Elisabethan Rose - Vintage

Elisabethan rose is a poem dedicated to the queen of flowers. When i first apply it on my skin it opens with aldehydic, fresh and green notes thanks to geranium and violet leaves. Then the heart begins growing around the rose that reaches her supremacy in the meanwhile my skin gets warmer.the rose continues is circle fo life becaming powdered and gentle.Then she settles down on her bed made of amber, musk and sandalwood that confer to her all the magnificence of the queen of gardens. i really love this parfume that makes me feel sensual and very feminine like every woman must feel herself.i recomend it to all rose lovers!!

Opening with an old-fashioned talcum powder rose, this is my favourite phase of the perfume. The heart shines with a soft rose minus any green tinge to it. It is pure, heavy, fat, blooming rose head. I feel so feminine and pretty when I wear this. Even better, this rose never really sours or wilts on the skin as they are prone to do. In the drydown, violet peeks through the rosiness and it becomes apparent that the perky freshness of the rose owes its gratitude to a bed of sparkling green violets. But make no mistake this is all about the rose and it is an exquisite long-lasting pink one at that.

My all-time fav from this house. It's a pity that they discontinued this gem. The sharp green opening gives little hint of floral sweetness, and it slowly blossoms into a detached and skeletal rose without losing this concentrated piquancy. It settles down after 3-4 hours into a very sensual, more rounded, and warm-woody skin scent lingering for long. Violet adds some pleasant powderiness into its drying-down. The transition through every phase is distinct within a sophisticated structure. A dapper and fussy sketch of a handful of rawboned roses.

I personally don't think there is anything "old-fashioned" about smelling like fresh roses. I am very careful about using the word "soapy" because it's often overused, but I do think this is identical to the scent of a bar of rose soap. The drydown contains a hint of musk, which probably lends to the soapy quality. I would highly recommend this for rose lovers, especially lovers of fresh, pink roses covered in morning dew.

I find this fragrance very haunting and erotic. Makes me want to be a kept woman, lolling on silken sheets and eating bonbons. My toy poodle, Pierre, prances thru the rooms of my apartment, nipping at anyone he doesn't like. My lover adores me and brings me presents....sorry, got carried away!

Smells like a real fresh sensuous dewy rose. Like the ones with a hundred petals on one flower head. Longevity is good (8hrs) on me comsidering it is an Eau De Toilette. A compliment fisher at work hahaha. I am saddened that it has been discontinued by Penhaligon though. Sigh.

I agree with HelloLovely27 and lilith about this wonderful perfume. I am wearing my sample on a warm sunny day (for which it is perfect). It truly feels like being in a pretty English garden, even though I wore it to work. It is so bright, calm and clear, yet unobtrusive.

The Penhaligon`s Elisabethan Rose is light and has this crystal clarity about it. It is an amazing light slightly sweet rose it isn't sour but isn't robust. This perfume lasts for hours and hours! unlike any light fresh floral i have ever worn!

One of my favourite scents with rose in it. This is a rosebush, nice, alive, healthy, in my garden, but the soily note isn't there too often, oh, if only!.. It has the plants for me, minus the root part.

If you love classic rose scents without any unnecessary extras interfering with the simplicity of the flower itself, then you MUST try this scent. Do not be put off if you find aldehydes difficult or nauseating - you will find no problems here. In summer my English garden is filled with roses. In the early morning, when I was a little girl, I used to walk out barefoot onto the mossy lawn to go & sniff the dew-laden roses & watch the day wake up & one sniff takes me back in time to those carefree days! There is plenty of air-space in this fragrance - it breathes deeply. The rose itself is delicate, transparent & light. There is a watery quality to the perfume as if you can smell each dew-drop nestling like a jewel on the petals. The green notes do not annoy or distract from the sweet & sour glory of a blooming garden rose, they simply support & hold the floral notes as the sepals hold each bud. The fragrance does not evolve much but sweetens & deepens thanks to the light amber & creamy sandalwood. Alone, this fragrance is as beautiful as an early summer's day, but I have found that ER is a fantastic scent to layer. It turns zesty, citrus scents into gentle feminine versions & it enriches many of my deep amber scents adding a lighter, flirtier dimension. My favourite so far is when layered with Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet. So, if you think that roses are for old ladies - think again!

