Rose Amazone

My second bottle of this arrived today. I bought my first one back in 2015 and ran out of it sometime last year. I missed it so much that I ordered it again. Rose Amazone is a criminally underrated fragrance and I live in constant fear that it will be discontinued. This is a tart, fruity rose with some fresh, woody green and a hint of fizz. The citrus and berries are very present, but this perfume is not sweet - not in a sugary sense. The rose is so intertwined with the fruits and the woods that it doesn't come across as an intensely rose dominant experience either. It's a crisp halo of red, pink, and green. It smells clean, refreshing, and leans feminine. It's extremely approachable, yet very different from any other designer perfume I've smelled, which is why I find it so surprising that this isn't more popular. It has an expensive shampoo-like quality about it, and I mean this in the most complimentary way — that's part of what makes this fragrance so easy to wear. Spray it on and you smell "finished." The first time I tried it I was on a day spa trip at a very upscale place in NYC for an event with a group of women I had never met before. I'd packed a sample in my bag to put on after the spa activities. At first spray I was in love, and so happy that this was the sample that made it into my things that day. I smelled posh and effortlessly elegant. It was exactly the impression I wanted to make in that situation, and I couldn't stop smelling myself for the rest of the day. I ordered a full bottle as soon as I returned home from that trip. This is definitely more of a daytime scent. Some places I have worn it over the years include: office, off-site work meetings, brunches, shopping trips, birthday parties, baby showers, family events, and plane rides. It was perfect in all those environments. Longevity is good. Projection is moderate. I recommend it and I am happy to have a bottle of this back in my collection. I very rarely say this about anything but — this is a safe blind buy.

A divinely gorgeous fresh fruity beautiful perfume, full of rich ripe and juicy fruit, a delicate and sweet touch of lovely flowers - glorious rich rose, and I'm sure I smell lily-of-the-valley, and a sparkling green, and sweet, smooth woody base, with a lovely creamy amber too. The fruit is so juicy and sweet, with a lovely bitter edge which is a great contrast and stops it being tooo sweet, and the vanilla gives it a gorgeous full luxurious creamy custard element. It's so lovely and feminine, soft, delicate and sophisticated, as well as rich and potent. I adore it. It's perfect.

I think Hermes has now become my favourite designer fragrance house. I bought this beauty just yesterday and it is stunning. It has this beautifully green leafy herbal kind of tart nature to it in the beginning with beautifully delicate roses peaking through all the tartness. I just can’t get over it. It’s so beautiful! There are berries which are really fruity and juicy, but not in a frivolous or juvenile kind of way, but in a grown polished womanly kind of way. It’s so stunning and I think any woman could make this their signature perfume and they wouldn’t go wrong, you know?

I have been eyeballing this beauty for some time now. Today, I decide to take the plunge and bring her home. This fragrance is hard to describe. It is fresh, yet warm. Soft, yet strong. The rose is not your typical powder-puff, fruity mess of a rose. Instead, we are presented with a slightly woody, mature rose that can be worn by both men and women. I am so glad I finally bought this beautiful fragrance. A really under-rated gem by Hermes. Highly recommended for Hermes lovers.

Compared to the more stern Amazone, Rose Amazone has been gifted a bright, joyful spirit which makes her companionship fully enjoyable. Whereas the grand classic Amazone is mossy, wild and dark green, Rose Amazone appears cheerful, bright green and more feminine. I'd say that Amazone and Rose Amazone are of the same age but from the different eras. An effortlessly classy green- fruity perfume.

Retested today, OMG it's so good. I think I'll buy FB, though I never was going to buy any "rose" scent, because - well - it's just a rose and too boring; this one is definitely rose, but somehow is definitely not boring! Due to original Amazon (which I don't like btw) lining I guess...

