Rose Flash

A Drunk Rose A perfume for a person, who was waiting for his lover on a Wooden date table with Red Roses and Dark Wine. The lover never showed up. Waiting, He becomes Drunk and from his Shaky Hands, the wine spills over the wooden table where the Roses were kept. Later, he left, keeping behind the Roses soaked in Dark Spirits. Now, if one tries to transform this story into a Perfume, it will be Rose Flash. Rose Flash, straight away starts with lush red velvety Roses. The Rose here is Jammy, Syrupy and Sweet. The entire Rose structure remains bind with Resins and Woody Notes. The later 2 never declare their own presence but give the Rose a Solid Form. At dry down, Rose Flash gives away the syrupy sweetness and starts getting tangy. I, somehow enjoy the dry down, more than the initial part. The Best part is, you are getting Andy Tauer Creation at this nominal price and belief me, you can love this one or hate it, based on you love toward Roses. But, simply, you just can not ignore it. As my personal taste goes with, I am a Rose Fanatic, but still this Rose is a bit too much and somewhat gives me a headache. N yes, you just cannot wear it and forget. It is like those demanding lovers, who will always want your attention. Not a Safe Buy. Try before you buy. Sillage: Heavy Longevity on My Skin: Approx 9 Hours Longevity on Fabric: Approx 10-12 Hours Occasion: A Romantic Date with Formal Wear on a Fall Night. Or, on an Indian Marriage Dinner Party. Yes, I go with shravanevana. It somehow reminds me also of the Rose Water Soaked Indian Meetha Paans. Definitely wear it in open places. Rating: 8.5+.5=9/10 (.5 extra after the full wear in open places) Update (after a week): Last day, I wore it, on a Garden party and Wow, it works amazing in open places. The sweetness reduces to mach extent. Instead a tart spiciness (pepper?) starts showing up. I cant stop myself sniffing. Awesome experience. Moving it to my Love category, with .5 more grace marks.

I love the Tauer line, but I hesitated trying the "flash" series thinking they were "lesser" in some way. They are fabulous so far. Thinking the rose would leave me lukewarm, I was really pleasantly surprised by the depth, heft, and richness of this deep, jammy, sour-sweet, dark beefy rose (not a dewy spring rose). There is a slight lift at the beginning, and then it becomes fairly linear for a while--lush rich, resinous rose, the way a rose, gothic, heavy, "should" smell like in our imagination. It does veer sweet, so those who like "lemony" notes, dewey fresh softness, or more peppery may not find this to be "their rose"--though it does go through those notes initially, and, if you bury nose to wrist, you can find them. While this isn't a real rose--it's a real rose on steroids under the heat. It's a hyper-realistic rose, where every lemony aspect, dark syrupy sweetness, and peppery wood note converges in a swirl of deep reds and purples and trails off eventually into incense. So, while they're not the "same"--Malle's Portrait of a Lady, and Serge Lutens' Rose de Nuit are similar enough that if you like either one of those, you may like this. Conversely, if those price points leave you reeling, then this rose may delight. I have a lot of the Nuit, but my POAL is running out. When it goes, I'm probably going to stick with Tauer. The differences are there, but the genre is so similar, and I enjoy them both, that Tauer takes my purse. Also, I like Andy Tauer and his work. Silage and longevity are fantastic--really great quality, and another reason to love the more affordable Rose Flash.

How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator? This IQ funny question tests whether you're doing a simple things in a complicated way. The real question here is How do you put fields of roses in a 30 ml perfume bottle? Only the magician Andy Tauer can answer this question when he talks about (Rose flash ). Without any complications it's ROSES. Warm,spicy,sweet and richly roses. In a cold morning it would rise a lovely sun to your day The sillage is awesome and the longevity too. The perfume is absolutely unisex I can wear it any time. But how it all comes from roses and woody notes. Only him knows . كيف تضع زرافة في الثلاجة ؟ سؤال فكاهى يطلقه خبراء قياس الذكاء بحثاً عن الحالة المزاجية لكيفية إيجاد حلول معقدة لمشاكل بسيط. السؤال الحقيقي هنا . كيف يمكنك أن تضع حقولا ً من الورود في زجاجة عطر بحجم 30 مل . وحده الساحر أندى تاور يمكنه الإجابة على هذا السؤال حينما يتحدث عن عطره الرائع (فلاش روز) و بدون أدنى تعقيدات العطر عبارة عن ورود مجردة . دافئة و بهاراتية و مسكرة و غنية للغاية . عطر قادر على أن يشرق بشمس دافئة و لطيفة في يوم بارد. فوحان العطر خرافى و ثباته أكثر من رائع. و حقيقة ً العطر للجنسين بمنتهى الاحترافية و يمكنك ارتداؤه في أي وقت . و لكن كيف لكل هذا أن يأتي من الورود و النوتات الخشبية . وحده أندى تاور يعرف ذلك . كل الشكر لأخى الحبيب و أستاذى المبدع د. أحمد جبره على توجيهاته للترجمة

