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kokadjamba – :
There is defenitly an violet accord in this perfume and also sweet fruit.
I have this perfume for years, it was almost my first niche perfume.
Now, Years later after i ‘ve bought La Fille, i smelled today Feerie from Cleef & Arpels… 2 ours after spraying Feerie the dry down reminded me of a very well known perfume but i couldn’t reach it what kind of perfume was the twinsister of Feerie…And than i knew; La Fille de Berlin! Exact!
But both perfumes are in their presentation soo totally different!!
TOTAL – :
Do you ever feel a sigh of relief when you have high hopes for a perfume, but then find out it isn’t what you’re looking for? Like, “ahhhh, this is beautiful but I can keep my money after all.” La Fille de Berlin has mostly the right notes but in the wrong order for me.
La Fille reminds me of a woman who was my grandmother technically, because she was my stepmother’s mother. Her name was Rosanne, she went by Rosie and she absolutely loved luscious red roses. She had chestnut hair and deep brown eyes. She wore signature dark red lipstick. She was classy, had natural wit and a cascading laugh. She had tragedy in her childhood, but you’d never know it- she was strong. She just passed last year, and she was laid to rest with a huge bouquet of red roses with huge blooms on top of her casket- the kind of roses I imagine are in La Fille. La Fille de Berlin is something she would wear. A beautiful red rose, warm and inviting, naturally sweet. There’s a concrete smelling note in here, and it’s perfect. It sits in the background and conveys the strength of this rose. It makes La Fille de Berlin special, characteristic. Off the beaten path, for those who seek the finer things without being haughty.
It begins with thick beautiful red rose. It develops with a very subtle geranium support, and a little taste of concrete. There’s another note, or rather maybe it’s the palmarosa & honey coming together to create a warm berry note that’s very inviting.
But it’s not for me. I’m looking for a pronounced rose/geranium/patchouli accord. Less conventional, more alternative. More unisex. Supposedly rose & patchouli are everywhere but I am looking for the -right- blend. The search continues….
infodocutourn – :
I did this on a blind buy and I really wanted to love it! It had everything I wanted and yet it smelled like a Yardley Apple Cinnamon candle whenever I would wear it no matter how long it lasted. I had to sell mine after 6 months but I got a sample of Ambre Sultan which I loved so my love for Serge Lutens has not waned.
nignarrar – :
Xcellent. Guaranteed compliment getter.Blind bought this due to Objections review because this is what i have been searching for. Close to buying everything Objections loves because what she ravés about always works For me. Thankyou gf. I am Lucky in the way that all my Serge smells wonderful on me. Fleurs de Oranger, Un Bois Vanille and my girl La Fille Berlín. Will Be ordering more of his as soon as I decide which ones. This is definitely a signature type scent.
stag76 – :
When I was a little girl I used to pull geranium leaves off the plant and rub them all over my face, pretending like the big fuzzy leaves were a fancy cosmetic pad. The scent is deeply embedded in my olfactory memory. So, when I got married 16 years ago I chose a bridal bouquet of roses and geranium leaves. Oh my, this one smells like my wedding bouquet!! If you know the scent of geranium, it is unmistakable in this juice. A member was kind enough to include this sample in a swap and oh my, this is a MUST HAVE for me. Love love love.
Tagunok – :
On skin: Very rose heavy at first. They’re not fresh roses, but they aren’t powdery either. The scent quickly turns into something pretty bad. Nothing like the tester. I don’t know what’s reacting to my skin, but it definitely doesn’t work.
shikaryi1502 – :
I love Berlin, but I always thought that rose perfumes are too girly for me. It is almost stereotype – all the pretty girls should smell of roses and sweets. I prefer unisex so I avoided rose fragrances for a long time, but then my friend told me, that she is in love with this perfume, and I happened to be around perfume shop at that moment, so I tried it out – why not?
On me it smells like metal and roses. More metal in the beginning and more roses at the end. It is like an U-Bahn train packed with roses is passing by non stop on high speed. Or like when you walk into Stalin-era building’s backyard garden which is full of roses. Like looking how wild roses grow through concrete of Berlin.
