Comments on: Acqua di Parma Rosa Nobile and Les Parfums de Rosine Ballerina No. 1 ~ perfume reviews

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:20:36 +0000

In reply to AnnS. I agree -- I don't mind paying a lot for a rose fragrance as long as it's complex or lush or unusual in some way. If someone really just wants a nice rose soliflore, she could spend much less on Crabtree & Evelyn Rosewater or Sonoma Scent Studio Velvet Rose!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:19:20 +0000

In reply to Carolyn. It looks as though they've stopped offering some of the older ones...what a shame. Glad to see La Rose de Rosine there, at least. On me, it's rose and violet with some stemminess and a chypre base.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:19:59 +0000

Many years ago, when Rosine had fewer than half a dozen fragrances, & a stand-alone counter in Selfridges, I managed to blag samples of each one from the SA. Rose tends not to sit well on me but these ones did. Have just looked at the Rosine website & the only one I recognise is ‘La Rose de…’ – I do seem to remember one that erred on the green side (always my first choice), perhaps with stem & leaf in there.

By: Bela

Bela — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 23:57:39 +0000

In reply to Jessica.

Yes, it’s a beautiful bottle and I think it’s especially gorgeous with that delicate pink juice in it.

I cherish my decant of FdTRB. I hope it won’t ever ‘turn’.

By: AnnS

AnnS — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:43:53 +0000

I have so many rose fragrances and for a long time rose had such a bad name. So I am glad there has been this modern trend the past few years giving rose it’s due and introducing rose to new sniffers, etc, etc. It’s a good thing that no one has to muffle their response or hang their head to admit they’re wearing a rose anymore. However, I find that hand in hand with this trend has been some rather boring rose scents that cost way too much money for what they are. It’s ok if it’s marketed as “rose water” and only costs $35 a bottle, but to put so many ‘this is not your granny’ or ‘this is not massive’ rose fragrances out that are so polite and almost apologizing for their busty, voluptuous heritage, is disappointing to me. I really like Delire de Rose and Coup de Foudre, but they are too $$ for their comparitive simplicity to some of my other richly developed whoppers. If a bottle of any of these (aside from perhaps the ballerina) crossed my path, I’d probably adopt it, but I have so many rose bottles already. Nahema and Ce Soir ou Jamais and Ta’if and Sa Majeste la Rose and FdTRB and Velvet Rose are getting ready for Dames vs. Missies smack down, and I know who’s gonna win.

By: AnnS

AnnS — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:31:20 +0000

In reply to Jessica.

I didn’t know they stopped making FdTRB! I am totally out of it. I would never have bought the big expensive bottle anyway – why they never made a smaller bottle I don’t know. But I’m glad I have a very large decant of it from a few years ago!! I really neglected my rose scents this summer.

By: thegoddessrena

thegoddessrena — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:16:54 +0000

In reply to Jessica. The two versions are quite different

By: Elisa

Elisa — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:05:32 +0000

In reply to Jessica. Yes, and it seems like rose soliflores can easily go weird or wrong.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:39:07 +0000

In reply to PetronellaCJ. Oh! I think I have a sample of that in my "to try" box. Thanks for the reminder!

By: PetronellaCJ

PetronellaCJ — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 19:58:13 +0000

Rose scents usually don’t agree with me, but Friedemodin Rosée de Nuit was a nice exception, fullbodied with a few dewdrops, neither sweet nor sour.