The creation of Rose Flash has to be one of the more subversive acts in perfume history. Tauer himself has described his desire to make a perfume which upends commercialist patterns of wealth-based status acquisition and I think this was the very perfume he alluded to. How so? It is an incredible fragrance in terms of sillage and longevity, complex, rich, beyond satisfying even to the most rose-starved of noses. It is not just Turkish delight, it is what Turkish delight smells like in the hand of a witch to a freezing, hungry child. The ingredients are impeccable, framing real rose absolue. But: because of its low price, budget-friendly brand, simple packaging, and lack of an elaborate, market-researched backstory, it will likely never attract the frantic fan base that much lesser rose fragrances have acquired. This despite the coy urgings of Tauer to "Trust your nose." If Tauer had tripled the price and called it something like Rose D'une Courtisane Triste or Cadeau de la Sorcière du Nord , the reviews would be raving and everyone would feel they have to have it. But I and my humble little wallet am grateful that he created this treasure precisely as he did.

Let me preface by saying I tested this thoroughly during late spring - early summer, after getting samples direct from Tauer, and I sort of hated it at the time. It smelled like jammy rose, but slightly rotting fruit at the same time. I fell in love with Vanilla Flash though and I continue to love that one even more, so I decided to retest Rose Flash in the winter and give it a proper chance. Well, I just sprayed it all over my arm a few hours ago, and I could not get enough. My skin is reacting completely differently or my nose is. Now, it is like rose and expensive niche candy (with something that brightens it up top, but can't pinpoint?) and that very signature ashy note I've come to associate with many Andy Tauer fragrances. I don't want to say it smells like PoaL, but it is like the same woman might wear it for a completely different occasion, powdery rose. To me, it has some complexity, but doesn't change (which has been my experience with all of the Flashs so far), so now I am on the hunt for a bottle and praying my nose doesn't change again because for now it is a dream I am enjoying quite a lot

Rose Flash is the first Andy Tauer fragrance I've tried, and with much hype (and being a fan of rose), it exceeded my expectations. I've not tried his Tauer Perfumes line so the more affordable Tauerville line is my first try of his work. The blend is superb, balancing a mix of rose with a certain sweetness (vanilla?) and woodiness. I liked the "jammy" descriptor used by an earlier review, but Rose Flash is essentially just that sweet. Even bearing in mind that this is a pure perfume (higher concentration than its EDP brethren Vanilla Flash and Incense Flash), Rose Flash is still superb in terms of both projection and longevity, especially given that it's the same price ($63 for 30ml) as the other Flashes. For me, even though I own a handful of oud- and coffee-rooted rose fragrances (Cafe Rose, Noir de Noir, Rose d'Arabie), Rose Flash feels like a must-buy as it really occupies a different rose niche---not strictly fresh or sweet or woodsy but occupying some space between. A delightful blend that I'd recommend any rose fan to try. 9 out of 10

Rose Flash presents a fragrance conundrum for me to ponder. On one hand, I am a big fan of the Tauerville lineup and have seven of them (if you include the Stories Collection) proudly displayed in my Scent Armory. On the other hand, I have a very difficult time with the note of rose due to olfactory nightmares of my grandmother and her bridge buddies, all doused with rose perfume, while getting liquored up on a Sunday afternoon. But I purchased a bottle regardless due to how much I loved the others. This is a jammy rose with very solid performance in that it lasts a solid 12-hours on my skin and projects very well for 4-5 hours. While I am not a fan of Rose Flash on my heavily testosterone laden skin, I didn't mind wearing it...even though I didn't realize three sprays were so potent. Moreover, I really love smelling this on the ladies and encourage my girlfriend to wear this as often as she wishes. Final verdict is that I love smelling this fragrance on the ladies, but I'm not likely to wear Rose Flash on my skin. Cheers!