In my quest for roses I tested two samples of Rose Amazone and take her with me the whole day. The impression was not like being in a luminous garden, it was more like having a big bunch of deep red flowers in my arms and my nose (but also my eyes) buried in them: I sensed deep dark flowery waves followed by a severe green feeling. Never overwhelming but really intense. At first I thought it was too strict or conservative to become one of my perfumes but at the end of the day I find an elegant beauty in this restraint, and the thing is interesting. So, nothing cheerful, nothing playful, and infact she's an amazone, not a girly girl. A rose for grown-ups. Good longevity, totally unisex, def. wishlist

This was a blind buy done on a whim! I am not disappointed. I am not a huge fan of the original Caleche that is in the similar bottle. It was just too dated for my taste. I was not quite sure what to expect here but it's a pleasant surprise. I am not a gigantic rose fan, especially the vintage rose. But this is a nice gentle modern take with a lovely hint of spice (which I presume is the woody notes) which balances it out very nicely. It's very pretty, clean, soft (no silage monster) and incredibly wearable. Hermes did a wonderful job with this. Make sure your ok with something that is soft and lite, not seeking a screamer as she is very tame.

Hermes Rose Amazone (2014) - woody rose - #jeanclaudeellena re-launched the classic green Cassia #amazone and focused on the Rose. Starts with berries: Black currants, Raspberries intermingling with a citrus-floral accord. The Rose comes out early and reminds me of a similar Ellena execution, #roseikebana Here the Rose compliments the fruit nuances of Cassis and dries down to a woody base. This modern interpretation pared down essential substances and focused the message of the original.

I had smelled this on paper at an Hermes Boutique in Hong Kong back in early November but no one here seemed to know much about it then. To me, it smelled very different from the vintage and previous formulations of Amazone but like a sharp, tart and fruity Kelly Caleche with very prominent notes of Cassia and Black Current. It was a very beautiful scent but IMHO not as unisex as Kelly Caleche. I might need to try it on skin next time to see whether it will work on me.

An amazing fragrance when you want a boost of good mood. Citruses rule here, with a delicate hint of currant and rose, making it a nice, unique in itself composition - a real source of positive emotions. Especially great in the end of boring winter, when we are tired of snow and grey sky.

Rose Amazone is a beautiful dark and mature scent. I think unisex infact. Dark Rose with a dark Rasberry, woodsy notes and amber. Elegant, a bit strikt and sensual at the same time. A gem! Rose Amazone är en underbar mörk och vuxen doft. Jag anser att den är unisex faktiskt. Mörka rosor och mörka hallon, tränoter och amber. Elegant, lite strikt men ändå sensuell på samma gång. En liten juvel till samlingen.

Rose Amazone shows how well Jean-Claude Ellena’s trademarked transparency/minimalism fits into mainstream taste. Not a dig, just an observation. It makes sense, too. Many ongoing trends in perfumery stem his more mainstream perfumes: Bvlgari Eau Parfumée au Thé Vert, Cartier Déclaration, Hermès Terre d’Hermès and Kelly Calèche. He’s one of the most influential perfumers of his time Ellena’s approach to flanking the original Amazone is to place it somewhere between his connoisseur-admired Hermessence line and his more mainstream work. Smart move. A flanker is first and foremost a sales tactic, and Hermès’ strategy is to revive a few classics by sprucing them up and borrowing on their name recognition (Vetiver Bel Ami, Geranium Equipage). Ellena must maintain the sanctity of Hermès taste while shooting for a big sell. It’s a balance he’s had to maintain in all the Hermès perfumes he’s composed and he’s proven how well he can do it. Amazone was an early fruity-floral that matched a dowdy woody-floral with unsweetened fruit/berry note. It’s a cautious an inch away from “old-lady” perfume, not a fruity-floral slushie of the’90s-‘00s. It is a dry, woody, green perfume with a potent black-currant note that ties the flowers to the fruit, namely, raspberry. Rose Amazone takes the tartness and the fruit up a notch with a sweet rose and a grapfruit twist. It’s a beautiful compositional effect. The sweetness is in the flower, not the fruit, and the perfume avoids any syrupy cocktail-y comparisons This is a fruity-floral for those who who managed to steer clear of the fruity-florals of the gourmand/dessert era. It’s also an alternative for those who liked tart-fruity chypres such as Cristalle, Diorlella and Y but are on the bemused side of the chypre-reformulation debate and want to steer clear of the whole mess of it. Rose Amazone keeps a skosh of the original’s green-floral reediness and it matches the tartness of the grapefruit note beautifully. It doesn’t have any of the mossiness of Amazone’s drydown. In fact, the drydown has a sweet, lucid, nearly metallic muskiness that leaves the base the most contemporary part of the perfume. The opening of the perfume is tribute to the original, but over time, Rose Amazone walks further away from its predecessor. The drydown is deliberately the least distinctive part of the ride. It takes you further into the house of Hermès and closes the door behind you. It is a rosy-sweet, muskier version of the airy-woody drydown of the Hermessence line. It is balanced and straightforward, like the graceful entry that ends a complicated dive.

