Rock The Ages Tudor Rose & Amber

I could not be more thrilled with this blind buy! This makes my perfume collecting habit ALL worth it. My all-time favorite was Stella Rose Absolute Intense. When they discontinued that one for some crazy reason, I had to find it on ebay. When that stopped working, I ordered the also discontinued Stella EDP pre 2003 original. Now that one is becoming increasingly difficult to find at a reasonable price. I searched and blind bought everything that has been compared to either of those two Stellas and THIS IS THE ONE! If I didn't know differently, I would think I was actually wearing Stella Rose Absolute Intense. It is literally a perfect dupe to my nose. I just cannot understand why this does not have AT LEAST a 4 rating on here. It is truly beautiful. If you love stella or stella absolute, you WILL love this. Sadly, not even this beauty is sold in stores anymore, BUT you can get this on ebay for less than 100. I have already bought one backup. The good deals on ebay seems to be only for the 1 ounce size. This is my new go-to rose frag and the most successful blind purchase ever!

Gul kokusunu çok severim. Ama ülkemizde farklı sebeplerle pek sevilmediğini görüyorum. Çok baskın ve çıplak gül kokusunun keyfi başkadır ama o tarzı bir parfüm olarak sevmiyorum. Birçok gül temalı parfüm kullandım ancak içlerinde sadece bu aralarından sıyrıldı. Yumuşak, sıcak ve güçlü. Amber ve gül on planda arkadan patchouli el sallıyor. Serin havalarda çok şık bir akşam parfümü olacaktır. Doğulu bir havası yok, daha çok batıya yakın. Koku dağılımı ve kalıcılık oldukça güçlü. Eğer biraz kuvvetli gelirse aynı markanın french lime blossom parfümü ile "layering" yapabilirsiniz. Hem hafifliyor hemde daha zenginleşiyor. Aynı markanın oud-rose karışımı da çok keyifli ama bu türde karisimlardan çok farkı yok ve fazlasıyla oryantal kalıyor. Onu başka bir parfüm ile hafifletmeye çalıştım ama olmadı. Kısacası gül seviyor ve hem kuvvetli-sicak hem de batılı olsun diyorsanız aradığınız parfüm bu.

This is my first Jo Malone fragrance, and what a wonderful first it is! The initial was like getting walloped by a big, thornless bouquet of dark red roses. Very intense for only a few seconds and then it calmed down into a warm dark room with a fire in the fireplace to keep away the chill, and a vase of roses sitting on a table, basking in it's glow. The amber isn't powdery at all, and it blends beautifully with the pink pepper. I've thought that some roses smelled like gingerale or even beer. The ginger used here really brings out that chord. Everything contrasts with the rose in a way that supports it, creating a real, living rose. And not a hint of synthetics on me. Wearing this makes all that snow outside feel like a good thing. Winter can be nice when you are safe and warm at home with some roses. Will definitely be getting the full size bottle for next Winter.

No one does delicious, jammy rose quite like Jo Malone. And this beauty is no exception. A definite stand out of the collection for me! At first smell, it's a strong, sharp rose with a metallic tinge (supposedly supposed to resemble the blood of the Tudor era), but then it mellows out to a delicious, sweet, jammy rose. The ginger and clove are present, adding a lovely little spice to the mix. I fell in love with this at first smell and purchased three of them! (Since they are limited edition!) And on a side note, it mixes absolutely AMAZINGLY with one of my other all-time Jo favorites Blue Agava & Cacao! Turns into a yummy, almost edible chocolate covered rose jam! Delightful! PICK THIS BABY UP WHILE YOU STILL HAVE A CHANCE! I know they are flying off the shelves! At least at my Nordstrom! ;-)

tra le fragranze che hanno come base la rosa le mie preferite sono voleur de rose de l'artisan e stella della mccartney: sono due sensazioni estreme, la prima è una rosa sostenuta dal patchouli che restituisce un allure orientale/arabo, l'altra iperfredda ed astratta. qui siamo su una riuscitissima sintesi di queste due estremità, secondo me. le prime note sono quelle dei petali freschi e di pepe rosa: un inizio pungentemente straordinario e ghiacciato. quindi si inaugura la fase più profondamente speziata, con i chiodi di garofano e lo zenzero, che guidano l'evoluzione dapprima fredda su una base resinosa di ambra e patchouli. la persistenza è notevole, il sillage idem, l'effetto generale complesso ma equilibrato. peccato sia in edizione limitata e quindi tra un po' introvabile. ottimo!

