Rosenrot

I'm fan of the band and couldn't resist this perfume. It fits perfectly into the Rammstein aesthetic - take something ordinary and make it weird, sick and twisted to the point it becames a new emotion evoking thing. Let's take a good cliché - female rosey perfume and rearrange it's guts so much that it gets almost unrecognisable. The rose note is still there but it's no longer pretty and girly soft. Instead in the heart of the perfume sits a new dark, cold, threatening rose, one with poisonous thorns. A whiff takes you through a thickly forged doors of a dimly lit throne room. The air inside is heavy and drenched with incense but soon you realise it's just used to set the scene for her. Soon you begin to notice something weird, is that a rose smell that's pulling you in, deeper and deeper into the room untill she reveals herself in all her beauty. She has been torn and twisted into million pieces just to be brought back stronger and dangerous. You can not only smell but almost feel the ingredients of the spells that are bind in her metal cage. And there you kneel captivated by her hypnotic beauty and paralysed by the danger seeping of her. Overall great perfume - modern deep dark version of a classic fairytale. Amazing longevity on my skin but should be used with caution - two sprays give me 10hrs+

I bought it for someone else but am seriously considering getting a bottle for myself. I am not a fan of rose based fragrances, but this one is different. There is nothing sweet, girly or romantic about this scent. The top notes are cold spicy on me, probably that's how I perceive the combination of grapefruit and metallic notes. Then come the roses, and a lot of them. But they aren't garden roses one would expect in a perfume. Not the roses to please someone. They are thorny pink wild roses often used to make hedges. On clothes, they last for ages, on the skin a little less. Then comes the most beautiful church incense. At this stage, I want to bury my nose in the scent and wrap myself in it. Unusual that the top notes, roses and incense I perceive in this strict sequence almost discretely, not smoothly passing from one to another. An unusual perfume that definitely caught my attention.

It’s definitely not a clone of Portrait of a Lady, because there is no such dry and camphor patchouli. But both are sharp and dramatic red roses with a hint of metal and incense. Rosenrot is has more metal, more raspberry and tropical fruits. I can imagine a lil bit catty black currant/passion fruit in Rosenrot, in PoaL just raspberry with a hint of undefined red berries. Both roses are velvet petaled, but Rosenrot’s are more tender with gummy bear like texture with warm black tea bitterness. Rosenrot is definitely more amber-woody scent, so if you have a macrosmia to this components I don’t recommend a blind buy. If you have anosmia to amberwoods, all you’ll get is a rose and berries, without any smoky woods and incense. Just bare rose oil/hydrolate with hit of berries. I’m in love with this one. P.S. Rosenrot Intense is absolutely different scent without berries and so on.

I'm an advocate for rose as a masculine note (or rather unisex note), and this fragrance is definitely an example of that. The rose is very clear, but definitely strong and fresh. It's not a stuffy kind of rose, but very fresh and green. If you're unsure of what a "metallic" note is, this one is definitely it! It's a very consistent smell to me: from when you spray it, to the dry down, to when it's a skin scent, the smell doesn't change. One complaint I have: my bottle came with an imperfection: one of the spikes had the tip broken and bent. Not sure if it happened in shipping but somehow I believe it happened in production. It's too bad because it's a nice and unique bottle, I would have liked for it to be impeccable.

This is amazing! Take a red rose with stem and blend it with cold metal, incense, spices, lots of sex, a drop of blood and a dash of Portrait of a Lady...and voila! Lasts all day and projects really well for hours and hours. This should cost three times as much and even then it would still be a great buy. It takes it's wearer though...not for the faint hearted and designer purists (not that there's anything wrong with that)...it's just that if you can't tame it, it can easily wear you and not the other way round.