Oh my god, for the first few minutes the aldehydes and the geranium are so present and overwhelming that I can barely feel the voluptuous petals of an imperial rose. But yes, the rose is the protagonist after that, and Elisabethan Rose is a clear proof of the fact that roses and their beauty can also be reproduced through an opaque without the jammy raspberry note, without hints of vanilla, resins or caramel. And they are still beautiful. Off topic: It looks like the rose - violet duo is something I love in every essence tested so far, no matter if we are talking about a pure floral, an oriental, gourmand, oudy, make-up or fruity fragrance! Well, my boyfriend just complimented it, he said it's a beautiful smell in the air but I told him is my wrist :))

I've used and tried a lot of rose scents over the years, due to them getting along well with my body chemistry (even the light ones last the entire day). This one is probably one of the lightest and freshest ones I've smelled so far. It is unobtrusive yet has a memorable character. Great for days where you need some comforting.

A little too light , I like my rose darker and dirtier like "Une Rose" . I do like to wear it on a hot day when I don't want intensity.

To me it is like (Molinard Rose + Yardley English Rose)/2, I really like it but not so mad about it.

Doesn't smell like a rose, but has a beautiful dry down.

6/10. Pure and simple unadulterated rose with a faint cinnamon spice. Lasted 3 hours on me.

Perhaps I'm "too American" to appreciate such an old-fashioned fragrance. There, I've said it. Make no mistake, I do appreciate the craftsmanship and can understand the appeal of recreating the fragrance of a well-tended garden filled with heirloom plantings. I can imagine myself smiling as that fragrance comes through my window on a light breeze that ruffles the curtains. But that's the problem: Elisabethan Rose is closer to a fine air freshener than any perfume I'd want on my skin. Geranium opens and stars in this production while Rose is relegated to co-star status and poor Violet is just the understudy who never gets the chance to be on stage. OK, I like Geranium. But this isn't called Elisabethan Geranium... And where are the aldehydes? I love aldehydes & actively seek them out for the crystalline brightness they impart. Alas, there's no brightness here; instead, there's a heaviness, like the thick, heavy humidity that sometimes preceeds a spring rain. Just a couple of drops will last hours but I never seem to get past the Geranium Jumble to the drydown. I've worn Elisabethan Rose 3 times and have run out of patience -- scrubbed at the 2 hour mark. More "Yankee Candle" house fragrance than anything I ever want on my skin again.

It's no secret that I find rose perfumes very attractive, so it was a no-brainer to try Elisabethan Rose when I had the chance. It opened with an extremely distinctive suite of notes; dry and dusty yet somehow still green at the same time. At this stage the rose elements were well and truly subdued by the green and geranium notes, along with something else I could not identify but certainly did not like. The effect was old, cold and dusty - not odours I wish to smell like. Fortunately, in about an hour or so the dusty odour began to diminish and the rose began to shine through. The rose is a very pure and true rose at this stage, and is quite compelling. Sadly after about four hours this rose began to sour on my skin and dwindled in the same way that Jo Malone's Red Roses does. Old withered roses and the skanky smell of decay, as if they had been left in their unwashed vase too long. A few hours futher on, and the rose was milder and more approachable once more, as the skank disappeared. But by then it was scarcely more than a skin scent in any case. So while this is an interesting fragrance with a distinct and complex evolution, it is not a particularly pleasant one. I'm glad I didn't buy the bottle.

Penhaligon has created a rose perfume that smells exactly like a real rose, one of those white or pink ones growing wild on a thorny bush at the country house. It is heady and has great staying power, so a little goes a long way. When I was a teenager I had a diary with scented pages and it was this aroma. That may be why I think of this as a youthful perfume, but I see how it could be worn by romantics of any age. Penhaligon launched this scent in 1984. I can totally see this working alongside the flowery lace Laura Ashley dresses that were so popular with romantics in the early eighties. I still really enjoy this scent, and although it will always feel nostalgic and innocent to me..it is extremely relaxing. If I can ever afford pure silk sheets, they will also need to smell like this! It's a fat lazy pink rose growing in the full sunlight of a park. This stuff has great staying power. A little goes a long way and you could even pour some into your bath...heavenly. Ever the scent for a maiden, the geranium and chamomile notes follow the rose around like a chaperone and keep it from being naughty.

