Mohra Silky Rose

I'M IN LOVE! It's very very sweet, probably the sweetest one in my whole collection. It's not vanilla-sweet where the sweetness is a bit creamy and dense but sugar-sweet: airy and powdery. It's so sweet it gives me acid reflux whenever I wear it to bed 😵💫 but it's so good i kinda don't mind that it upsets my stomach. It's essentially a bright, happy, feminine fruity-rose perfume with a powdery musk base, but the fruit kind of overwhelms the rose. It doesn't smell like the dior rose and roses that it's compared to. The dior one is more rosy, this is more fruity. I smell lots of lychee and it lasts almost through out the whole wear. You can still smell the rose though, just it doesn't dominate. It's a rose perfume for those who don't like rose as a note (myself included). I usually don't like rose scents because rose usually smells too much to my nose. This is rosy for sure but not rosy enough even for me. It smells youthful and optimistic. I feel like a princess who owns everything in Barbie pink and never once has to worry about anything in life. She looks at life through rose-coloured glasses. It makes me feel carefree, playful and feminine. It doesn't smell juvenile, but it also doesn't smell womanly. Like, it smells like a girlfriend, not a wife (in the best way possible). I feel like it can fit a wide range of age groups from teens to 50s, as long as you enjoy ultra feminine scents. Longevity is around 3-4 hours and it stays close to the skin, which I love. I feel like it'll shine more in hotter weather. It fits all occasions especially on dates, an easy-reach for sure. And for the price point, you can't go wrong. It's blind-buy safe. I mean, I blind-bought it! But if I had smelled it before i bought it, I would still buy it. Oh, if you own BBW You're The One body mist, this is basically the perfume version of that with the lychee replacing the strawberry. Very mouth-watering and addictive 10/10

Mohra Silky Rose by Lattafa started out like a fresh, slightly fruity rose, with some greenery, and then dried down to a sweet vanilla rose with just the faintest hint of patchouli (thank goodness--I'm not a fan of Rose Petals because it's just too patchouli forward for my tastes). I get a slight chocolatey-minty note that melds with the vanilla and fresh rose in a lovely, quasi-gourmandish way. "Silky Rose," it turns out, is an apt name: it really does smell like rosewater concentrate blended into a beautiful silken custard. Update: really enjoying this a lot. I get why people have compared this to Montale's Intense Cafe, even though it is obviously very different, noteswise. But it has the same sweet vanilla rose (without the sometimes pushy musks of the Montales and the Manceras) and some combination of notes that create a kind of cocoa accord. If Intense Cafe smells like you're in a French coffeehouse, with roses on the tables, Silky Rose smells like you're inside an actual rose, eating fancy truffles. In a way, this smells to me like several more complex rose perfumes I have, only streamlined and gently subdued. The bottle is pretty, although the lid doesn't really snap on so much as sort of rest on top of the base, which means I need to think a moment before I pick it up to spray it on, but that seems like a very minor grievance when it comes to this delectable cheapie. Update: I put La Nuit Trésor à la Folie on my left arm and Mohra Silky Rose on my right arm, and they are remarkably similar, especially on the drydown. MSR is much less expensive, obviously, and I just read that LNTalF was being discontinued, although I cannot confirm that rumor. So if you're a fan of the Lancome fragrance, consider trying MSR. It might end up saving you a good deal of money if it works as a sub for you.

Crazy! Out of my HUGE collection with many (also expensive niche) fragrances that I adore THIS incredibly beautiful cheapie turns out to become a top favorite. I hadn’t thought I’d ever find a signature scent, but this one feels like “home” to me. Like me in a bottle. At least for now (1-fragrance-commitment is frightening 😅) It is admittedly very sweet, but somehow it doesn’t make my teeth hurt as it is also very light and airy yet has “substance”. I’m not going to choke any fragrance-scared people in the office, but there will be a pleasant sweet, clean, yummy scentbubble around me. In the very opening Mohra Silky Rose does, for one single second, remind me of Delina Exclusif due to the rose/lychee combo - but after that it turns into its own. And what makes Mohra Silky Rose hit that exquisite spot for me is that my nose detects some sort of very subdued oud or incense in the mid/dry down that reminds me of Oud Satin Mood. OSM is MUCH stronger, but on my skin it is there and is therefore an OSM I can actually wear frequently. So it is this innocent, feminine, soft and airy scent and then is comes to have this little twist of a darker edge that gives it depth and adds character too. I’m in love! 🥰 What doesn’t make this fragrance any worse, apart from the ridiculous price, is that not too many people know of it. 😄 Should I mention one single thing that I could wish improved it’s the lasting power. On me this does need respraying halfway through the day (or I get anosmic?) but since it’s this affordable I don’t mind. ❤️

This is my current #1 fragrance. It was fine out of the box but really came to life after months of maceration. It's just extremely pretty, scratches those itches in my brain AND doesn't irritate me after a while. A rare occurrence for a perfume. It's rosey but not a green rose, not a jammy rose, not a dark rose. It's a very bright pink rose on a warm sunny day. I get manicured palace park vibes. The litchi and pepper are really brightening it while the musk is keeping it smooth. Silky Rose really is a good name. I saw someone else compare it to Dior Rose N'Roses which I have a decant of, and I do agree. They are quite similar on the dry down, but this one is considerably stronger and sweeter and lacks what I would describe as dryness in the Dior. And yes I do also get the oud. I think it's well blended and grounds the fragrance after maceration, but that is just my opinion. I have not smelled The Favorite to compare, though I can't imagine why they would smell similar based on the notes, but it's on my list since I love this one so much. This also brings to mind a memory that is probably influencing my love of this. It's that is smells exactly like the perfume shop at the France pavilion at EPCOT, which is floor to ceiling wood and enveloped in a constant cloud of every french designer perfume mixed together sans Guerlain because they have their own store right next door. 10/10 🥰❤️🥰❤️

This reminded me of Toy 2 Bubblegum when I first sprayed it. When I tried them side by side on paper they are quite different but on skin they're a lot more similar. On paper Toy retains that sweet bubblegum candy scent from the opening and reads much more sweet, well Mohra goes much more musky. On skin though they both dry down to a rose that is somewhere between rosewater and jammy with Toy leaning jammy and Mohra more rose water. They both have a watery, dewdrop on flower petal quality. Mohra has a subtle pepper spiceyness and has a soft slightly powdery musk, where Toy is very juicy and has a light cinnimon spiciness with a more woody quality. They're not the same but I don't know if they're different enough that you'd need both but I think it would be safe to say if you like one you'd like the other. Mohra seems more sexy and grown up but still pink and very feminine whereas Toy is more fun, youthful and lighthearted. UPDATE: It's been about 5 months now and although it's still in the same family as Toy 2 they are less similar now. Mohra has become more powdery, like a pressed face powder, and the sweetness has softened and become more blended with the other notes. It is a lovely fragrance, soft, feminine and very pretty, sweet, powdery, makeup, rose.