Rouge Royal

I just received a bottle of this beauty in the mail from a blind purchase. I usually wait and use a perfume a few times before a review. I couldn't wait! After a year of watching this perfume, I just couldn't bring myself to get Rouge Royal. I would pass RR over and get the others on my long list of fragrance wants. I read the reviews and a part of me wanted RR and a part of me didn't want another blind buy gone south. Well, I should have listen to the other part of me. Ever since I first read about this perfume I have had many many blinds go south. I wished I would have bought this when I first laid eyes on this precious gem! She is Royal alright! RR is beautiful, sweet, fruity with a hint of warmness. I do get the strawberry and I do get the black current if I close my eyes and smell deeply. If just taking little whiffs RR is as someone else stated in an earlier review, like diving face first into a heavenly bowl of fruity pebbles. It is sweet, but not cloy, not sickly at all. Fruity but not tart or sour. It has a soft candy sweetness with a soft gentle warmness to it. No hard spice, just sweet, soft, gentle and warm. RR is gentle and relaxing enough for a pillow spray at night and fun to wear out for the day. Rouge Royal does have a great sillage, but there is nothing harsh about it. To me, the drydown is the same as when first sprayed. Doesn't really change through the notes. I'm glad because I love the first spray of it. Yes, Rouge Royal is a beauty and I wished that I would have bought it a long time ago, but it's ok, I'm happy in the moment with it being my new love right now. I definitely don't regret my purchase Update: It has now been a month since I've had this perfume and I love it just as much as the day I received it and made this review.

This fragrance is a very rich full bodied scent that is so well blended that I can not pick out individual notes in it, but the impression it leaves behind when wearing it is one of divine nostalgic decadance! It brings to mind childhood days of family holidays filled with winter sights & scents. The windows decorated with bright colorful lights, while the pine tree is sparkling with tinsel and twinkling lights. The kitchen scents permeate the home with baking goodies while the hollyberry and bayberry candles drip melting wax into little scented puddles that delightfully set the entire mood for the season. Those are scents that stay with you forever, and that is what I get when wearing this perfume. Mmmmmmm....I love it!

Confess that first of all I fell in love with the bottle, and in my fantasy there was a thick red liquid inside...I did not crack it to check. What I found after spraying it was a delicious hot sweet strawberry syrup spicied with crushed lemon peel. But it's not just as sweet hot candy. The moss gives it a kind of sophistication. It does not last too long. I like to wear in winter, I feel it warms us. P.S: I usually get more men compliments than women's when wearing this one...and it's not expensive. (Good, isn't it?)

Lovely and potent summer nights scent, which starts out fruity but (on some chemistries) quickly turns to the more resinous side, almost chypre-ish (oakmoss?), even a little woody. Because of this turn to the resinous, it may be one of the only "fruity" perfumes that can be worn all year. Unlike many scents in its olfactory family, Rouge Royal lasts very nicely, has great sillage, and is more "seductive and elegant" than "fruity and flirty". Definitely a siren's version of the floral/fruity perfume genre!

I have owned this fragrance for a few years. My daughters talked me into purchasing it because they say it smells like strawberries which I do not smell. Rouge Royal is a slightly sweet spicy fragrance that I have fallen in love with. The only issue I have is the design of the bottle. When I got to the bottom I was unable to use it. If they were to put the straw in a corner so we can spray at an angle then that would be great.