I don't agree that this is boooooring!!!! It is a beautiful warm rosy scent with a bit of a kick. It could be used for day or night. I bought it yesterday and am constantly smelling my wrist!!! As you do. It is similar to Stella McCartney's Stella, which is not a bad thing as this was my wedding day perfume. It is also lovely combined with Pomegranate Noir, and I am going to try it today with Blue Agave and Cacao. It reminds me of Spring and all the good things to come, blossoms, sunshine. I hope they make it a permanent fixture. Not a knock out perfume but very beautiful. I get the pink pepper too. Not at all like Red Roses, which I dislike.

I love this boozy black rose with a smidgeon of dirt, but just a smidgeon, so i often layer this over my figs and patchoulis to add a floral dimension. i can't deny the goth vibe it may instill, a dark dreary castle with the light piercing through one small window landing directly on a solitary black rose tinged with red in a vase on a heavy ornate wood dressing table. but it's not quite vampire dark. and it can stand alone as a lovely, deep dark fairly linear rose. i pass by this bottle often b/c i want to hoard the juice as i doubt i'll find a better rose for my nose.

Must have for the rose lover! Dark, red, rich velvety roses...the rose jam kind. Almost wine like roses. Thick, chewy and almost edible. Dash of pink pepper gives it a little spicy edge and the amber and musk keeps it from being too fresh or soapy. The patchouli gives it a bit of woodiness and an edge. This is more of a baroque rose, not a fresh rose. This could even pass as gothic. I just love the stuff. Only drawback is it is JM so it doesn't last forever. I usually feel the need to reapply after 4 hours. But this is truly a rose for rose lovers.

If Sonoma Scent Studio Ambre Noir and LUSH Rose Jam had a baby, you would have Jo Malone Tudor Rose & Amber. This is a gorgeous jammy red rose wet from rain, and a resinous, somehow powdery amber. In the milliseconds between intentional sniffs I get an early 90s vibe from it, but it’s gone as soon as I put my nose to my wrist. There, against my skin, it’s Loretta from Moonstruck, waiting in front of the Met for Ronny before La Boheme. Gorgeous, deep, velvety wine lipstick, and fluffy black curls. Beautiful.

Strong rose laced with pepper opening without too much of sweetness. When the rose recedes, patchouli and spices peek through. It is edgy, not a pretty or flamboyant rose. More intense than Labo Rose 31 but paler and less complex than Portrait of a Lady. I like this a lot.

I have a 3 ml sample of this and am loving it. Very good longevity and silage, damask rose that smells like the very fragrant roses of old plus an amber note that adds a mysterious dark quality. To sum up it should be sampled by all. I'm sure it will be loved by many.

I have been searching for a replacement for my beloved pre-reformulation Stella and this is a wonderful contender. Just lovely.

This one took my heart the first time I sniffed it. I hate falling in love with limited editions and thought I'd let it go. There are so many rose-patch out there I'll just find a replacement. "A sample is enough", I thought. But Tudor Rose & Amber is unlike other roses. This is a particularly fresh spicy rose that still gives a dark impression. Minutes into the opening pink pepper is gone and in replacement is a boozy, fragrant rose. And yes, this smells exactly like what everyone said despite not very easy to imagine: wine-like, edible, "chewy", thorny and warm. What stands out for me in TR&A is its border-line masculine clove and ginger note. Together they blend beautifully with the bed of dark rose petal and white amber. This perfume lasts a good 7 hours and projects enough for me to get wafts from time to time. On me this is also much, much less sweet than Jo Malone's Velvet Rose & Oud, and radiates with more freshness. If personifying this perfume I imagine TR&A to have a secretly fierce personality that contrasts its good look and manners. And yes, My tiny bottle is on its way to me. When I can spend equal amount of money for an alternative of POAL at a third of the price I don't see why I shouldn't. P.s. I never smelled the old Stella, but I can guarantee TR&A is 10 times better than the new Stella. If the preformulation Stella did smell like TR&A I can see why old Stella is so pricy now, and that people register on this site just to ask for a proper replacement (which is this!)

