Smoked honey, amber and fruit swirl and buzz on the skin with a vital intensity. Rose may be the most recognisable facet of this oriental tour de force but there is so much more going on here. Rozy Voile d’Extrait, Vero Profumo (Sample) The softly musky amber base makes for a perfect finish. Unlike a lot of fragrance by Serge Lutens, La Fille de Berlin has a transparency that makes it extremely wearable. I love the vintage pin-up look but while the clothes and make-up don’t suit me, I can wear a beautiful retro rose/violet scent like this one. Le Fille de Berlin by Serge Lutens (Full Bottle) It’s incredibly complex and potent, especially for an all-natural fragrance.
Taragon absolute represents the herb garden and the leaves of the rose bush, while patchouli roots it in the earth.
At its heart we have a balsamic, honeyed rose but there are also subtle fruity and animalic facets. It’s easy to forget that these flowers have such varied scents. Mandy Aftel’s intention was to capture the rose in situ within the garden. It really is a deep red rose in the middle of an arid desert. The quality of the velvety rose is outstanding and the combination of saffron and oud complement it beautifully. This was the first western oud fragrance I came across and it’s still my favourite. One spray will last all day and it’s one of the few perfumes I’ve been complimented on. It’s a womanly, over-blown rose with depth and throw to spare. You can take comfort from it in the same way you might from a walk in the woods. A rose found in early autumn to hold on to as nature reclaims summer’s florid show. This is a rose bush in a bottle with leaves, earth and hay. Tobacco Rose by Papillon Perfumes (Full Bottle) Here’s what I wore over the course of the month –
I love rose perfumes anyway (obviously) but it was good to have the motivation to try – and use up – the samples and decants languishing around my house. One of the positive side effects of the project, was that it made me go through my samples and decants to dig up the roses. Me being me, I took a more scatter-bomb approach, grabbing whatever appealed on the day. Being her usual fastidious self, Undina compiled a calendar with a different rose fragrance scheduled for each day. At the start of February I joined Undina’s giveaway challenge (inspired by Chemist in the Bottle) to wear nothing but rose perfumes for the whole month.
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