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Светлана 25 – :
I believe Joliecat’s review is spot on.a blend of lush and rich florals,rose and geranium,an almost jammy peach,amber and spicy patchouli that cuts through the syrupy sweetness.I can see that it’s powerful and sultry but I can’t like it as I get this woody,spicy,almost dusty bitterish undertone ruining it’s sweet rose for me,or maybe because peach, geranium and patchouli were never my thing.however drydown is a lot easier to deal with.a powdery peach-rose thing which I’m sure I had came across it in a few classic feminine fumes
So while Floris China Rose is not a love or even a like for me,I believe it’s a recommendable perfume,as it’s rich and has a slight similar vibe with classic chyprefruitys,it also has wonderful sillage and longevity
If you’re looking for a garden full of natural,fresh roses it probably will disappoint you but if a perfumey,powdery rose-peach combo in a base of honeylike amber and aromatic,dusty woods seem intresting to you make sure to try this one
taustiofs – :
This perfume was horribly disappointing. I bought it when it came out because I love rose fragrances and all the notes sounded fabulous. Rose, violet, geranium, patchouli, vetiver; what’s not to love. I even bought the soap and I think the talc at the same time. It doesn’t smell like any of those notes. Or maybe a muddle of them overlaced with I never could determine what. Maybe sandalwood, although that’s not in the list, but I see other reviewers smelled it.
To me anyway, it was like a committee designed it and then the boss said, “that’s way too much rose,” and took it all out. “But rose sells in a perfume name,” so they put some of the rose back in but left it muddy. I stopped trying to like it and moved on. Maybe 5 years later I tried again and thought maybe it would be alright if you weren’t expecting rose. But it doesn’t smell particularly Chinese or oriental either. I also thought maybe my bottle was so new when I bought it that 5 years would have improved it. Didn’t happen. Not one of Floris’ big successes, to me anyway.
P. S. The more I think about it, Floris actually warns the buyer here. It keeps the name China Rose, and most people would expect the packaging to be a vibrant Chinese Red, one step up from fire engine red. But you don’t get it; the packaging is this muddled pink/tan, the color of no actual rose hybridized by 2004 anyway. And you’re expecting a vibrant rose with maybe a lot of Asian notes, and I don’t think you’re getting them either.
джони – :
This is fabulous. Based on the reviews I almost didn’t blind buy it. Glad I did. This is a sharp grassy AND jammy rose combined thanks to the geranium. This is all about the rose and geranium. I don’t like fruit scents. The raspberry and peach are there just to sweeten the deal but not to create a fruity floral by any means like the modern ilk for young babies, those immature scents.
LaurenFrontiere – :
China Rose is an interesting composition, a potent, but skillful blend (even in EDT strength) of notes of rose, peach, geranium and a whiff of clove. I can’t identify the other notes in this perfume but they are there and add to the complexity of this creation.
I like this perfume but I have to be in a specific mood to wear it. There is certainly more than rose going on in this fragrance – and the rose that is there is not the fresh,dewy garden variety. Rather, I agree with other reviewers that it is rose in a pot-pourri.
This perfume does evoke an Oriental atmosphere to me. Patchouli is not noticeable and I usually pick up on it right away. Sillage and longevity are excellent (review of EDT).
vocka – :
It’s all peach on me. Peach and patchouli and some geranium. Struggling to find the rose, and it doesn’t feel like a living rose at all but more like dried rose petals in a potpourri.
It reminds me a lot of Guerlain Chypre Fatal but more artificial.
I could smell the rose better when the patchouly went away. Cloves appeared towards the end, in the drydown. It improved but still it doesn’t convince me. And it’s a pity because I wanted to like this perfume.
Not for me. Too sweet, too cloying, too fruitchouli.
