Rose Mallow Cream

Oh, yum. So, I bought a few samplers from Solstice a few years ago, used them a fair amount, and eventually started moving on to using other frags. I love variety and trying new things. I also don't love samples with a wand applicator, prefer spray or roller ball, but I do love a lot of their blends, though I wish many of them lasted longer. Lately, I've been revisiting some of the more warm weather friendly ones, as it's summer, and today I went for Rose Mallow Cream. I think time was very good to this one! I originally thought it was just alright, pleasant, but maybe a bit boring and light. Maybe I was just smelling too many at once before, maybe it got better, maybe both, but I really am wowed by how lovely it is. It's not just a sickly sweet candy scent, it has some depth. It has that addictive quality where I can't stop smelling my arms, and I kept getting delicious little wafts of myself all day, which made me feel happy. You usually don't get real, high quality rose like this in fragrance, so many are synthetic, and it really does hit a bit different. It's almost a bit spicy, like carnation, but it must be the rose, as it has no carnation or cinnamon listed. Those are two of my favorite notes, and the rose in this is similar to my nose. I guess I have smelled actual roses this intoxicating, you just usually don't get it from perfume! I'm not really getting powdery, mostly rose, strawberry, white chocolate, and marshmallow notes. I do get a bit of musk, lending a smidge of sophistication to balance the sweet and tart candied strawberry notes, though the rose also does that, and is the star. It is a bit of a skin scent, which is not my preference. I reapplied a few times, so I could smell it enough to enjoy, and try to create a scent bubble for my husband to enjoy. For the price, I think that's forgivable. I recently ordered a roller ball of their Blossom Jam Tea Cakes oil after revisiting THAT, along with a few other recent fragrance purchases, so can't afford any more right now/need to use everything I already have. However, I think I will need to purchase this in the future. Maybe next spring. It's TOO GOOD.

This was one among the 4 testers I purchased from Solstice Scents. I also got Snowmint Mallow, Witch's Cottage, and Blossom Jam Tea Cakes along with it. Out of the bunch I liked Rose Mallow the best and think it is the most versatile (I can see myself wearing it year round). All the samples were actually really good and I enjoyed all of them but I thought that Snowmint was just a bit too pepperminty (and ideal only for winter-wear) and Jam Cakes was not as interesting as Witch's Cottage (which is more complex and changing). As for Rose- It's pretty, yummy, feminine, and addictive. It's sweet without being sickeningly so. I has a delicate sweetness to it. The primary notes I get are definitely rose and marshmallow. I have a feeling that guys would go crazy for this stuff because it is what you would think a pretty girl should smell like. It's youthful but not juvenile. It's just such a nice fragrance and when I have it on I just want to stick my nose up to my wrist and smell it constantly. I liked it so much I decided to purchase a large bottle the same day my samples arrived. If you like gourmands, I think this would be a pretty safe blind buy as I don't see anyone not liking this scent.

This is one of my favorite fragrances, though I do not wear it much in the colder weather due to it feeling a bit too springy. It's very sweet, but for me it never reaches cloying. I've never really been able to pick up on the strawberry note like some other- I typically really hate berry scents in perfumes so I had been initially quite cautious to try it. It's definitely a very creamy, sweet pink rose. The marshmallow lifts up the creaminess, and in my opinion this perfume just smells like rich vanilla bean ice cream and rosewater. The rose is not a green or more citrusy rose. It's not artificial smelling to my nose, but it's definitely got that kind of candied rose smell to it as opposed to freshly picked. I don't find it to be powdery at all, it's really just more of a candy scent without being sickly. The longevity is pretty good- I find it to mellow out over the hours into a really soft vanilla marshmallow fluff as the rose fades first, but it never totally leaves the building.

I bought a sample of this because I've been looking for a sweet rose that is reminiscent of Bath and Body Works' now discontinued Rosewater Merengue. I still have some of the body lotion leftover & the scent is heavenly. I got to try this sample today & I am in love! It smells so similar! I love that it's a sweet rosewater scent without a bunch of other florals or Woody scents to bog it down. This is like a decadent rosewater dessert drizzled in a gooy marshmallow cream with white chocolate shavings on top. I don't really pick up on strawberry at all, but I'm perfectly okay with that since the sweet marshmallow & rose is really what I was seeking anyways. I am going to purchase the full size IMMEDIATELY!

There is an ice cream store in Los Angeles called Mashti Malones in Hollywood where they serve the most delectable rosewater ice cream, and this smells exactly like it! It is so good I literally want to lick myself. I've been wearing this for over 7 hours, and while it has settled in on my skin it still has good projection and I still feel it enveloping me. I HAVE to get a full bottle. This is a slightly sweeter and less sultry Noir de Noir, but also a bit more wearable (Noir is meant for special occasions, in my opinion). I have a ton more samples to try from Soltice Scents so I'm excited to try them all!