Crown Rose

A green powdery vintage rose that has sharp notes and is very pretty. Rose is my fave note. Glad to own this one.

I opened mine with great anticipation took off the celophane opened the box enjoyed the bottle and the crown cap. Then I gave to good sprays and waited for the dry down..... All I got and it was super power strong was tobacco.. And that same tobacco was still very present 5 hours later. There are no notes so I don't know if tobacco was a definite note or not. So no ancient dark rose just a sour viscous liquid that lasts and lasts. I was hoping for a wonderful rose. I bought it from my vintage perfumer who is super reliable, not off ebay. Maybe its past its date I don't know, it was probably produced in 1999. I do have Chanel no 5 still in the box that I've had for 30 years and that's still good. So I layered another grasse rose on top of crown rose, after the whole day I could still smell that tobacco anyone else? So I took it out for another visit after it had settled after its long journey, and this time I realised that sour tart note is the Sandlewood.. Im one hour in and will see how the dry down comes. Im not going to layer it. I put some on a scarf and some on myself, and we will see.

Crown Perfumery’s Crown Rose (1873) is a pretty tea-rose perfume. Tea-rose perfumes tend to fall on the quaint side of pretty rather than the stunning side of gorgeousness. Crown Rose messes with you a bit, though, and subverts your expectation. The top-notes tell you that it will be a simple, sundress of a rose soliflor. Your first hint that your first impression might have been wrong is a rising tartness, almost a sourness that quickly dispenses with the dewiness of the simple rose top-note. Crown Perfumery is not longer. Clive Cristian closed the line kit and caboodle not long after he bought it in 1999. I’ve tried two others in the line, Malabar and Eau de Russe. I never imagined that Crown Rose would be the most intriguing of the bunch. The odd thing about Crown Rose, the wonderful thing about Crown Rose, is that where it seems that it will be a simple tea-rose perfume (Roze-Lite TM) it’s in fact a meditation on sandalwood. I don’t know the exact vintage of my bottle of Crown Rose, but it’s old enough to have been made with a large helping of sandalwood. Sandalwood easily passes the jolie-laide test. Yes, it’s creamy, rosy, sweet, thick. But it’s also curdled, sour, sweatband at times even foul-smelling. I can see both why it was a perfumer’s dream and why so many perfumes, like Samsara, let the sandalwood speak for itself. The sandalwood here is particularly tart, possibly due to age and a diminishment of the top-nots of the sandalwood itself. But I think there’s more to it. There’s a cleverness to this perfume that gets hidden by our assumption that the tea rose is like the dumb blonde and that we’ve fallen for the Marilyn Monroe screen image. If we accept that Monroe was the characters she played, if we accept that Crown Rose is for the ditzy, the joke is on us. We tend to look at classic perfume houses with excessive reverence. Add to this case British class consciousness and it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing the the bottle and the story: the Creed Syndrome. Crown Perfumery is just fucking with us. Bravo! Crown Rose takes a particularly pungent, acidulated sandalwood, one with more yogurt and sweat than candied sweetness, and then to use it to underline a rose note that 50% of people, on smelling, would simply say, “oh, how pretty!” I very well might be falling for Crown Perfumery’s hidden shallows. But there’s nothing that smells ‘off’ in this perfume and sandalwood, especially in quantity, is a famously long-lasting fixative. Crown Rose skirts another inherent problem in tea-rose. Tea-rose soliflor perfumes tend to make up for the directness of their intention with sillage and a volume that can make them tiring even with brief exposure. In Crown Rose, the rose that had seemed like an over-flattering portrait very quickly starts to become sinister, as if, though the portrait was finished years ago, just now the proportion is starting to change, to warp. Jadedness is not often cited as a virtue, but there is something wonderful about the loss of illusion. Seen from 2014, this perfume is like a mash-up of Doris Day’s version of “I feel Pretty” and Cee Lo Green’s “Fuck You.” Splendid.

