it, Rosa Verde provides a lovely background, allowing its wearer to smell tenderly fresh.

As a male, I didn't like anything from Guerlain in a long time. Until Rosa Verde. I like YOSLY from ELDO, but I tested it recently at Harrods, both on skin and on my shirt, and It seemed different than before. Both longevity/projection and smell were disappointing. It smelled so tame and generic. Was it reformulated?! Anyways. Rosa Verde is better in every way. Smell and performance. It is so green, so fresh and uplifting, and it lasts and projects really well. I do get the so-so rating; most people these days prefer sweet, creamy, ambery perfumes, and RV doesn't offer any of that. It is an icy, cucumber-y, minty, (fresh)rose scent. Really well done!

This is one of the rare green scents that doesn't sting or turn sour on my skin. It's soft, green, dewy goodness, the rose in the middle of a garden freshness, perhaps a sort of “wellness garden” with some ponds and water lilies, but still a garden watered after a light rain. I appreciate the softness and dew around the rose in the middle (a pink or white rose) and the airy softness of the base notes - no creaminess, more like a cooling silk fabric moved by the wind. I really like it and would buy it if it came in a smaller bottle - I feel like it belongs to summer and the sun and should be used up before fall in Northern Europe.

Such a beautiful green floral fragrance. When I first smelled it I was kind of in a rush and only sprayed on paper so I didn't get to smell it once it developed so I didn't really like it then, but I figured this needs another chance so today I sprayed it on my wrist, and yes in the opening it's very green, which is not a bad thing, but then it becomes so much better as the rose and floral notes come forward. It is a truly gentle, calming and peaceful, yet elegant fragrance. It's a different take on rose than many sweet rose fragrances that have been coming out lately, I really like it.