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!

I blind bought this one as I wanted a super girly sweet perfume. It delivers. The rose fades quickly though and I'm left with marshmallow, musky white chocolate. I like it. Simple but well made and no synthetic mess. Becomes a skin scent quickly but then it lasts forever. You'll smell like a sweet dessert. Somehow I also bought Rose Jam from Lush recently and I think both perfumes are quite different. Rose Jam has a sour aspect (lemony like), more rose forward. This one is really gourmand. It smells more like white chocolate ice cream than anything else and this is good stuff. For gourmand lovers only.

This review is for the oil: Basically smells like the notes. This is a soft, rose-dominant fragrance with sweetness from the white chocolate, vanilla, marshmallow, and subtle strawberry. There is a slight soapiness that makes me think of a rose-vanilla bath product. It is pretty linear on me. Sillage is low but I can definitely smell it if I apply it around my neck. It lasts a while but becomes a skin scent after a few hours. A pretty everyday fragrance for those that enjoy sweet rose scents.

I was a bit let down by this at first, as I love sweet, syrupy rose scents, and I can't say I quite get marshmallow and white chocolate here, but the end result is a rose on the sweeter side. It isn't edible at all to me, but after a few wears, I've come to appreciate it and would like to full size it. It's very feminine and uplifting, I could see it for any time of the year. My husband loved it too!

This doesn't smell like how I imagined it would. Fresh, cold, crushed up pink rose petals - not a jammy, or dessert-smelling rose. The type of rose reminiscent of rose skin care. A rose found in a 'rose and glycerin' or 'rosewater' facial spray. I believe the Bulgarian rose is what's dominant here. That's added to cool whip with a drop of vanilla extract and a few shavings of white chocolate.

I adore this scent and I recommend testing it quite often. The closest description I can get is sugared pink rose petals soaked in cream. Also, the longevity is amazing. I get at least 9 hours of wear out of it. The spillage isnt huge, but it is definitely noticeable. I have had the rollerball for almost a year and it smells just as good, if not better, than it did when I first bought it.

Rose and marshmallows with the teensiest hints of white chocolate and strawberry. Sweet, soft, very pretty. It’s a bit similar to love don’t be shy/Oriana but with rose instead of orange blossom. Longevity for me is about 8 hours on skin, 10+ on clothes. Must have for those who love rose. <3

Such a lovely concoction of Bulgarian and Moroccan rose dipped in white chocolate and sprinkled with a dusting of marshmallows with a strawberry on top. This is the real deal. Nothing artificial here. I love Solstice scents can't wait to have more. This is a must have esp for fall.

Candied roses mixed with white chocolate in the opening! And the dry-down is like a creamy rose buttercream cake. For an oil, this projects so well. Usually my skin eats up oil perfumes and would be gone after one hour. This one lasts at least 5 hrs before becoming a skin scent.

to add to my review earlier it does smell lipsticky and like some luxurious lip gloss. almost a dupe for Bigelow rose salve that bath and bodyworks use to sell (one of my favorite scents now captured in a bottle.) Nice for early spring and fall.

genuinely the best thing i've ever smelled (i might be biased, i love rose and sweet things). i typically avoid gourmands because i hate warm sweetness and nutty scents, but this is everything i want in a perfume. it just smells sweet and pink.

A perfume that smells like it would taste great on toast. Rose Mallow is an exotic strawberry-rose jam, stylistically a floral gourmand on steroids. My second time wearing Rose Mallow and I love it.

This is a very powdery rose. It's very sweet, with a bit of tartness in the background. Settles into a very pretty, marshmallow rose. Still slightly powdery, but I really enjoy it.

Melted strawberry and rose-jam ice cream. I mean, that's heaven in a bottle right there! Gorgeous. I like layering it with Violet Mallow sometimes to dry it out a little, too.

White chocolate sprinkled with dried rose petals. Sooooo creamy! I need this in my life ASAP.

Smells nostalgic, pink, and soft Sweet rosey marshmallows