Risque Pour Homme

This review is for Creation-R EDP, also known as Risque EDP. Like all Roja Dove fragrances, it is hard for me to pick out all of the individual notes. Roja does a fantastic job in creating very well blended and balanced scents. One day when I grow up and hit the lottery (which I have been saying for decades now) I will own most of the RD line. There has been a lot of bashing on the cost being an arm, a leg and a kidney or two. While that puts it out of most people's price range, if you compare the quality of his stuff to the quality of other scents out there, the cost is justified IF you can afford a sample or two and wear them on special occasions, or take my idea and hit the lottery so you can wear them every day... I purchased a small sample to try this on my skin and I am glad I did. Risque has an incense and Myrrh heavy opening with underpinnings of wood and peach buried deep in the scent. Closing my eyes I am a small boy sitting in church. After a few moments the germanium joins the chorus and the notes sing in perfect harmony. At this point I lose the ability to pick out individual notes, but the harmony is deliriously beautiful to my nose. I get great projection and longevity on my skin. I do not spray fragrances on my clothes, I only spray it on my skin. This morning I picked up the sweater I was wearing the day I sample Creation-R and I can still smell it on my sweater 5 days later. Impressive! Although marketed to men, I can see a strong woman pulling this one off. This can be worn in formal or upscale / trendy attire. Bottom line: If you enjoy complex scents or other Roja Dove scent, you should try this one. If you are on a really tight budget you should pass. While the sample is not too expensive, the bottles are and if you love the sample you may be stuck between rent and Roja....

Apparently discontinued a few years ago, Risqué pour Homme is in my opinion an underrated fragrance from Mr. Roja Dove. I would even take the risk to say that it lies between his best creations. The perfume represents an homage to the Pelargonium graveolens who plays the central role in the fragrance ́s developement. After a clean, beautiful bergamot/citrus blast with lavender undertones, in a couple of minutes Geranium enters the stage. For the next 2 hours the perfume is quite linear focused on Geranium with floral hints of jasmine and rose due the related chemistry (linalool, geraniol and citronellol). And what we have here is not the sharp, abrasive Geranium found in the Ropion ́s Pour Monsieur but a soft and creamy one. And that is exactly how it ́s supposed to be, in order to enable a smooth, almost imperceptible transition to a beautiful, byzantine church like, myrrh-frankincense scent in the dry-down. Scent 8,9/10 Longevity 7/10 Projection 6/10 Sillage 6/10

Picked up a decant of this and realized I needed a full bottle very quickly after. Found that bottle, though it took some effort, bought it, and bought a few of the discovery atomizers in both the parfum and EDP versions... you know, in case I can't find it again. Why, oh why, Mr. Dove did you discontinue this? A very good and unique fragrance that seems to continually evolve on my skin. One minute you detect the peach with incense smoke, another its florals and woods. And somehow, even though the incense hits hard on first spray... it manages to remain clean smelling. Believe this is available still direct from Roja and can be found in a few niche shops out there. For me, this is at least a 4/5, though I suspect it could be a 4.5. If you haven't, it's worth trying!

This reminds me of an old silky red cedar wood box I found when I was a small kid rummaging around in some junk. The smell of it left a huge impression on me and is somehow buried deep in the formative layers of my mind. I've never found a perfume that comes close to the smell of that box until I came across this perfume, so that's pretty cool!

An absolutely Stunning Fragrance. Also goes by the name Creation R. Very fresh and clean. The quality is suburb. One of my favorites from the house.

Broke my heart when I found out this was discontinued. A gorgeous fresh take on incense.

I have 50 ml bottle to sell in EU. Please send me a message if you are interested.

On my skin this is very piney. In fact I smelled like a damn Christmas tree for the first hour, which I suppose was appropriate as I ambled around town to do my Christmas shopping. There's a fresh, sweet aromatic accord and tinges of something fruity in the background, but to be honest, I'm having a hard time picking out individual notes. Peach is not something that sprung to mind at all, nor do I particularly get much lavender or citrus. The sweet, spicy aspect is more of a blur. It's all about the wood notes, the foresty pine and cedar, the ashen oakmoass, that tarry labdanum. Despite this, it's not particularly heavy, in fact it smells quite desiccated and refined, but the focus on cedar actually makes it rather boring for me. After 2 hours it starts to smell like a more typical mens cologne you might buy for less than a quarter of the price of "Risque", so all things considered, I'm not blown away.