I like this a lot, I used to wear Amazone a long time ago, it was a staple of my youth, it was vibrant, complex, adventurous and a bit androgynous.. Rose is also that, it starts off a bit sour with the cassis, then it evolves toward the raspberry, but it never looses its chypre character, Ellena managed to stay faithful to the original, while bringing a new dimension of modernity and mass attraction to the scent...in a way this is a cold scent, it isn't a warm fuzzy fruity creation..it is a statement of a great scent evolving in a new era.. It is feminine, more than the first one, less mossy of course, but still hard to pinpoint really..the drydown has the vibrant vibe of the original, more green and earthy.. Very interesting scent!! Happy to wear it.

Reading the reviews here, I became convinced that I don’t need to contribute more in the way of notes description etc. So here are a few general impressions: This is a very adult perfume — it is elegant and grown up, it is not going to choke your office mates or plane neighbors. But it’s not ‘old,’ either. It is quite unisex — there is no distinctive ‘girly’ flowery note, and I think many a man would enjoy wearing this perfume. It doesn’t really last on me (I know it’s EDT, but still...). I actually have been getting lots of samples of Hermes perfumes as I shop there a lot, and this is not a sample I request. It smells like soap to me, but it might be the cassis. I do with I liked it more as intellectually, I think this is a great perfume.

Rose, perfectly mixed with some fruits, especially delicious berries.Altogether with cassis and citruses they made Rose Amazone refreshing, summery scent. Due to good proportions Ellena`s concept is a fresh and smart perfume, opening to very warm,long days.Woods, fruits and a queen -rose made it perfectly balanced, not sour and not overwhelming.I `ll put it between Ombre Dans (Diptyque) and Graine de Joie(Eau d` Italie).First one is a shadow, bit dark opposite to the shining sun, the second one is sweet and playful.Rose Amazone is somewhere between them.Sparkling, sunny,juicy appropriate for a lazy weekend as well as a busy day - to remember: holidays are coming soon !

I tried Rose Amazone and it smelled nearly nothing like old Amazone and I'm talking about the vintage Amazone. I expected a rose scent, but I found a geranium one. At least, it smells like geranium to me, but it should be the effect of every berry thrown in it. It's pleasant, bright and elegant in a modern way. I quite like it.

If anyone in Sydney Australia is looking for a bottle of this, feel free to message me. I have a full bottle that’s never been used available because sadly the scent just doesn’t suit me. I feel like it should be used and loved by someone instead of just sitting in my dark closet. Get in touch if you’re interested :)

A nobile house, a name sounds like real statement. And it is strong perfume, rose with i swear i detect geranium. Its not listed but really dominant geranium note there is which makes it all bad for me. If it wouldnt be there i could love this frag. But as it is now after 3 minutes i cant stand it.