Ok, Rose Flash might just be my favorite rose scent ever. It’s slightly honeyed, with both pink petals and green leaves, rich and dense like a tapestry or illuminated manuscript. Definitely the Rosa centifolia May rose type of scent, like an old-fashioned, loose-petaled garden rose, rather than the redder, fruitier Rosa damascena type that shows up in “dark” or “dramatic” rose perfumes. But unlike most “garden” rose scents, Rose Flash isn’t cold or tinny; it’s warm and weighty, and comes in a full spectrum of color from pink to gold to green. It’s like the Persian gardens from which we got the word “paradise.” Over time, the rose gets a bit boozy, sweeter and richer than before. Rose, to me, is usually a tender or poignant scent; rose-dominated perfumes can end up a bit too “sad” to really suit me, even if I can recognize them as lovely in principle. Rose Flash isn’t like that. Something about the Tauer amber base keeps it feeling grounded, satisfying, and cheerful.

So much more than just "jammy" rose that everyone describes it as. It is a beautiful sweet jammy rose, but you also get the resins and an ambery quality. I feel like the ambery note that I get in here kind of gives off a bit of vanilla as well. There is also the slightest bit of spiciness, barely noticeable but I do get it, that could be coming from the resins. and there is a woody touch to it can't really pinpoint what kind of wood, but its not sharp, maybe a type of sandalwood. Such an amazing scent, sweet but still a rounded scent. The first time I smelled this off a sample, I immediately thought "BUY!", but waited for a second wearing. Then the second time I applied this scent from the sample, it only confirmed that I needed to buy it, and I immediately did. Even though this is a new scent for me, it has shot up to one of my favorites. Performance is great on me as well. Great lasting power, with nice projection and sillage.

This is stunning. Voluptuous super sweet and resinous so still slightly bitter rose. I love that Andy Tauer gets that this kind of extreme, buttery sweetness needs some citric bitterness to counteract - citrus peel and earthy rather than "bergamotty". Don ́t worry, though, sweet lovers- this is VERY sweet, BUT it ́s also interesting, slightly smoky in its resin/incense notes and deeply berry-ish - strawberries rather than raspberries come to mind. But the berry notes feel like they just come from the rose being intensified, so there is no fake berry present to my nose. It also has a clean, toned down woodiness to it. I hate to say it; but I could REALLY bathe in this. Edit: This. Lasts. Forever. I sprayed it yesterday at 6pm and today before I showered at 6pm again it was still going almost full force! 12 hours. It would have lasted a lot longer.

Rose Flash is everything I have been searching for in a gourmand-ish Tauer rose and then some! It reminds me of the rose used in Une Rose Vermeille a bit only amplified and more singled out and brought into focus. It is deep red, sweet, velvety and nearly edible. Instead of smelling like a rose bush rose (I don't care for overly authentic rose that ends up smelling like a tea party), it is like an abstract dream rose that you imagine when you look at one of Andy's rose watercolors. What you want it to smell like. It literally smells like THAT rose looks. It smells better than a plucked rose...it smells like a gourmand jammy version of nature's rose. Rose Flash smells like Andy actually read my mind on what I have been looking for in a rose focused fragrance. So much so it feels almost like a personal custom creation just for me.

Burning rosewood. The note pyramid just says wood but I am certain it's rosewood. Not rose wood but rosewood. I know how rose wood smells when it's burning and this isn't it, this is rosewood. This is the smell of burning a fortune in rare woods to sacrifice to the goddess of love and war. I don't know how people are getting a jammy note, unless they mean jamming rose sticks through the grating to feed the fire of a bbq on which they are cooking something for the goddess. This is not sweet. It's complex, it's weird, it's wonderful, and it's something I'd definitely have to be in the mood for. It's not the kind of rose one would wear on a date. It's to be appreciated for its own sake as an artwork, and it makes me more of a Tauer fan, and now I want to sample all the Flash fragrances.

