Deep Roses

Nose and skin chemistry is very interesting indeed... these reviews are a bit misleading. I can smell a heavy cloud of deep red strong Bulgarian rose. And I love it! It is an almost botanical similarities, like taking one million roses and concentrate in a whiff. It is dense, oily and persistent. Enormous sillage and longevity. For real rose lovers (and rose breeders). 3/5

it is a very sweet scent of rose at the begginnning, i expected more bitter and smoky, it was not waht i was expecting, i thought it would be darker! and i'd prefered it darker infact !and actually it becomes darker and darker but without losing this something innocent and spiced sweety aroma ! i was surprised using it very often and now i adore it !!

The Montale naysayers tend to maintain that this house simply produces perfumes combinatorially, by rolling together different proportions of a fairly small number of notes. My response: so what? When a perfume is a beautiful as DEEP ROSES, I could care less how it was hit upon. The key notes--common, it is true, to an amazing number of Montale perfumes--are rose, oud, amber, and musk. The top notes are listed as peony and mandarin, but honestly I do not detect them at all. The roses sweep in so swiftly to take over the show that the ephemeral top notes are simply lost in the shuffle. Not that anyone should care, because the proportions of rose and oud and amber and musk are just right. If we were to create a cloud-type depiction of the note distribution, but using instances rather than word size, it would look something like this: ROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSE ROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSE ROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSE ROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSE ROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSE ROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSE ROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSE ROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSE ROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSE ROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSE ROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEOUD OUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUD OUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUD OUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDOUDAMBERAMBERAMBER AMBERAMBERAMBERAMBERAMBERAMBERAMBERAMBER AMBERAMBERAMBERAMBERAMBERMUSKMUSKMUSK MUSKMUSKMUSKMUSKMUSKMUSKMUSKMUSKMUSK MUSKMUSKMUSKMUSKMUSKMUSKMUSKMUSKMUSK MUSKMUSKMUSKMUSKMUSKMUSKMUSKMUSK --- This little cloud illustrates why DEEP ROSES is designated at some sites as a perfume for women. Key word: rose. To me, these seem to be red roses, blood red roses with velvety petals and no stems or thorns, as this composition is not green in the least. The musk and amber serve as a slightly animalic base, and oud is but an embellishment, like a dash of salt to an otherwise already excellent dish. As simple as it is, DEEP ROSES is nonetheless one of my favorite Montale creations. Now that I've drained two full sample vials, it's going on my wish list!

Like all the other rose perfumes I tried this one on my search for the rose perfume that most accurately depicted the type of rose in it in its living form and not a rose perfume. As it was my goal to include a soliflor of every flower that I love the smell of the most, in my wardrobe that best represented the live flower in a bottle. I tended to try the unisex perfumes, not because I am a male and I am at all guided by what others believe I should wear, I am just as apt to buy a perfume intended for women as I am one intended for men, if I want to smell like that, it's then a men's perfume because I wear it and I'm a man. Since I was looking for an uncluttered rose seeing all those other notes kind of made me feel leery of just how deep the rose could be with all those other things in there with it. As it turns out, because of all the very high quality the focus on the rose is never lost and when it is first sprayed on a hint of orange can be detected but soon fades leaving just the beautiful floral heart of pure natural smelling rose that is just the same sweetness as the natural flower. I know that the peony was there adding a hint of freshness to the rose. It kept it from getting weighted down or becoming overtly spicy from the oud. Yet the oud along with the amber and musk gave the rose depth and density that makes this masterpiece truly live up to its name: Deep Roses. So if you are looking for a nice, rich, deep, but not too sweet rose perfume that everyone in your immediate area but not everyone on the room is going to smell that is going to last throughout the day this would be a great one to get a sample of and give a try like I did. Then if you like it you can pick one up at a fairly decent price for the quality.

This fragrance has surprised me several times. When first applied early in the morning, I was suddently surrounded with ammonia! I swear I was shocked! I don't know if it was just a bizzare one-off - a strange morning disturbance of chemistry, bad reaction with my facial/body cream or what...? Luckily the pungent, gaseous smell seemed to gradually give way to pure, clean, very natural, fresh, straighforward rose scent that has lasted for several hours. Quite pleasant, really, but I was thinking how is it that it reminds me - once again - of both Musk to Musk and Attar? I have re-applied the fragrance midday expecting the ammonia stink again, but there wasnt' any...!...instead I got warm, pleasant mandarine along with the roses. And as the day went on, I was gently touched by deep, warm, sweet amber. Lovely, really! The bouquet of freshly cut, colourful roses has remained with me the whole day and now - close to bedtime, I am still getting soft nudges of the natural scent every now and then.