ANTONNI1641 – :
China Rose is a sweet but spicy English rose. I love to explore the fragrances in the Floris boutique whenever I visit London during London Fashion Week. This scent has been with me for a long time and I first bought it on my very first ever trip to London UK. For me it’s a nostalgic fragrance and I associate it with London every time I wear it. This is a spring or summer fruited rose. It’s not a realistic green rose garden rose and definitely more on the perfumy powdery rose. It can be both strong and soft depending on how you apply it. I apply it lightly over my collar bone and then put on a blouse so that the blouse smells of it too and it’s enough to project. This fragrance evokes roses painted on china tea cups and china plates. It has nothing to do with China and does not wear as an Oriental fragrance. The fragrance starts with a distinct peach fruit scent. Afterward it becomes a geranium and mostly geranium but it blooms progressively and becomes a rose. It’s sort of like those old 19th century teas that sold to royalty like Queen Victoria King Edward or King George V or Queen Mary for their amusement as they looked into the bottom of the tea cup and saw the image of a rose begin to open up its petals as the tea is poured into it. This is exactly what this fragrance does too. It doesn’t start off as a rose. It’s fruity with peach and then tricks you into thinking it’s a geranium scent which oddly smells like roses anyways. The rose lasts for an incredible long time. All day and night in fact. I can still smell this on my blouse the next day and even a faint whiff of it after I wash my blouse. The tea effect is provided by the patchouli which is behaving more like an aromatic green scent. The guy’s cologne touches of vetiver and sage provide this scent with a unisex quality as well. Finally the fragrance dries and becomes pure sandalwood, perhaps an unlisted wooden note and a little bit of sweet vanilla. I loved it. It’s very elegant, very pretty, very formal. This is something to wear for 4 o clock PM afternoon tea at the Savoy in London. This is a beauty. I love these English rose fragrances and I have worn them many times – Yardley English Rose Taylor of London Elegant Rose Sa Majeste La Rose and Evelyn & Crabtree Rose Water although the latter is a bath product. This is not. This is most definitely a perfume.
Gencheiz – :
There used to be a bottle of this around my house when I was a kid – it smelled like what I’d image Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter to smell like.
shyrik1 – :
Nice scent, very perfume-y yet soft. I thought it was all about dried rose petals like in pot-pourri, but there is more, especially geranium.
It has a peppery spicy edge and it projects well. Clove, maybe, or something like that.
I think that Sherapop really nailed the fragrance.
Feminine and elegant in a vague oriental way.
I’ve worn it for a while, but something in the drydown smelled musty on my skin, too dry and papery, like old paper.
I gave it to a friend and it became her fave one.
Sharif – :
China Rose is geranium! At first I thought that I was smelling dried roses, but as this perfume began to dry down, I recognized the strong presence of geranium, which I happen to like. Why not call this creation China Geranium? I suppose that there is a prejudice against geranium, which is sometimes used to imitate or amp up rose. To me, geranium is a worthy flower in and of itself.
Other reviewers find this to be a true rose scent. My impression is that rose is present, but it is intensified to the point of being somewhat masked by the geranium. There is also a fair dose of clove in this composition, but happily the geranium still dominates. (I am sensitive to cloves…) Overall, this smells very natural and good. A safe choice for traditional floral perfume lovers. Not that it matters, since China Rose appears to have been discontinued.
князь13 – :
This is all about the roses- fully blown and richly fragrant olde English roses in a summer garden, just about to drop their petals ready to gather and make rose water with. I love this perfume, it was my signature from when it was released until it got discontinued, I had the body lotion and the bath foam and it felt so luxurious to be layered in this scent from head to toe. On hot days, the fragrance really intensifies on your skin and becomes more spicy, but generally speaking this is an old fashioned rich and a little powdery rose scent. A slightly herbal and subtly fruity opening with a hint of fuzzy peach,gives way to the roses,with hints of geranium, clove and woods but to me they only serve to highlight the rosy intensity, rather than disguise it. Long lasting and with a heavy sillage, I would personally recommend for wear in the evenings.Totally feminine and utterly gorgeous !
