Rosario

This IS perfumery to me. If someone asked what perfume is I would show them Rosario. Perfectly genderless, smoothly blended. The lemon in the opening is BEAUTIFUL and it settles effortlessly into a dewy rose. Haters will say it is boring or redundant, I say it is the best expression of a lively and airy rose I've ever smelled. Everyone who smells this, even my anti-perfume grandma, says it is amazing. After having spent a year exploring perfume and smelling probably hundreds of scents, this was the scent I requested for my birthday, and I really didn't even consider anything else. If I could only have two scents for the rest of my life, a daytime and a nighttime, this would be my daytime pick (Vivamor Addiction Absolu would be my nighttime). This lasts FOREVER on my skin, easily 14 or 15 hours with decent projection as well. It's simply perfect! I cannot praise it highly enough. One of the few times I can comfortably say something this expensive is maybe close to worth the money. I'm absolutely glazing this scent to an insane degree but the way it smells and performs for me lives up to these words and then some. I love House of BŌ Rosario. Sue me.

Dewy rose, noble rose, a rose that's truly a rose, young rose, pink petals 🌷🌸🌹 First of all I was expecting a playful rose (no reason, the name just gave me that impression) but this is a soft, natural, sugar-free, noble rose. It smells pristinely clean and luxurious. It slides a bit into what I'd call the soapy and musky rose category. In the first blasts there's a fresh and citric breeze, but it quickly and immediately reveals its true direction, the rose. Alongside it I'm picking up other clean and dewy pink flowers too, but nothing overshadows this fresh rose scent. I think the rose here darkens a little towards the drydown but this darkness doesn't make the rose gothic, it just makes it more serious. Like the rose with morning dew on it sinking into darkness at sunset... It won my love because it's a simple but very natural-feeling perfume. Tag(s): baby pink, true rose, peony supported, natural, dewy, soft, musky, soapy

This is an absolute beauty. Clean and soft, but realistic rose, that somehow very carefully stays a bit warm, but not syrupy, not spicy, still gives dewy rose. It is somewhat simple, but it is a masterfully well-blended & easy to wear fragrance. I’ve been comparing back and forth to one of my all time favorite & very similar realistic roses: Diptyque Eau rose EDT . I find them extremely similar, only that Eau rose is distinctly more green and stronger projecting than Rosario. I find Rosario to be an easier wear than Eau Rose, however! My daughter says she clearly prefers Eau rose on both of us, that Rosario has a tiny touch of something she finds dirty smelling (I’m guessing that’s the ambergris) But for me, I can wear Rosario more days than I can Eau Rose EDT because of the lack of greenness about it. Sometimes green makes my stomach turn. 8/10 for Rosario

I agree with AnnaMagenta, this is Essential Parfums Rose Magnetic close sibling, not a twin but sisters, a year apart. In this economy I would say sample both and see which one moves you the most. I have both( by accident), I adore both, they both have that beautiful, fresh, ethereal, clean rose aroma. I will see how I feel about Rosario at the end of the 40mL bottle, if I want to invest in a 75mL. I will say this, Rose Magnetic costs $110USD for a 100mL and its refillable, Rosario is $195 for a 40mL and $365USD for a 75mL, no refills, yet. Rosario’s bottle is beautiful with the rose quartz cap and gold trim with the soft feet. Rose Magnetic’s bottle is simplistic, with clean lines, still nice to look at on a vanity. Whichever you choose, you will have a beautiful, spring/summer rose scent.

Rosario writes a master class on how to bring a clean rose into the evening without adding gourmand notes. It still has that clean/transparent day rose vibe with the lemon but brings in incense and ambergris to deepen and provide this sultry vibe. This is “clean girl goes evening”. The rose isn’t sweet, it is dewy, petal-y and photorealistic. It does so well in hot summer nights and equally well in sweater weather. If you want to make this a little brighter I love to layer it with EA Green Tea lotion which blends lovely with the lemon notes to just make it a day to night scent. This is beautiful year round and can bridge a casual vibe to a more formal setting. For that reason I always have this with me, a travel must have.