Wearing it feels like being armoured and vulnerable at the same time. I like it’s simplicity and would love to have full bottle when I will get rich and famous. Or just rich.
azerix – :
I already own and love Sa Majesté La Rose, and there is definitely a family likeness to that one in La Fille de Berlin, but I don’t think it would be terrible overkill for a rose lover like myself to have both. Where Sa Majesté calls to mind fresh roses in a garden, almost soliflore and very natural and green, La Fille takes those same roses, lets the green dampness from the garden dry off a little, and puts them in a luxurious bouquet. It’s a richer scent, a bit sweeter and with a more prominent role for the peppery honeyed aspect provided by the surrounding notes. I think its high quality simplicity makes it suitable for just about any setting, especially given its exemplary behaviour in terms of sillage and longevity, but for me it’s above all a feel-good scent: it made this early spring day at work infinitely more pleasurable. A decant is already on its way to me, and although it will probably take me a while to get through it since I already have Sa Majesté, I’m sure I will treasure it.
vlad__1 – :
I love rose notes in perfume and this is by far the most beautifully executed. It’s not just that this smells like roses – it smells like a generous, luxurious, bouquet of roses. It somehow smells expensive, this perfume. It’s musky with berries, but not too sweet. So classy.
komar85 – :
Beautiful icy cold rose…green and fresh. If that rose were translated into a fruit, it would be a super crisp red apple.
It’s the kind of rose you could easily wear in warm weather, will last a good 6 hours and every time you move your arm, you’ll get a waft of Turkish delight gelato. Thanks to Corkscrewcurly for her candid and honest recommendation.
Absolutely love it and it’s a compliment drawer.
samxxxx – :
To me this is a bright, sweet, fruity rose. Casual and uncomplicated, definitely femine. My husband pointed out that it smells very similar to Mrs Myers Geranium countertop spray, and you know, he’s right! I don’t mind that association at all, a good smell is a good smell. If you really spray with abandon however, you find that with that cheery bright top is a sharp, vegetal tanginess as well as a darker earthier element that’s kept in check. It’s like the smell of a rose garden on a dewy morning after the grass has been cut. What a lovely tension, and now I begin to sense the thorns that Oncle Serge refers to!
avemiabeams – :
I remember trying this one a few years ago. It was very rosy and peppery. There was a contradiction, but the fragrance stood out. In a recent formulation that I tested the pepper seems to be gone and the rose is muted. As if the girl from Berlin has cried for so long that her bottle is now full of water instead of perfume. I really hope that the new “Collection Noire” version in 100 ml won’t be just a red liquid with no scent at all. If so, then L’eau de Berlin would be a much better name.
farkru – :
La Fille de Berlin is all about rose, and yet it is not a soliflore.
The Rose is pure and true, and as such it is aristocratically beautiful. There are drops of freshness on the wonderfully deep red petals. A delicate and velvety candied violet sheds its honeyed kiss. A quiet tsunami of bloody leaves swirl around a naked body and color its flesh red. Vegetal undertones smile their dewy thorns. A spoonful of this potion flexes the muscle and breaks the walls.
An ode to rose with balls.
*****
lunya77 – :
Deep rich musky dark rose. Warm, a bit spicy (peppery) & just wonderful for winter, like a luscious rose liqueur from another (better) world. It smells just like its colour in the bottle, I don’t get any icy or cold here at all. Silage & longevity are both great, my bottle is strong & a little goes a long way. It’s sublime (imho)..that’s really all I have to say about this beautiful perfume 🙂
Boss4490 – :
This is the only rose based scent I own as a fragrance – purely because most others are commonly targeted at a female audience. This however, is pure class in a bottle that I think suits a male wearer more so. I get many compliments from ladies when wearing this fragrance. I’m so happy Serge has decided to keep it in the new 100ml bottle line. 10/10
yuzzik1 – :
Rose – earthy – musky
Color impression: vermilion
La Fille de Berlin is one of the most transparent and purest rose smells out there. A true rose flower full of passion. To reach such lucidity they hire fine rose ornamented with earthy violet, green geranium and peppery notes. Once settled and its vibrant nuances cool down, it follows by precisely measured honey and musk and slight touch of woodsy earthiness.
It’s a vivid dusky bright rose with bold metallic and marble nuances that smells like cigarette ash beside newly bloomed bloody rose in rainy May. It’s a cold rose for hot romance, a bottle of wine and a thin stiletto. I adore it, though I hate roses.
