Trésor Midnight Rose

This perfume is special to me. It was the first perfume I bought that really got me hooked on fragrance and started my collection. I was 19, had some spare Christmas money to spend, and was shopping at the mall with my mom. I saw Lancome had a special going on where if you spent at least $50, they’d give you a free makeup bag filled with various trial-sized makeup and skin care products. So I thought to myself, “How hard can it be to spend $50 at a Lancome counter?” and started browsing the various potions and elixirs without hesitation. The SA soon stopped me and held up this beautiful purple bottle adorned with a silky dark rose. “Have you smelled our latest release?” she asked, spraying it on a card. “Emma Watson is the face of this perfume, I think you’ll like it.” I remember smelling it on the card and thinking it smelled pretty good. I hadn’t bought a real perfume in what seemed like forever and I *did* like Emma Watson after all. “Eh, what the heck” I thought, and told the SA I’d take it. I didn’t think too much about my impulse buy, as it was essentially a Christmas gift. Later that night, I pulled my new perfume out of its box, admired its pretty bottle for a moment, and sprayed it on my wrists at once. I was immediately hit with a beautiful, luscious, juicy black currant, raspberry, and rose combo that was sensual and intoxicating. I breathed in deeply as the scent started to change, a bit more vanilla and musk peeking through the jammy berries and rose. I was taken aback. I didn’t remember it smelling nearly as delicious in the store when I smelled it on paper. It melded with my skin so perfectly and I was overwhelmed with emotion as I inhaled it. Never before had I smelled a perfume like this! I know for some of you perfume connoisseurs, you might think, “This is just another typical jammy mainstream release, what’s the big deal?” and so it may be to some people. I myself have discovered other fragrances that I love more than this one but at the time, Midnight Rose was the most special fragrance I had smelled in my life. Bear in mind, I had never truly ventured into the world of perfume before and I had no idea what was in store for me both literally and figuratively. This little gem, however, planted a seed in my heart. I adored it so much, I hated wearing it because I never wanted it to end. It made me hungry, ravenous even, to discover what other captivating fragrances were out there that I had been missing out on my whole life. Thus, my love for perfume was born and I’ve never looked back. I still have this very bottle, the first bottle I bought and I pull it out occasionally and spray it on and it fills me with so much nostalgia and happiness. It will always have a special place in my heart and I don’t think I’ll ever want to be without a bottle of this. I think I’ll wear it today, for old times sake. :)

Oh-My-God. A GORGEOUS raspberry-and-rose elegant intoxicating concoction. When they say this is THE raspberry-and-rose OG, they're not wrong. This is amazing. This has so many notes I love, and being able to actually identify them - AND have them come together to create such a beautiful scent is SUCH a treat! <3 The raspberry and rose blend is absolutely divine! It's fruity, syrupy and tart (not sharp at all; just slightly salivating). The sweet vanilla is gentle and never overwhelms. That cassis - Jesus! Easily one of the best I've detected in a perfume (still included is "Si", mind you). That peony adds to the delightful feminine prettiness! Gorgeous slight musk and calming cedar base provides a heavenly, warm tone. I only wish for greater projection! I mean, longevity is fairly decent; could be better. But PROJECTION, daaahrling! As a side note: This is - hands down - my *favourite* perfume to spray (and catch later whiffs of) in my hair. It's just so pretty, and intoxicating, and sexy that it's a perfect scent for hair when you throw a little hair-flip in that flirtatious conversation. Or something to catch somebody's attention as you waltz by. Am I wrong here? :P I'm terrified of using this perfume up, but it's SO repurchase-worthy! It's pretty, it's sexy, it's elegant, it's mesmerising, it's 'Good Girl' AND 'Bad Girl' in one. This is Cinderella Gone Gothic. *** Kitty rating: 9.5/10. ~Compliment Counter~: 1 compliment 😁

I see that a reviewer has claimed that Tresor Midnight Rose is identical to Mugler's Angel Nova perfume. She says that this is sweeter and lasts longer but that Nova is more spicy and smells a little bit metallic. That is VERY contradictory! How can this GORGEOUS perfume smell identical to Angel Nova, yet apparently Angel Nova smells spicy and metallic?? Tresor Midnight Rose is neither of those things. It is fresh, rosey / raspberry'ish and very warm and feminine - the total opposite to spicy and metallic! Also, it's youthful yet another reviewer says that, to her, it's only for someone over 60! There are NO rules and limitations on age groups with perfumes - people can wear what they like, whatever their age! Those two reviews alone show how really a lot of reviews need to be taken with a pinch of salt and that perfumes can smell very different to different people, and that everyone has their own unique chemistry that brings out different aspects of perfumes on their skin. I haven't tried Angel Nova yet but I am curious to see for myself if there is any similarity at all to Tresor Midnight Rose. I normally really dislike Mugler perfumes though (especially Angel which is vile and massively overrated!) so I'll probably hate it, but I LOVE Tresor Midnight Rose. To me TMR is beautifully unique smelling and can't be bettered!

Tresor Midnight Rose came to my notice because I was looking for a pretty raspberry rose, and a lot of people here recommended this one to me. I tried it in the store on paper and got hooked. I couldn’t stop smelling it. After holding the tester strip to my nose for two hours straight I knew I had to get this one. I bought the bottle two weeks later. To me, this perfume is an enigma. The opening is fresh but there’s an underlying spiciness to it - I don’t want to use the word smoke because that would turn people off. I get a dark berry, not necessarily a raspberry in the beginning but later it’s also very woody on me, probably from the cedar. The bottle fits the perfume so well. It’s a sultry one, this rose. I’m reminded of an intimate boudoir with dark velvet drapes and the colour purple. The woman’s lying on her bed with satin sheets, wearing a black silk robe, fiddling with the stalk of a blood red rose. In the dark, it looks almost black. I don’t think this is a safe blind buy, for to me this is bold. Not the scent itself, but the vibe it gives. The dry down is gorgeousness itself, but you’ve got to give the opening some time. Should you ever try it, don’t have any preconceived notions. Let the perfume take you where it wants to.

In some ways this reads of as those violin resins to me strangely. We use this one with mom and it smells different depending on who wears it, and i dont know if it's about the distance or about skin chemistry or something but like I think it smells better when mom wears it but she also says it smells better on me lol. I feel like on me (whether on skin or clothes) its like, resin, sharp and sour, dark but not in a goth way more like blurred and subdued expression of florals and fruits. When mom wears its like rosy, princess-y, perfume-y like there is a "basic" perfume vibe to it even tho i dont mean it in a bad way. I dont think tresor midnight rose is a soft perfume, it has a sharp vibe, like to me it feels like you need to dress sleek wear heels or something even though like musk too is listed. Even tho I like it better when mom wears it I also can like how it smells on me too, I dont have anything so similar to this. But like there are definitely much more rosy perfumes out there whether it's a typical rose perfume or newer ones, I feel like tresor midnight rose is probably meant to be some sort of botanical mix instead of just giving you roses