This has the most gorgeous animalic rosy drydown. I just can't even. I'm on the hunt for a rose fragrance to match Floris Rose Concentrated Mouthwash (don't judge), which is green/minty, dewy rose,cinnamon or clove, with some sweet, not much citrus, but not too bitter. I've tried 25-30 roses so far, including two tea roses, and can't say Crown Rose is anything like. The opening fakes you out. It is rosy fresh and sweet (almost but not quite fruity). This rose top includes orris and something sprightly, lemony and green (not mint). It turns a deeper, more sour citrus with less sweet for awhile, and some musk or earth beneath. This might be the sandalwood jtd mentions. Sandalwood never smells woody to me. To my nose it presents a deep sourness that I also smell in Sauf Contre Bombarde 32 and Chanel Égoïste. This is its cue to add darker,richer, winey, and slightly earthy facets -- dramatic red rose territory. It doesn't have the metallic or bitter facets of rose. The heart is pure red rose, not a sweet rose. But if I warm it up with my breath, sweetness returns, and with it a deep, more indolic rose. There's more between this and the spectacular drydown, including a tiny bit of spice, and it starts to smell just like velvety dewy, red rose petals. But oh, man, that drydown. And it lasts! This is rose gradually sinking into my skin musk drydown. Like the best drydowns, it's what I wished my skin smelled like --slightly humid, rosy, musky, warm, and gorgeous. In terms of rich red rose, the current Caron EDP is similar (an older version had far more spice). A little deeper, some bitter, less citrus, zero animalic, an earthier bottom. Heavier, winelike rich red rose is Malle un Rose with earthy truffles. Jo Malone Red Roses is also in the wine wheelhouse with patchouli. But none of these have a carnal rose drydown, much less one this magnificent. The fragrance notes here are wildly incomplete. I'm still looking for a rose to match my mouthwash, but this is bottle worthy. It's actually a closer match to my Aftelier Rose Face Elixir.

Why is this not selling? I wore this back when I was a rose queen buying every single rose fragrance I could get my hands on. I have a bottle of this in my collection and it's almost finished. It will be such a sad day when I finish it because I love the fragrance so much. I'm deliberately not wearing it so that I can still enjoy the scent by inhaling the perfume without wearing it. Oh this is such a beautiful and amazing deep red rose scent unlike any I've experienced before. It's got a little bit of everything so the rose note listed here is far from the truth. This opens with a little bit of old fashioned aldehydes but it's also opening with citrus. It's fresh and perfumy. The roses bloom out of the bottle and they're also very perfumy very powdery but yet strong. I kept smelling it and smelling it trying to figure out what else is giving it that oomph and potency. This has a fragrant very classic sandalwood probably from the time when sandalwood was first being used in fragrances. It smells of a Victorian 19th century row house. That is it smells like you'd imagine walking inside the hallways and going from one room to another - drawing room, parlor, study, etc. There are vases with roses everywhere in the house and the entire townhouse smells of roses. It's also got a powerful kick of incense but it's probably my nose playing tricks on me. It could be the sandalwood being smoky. There could also be patchouli in this as patchouli also can turn into a form of incense. There is also amber. There is also musk. This has an evening cologne vibe, very unisex, a deep mysterious rose with a lot of class and sophistication. It's really quite beautiful. I wish they were still selling this! Fragrantica get a clue and look for the sites that might stil sell this fragrance. It's not even on ebay! Where is it?

To me this is anything but a "pretty tea-rose" perfume. OK, it's a rose, sure, but the one which is so far removed from the rosy crowd of nowadays. Can you call "pretty" a collection of The Crown Jewels in London Tower, the place where human heads were rolling down like pumpkins at any time of the day, including Queen's own? This rose is not pretty, she is dark and majestic. It's a lonely dark red rose in a massive crystal cut vase on a dressing table of the Queen. It's the essence of the rose with patchouli and musk in the dark ambience of the velvet draperies of lonely Queen's box in Opera. The legend says Queen Alexandra of Denmark loved this perfume. I don't know... I've received some compliments on this fragrance and questions been asked... But for myself I am not sure. It's an incredibly unusual and interesting perfume and just for the sake of it I will hold on to my bottle... P.S. Why I can't see here Marechale?

Crown Rose is a very deep, rich, strong, moist lush rose. Pungent smooth green stems and leaves are in equal prominance to the rose. There is a deep, earthy scent in the background, giving this perfume the natural smell of an outdoor rose garden, just after a morning rain. I can detect what seems to be a scent of violets, too, adding to the dark richness of the rose....but this could be just the natural scent of this type of dark rose. Crown Rose is the true art of perfume, creating a most natural, strong rose scent that lasts forever until you wash it off. Silage is strong to moderate, and this perfume does NOT fade away to nothing as you wear it. Pungent, extremely long lasting, a tiny amount goes a long, long way. There is NO citrus and NO powder in this fragrance, and NO sharp edges. Smooth, smells very expensive, this Crown Rose could easily be unisex.