Infusion de Rose (2017)

Simply amazing and well done perfume. It's elegantnt, sparkly, girly and gentle. Dainty even. A real easy joy to wear. Simple and understated, but actually lingers around for a really long time on me. It's not very complicated but it's very refined to my nose. Beautiful. Could pass for a Chloé flanker pheraps. ( Definitely ligther and airier than Chloe edp). It does lift my mood. The citrus makes it slightly tart and not "mature" (I don't mind "mature" though). It's light and breezy. Perfect for spring/summer. A bit soapy as well as fresh/watery and a tad bit sweet, but not too much. Not a red rose, rather pink and green. The bottle reflects what's inside perfectly to me. It doesn't remind me of the iris though.. But it has the elegant, soft and airy quality. Leans very feminine, if one cares about that. Earlier, I didn't appreciate such perfumes. I only wanted sweet/vanillic or gourmand beasts basically. Not that there's anything wrong with that. However, after I got covid and suffered from long time hyposmia, parosmia and phantosmia, my taste has changed quite a bit. I've been waiting for the day I could smell even the faintest smell, and when it finally came back a lot of my fragrances smelled off or nauseating.. So I've been getting into lighter smells and found joy since it has opened my nose to a new path. Not as fun for the wallet though. What sucks is that I don't know from day to day or even hour to hour what smells trigger my parosmia. Fresh rose and aquatics seems to trigger it the least though. I didn't even think I liked rose as a note, but I've learned I really do! (Lol some of my first "real" perfumes I bought myself were the original Tresor, Burberry Body intense and Paul Smith's rose, so that makes zero sense). So I've apparently always liked rose in some variety.

I went on a mission to find a true to life rose frgrance, not just a note but a main event type rose, and stumbled on this. I ended up getting Tea Rose by The Perfume Workshop, Rose by Paul Smith, and Les Infusions de Prada Rose, each from various price points. PW Tea Tose is by far my favorite, BUT the power of that scent should not be underestimated! I read the reviews that said how strong it was and i doubted it and gave myself 3 good sprays to test it out and OMG its crazy too much!! I have never gotten a headache from perfume before until that scent! EDT? This isnt even more like a EDP and i would put this up there with straight parfume its so strong. The actual scent is vibrant rose bush, juicy and succulent with a good amount of wood. Its absolutely beautiful....in very small doses xD. I also really loved the Paul Smith Rose, in comparison, i would say that one is less juicy and woody and more powdery, delicate and soft but also has decent sillage, not near as much but very decent. Les Infusions de Prada Rose was the most expensive and the biggest disappointment. It is more similar to Paul Smith Rose with a little more complexity and a more musk scent, but i dont think it lasted more than an hour or two and had almost no silage. If you are looking for straight up rose like I was, all 3 were a safe blind buy, but I am thinking Paul Smith Rose was the best middle ground, though i like PW Tea Rose better, it wont be as easy to wear. In comparison to the other two, though I loved the scent, Prada Rose Infusion was a waste of money.

I just adore this fragrance. We celebrate a sort of Valentine's Day in mid-summer in my country so I took advantage of the sales then to buy a set of Prada Infusion minis. I've been sampling them over the past month and this and Iris Cedre are my favorites. I love how the gentle but slightly spicy rose combines with the powdery, irisy Infusion base. It's a marriage made in heaven. This dries down pretty quickly to be an intimate skin scent. Perfect for when you want a discreet but uplifting fragrance. I think this would be nice in winter too. I can see wearing this year-round.. Update - July 2024 - I have a full bottle of this on the way as an anniversary/birthday present. It's pricey, but I got a good deal online that was about half of what I would pay for this in my country. Very happy that I will now own a FB of this scent.

This is my favourite of the infusion line for summer. It's a dry clean rose with green facets from the very soft galbanum and orange blossom. The mandarin adds a zesty freshness. It's fantastic in hot weather because it's dry, cool and never splits in the heat. The light projection and longevity mean I can spritz myself to freshen up every few hours and it has very little sweetness so it never gets cloying. It's not particularly well-regarded by others, but it works a treat for me and it's one of my top ten summer scents.

A lovely tea rose and surprisingly long lasting on my skin (6 hours +) but not very original. Very similar, but much more expensive than the good old chemist shop staple Yardley's English Roses contemporary edition, which sells for about $170 less. There is something in common with Chanel No.22 as well here. Pretty, but not a patch on the others in the Infusion range.