Have the Creation-R Parfum version not edp, but the notes look the same... Love this, didn't think I'd get to own it after smelling a while ago as couldn't pick it up while one-bag travelling and it got discontinued, but found one new recently. Starts off as a peachy incense, very nice. As the peach dies down some of the other things comes to the fore and it starts to smell to me like a very herbal natural smelling forest like incense, with a peppery aspect. Not quite as foresty as Zagorsk for eg. but along those lines, but longer lasting and as I say more natural smelling and with some spice. Excellent stuff, I wonder why it was discontinued?

This is a decent fragrance but the utterly irrational price puts it out of my list. It starts with a citrusy blast followed by a blend of chypres / fougères. In a literary way I would say this: imagine you go in a forest after it rained (first 45 minutes after the fragrance opening) you get the notes of oakmoss, pine, fougeres and fallen tree branches that lay in the rain water among decaying leaves. After the first hour, you get resinous accents, myrrh and incense as if you decided to start a fire in the forest to warm yourself up. The strong and pungent incense/myrrh notes in the dry-down makes this perfume a heavy-to-wear type of fragrance and a quite sober one at that. This is a frag that I would totally avoid for dinner dates or fun nights out. I would wear this to a bereavement or a church meeting. Quick Review Note: I did not get any peach notes, the cedar wood note listed should be replaced with pine, fougeres. Did not notice a lot of pepper, perhaps in the beginning. The dry-down is just incense and myrrh nothing else (could not detect any tonka, vetiver or labdanum). Scent: 6/10 Longevity: 10/10 Sillage: 6/10 --- Edit: only one Risqué thing about this fragrance is wasting your money on it. Jokes aside the dry down is really disappointing, you literally smell like church myrrh ointment. Nothing wrong with that but I doubt this is the result you are aiming for when applying fragrance. Til' next time...

Im not good enough to describe a perfume all i can tell it's Very very high quality but very very piney as Arabian night mentioned ... no innovation tho the ingredient are very special But not the blend . If u like dry pine note this fragrance for you

Roja Parfum Risque (Parfum version) for Men.Talk about elegance. Top class. What a fragrance. I have no words to describe how beautiful this is. Signature worthy scent for summers. Beats any chypre I have ever tested. This is vintage perfumery speaking. That experience speaks through this fragrance. Sparkling Bergamot, damp oakmoss, powdery fine lavender, sweetness of cardamoms laced with the rooty vetiver, finely powdered cedar and the BEST use of Tonka beans in the drydown. I am hooked. 10/10. Lasts an easy 8 to 10 hours with great projection for the first 3 to 4. Pure elegance. Guys please try it out. It will transform through short periods of transitional brilliance. Blown away.

Great scent but the peach note is just too fem in my opinion. It’s a shame too cuz like I said I do think it’s nice. Oligarch would be the ideal replacement if you’re looking to stay within the brand and want something more masculine. 6.5-7/10 w average performance but not a keeper for me. * I own the extrait.

تاپ نوت ادامسی که به مرور عمق پیدا میکند و میوه ای و دارک میشود با هلو و ته بوی سنگین و پیچیده اسموکی خیلی سلیقه محور ساخته شده ولی کمی در کیفیت ندارد ----------- Scent & Quality: 9/10 Longevity: 8/10 Sillage: 8/10 Creativity & Uniqueness: 8/10 Affordability: 1/10 ----------- Overall: 6.8/10

This is a beautiful Fresh slightly sweet and powdery chypre. The opening is fresh citrusy(bergamot) that transition to a beautiful powdery rose, labdanum sweetened with peach and a touch of wood in the dry down. Longevity is good & sillage is moderate.

I thought long and hard about this one. It's almost there. I want to love it. But its just too feminine and sweet. Peach and incense. There I've said it. Smells great on my wife, conversely no one likes it on me. Enough said.

Similar note breakdown with Bergamot Extrait. Maybe the reason Bergamot Extrait has been discontinued. Great scent.

I want to buy a bottle of this, please message me if you have one you're willing to sell!