Moroccan Rose

I've just bought moroccan rose edt yesterday..actually,i have been searching for suitable/appropriate floral fragrance for myself since few months ago..because lately,i have found that those sweet n sugary scented perfume,smells bad on my skin..it turned to be like burning cookies scent when it dries down,which i always feel discomfort n worried... Now I realized that my skin chemistry suits well with floral frags..not those of fruity-sweet smelling..i noticed that whenever the SA sprays any floral frags that I wanted to try on my skin,the smell is exactly the same as on the tester strip..the scent doesn't change. From the bottom of my heart,I always wanted to buy chloe edp by chloe..i mean,the actual bottle of it..but i only have its original samples..i decided not to buy the actual bottle due to its expensive price in my country...i did my review on chloe n if you wanna read it,kindly browse to chloe edp page.. i am being sincere because not many people are affordable to buy those pricey fragrances,including me...even though chloe is my most favourite,but i have to find an alternative or think of its substitute..so yesterday,i think i have found one n that was moroccan rose by the the body shop.. Generally,body shop is a world class fragrance,face n body care company in UK...so there's nothing to be ashamed of..even though most of its frags are not created by famous designers like gucci,chanel etc etc,but body shop always supports naturally-made beauty product..which to me,is the best way to preserve our earth from destruction and pollution..save the earth n love the green environment...besides,all of the item sold are in affordable range of price. I would love to have a whole set of moroccan rose product as my wedding gift... back to where I was : opinion n scent description of m.rose. honestly,i had sampled m.rose last year..but I totally disliked it...it's quite overpowering n I couldn't even smell the rose flower in it...all I could smell was an odd mixture of heavy smelling flowers n spices.. However,yesterday was unforgetable..Right after the first spray of it on a tester strip,i smelled sort of spicy scent in it...after a minute or two,i was able to smell rose flower. the rose smelled soft but distinctive n firm. m.rose is an elegant perfume,romantic,sophisticated n womanly..it isn't a clean type of scent,bcause it has that spice powder ingredient..don't get me wrong,i didn't mean to say that m.rose smells powdery.but m.rose actually smells soapy..smells after shower-like scent..calm,soothing,motherly n refreshing..i don't find it as granny-ish or old lady kind of scent..m.rose is classy n lovely..that's what I like about it...it isn't heavy n headache-inducing like fragrance..perhaps,the spicy ingredient somehow changed the suppose-to-be powdery type to soapy-like scent.chemical reaction does that..well,i am not sure,just saying...again,the first notes are spices n rose. Then,as m.rose dries down,comes the citrusy lemon oil..followed by soft n velvety smelling mimose n musk..its longevity on my skin is approximately 2 hours..but on my shirt,it stays longer.could be up to 2 days..m.rose has the resemblance of hugo boss femme edp..but femme smells stronger n bolder than m.rose.. As a conclusion,I love the balanced mixture of all the ingredients..smells beautiful n pleasant.i love how the spices being toned down to be a non-dominant scent...but rose is the ultimate n suits with its name moroccan rose.

I hadn't tried this in years until my sister found an old bottle of it in the back of her bathroom cupboard. We joked about the miraculous things one finds in the back of a bathroom cabinet, a bit like Narnia, but for lost, almost mythical beauty products from yesteryear. I feel as though I never gave this fragrance the justice it deserved when I sampled it many many moons ago. The last time Morrocan Rose and I crossed paths, I had found it in my sister's refridgerator door and I spritzed it on my Wedding Bouquet of silk Peonies right before I walked out the door to leave for my Wedding. Morrocan Rose is a sophisticated, peppery, very Eastern rose with none of the soapiness, old ladyishness which many rose fragrances with higher price tags I have forked out for over the years. I do sense the comparison to Stella, it is justified. I feel a certain kinship between this and Vaara by Penhaligon's London and the sadly discontinued Rosabotanica by Balenciaga. What a shame this little gem is disontinued as well. I would most definitely buy myself a bottle if the Body Shop would bring it back from their archives of long lost wonderful scents.

This is probably one of the better offerings from The Body Shop in recent years (their stuff went downhill IMO). This is a pleasant floral which opens up soft, delicate and with a splash of juicy citrus. Perhaps it's trying to imitate a pale pink rose. There are also hints of spices to this scent, preventing it from being the "unpopular" soliflore and making it interesting. The scent is pretty linear throughout its development, remaining sweet and floral. Probably what you'd call a "modern" interpretation of a rose, lacking in the bitterness and oomph of the roses from the past and a bit abstract to distance itself from the whole 'air freshener' similarity. Verdict: decent, worth a sniff. And please, there's no age group when it comes to scents! A young little girl(or boy) can enjoy this as much as someone way older. WHY IS THIS DISCONTINUED?!

I(as a newbie to fragrances) used to think rose perfumes were boring, oldschool and monotonous, and this one has proven me wrong. I gave myself a try last week and, you know you can't smell anything properly in TBS, so I bought the showergel instead. The showergel smells nice but the smell is very light and lasts for 1 or 2 minutes. That made me longing for the smell so I bought the perfume few days back. I think I love this one because of the hint of citrus in it that hasdefinitely livened the perfume. The rose smells relatively light (than the traditional onoes) and makes me feel natural to wear in most occasions.

Great and very authentic rose with, to me, strong spice. I don ́t really understand any comparisons to Stella, which to me is a smooth, ambery rose. They are both good, but this is WAY more spicy. I don ́t detect that much citrus, then again citrus tend to turn sweet on my skin- god knows why! To me this is nutmeggy, almost cumin-like rose with quite a greenish quality. It is VERY original, rosey and reminds me of a snapped off rose stem. Light wood, spice, greeeny, stubble all surrounded by a very pert rose. Gorgeous, but not insipid at all. Quite mature and way better than their new Atlas Mountain Rose.