Dancing Roses

This was an unusual perfume purchase for me. I assumed this was a cash-grab scent - another pointless addition to ride the popularity wave from "Flower Bomb". Despite my expectations, I ended up loving it and buying a bottle. The opening of Dancing Roses is a strong, sweet cherry scent and some indistinct spiciness. It's a few minutes later that the 'booze' part of the scent appears and it really makes the cherry and spicy notes evolve into something a lot less gourmand than it sounds. On my skin the rose note comes through as a solid middle note and lasts quite awhile. I don't typically enjoy sweet notes or most rose notes but this one is so lovely, and a bit fleshy kind of a bitter floral not a sweet one, that I started to wonder if I've misjudged 'rose'. It isn't as sweet as a gourmand so I wouldn't call it that despite the cherry cocktail aspect of the notes. And, the rose scent is really mercurial sometimes it disappears, and sometimes it's quite strong but not soapy at all just very lovely. The performance is average and disappears after about 5-6 hours on me. As a smoky, spicy, woodsy perfume lover I have to testify that this scent might be a gateway scent to enjoying gourmands. It is a good scent for layering, and it's a solid release by V&R so don't automatically discount it as a cash-grab scent, give it a whiff!

Dancing roses is a sparkly, effervescent, very happy scent. It opens with predominantly rose essence and cherry liqueur to my nose and I think I get the lychee too. There is also a bright, tangy note which helps balance the sweetness from the fruits. I can also pick up an ambery depth along with an airy musk in the dry down. All the notes in this fragrance work to balance each other and the result is a very well rounded, airy, sparkling fragrance that really does feel like it's dancing on your skin! Longevity is moderate about 5-6 hrs but I can still gets wafts of it at 10 hr mark, sillage is moderate. This is one I see myself reaching for when I need a mood lift. When I first started looking for fragrances with cherry notes, the two that always came up were Tom Ford's Lost Cherry and Viktor and Rolf's Dancing Roses. Even though they both have a cherry note, they are quite different and therefore, both full bottle worthy IMO. Lost Cherry is warmer, deeper, sexier, more complex and a more unisex scent whereas Dancing Roses is a feminine leaning, bright, fruity floral. I love them both and highly recommend if, like me, you love cherries. Edit - the sparkling effervescence reminds me of Delina, it's not the same but there are distinct similarities to my nose.

Randomly sprayed this perfume in a Sephora in 2018. That spray changed my life. Boyfriends, apartments, homes, jobs, milestone birthdays, and a pandemic came and went... Dancing Roses was the one constant. I first started wearing this scent while moonlighting in retail, and let me tell you: this is not a compliment-getter-- it's an adoration magnet. Strangers following me around the store, dying to know what that scent was. Looking at me in pure awe when they realized it was me that scent was emanating from. In February of 2021, my bottle was running low. With the fragrance being on its way to discontinuation, I was only able to find a travel spray. Then, my boyfriend let slip that a bottle magically appeared on Macy's.com, and he had purchased one for me. I hopped on that website and ordered as many bottles as I could: 11. Best decision I have ever made. I will never stop wearing this scent. It's a rose, but crisp, fresh, original, not powdery. No predictable musk or Cashmeran base to balance it out. The cherry is strong, giving it a playful fruitiness; that it comes from brandy keeps it out of childlike territory. The brandy gives it a warmth and a sexiness-- truly intoxicating. Dancing Roses is an iconoclast. Yet to be replicated and yet to be replaced.

This is nice. I can see it being unisex. At first I thought it would be a great on a man. For some reason I smell sweet tobacco and leather in the beginning giving it those masculine fragrance vibes. Perhaps it is saffron/liquor combination? This is a deep perfume. Not dark, just deep. Not sure it is great for daytime but at night it is simply delicious. Yes it gives Lost Cherry and Delina vibes - like a mix of both. Dry down can be reminiscent of Delina and the opening is a bit like Lost Cherry. But it is really its own perfume. And I still want to get Lost Cherry. I would say it is good to have in your collection if you like either of those fragrances. I am personally not a fan of Delina - I feel it is overpriced and overhyped and it doesn't have that sweet boozy element this perfume possesses. Dancing Roses is simply gorgeous. It was a love at first sniff. I sniffed it yesterday and I got it today at my local Sephora. They had a travel sized flacon only. Last one and I bought it immediately!

Nothing compares to this scent. Cherries have one of the most beautiful, unique, and complex scent/flavour profiles in my opinion. There's a splash of fresh, sour juiciness, but it's grounded by a warm, spicy, boozy base. I don't detect a lot of rose in the perfume, but the other notes more than make up for that. It's such an indescribably beautiful scent. If it were a colour, I feel like it would be a rich, vibrant, velvet red. I love the balance of heat and freshness in this scent--somehow the contrast works. When I first sniffed it in the store, I couldn't get my mind off of it and was so happy to be finally gifted a bottle! It's worth noting my boyfriend loves this and can't keep his hands off me whenever I wear it.