I tried this one today at a Jo Malone store. Hmmm. It's a pretty scent. However, I found it very similar to Velvet Rose and Oud. Jam-like rose, but maybe a bit sweeter (too sweet). I don't really smell much amber, and It's kind of similar to many other "darker" rose scents out there. A wonderful smell, but perhaps nothing unique??? Still thinking I'd like a bottle, but slightly disappointed. Longevity and sillage seem to be good with this..

very balanced rose fragrance, not heavy on amber but it's there, reminds me of a very specific chapter of my life

This is a discontinued perfume which I scoured Ebay for on the strength of gushing reviews promising to evoke the dangerous fur-lined velvet intriegue of the Tudor court. I would agree it is dangerous, but only to my sanity. It's a cloying, sickly mulled wine affair which I had to scrub off at the earliest opportunity. In Spanish: nauseabundo.

I blind bought this hoping for the Stella vibes, but nope. :( On me it's nauseating -- dark amber, throat-burning cloves, and something sickly sweet. Nothing at all like either original Stella or Stella Absolute, imo!

Boooring. Smells like a typical rose scented room freshener; very synthetic and totally unimaginative.

Chatoyant, to answer your question about how this compares to JM Red Roses, I find it very different. This one opens with a sharp kick of pink pepper and ginger. After a few mins, the rose comes in. It's a dark, vintage rose that almost smells like dried rose petals to me. After about an hour, it mellows into the amber, clove and musk notes (dont notice much patchouli). Eventually, the rose dissipates almost completely and you are left with the warm amber scent tinged with clove that lays close to the skin. Longevity on this one I find to be better than most JM fragrances and also a bit more sillage. To me this is almost an oriental. It's spicy, pungent and slightly sweet and evokes images of dancing candlelight and shadows during a royal ceremony in a great stone castle during the Middle Ages. I like it quite a bit. Red Roses on the other hand (my favorite rose scent to date) is all rose, rose and more rose with just a hint of citrus. It features all kinds of uplifting rose notes that together smell like a late day walk through a rose garden in full bloom. Not heavy, not too mature, not too sweet at all. To me, it's the perfect, realistic, unadulterated rose juice. I love it and it stays with me just about all day. I wear it alone and also layer it with pretty much any other JM scent. Back to Tudor Rose and Amber, I layer this sometimes with Red Roses when I want to accentuate the rose note in it and make it more floral. I also layer it with JM Mimosa and Cardamom when I want a more complex oriental fragrance. This combo is one of my favs and has real staying power. Hope this helps.

Tudor Rose and Amber is a very warm, sexy, full-on rose fragrance. The opening is strong and reminds me of Tom Ford's Velvet Orchid. Then is morphs into scent similar to Stella McCartney's Stella and Jo Malone's Velvet Rose and Oud. For a moment, I get a bit of Jo Malone's Pomegranate Noir, too. They dry down really mellows out and I get amber, clove and rose. There's a metallic edge to this fragrance that's most detectable in the dry down and makes this fragrance a little more "masculine" which is perfect, because it helps it to not be too sweet. It's quite unisex, in that regard. I plan on wearing on date nights and mostly in cooler weather, but I can also see this being appropriate for formal events. Longevity is excellent at 6-8 hours and possibly longer on some skin. If there was a Jo Malone that is similar in spirit to Tom Ford and By Killian, Tudor Rose and Amber is it. It's limited edition, so try it out and stock up if you like it. I recommend!