aksir – :
Sadly discontinued. I had the body lotion which I found to be a lush, 1950’s style spicy rose concoction which smelt both opulent, exotic and luxurious. If the perfume was around today, I would buy it for sure. China rose is something you would pack for a weekend away somewhere where in the evenings you would lather yourself with the body lotion and then spritz the perfume on top for a truly comforting, sensual aura. All aboard the orient express!
kronchtein – :
China Rose is one of the perfumes I bought on my first trip in London.I remember when I first visited Floris store in Jermyn street,what a great experience was!China Rose is one of the very few rose scents I really like.It’s a sticky(beeswax kind of scent),quite sweet,heavy rose-peach-violet combo which awakes my imagination!To my opinion it is one of the most,or even the most powerful scent that Floris has to display.It reminds me of scents a la Sophia Grojsman style like Jaipur,Tresor,Yvresse,Kashaya,which are complex,bold and ”rich”.Very good lasting power although I had bought the edt version.Powerful sillage,everyone will ask what you’re wearing!
eos511speagoessenda – :
This is a beautiful, very very strong perfume that lasts until you wash it off. The rose is full and lush, soaked in peaches, with a light raspberry kiss. These fruits blended with amber, create a sultry, boozy drunkenness enveloping the rose. Super strong cloves add spiciness and incredible staying power. China Rose EDP is intense, rich, full bodied, and very feminine. It’s every bit as strong, long lasting and intense as the original Opium by Yves St Laurent. A little goes a very long way. China Rose is “LUSH”, in every sense of the word. I LOVE China Rose EDP, and am anxious to try other rose scents from Floris. Thanks to all who wrote reviews !
lexander72 – :
I have the edt, which doesn’t have the bow.Strong rose scent with a very vintage feel, without smelling outdated. The roses are supported generously by cloves and geraniums, the entire composition is warmed up by amber. I don’t sense much patchouli. Raspberry is a tiny whiff that doesn’t manage to give this one a fruit character.
The box and bottle are gorgeous, they surely look and feel like high quality. Excellent silage and lasting power, without being cloying. Roses are opulent and red in this one, not very fresh. There is no trace of greenery here, or crispiness. Very different than modern roses like Stella or Chloe.
A very warm spicy rose, very elegant, long lasting and powerful.
alekseys2008 – :
Just loving the sound of this one – all the things I look for in a perfume. Will be ringing around to see if it is available in Australia – alas, not all the good ones are!
Xeroxxvonf – :
wow this is such a beautiful perfume! The rose is the most beautiful one I have ever smelled in a perfume. I love it!! It has soo many wonderful notes in it.
rik.sm – :
Something about the clove I personally find really lovely in this scent. The very beginning i swear i can smell apple. The rose is not a fresh garden rose, but it is very rosy it is soft something about it reminds me of my childhood and this place my grandpa used to take me. It is so comforting to me. I have been having a hard week but every time i sniff my wrist i feel automatically at home and at piece protected and taken care of. Nothing could ever harm me.
China Rose has automatically captured my heart.
I would not wear it out to dinner or something unless i was very close to the person i was with.
But i would simply buy this perfume to keep around for anytime i felt like the world was getting to me.
I can see how others without these comforting memories of loved ones might find it a bit too much with the cloves, but i love it. I think it is absolutely perfect!
Valer444ik – :
This is a good rose fragance. A sweet bouquet of roses is combined with amber and fruity peach notes.
Althouh sweet, the smell isn’t sickening. Its spicy oriental base gives the fragance a touch of mistery and seduction.
It lasts a lot. A soft, rich and conforting aura will wrap you for a long time.
Those who like Yvress will probably enjoy China Rose…
mechanics2 – :
Totally agree with CaraMia…love the patchouli & sandalwood giving the depth, but the clove is one powerful ingredient too many. Soooo close!
superporno – :
If we could get rid of the clove in this one it would be a contender for the most perfect oriental rose in the business.
China Rose is long lasting and the rose is very rosy. I enjoy the patchouli leaves and Sandalwood in this one too, but the clove is, in my view, over the top in this one and undermines an otherwise wonderful rose fragrance.If they could remove the clove and substitute moss, this would be love divine.