Crystal Rose

TOFFEE-ROSE Perfection. This is a dupe of Roses Vanille Mancera with good approximation & excellent performance. Opens with a short burst of lemon & water notes where already you feel the caramelized rose coming through. That continues to deepen for the duration, underpinned by vanilla, white-musk & cedar. The caramel here is dark & intense, and leans to toffee with a soft near-coffee note (not listed). Into the drydown I also get a black-tea note on the skin. I don't need to be in the mood for this, I could wear it anytime just like other scents with this DNA. Performance is amazing - no complaints - perfect for year round wear although one spray is more than enough in summer. Contrast to Roses Vanille Mancera: As above, this is a dupe with good approximation and excellent performance. The carmel here is dark near toffee which makes it lean to Intense Cafe Montale. Both have excellent performance. Contrast to Intense Cafe Montale: These are very similar, but Intense Cafe has a slightly more forward coffee note. This is probably half-way between Roses Vanille Mancera and Intense Cafe Montale. All three have excellent performance. Overall: gorgeous tofffee-rose scent with excellent performance. This has been discontinued but you can still find it on the tier-2 discounters now and then. If you happen to find it, enjoy!

It took a while for me to enjoy this fragrance, but I have finally grown to love it. I was appalled by the first spray which was a ridiculously medicinal, synthetic, jammy rose. I normally appreciate medicinal fragrances, but this one made me nauseous. It literally smelled like mentholated cough syrup. So scared off by that first spritz, I tucked this one away. After about a year, however, I revisited it and thankfully the medicinal scent has toned down a bit (it is still there, but it isn't nearly as abrasive as it was in the beginning). What I am left with is a beautiful and saccharine sweet rose syrup. It definitely does smell similar to Roses Vanille, but this one is more candy-syrup while RV is more watery and natural. The projection is okay, and the longevity is good. I am sad to see that this has been discontinued.

This beautiful, powdery rose! I definitely can understand why it's difficult to be found now where I live and it's twice the previous price. I started spraying it on my wrists before going to bed and I feel super sexy in a very mature way. So now it will be weird to say that I also find this perfume a bit oldfashioned, as if a better version of my grandma would wear it. It had stayed in my drawer for a long time, because the powdery rose indeed made it feel not too contemporary. However, as someone pointed out - it has a gourmand twist with that distant (to my nose) caramel. Now I'm in love with it and I cherish it because of its scarcity.

I was pleasantly surprised by this perfume! Bought it on Amazon after watching a Tiktok raving about it. It smells like a candy rose. Sweet but not too much, when I spray it on my wrist it makes me want to lick myself not joking. I feel it will fit more of a younger(ish) crowd, anywhere from 18-35. I love to wear this to sleep it’s a very cozy-sweet scent. And it lasts ! If I spray this at night I smell it still in the morning after waking. Would definitely recommend if you love sweet yummy scents.

It smells IDENTICAL to Mancera Roses Vanille, maybe a tiny bit more sparkling and less heavy. But if you sprayed them next to each other, I couldn't tell them apart. This is way cheaper than Mancera, but I don't like the bottle that much. It's a bit tacky.