A rose by any other name would smell as stinky! Yes, Penhaligon ELISABETHAN ROSE is a big, loud, assertive, bodacious rose that will not let go for hours and hours!!!! The opening of this composition is slightly sour--not aldehydic--but it sweetens somewhat as it dries down. You wanted roses? Here they are, to my nose, buttressed only barely by geranium and suspended in a base that may survive even a hot bath. The megaphonic projection of ELISABETHAN ROSE is beginning to make me wonder whether the liquid in my sample vial might really be perfume rather than edp as I had presumed... With the application of only two drops I have found myself in a large labyrinth of rose bushes, with no exit anywhere in sight! Although I would not wear ELISABETHAN ROSE alone, its superior strength and sillage make it perfect for layering with leather, which would tame this wild rose quite nicely, I think.

I have been hunting for a rose fragrance, but so far the only one I would be happy to wear on my skin and clothing is Stella. However, having blind-purchased Elisabethan Rose, I do like it very much. I will use it as a curtain spray in my bedroom. It is very strong for an eau de toilette, and as other reviewers have said, it is very much the same as pot pourri, but I still find it fresh. I like it that it is not at all fruity. Every year, a few times, I go to my local botanic garden just to go to the rose beds to smell all the different roses. It never fails to amaze me how different all the different varieties smell. Elisabethan Rose is very true to a real rosein that garden, and has been masterfully blended. I will treaure my bottle of this fragrance, and might experiement with some layering, but for now, I will keep it to the soft furnishings.

Elisabethan Rose is a slightly tart, clean tea rose fragrance, I don't find it particularly old-fashioned despite its launch-year (1984). After the drydown it becomes softer and soapier, like a fine French soap. It is not grannyish, nor modern, it is not jammy, honeyed, or spicy, just an uncomplicated classic rose scent with some green undertones. It is more like a Victorian rose in character, than an Elisabethan one. Update: after a few time wearing this perfume, it reminds me of Creed Fleur de Thé Rose Bulgare, only Elisabethan Rose is sweeter, muskier, more feminine, and not as cold, aloof, than FdTRB.

If Penhaligon's Elizabethan Rose had a colour, it'd be greyish pink. This is the scent of a rose with its thick, green stalks. This is a rose which has been cut, left on the table for hours, before its scent is extracted. This is a rose that smells aged. This is a rose that smells cold and distant. Edit: I re-smelt this today. While it still remains rather aloof-smelling, there is a hint of lively sweetness to this scent and it has a powdery texture. It wouldn't hurt to have this in your collection, really.

An old fashioned rose, the geranium-rose kind (as opposed to violet-rose, fruity rose, or tea rose etc). It's the sort of rose fragrance used to scent pot pourri - dry, musty, heady. Wearing this is like burying your nose in a pot pourri jar. Like vintage clothing, it's best worn by the young. Silage and lasting power is good. btw, a man can wear this. And if he does so, he'd smell very dapper indeed.

The geranium in this perfume practically drowns any hint of rose...but it is there, hiding behind so much floral noise and aldehydes. This is very reminiscent of the hand cream my mother used when I was little...very soft and with a mere 'hint' of rose in it. As a rose scent its not the best i've ever smelled...too much else trying to grab your attention, and it has an edge to it I find off-putting.

Close your eyes and imagine yourself sitting in an 18th century English garden.The air is filled with the scent of rose,violet and geranium.You open your eyes to see the fine elegant ladies with their silks and satins. The scent of their powdered faces and wigs mingle with the delicate perfume of the garden.

I smell rose oud mix, traditional middle eastern combo, which recently came in style in western perfumery. This one is lasting and from 80s, but recently was copied by at list 2 perfumers that I know of- dior isfahan, Kandahar rose. They added something else, but they all smell very similar.

Nothing special. Begins stunning like Tea Rose of Workshop ltd but in a few minute become a shy cold rose without personality or something to say. Water of roses. End. Pleasant anyway. Refined.

This is a delicate rose scent...imagine an English tea party in a quiet garden! This perfume is too old-fashioned for me, but if you lived in the early 1900s, it would have been perfect!

Simply beautiful! A perfume that doesn't attempt to perfect perfection...the majestic diva of all the flora, the rose!

mostly unwearable, not a terrible scent. sandalwood and musk plume with geranium faux rose.