Rose 4 Reines

The more I smell this perfume the more I like it. The more I wear it the more I feel feminine, clean and sociable. I don't know if the mood it creates on me affects other, but I noticed that people are generally calmer when I'm around wearing this. Please, let me explain why I feel that Rose 4 Reines is my perfect fit or... just skip the long review! LOL I love complex, sophisticated, luxury and opulent perfumes: Samsara, Shalimar & Parfum Initial, Nahema, Mitsouko, Coco, original Poison, Organza, Aoud Queen Rose, Aoud Rose Damascus, By Kilyan Beyond Love, Ambre Extreme and the niche bombs ... got the idea? LOL Those are love and extasy for me, but after years of wearing them in small doses I had to come to a point when I realised that they are not always suitable for my everyday life and not finely understood among the crowd and they are not "friendly". Most people I have around at work in my run-of-the-mill employee job are younger than me (as a mere matter of age), they try hard to be fashionable and accepted in the group. They use clothes, makeup, shoes, even nail polish and some perfume to be noticed and feel part of the crowd at the same time. Seen from my sociological point of view this seems to me like animal behaviour: adopting a certain style and smell to reckon each other. And there is hierarchy, too. No need to say I smell a lot of Candy Prada, Coco Mademoiselle, Hypnotic Poison, Light Blue, Narciso Rodriguez and a pletora of candy fruity baskets, Light This and Light That. I mean, if you need to go fresh and light 4711 is a good and elegant option. No way. Better to put some fake berries on. I'm only happy that people are perhaps too conscious about their money to spray perfume more liberally. There is nothing so wrong about popular scents, some are nice. I've been wearing NR EdT in the black bottle when no one knew who NR is, at least here. I stopped wearing it when I met 1 woman every 4 wearing my same perfume and feeling sooo fashionable. As well as they want pleasure, people also need secureness. So I decided that I wanted a highly wearable, pleasant, feminine yet simple and meaningful and possibly inexpensive scent! Eau des 4 reines came to mind. To be honest my favourite was Rose Nuit de Mai: an easy wonder made of rose and wood with just a hint of berry. Great, subtle and longlasting, perfectly balance between floral and wood. They discontinued it. Apparently all perfumes with a good sandalwood have been discontinued or changed in formula. And I love sandalwood. When I went to the shop I was a bit confused. No Nuit de Mai anymore and no Eau des 4 Reines anymore, let alone the longtime discontinued Eau de Parfum (together with Eau des 7 Fleurs and first Neroli). Now we have Rose 4 Reines EdT. Well, ok. I sprayed and noticed that it's basically Eau des 4 Reunes with some little change. Liked on the spot, 35 euro for 75ml is a good deal. After a while, around 30 minutes and more I smelled a great whift of multi-faceted perfume, rose for sure with other notes. I thought that it was Bvlgari Rose essentiel on my other arm, but... no! It was Rose 4 Reines! Big value for my money.I love the way it moves with me, around me and maybe not too projecting. It's longlasting and unfolding on my skin. After about 6 hours I still smell it on my wrist with just a hint of rose and beautiful drydown smoothly woodsy and only vaguely vanillic/powdery. Calm, feminine, vaguely sensual in its angel-like aura and elegant in its simplicity. It's a type of scent that grows on you. If you like it on the spot gives it some time to unfold and it will impress you. Not for bitter/dry scents lovers, but never a candy-candy marshmallow fruit lollipop either. I love it! It makes me feel confortable during warmer days in autumn when I especially need rose in my life. I wear Idylle and Stella on colder days while keeping the orange blossom divinely uplifting with Fragonard Fleur d'Oranger (my summer perfume) at some moments. It's like a soft shift, no need to be shocked. Season will shock my body anyway with my ailments, but these perfumes keep me conforted and protected. From a social point of view I can enjoy a fragrance that makes me feel fine for a good price, without being too extravagant or weird-perceived neither mass-fashionable. Rose 4 Reines is definetely a winner! EDIT: the bath&shower gel is also a great treat in a warm bathtub!

This scent is so amazing the girls at L`Occitane managed to convince me to try this today. The girl when I went in asked me what kind of scents I usually like and I told her florals or fruity florals then she continues with another question and asked If I have any rose scents.I told her I have two other scent that have rose in them one is my Chole Intense and the other is my Bvlgari Rose Essentielle EDT. Rose 4 Reines smells so much more amazing to me, than both of the scents I already own, but they still have their uses. This is a delicate linear rose scent, ever since I tried it on I haven't been able to stop smelling my arm. Its a really nice young but at the same time mature rose, also I don't think this is too overpowering. I think I have found a new all year around favorite. Once its completely dried down an fading away you can actually also notice the wood notes, which is nice. It is a realistic rose to my nose its super lovely.This is just a great overall girly, soft, comfy, and romantic scent. I got the EDT and the body lotion so that I can layer it together. Because I spent a certain amount they also included the body wash for free, so I have the whole set for the fragrance which I'm really excited to have in my collection.

The cleanest, freshest, dewiest, purest, prettiest Rose fragrance that there is. It is the embodiment of a beautiful early morning in a verdant English garden in May. I have been so fortunate to bag a full bottle of the original version of this fragrance on Ebay. It is in perfect condition and smells exactly as I remember it. I paid less for a 75ml bottle of the original version than I would have done for a 50ml bottle of the new version. Not only is the bottle of the new version nowhere near as pretty, it doesn't smell as good either. When I tried it in the shop I thought it was my memory that was the problem but as soon as I sprayed the original I realized that the new version has been reformulated into a shadow of its former self. If you are fan of this I'd recommend trying to snag a vintage bottle rather than buying the new formulation. It's nice but nothing like the original.

Just plain rose. And just plain wonderful! It does not have that unpleasant artificial quality that plain rose perfumes can have -- it is like smelling an actual rose. My husband rarely notices perfume and always compliments me on this one. This perfume (the solid version) has also been my first experiment with layering! (I just tried it without thinking: I put this solid perfume behind ears and on wrists, then spray chest very lightly with Chanel No. 5 -- result is unique, and unexpectedly nice! It changes the experience of both). Since this is such a pure and simple fragrance, I think layering can work, if you're interested in that. But definitely it's at its most beautiful alone, the simplicity is so wonderful

Beautiful roses! I love it, it's so rosy; so sweet and fresh and moist and rich and delicate, all at the same time. It's wonderful. I wear it often, and with other perfumes too, as it adds a lovely delicate rose to many other perfumes I have. I adore the bottle too. It's beautiful, and so is the box. It's so elegant and feminine - the perfume and the bottle, and the colours. It looks regal, opulent and strong, and Queenly. And that's how it smells too. I love it. It lasts for hours, and stays very strong for most of that time (about 16!), and makes me feel fresh and as if I have roses all around me. Gorgeous perfume!!!