★★★★★
AQredrtFCpsviqkrxhl – :
It’s all about the rose in these comments: “Sharp”, “metallic”, “clear cut”, “steel German”, “dark”, “cold”, “deep”, “green”, “sweet”, etc.
To understand this frag, it is necessary to go beyond the rose and take a look at the other notes. Here we have deep green notes (palmarosa and oakmoss) and a sweet spicy geranium amplified by honey.
All in all, I’d call this rose a “rose of the valley” because the global scent is evocative of LOTV : remember that LOTV is a mute flower usually approached in perfumes by an association of rose, greens, and a floral note around jasmine, here replaced by an original combination of geranium and honey, giving the frag an intersting spicy twist.
Very original, with an impressive longevity. I love it.
mitrofan – :
only pure rose.nothing else green rose.
too feminine. excessive.
agrels15 – :
Cold, wet, sharp, metallic, modernist and almost unbelievably STRONG rose. It’s all about neon brightness reflecting off rainy urban streets. For me it evokes Louise Brooks in the 1920s: razor-sharp bobbed hair, cutting-edge-of fashion garms, and ruthless, heedless, rather dangerous femininity used only for gain. It’s a Tamara de Lempicka painting in scent: slightly scary, inhuman, marble perfection rather than yielding human flesh, dressed in bias-cut silk and carried off in high modernist style.
I didn’t get on with it at all as I’m generally leery of rose anyway … don’t like girly ‘femme’ scents or ultradiva ‘fumes, and even hated rose+mint (Rosabotanica) and rose+leather (Kelly Caleche) combos I’ve smelt. However, there are plenty of rose things I do like. But for them to work for me the bullying flower needs to be natural-seeming, and enriched and calmed down with notes of spice, earth, leather, etc, until it seems lush and feminine and organic. Really punchy robo-rose like this one is just too much for me – and I don’t mean that it’s not made from great natural ingredients (knowing SL it probably is), but that the overall impression is more mechanical than emotional, to me. Fille de Berlin is not welcoming. It’s not cuddly. It’s not warm. So definitely not a big lush spicy dark-crimson style rose. Yet it’s far too big and too tough to be a girlish flower-garden rose scent either.
If, however, you are a huge rose aficionada/o and want a true, persistent, even aggressive rose scent with no additional ingredients and no failures of nerve, this one may be the bad girl for you.
KaeN – :
I have loved this beauty since the moment I first tried it. One of the reviewers mentioned it looking like black-currant juice and they aren’t wrong. This is not demure, softly spoken red rose. It is a rich, fiesty intense red rose and my goodness, she packs a punch. As I’m hardly a expert, I like to describe how fragrances make me feel rather than trying to describe the scent. This makes me feel bold and while trying to write a review I kept picturing Allanah Myles belting out Black Velvet so I had to youtube it as its been a long time since I’ve heard it. Immediately on watching it I understand why, her richly intense red lipstick, leather, black hair, that grunt in her voice & kick ass attitude. That’s this juice in a bottle. Definitely not for the faint-hearted or if you’re worried about what others think of your fragrance choice. Word of caution, use lightly if indoors. If you’re going to overspray get out into open spaces to allow this baby to breathe or you’ll soon put yourself into a headspin.
caiser – :
I am so beyond picky with rose in my perfumes. Smelling the flower in real life is lovely, but I cant stand them in most fragrances. Something about the note leaves me with a migraine and a bit dizzy. There are a select few that really shine for me in one way or another though, and this is one of them.
Fridged, cold, and ultra realistic. If you walk into your local florists shop and open up one of the fridges to grab a fresh and wet bouquet of roses, this is the smell you’d be hit with.
This is not a rose blooming from the dirt in your garden.. La fille de berlin is refrigerated.. Green, leafy, cold petals stuffed in a bottle. Stem and all.. Beautiful. If rose was a favorite flower of mine, id save for a bottle of this in a heartbeat.
taraskin – :
I am Madly in Love With the Girl from Berlin
I know that the admins. for this site were thinking about only allowing one review per user per perfume…it may cut down on clutter, but our voting system also does that (imperfect as it is…it’s the best we have for right now.) So thanks for still allowing this, because fragrance is such a fluid and capricious thing, one minute you hate it, the next day you’re in love, and the next day you discover another whole dimension of the scent that you didn’t detect before. So when I read/write reviews I always take into consideration that the contents only reflect what you are smelling at that exact time, in certain conditions, in particular moods…
So I’ve been on a total rose kick lately, it may seem basic, but there is something about going back to the basics and having a basic concept be executed to perfection, as a gold standard. Lately, also, I have been responding to my perfumes in a more visceral way, like the way they make me feel is almost more important than the way they actually smell.
