Romance Always Yours

I just received mine and like it a great deal, Beware, it takes some time for this one to calm down. The opening is too sharp almost citrus, but after about 20 minutes, it becomes a lovely, not too sweet, floral. Violet takes the center stage. The lasting ability is good as well as the sillage. I cannot place anything else it smells like. I liked it enough I am purchasing more. I am a fan of Ralph Lauren's scents and put this one in the same category with Love. That category is romantic and intimate.

At first I didn't like this one. It's musky and earthy smelling. Then the rose and floral notes come through and it's beautiful. Today I decided to layer this with pink sugar perfume to sweeten it up. It smells magestic on its own but my husband prefers sweet scents so just a squirt of pink sugar with a few squirts of this is very nice.

I like it! Not as much as the original - only because it doesn't last as long :(

This gives me confidence in office!

I am personally fascinated by the flanker phenomenon (folie!), which appears to have arisen only relatively recently in the history of perfume. Ralph Lauren ROMANCE ALWAYS YOURS is a part of this trend: produce a new perfume in the same bottle that may or may not have anything to do with its namesake. ROMANCE ALWAYS YOURS has a great deal in common with its predecessor: the florals are the same, ginger appears again, along with patchouli, musk, and oakmoss. The flanker, which is linear, also ramps up the patchouli and omits the wood, making this more oriental, to my nose, than chypre, but still much more chypre than fruity, which I found also to be the case with ROMANCE. I need to confess that I have of late discovered that I have a pretty serious clean patchouli penchant. Here, too, the patchouli is clean, and there is more of it. Therefore, I like this flanker better than the original! For that same reason, those who shun patchouli will want to stay away. This is really much more about patchouli than any of the florals. I may have to buy a large bottle of ROMANCE ALWAYS YOURS to reward Ralph for producing a flanker that really makes sense. ROMANCE and ROMANCE ALWAYS YOURS are close cousins, offering unique but related takes on a shared set of notes. A take that I'll gladly take!