What to buy in spring: 6 scents with a rose
Text: Ksenia Golovanova, author of the telegram channel Nose Republic
Rose continues to remain the most popular perfume flower - and deservedly so: thanks to the talents of perfumers, we can get acquainted with hundreds of different shades of its fragrance. A bouquet of the freshest and ringing roses, which are nice to add to the collection in spring, was collected by our perfumery critic Ksenia Golovanova.
Izia
Sisley
7025 rub.
for 30 ml
The name of these perfumes is not in vain in tune with the English easy, “easy” - such a rose, fresh and green, extremely distant from the boudoir role in which neighbors in the genre have been working for decades, is really very easy to wear. More weighty things are usually expected from Sisley (mostly wrapped in a chypre dusty curtain), but here, as was said in the Monty Python sketches, something completely different is a transparent pinkish curtain, which the March wind blows frantically.
Roses et reines
l'Occitane
4300 rub.
for 75 ml
In the line of L'Occitane a lot of good roses: fudge-powdered Arlésienne, dessert Cassis Rhubarbe, photo-realistic Rose and so on. Not everyone arrives to Russia, but the happy Roses et Reines has been on the local bestseller list for years - because there can only be two better than one beautiful rose. In the “Queens” this is a Damask rose and a May rose, two different profiles - together they create the illusion of a living flower with all its grassy, spicy and powdery tones. If you want a rose that seemed to come out onto a terrace somewhere in Provence and fell face down in the bushes, then here it is.
Rose fraîche
Yves rocher
1349 rub.
for 100 ml
Yves Rocher's perfumery portfolio is a bottomless well of good and cheap perfumes: the Secret d'Essences line alone, more expensive than the main collection, but still very affordable, keeps many treasures from Ann Neroli to Anni Menardo from Rose Oud. Rose Fraîche, that is, “Fresh Rose”, was raised by another perfumery star - Shyamala Mesondier, who gathered the dead Charogne, Etat Libre d'Orange. This rose, however, is quite lively - dewy, cool, as if bitten by the last night frosts. Reminds iconic Paul Smith Rose, Paul Smith, long out of production.
Grace by Grace Coddington
Comme des garçons
4999 rub.
for 100 ml
There is such a fragrant genre - dirty roses. The word “dirty” in this context hints at the surroundings of the title component: patchouli, earthy notes, cumin, kostus, and other things that can be attributed to the conditional bodily bottom in perfumery. There are, on the contrary, soap roses - light, washed up to squeak, with a recognizable synthetic tone of purity. Grace is sterile, with a green tint of mint and basil, still not completely thawed out after the cryo-storage facility - their queen: spring has come, it's time to get biomaterials from liquid nitrogen and fill the planet with perfect colors.
Bergamote & Rose Sauvage
100Bon
3300 rub.
for 50 ml
The brand 100Bon - from the French sent bon, "smells good" - is completely natural, inexpensive and conscientious (they offer to go to the store for refills). Compositions for "Sanbonov" collected the noses of the company Robertet, who ate an organic dog in the production of natural aroma products, and it turned out very well - a kind of Hermessence for those who save. This rose, unfortunately, will not replace you Hermes Rose Ikebana (for this you already have In Love Again, YSL), but she is still good - watercolor, brought up, with a beautiful and good-looking tone of Earl Gray tea, which is so nice to drink yourself in the office in the morning.
Aqua paradisi
Le Couvent des Minimes
€49
for 100 ml
"Spirits should not shout, but whisper," no, no, yes, some timid Fragrantica user traumatized by loud modern spirits will complain. The good news is that there are more and more niche brands that appear as opposed to perfume chants today - and Le Couvent des Minimes is almost the main meek. He was supposed to: in the end, in the monastery - namely, the brand name is translated from French - it is not customary to speak loudly. Therefore, even the geranium, which is "lined" with roses in this transparent column, is quiet and anemic here - just a green shade on the pink petals.
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