Rose Musc

This scent is as beautiful as the bottle! Rose Musc is another deep, spicy, rich rose scent with cloves, black pepper, labdanum and patchouli. It’s warm and enveloping and smells very complex. The opening is straight floral: dark roses and peonies, but after the first minutes the cloves and the labdanum join in and add some spiciness and warmth. Patchouli, woods and musk round up the composition and offer a great base for the spices and flowers to keep going for hours and hours! As mentioned, bottle is splendid, a shimmering, pearly gold with dark rose, narrow edges. Keeps the shape of the regular For Her bottle design but these Oriental Musc Editions have a front central coloured plaque and look very pleasant to my eye! A bit more expensive than the regular line, Narciso For Her, but not too pricey for the quality of the scent and the bottle design. I wish this line would be more available for testing and buying. I mean by that not simply blind buying online. I am trying for months to find a place somewhere close to me to try Jasmine Musc since white flowers and yellow flowers are more to my personal taste than rose.

09. June 2016 Tested in several time on skin and paper already, available here in stores already 185eur for 100ml. All i can say is that this is extremely well done and beautiful. Another high class fragrance from the house of Rodriguez. As one revuewer points out in the opening it resembles very much V&R "Flowerbomb rose explosion" but this is obly opening. And where Rose explosion is unbearably heavy on oud and other oriental notes and more of a winter time fragrance for me - Rose Musc is lighter and very much wearable in summertime as well. The opening is all about heavy labdanum and rose and woods but then the scent becomes thinner and rose more delucate and the middle stage is indeed dominated by saffron but the ckoser to drydown the more of musk and rose you get. That kind of light soapy musc with a delicate rose smell, like a high quality rose scented soap, without turning actually into soap itself. Just one simple word: Awesome!! And i really would love to add it to my selection of scents, guess ill have to wait till its on discount. But this one is really good, also in terms of sillafe and longevity!!!!

I love this one! I do generally love rose and sandalwood though. Opens up with a sweet, slightly spicy, rose with a sandalwood base. Then the rose calms down and there is a lot of sandalwood and a honey note. It is a very inoffensive smell once it dries down. I can't smell neither cloves nor cinnamon in here, and definitely not peony. It's probably good that I can't smell any cinnamon here, as that pushes perfunes into the potpurri-territory. This is one of those dark scents that are well suited for winter in front of a fireplace, or during night time in the summer. Very warm and inviting, not particularly complex. I wouldn't say it's middle-eastern - too soft for that. Interestingly enough, closer to the drydown, this begins to smell quite like Timeless from Makeup Revolution (which completely lacks the sandalwood note)... probably the cheapest perfume I own. I love that perfume though, but the same, slightly synthetic smell is present in both of these. Funny to think about that one is 10x more expensive than the other!

Very expensive bling buy. I was too scared to open the box! The packaging is really luxurious. The bottle reveals itself like a glistening bar of gold on a dark red velvety pedestal. The fragrance is stunning. A bit of the NR DNA but really leans more towards Lady Vengeance and Lumière Noir by MFK. Roses on a bed of spices. Maybe its the combo of cinnamon and saffron, but I smell incense. Maybe it’s the laudanum. But it feels like I am wearing Donna Karan Black Cashmere with roses on top. Warm and fresh at the same time. Is it worth the money? I think if you are a perfume collector, you may find many similar perfumes in your collection, possibly cheaper. But all in all it’s a well made perfume in stunning packaging.

Unlike other reviews, I definitely can find the NR Musc DNA in this; in fact at first I was afraid I made a mistake and sprayed the other instead. But then, WOW! The silky, velvet and dusky waves of musk started to flow to my nose and I fell in love. There is a note that is very persistent throughout this perfume, I believe it’s the saffron, that really makes this stand out. I am searching for the ultimate Rose perfume, and new I have added a new category just to be filled in by this perfume: the Dusk Sand Rose, if that makes sense. I was really sad when I checked the price but at some point I will surely splurge in this one!