Rose

I am a new perfume junkie. I started collecting about a year and a half ago when I quit smoking cigarettes. I can finally wear perfume again. Smoking ruined it for me. What is the point if you're going to smell like smoke anyway... I am learning quickly that expensive doesn't always mean better. I have some perfumes that were 250.00 that are fleeting (especially my Creed selections). I would prefer this scent to many of my expensive rose based perfumes. My all-time favorite is Stella Rose Absolute and this reminds me of that very much. With SRA being so hard to find now, this is a great inexpensive option! This rose is lovely. If you like the original Stella or SRA, you will like this. It is a true rose without any alcohol smell or synthetic at all. The rose is dominant all the way through. It lasts far longer than I anticipated. Price is not an indicator of performance, longevity and sillage. Just figured that out. This also reminds me of another brand De Rosine (I think is the name). One of their selections (I know it starts with an E) smells just like this! Someone stated that it is soapy and I find that to be true. Not an in-your-face soapy, but very subtle clean mid and dry down. This is the best bargain I believe I have ever found so far and seriously underrated. Clean real rose all the way thru. I even layered it with Stella Nude and it perked up Stella Nude in a big way. I love all things Stella and blind bought Nude only to find that it is nothing like the Stella original or rose scent. Now perhaps I will get some use out of Stella Nude. It really does complement this scent. Safe blind buy if you love smell of roses much like Stella and De Rosine.

I am a sucker for rose perfumes, and I'm lucky enough to own quite a few of them. I must say this gem is absolutely perfect! This just may be my favorite rose perfume. With the first spritz, I'm surrounded by real, fresh cut, roses. Tons of them! Such a beautiful composition! There is none of the "plasticky" smell that sometimes clouds other perfumes. My hubby doesn't care for it when I wear certain scents because he is sensitive, and unfortunately for me, this is one of the scents he can't tolerate too well. That's truly the only negative thing I can say about owning and wearing this beauty. When I'm having a bad day I like to put a good amount of this on so that I can be comforted by it and it always improves my mood and my day. I am a big fan of all of Oscar's perfumes, but I would have to crown this one queen of them all! I intend to buy several bottles soon so that should it ever be discontinued I won't ever be without it. I don't think anyone looking for a rose perfume that actually smells like roses, without much in the way of other notes that are able to be picked out, could do any better than this. It is just so gorgeous!

FALL IN LOVE. Velvety lush rose scent opening with a burst of rosy pear, freesia and lily of the valley that deepens into a velvety rich rose & peony heart resting on a musky woody base. The rose is slightly MiddleEastern, and this takes a few months to develop the true scent, after which it takes on a whipped fluffy quality. The first few sprays out of the bottle before storing smelt more like a light rose-oud blend, but now overall I get a taif-rose vibe with a velvety whipped quality and some jammy facets. Contrast to Stella Stella McCartney: These are different but I can see why they have been compared. With Stella I get a tea-rose leaning more shampoo-like and with Oscar Rose I get a taif-rose leaning luxury whipped body cream. With Stella, in the drydown I also get soapiness and a faint pencil shaving note on the skin that I don't smell in Oscar Rose. Overall: Absolutely beautiful & versatile scent profile and above average performance, this is the perfect scent to wear for falling in love. It's a love for me. Enjoy!

It's fresh throughout and a little soapy on the drydown, not a hint of stuffiness or potpourri. This is the smell when you stick your face in a bouquet of fresh roses at the grocery store & inhale. It has just the right sillage for my humid, tropical climate. It's present but I’ve never been self-conscious or worried that it’s too much for others in the heat. Maybe it will help someone if I compare to other rose scents I’ve had: There's no greeness or bitter stalks like in Perfumer's Workshop Tea Rose. It doesn't have the citrus that is in Chloe Roses de Chloe or Stella EDT (the nude colored bottle with all the little dots). It doesn't have that detergent smell that the drydown of Paul Smith Rose has. It doesn't have the beeswax note that goes rancid on me in Jo Malone Red Roses. It's nowhere near as sweet as Viva La Juicy Rose Juicy Couture. It doesn't have the musk that Philosophy Amazing Grace Nude Rose has.

I purchased a ODLR box set of three minis and this was one of them. I love it! I will say that fresh scents especially with peony in them are right up there in my top fives so this hits the Mark! Although, I’m not a huge fan of rose fragrances mostly because I find several of them to have that old lady vibe to it. But this isn’t rose overkill, it’s a nice mix of all notes put together into one. Would I spend a fortune on a full size bottle? No. Would I buy it if I got a deal? Definitely. It’s certainly inoffensive and a nice wear on those days you’re not sure what you want to wear for fragrance, lazy days, trailer days, beach days....yeah, it was $19.99 well spent for the trip of minis!!