Whips and Roses

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Whips and Roses 1 of 2 of Kerosene's latest offerings opens with a beautiful and natural rose scent...over time this almost leather jacket/biker girl leather comes in and the war begins!!! There is a tussle, the nice floral girl is slowly transitioning into a darker more aggressive woman she finally gives in to the darkside by the end; however, she keeps her femininity (rose) intact. So what starts off as a wonderful rose floral, slowly becomes a floral with an edge by the end of the duration you have a darker leather with a soft side. The journey of this fragrance is superb it as if you are looking at a caterpillar coming out of its cocoon. You see the caterpillar walk up the tree, wrap itself in a cocoon then break the cocoon spreading its wings and taking its first flight. I have tried about 7 niche rose scents and did a little comparison battle and this one was the winner of the most unique and as long as Kerosene is making it I will own it! I talked about this fragrance as if it is purely feminine I would say males who are sensitive to the feminine/masculine scale that this does tip towards the feminine; however, if you are confident (which I obviously am LOL) then this is quite easy for a male to pull off. I would put it 60 feminine 40 male.

This started off very screechy, almost unbearingly so. I was aghast and wondered what to do with my bottle. I decided, thankfully, to give it a chance to develop and reveal its true self. Which it did, over time. When the astringent first notes wore off, it became a velvety rose and leather composition and I understood previous reviews that described this as a butterfly emerging from its cocoon. Patience is very much a rewarded virtue when it comes to this scent. Sillage remained close to the body for me and longevity was very good. The price however is off-putting and I would rather wait for this as a gift than to buy it again. Not the safest blind buy but the floral musky dry down is worth the wait. A previous reviewer described this as a biker girl in a leather jacket and I very much agree with the analogy, but my biker girl is wearing a velvet rose printed dress in hues of pinks and reds underneath the leather.

Sharp roses and saffron with some citrus and a leather maybe! Quite huge on the rose side (as of the first few minutes). when the juice settles a bit it goes rosy with a cooling background that calms the sharpness of a rose while i barely can smell the leather (if there is any). after awhile the rose sit aside and the floral comes in balancing the whole juice at ease to make the one who wears it enjoys what heshe wears. After all im not a fan of roses but this one here is quite impressive cause it's not the usual rose that i get to smell anywhere.

A rose, just clipped from a thorned bush, is what you get with WHIPS AND ROSES. Only it's as upon the inhale, your nose isn't deep into the bud but up against the stem. It smells of a real rose STEM. It's unique, like no perfume you've ever sampled, but the longevity and projection are sadly thorns, too easily stripped away.