Stella Rose Absolute

I am an English woman who grows and loves roses and cannot get enough of their scent, but they only bloom here from June onward. Stella Rose Absolute allows me to enjoy the beautiful perfume of my wonderful English roses all year round. It is the most natural representation of fresh, delicious wet English roses in a perfume I have ever experienced. All rose varieties have a unique scent, and some perfumes capture one of these scents, but this fragrance captures the essence of an English Rose garden at dawn with a light summer breeze caressing the sweet morning dew and lifting the fragrance of all the roses and the nearby trees and shrubs to surround you in their beauty. Absolutely wonderful, this is my signature fragrance, and the comments I receive from friends and colleagues concur.

This is one of the most enchanting fragrances ever! One of my favorites! Soft, warm, sensual, elegant rose that melts and blends into the skin and makes the wearer into a glowing rose herself. It is definitely rosy with amber bringing out warmth and depth. It is like Stella with more intensity, and a bit less spicy yet more sexy than Stella Nude, which I also love but use as more of a daytime fragrance. Stella Rose Absolute is definite a date night fragrance! Seductive yet absolutely classy. The Jacqueline Kennedy of fragrances (hard to think of a modern day woman who combines such gentle sensuality with class!). My only regret about Stella Rose Absolute is that it fades too fast, like a real rose, but oh, what beauty while it lasts!!

I have been wearing this one for a few days trying to work out what I wanted to write in the review. Yes it's similar to the original but as the name suggests, deeper, darker and more intense while still being fresh. I know the notes are the same as the original but the composition is obviously different, less citrus, more amber. It does remind me a little of Givenchy VI L'Intense but it's sweeter. Roses such as Midnight Poison and SL Fille de Berlin often go sour on my skin but this thankfully doesn't. Some may say it's simplistic but it's a rose fragrance after all and I don't think it needs to be overly complicated to be beautiful.

BlackAmberMoon and jenniferlincol below have already said everything I want to say about this perfume. I received it in the mail today after a disappointment with the 2014 reformulated Stella (was so weak, I dumped half a sample on me and could barely smell it after an hour..) and I LOVE IT! It is deep, rich, warm, jammy, sexy, gorgeous, fantastic ROSE. The first spray literally took my breath away ;) Cannot endorse this enough for rose lovers. I think this might be my perfect rose! (Now to buy some back up bottles, cause I think this is soon going to become very hard to find, if it isn't already.)

After a miserable experience with reformulated 2014 Stella my hope was restored when this beauty arrived in the mail. I had 2003 Stella in both a bottle and a Rolette. I always favored the Rolette because it seemed more intense and lasted longer. I now know it is because it was actually Rose Absolute. THIS is the fragrance Stella should be. Now with 2014 Stella I feel this way more then ever. It lasts, the rose is jammy, you can wear it year round, it is just perfect, perfect, perfect! It's everything positive about original 2003 Stella intensified. LOVE!