Rose Damascena pure essential oil from Bulgaria. It takes 2 tons of these rose flowers to extract 1 lb. of essential oil and for that 1 lb. you're looking to pay upwards of $2000.00. Well, my frag addict ass ordered a little bit of this precious and sought after oil out of pure curiosity, I dabbed some on one hand then put Rose Flash on the other,,,, How the heck did Andy manage to damn near copy the pure scent of Rose Damascena essential oil of Bulgaria!? The spice, the tart lemon zest aroma and the sweetness........ People, Andy Tauer is a genius, a mad man after the heart of perfumery and a master of his craft. My hat's off to this creation. And btw, I'd rather pay $63 for 1 oz. of Rose flash than $175 for 1 oz. of Rose Damascena essential oil.

I've been neglecting this one for a while. I recently purchase Vanilla Flash and I found it surprisingly mild, as my recollection of Rose Flash was one of amazing sillage and longevity. My memory served me well. Normally I have a heavy hand when applying fragrances. But with literally two drops of Rose Flash I am surrounded with the scent of lush, jammy Rose and dark ripe berries dripping with honey and sweet aromatic spices. If I inhale through my mouth I can almost taste it. It is exquisite. I cannot believe how beautifully it projects.Very affordable as well. A remarkable work of art from Andy Tauer. I am happy to have returned to this one and have fallen in love with it all over again.

Rose is an extract de parfum...super potent, ludicrous longevity and heavy silage. I’m a heavy sprayer, but with this one I’m carefull and use only 2 sparys... This is a bombshell va va va voom kind of fragrance... It’s for the playful & cheeky seductress...fully aware of her charms...very flirty...could be a Scarlet Johansson in the movie He’s just not that into you... One spray for a casual day out, two for the evening...not an office fragrance. Great value for money. Overall I love it... I love Andy amd whatever he comes up with... This along with Patch are my fav Taurville.

I bought this many years ago and just pulled it out again because of the Rose/Oud craze that is upon us. I work at a Childrens Hospital and wore this to work one day. The highlight of my day is a sweet 6 year old girl telling me how good I smell, over and over again! It was the days before Covid19 and when she was leaving she hugged me and took a deep breath. I wear this when I need a hug deep in my soul. Thats the story, but the scent is a warm sweet incense-y rose. Its like sneaking a clove cigarette in the rose garden at sundown in the summer..

Jammy rose, what else can I say. Rich and warm and sweet and so so deliciously rosey. I adore it. Sort of gourmand, especially at the onset. However, with my body chemistry this scent really lifts, becomes brighter and fresher. It does not stay nearly as syrupy as it starts, which I don't really mind though I do prefer the opening as its more unique. Long lasting and very potent. Lingers wherever you go. Unfortunately this stuff causes an allergic reaction on me. I usually spray this on my clothes because of it, which isn't a big deal.

A gourmand Rose ! Sweet jamlike with reseny notes,, It smells very full and rich to me , I wouldn't be surprised if it has PRALINE in it as well as vanilla , amber , cloves and a tat of oud in it. Some sweet red berries? It reminds me of JM velvet rose / oud and Armani's rose d' Arabie . It now comes in a 30 ml spary as well on Andys new website called tauerville.com , he still has the roller ball as well. Also it is available at lucky scent. Thanks Christianne1for the sample :) I just got my 30 ml spray from Luckyscent !

The opening is the kind of thing my nose lives for. I'd swear there's lemon or some other kind of citrus in there. This is a rose you can almost chew on. There's a bit of a mentholic middle. The first couple of wears it took some getting used to. Now it doesn't feel jarring the way it did initially. It's scrumptious. The rose becomes less pronounced in the drydown, though. All I know is that it gives great performance for a great price. This might be off my virtual shelf and on my physical one sooner rather than later.

I have to admit I was expecting more from this. I have Miriam, which is a beautifully complex, rich, erotic fragrance, and I was hoping Rose Flash would be equally beguiling. However, on me, its was overwhelmingly sweet, sickly-sweet, Turkish Delight sweet rose. A nice rose, once the sweetness calmed down, but really quite a simple, linear rose that didn't last more than a couple of hours. Towards the end there was a touch of lavender but I didn't get any spice, any depth or heat, any complexity at all.