10 Une Rose Vermeille

My Sweet, how I love you <3 This wasn't the first fragrance from Andy Tauer to find favor, that honor goes to Le Maroc Pour Elle but it was the one years ago, I. HAD. TO. HAVE! That hasn't changed one bit. I didn't know I even had a tolerance for sweets, until Rose Vermeille sauntered under my nose and believe me, it is very sweet, though not cloying. The sweetness is definitely a gift from the raspberry. Raspberry can also take ownership of the jammy appeal. With that, it would be easy to label this a jammy rose and end there, but it's hardly doing the composition justice. While it is the best jammy rose I've spritzed, it's the addition of the mild spice (of the tonka bean) that makes it soooo nice for me! I frequently have difficulty distinguishing vanilla from tonka in the same composition. Not here. This tonka makes a difference. The ambergris is equally important to my experience in the base. It's solid and steady and just a little boozy preventing this from becoming just another floral/fruity concoction, one too linear to appreciate. Neither lavender nor violet catch my nose much. There is a slight powdery accord for me. Possibly from the violet. Citrus is also lost to me, not a single lemon, not a single lime and not a hint of bergamot. There is a smudge of lipstick though, towards the latter half of wear. I'd like to think it's a gift from the violet as well. Strangely, it's not out of place in the jam jar. Leave it to perfumer, Andy Tauer to make me a gourmand lover with Une Rose Vermeille. That's no small feat.

A deep and fruity, rich, warm rose. Not soft, not sugary, but dense and smooth. Une Rose Vermeillie has the same waxy quality I love in my favourite Tauer perfume, Carillon Pour Un Ange. It has a sort of lipstick texture. Tonka bean and amber (I noticed the amber right away) really warm up the scent. It's -20C here and Vermeille is behaving very nicely tonight! My favourite part of Une Rose Vermeille is the opening with that burst of tart lemon... I wish it would remain to cut some of the sweetness, but I'm not complaining. I enjoy the sweet smells of raspberries and strawberries in my perfumes. URV has been on my want list for some time. Although it isn't my holy grail rose perfume (that would be Guerlain Rose Barbare), personally I prefer these warm roses like Vermeille to spicy or green ones. My fiance said he thought my hair smelled pretty. It's the first time he has directly complimented the scent of my hair, although I do spray perfume there fairly regularly. I realized there is something special about this perfume, when I pulled a strand of my hair across my face to sniff it - there was a sort of darker quality to the scent than I had noticed at first, an alluring sandalwood. The definition of vermeil/vermeille from Larousse: D'un rouge vif un peu plus foncé que l'incarnat. My translation: A brilliant red that is more opaque than translucent.

This fragrance takes me to my childhood daydreams in southern Italy and is the antidote to the hottest days of August. Yet it's all grown up in cool, casual and feminine sophistication. First whiff is herbal and a tiny bit bitter as if it is cooling the nasal passages as if it were a palate cleanser paving the way for the fruits and violets. Lemon and raspberry swirl together with a cool powdery background. A bit like cool wet plaster humming in the background. The rose and amber ground it and prevent it from being a sugary cheap confection and the lemon and raspberry lend a sweet crispness that prevent this fragrance from being dusty or heavy. On me there is a point when Une Rose Vermeille is fresh and yet creamy. I cannot stop smelling my wrists - I am in LOVE with this fragrance and can't wait to see how cooler weather affects it. The sillage is strong at first but it quickly becomes moderate. The longevity is not as intense as I had hoped. Lasting perhaps 5 hours instead of the longevity normally associated with Tauer perfumes. I am a huge fan of Tauerville Roseflash, Fruitchouliflash, Sotto la Luna Gardenia, Sotto la Luna Tuberose, Incense Rose and Tuberoseflash. I feel that Une Rose Vermeille is absolutely unique and a fantastic addition to my Tauer/Tauerville collection.

I bought my bottle the first year it was released so it was from an original batch and has since been used and loved. As I have reviewed on other sites, Une Rose Vermeill is not your grandmothers' rose. It is a youthful, glowing- metallic rose. On my skin, usually worn through Spring-end of summer on the west coast so for me it started off with a very green/ crisp and fresh vibe. It has a very clean start. I believe the crisp start is what lends its soapy feel people are commenting about. Also, due to this crisp start the middle develops into a metallic, cooling rose which is what I loved about this fragrance. In terms of modern perfumery, Une Rose Vermeille hits the spot by bringing forth a modern sensibility to the rose genre. The dry down and base, is where I pick up the gourmand and fruity jam that lends a sensible sweetness to the composition. It isn’t overpowering. I did not feel like I was suffocating in a mass produced sugary frag. Wearing Une Rose Vermeille, gave me a touch of playfulness but not without a sense of sophistication added in. It is a perfect day time fragrance which lasted a good 8 hours on my skin. Perfect for any day time activity .

This is my first try of Tauer fragrances and WOW this one really stands out from the sample set I got from Katarina82 (eternally grateful!). Gosh, I am very surprised by this scent. I usually like my roses to smell like...well...let's say roses i.e. mainly soliflores or perhaps slightly citrusy and this scent is not like that at all. On the first sniff I get absolutely divine smell of rosehip jam, sweet and intoxicating bubbling away in a big copper cauldron. I can almost taste it, it is so divine and I don't even like rosehip jam lol. I only put 3 small dabs on but I keep catching whiffs of this sweet jammy rose scent and thinking 'wow something smells nice' only to realise it is me! Somehow this scent reminds me of Christmas, I don't know why but I would say it's definitely a winter/cold weather scent. I am well and truly enchanted by it. Trouble is now, this is so gorgeous I WANT a bottle of it and it is rather expensive.