Berlin isn’t exactly the prototype for all rose perfumes or anything, but in this case, it is the way it makes me feel that makes it the Perfect Rose perfume in my life right now. First off as I wrote below it’s a wonderful serious, grown up rose. But while the rose is front and center, and not buried in a bunch of sweets or spices, the way it acts on my skin is simply wonderful: The rose does have a lot going on around it, I can almost visualize it, a serene, confident rose with an entire supporting cast: Dry Smoke, Dark Woods, Smooth Greens, Acrid Incense, and a drop of Honey to soften things up. It’s as if the rose is the girl, and the rest of the notes are the city around her, all coalescing into a single time and image, and forming who she is: Confident, serene, at home in the world, but a step ahead at the same time, while things are falling apart for her that’s the compliment.
This perfume makes me very happy. When I wear it I feel kind of transported. It just connects with my mind for some reason, I love the way it smells, and it just taps into something almost spiritual for me.
CragnendLed – :
La Fille de Berlin is the one Serge Lutens fragrance that has majorly spoken to me, apart from Arabie. I haven’t tried many, but these two are favourites. I really hope to buy this soon.
Now, to me, it mainly smells of metallic rose water with a bit of sandalwood and a bit of oakmoss. The honey listed is also something I probably smell, because its a sweet rose water and it only makes sense that the sweetener be honey
Can’t really say much else. It lasts for ages, and the projection is okay. Just a really, really solid fragrance.
a-lek-s – :
This is one of the few fragrances that enamoured me deeply at first trial. How could La Fille de Berlin maintain such a volatile balance? Elegant, seductive and mischievous at the same time.
Being a cool and metallic scent, after the freshness of initial dry-down—-perhaps because of the Palmarosa—she gradually settles in a savoury, more “vanilla” rose. The patchouli and moss are more on the subtle side, which is an additional plus for day wear. Ever the classic.
Imagery: “What is a youth? Impetuous fire. What is a maid? Ice and desire.” (E.F. Walter) Her shell is fragile, with a heart of iron and steel. A realistic, elegiac memoir of unrequited love and eventual reconciliation—–but only hints the breathtakingly sweet and transient beginning.
9/10. I think M.Lutens captured the paradox of entwined reservedness, passion and sincerity of ‘the girl of Berlin’. Minus one for her moderate longitivtiy, sometimes she just enjoys to play hide and seek after 5-6 hours, such a naughty headache.
dron06 – :
La Fille de Berlin is my first exposure to the offerings of Serge Lutens, and I can’t imagine a more enchanting introduction. It’s a feast for the senses, right down to the intensely dramatic, overly mysterious ad copy. That luscious, inviting juice color is downright sinful, made all the more striking by the austere bottle.
“Elegance” is a word that keeps popping up in the reviews on here, and it’s no surprise. This is a bone-dry, regal, ember-smoked, only slightly boozy rose that neither veers towards citronella-candied sweetness nor withered potpourri. For a fragrance featuring honey, I’m continuously surprised at how unsweetened the rose manages to be – the honey feels almost like more of a beeswax note, with enough pollen and buzz to give it a slight animalic edge.
I’m not remotely familiar with palmarosa, but I’m wondering if it’s part of the muted green I’m detecting in addition to that delicious, subtle patchouli-vegetal base that never overpowers the central rose, but instead provides an exquisite framework. This is the way patchouli ought to be used!
And to echo kousuisei, I definitely smell the difference depending on where the fragrance is applied. In the crook of the elbow, exposed to more body heat, this fragrance absolutely blooms, red and ripe and gorgeously lush. For all its blooming, though, La Fille de Berlin has only moderate sillage, despite its addictive and delightful longevity, and for that I almost wish it projected a little more on me.
I feel like there is much more to be explored with La Fille de Berlin, that wearing it for the first time is only beginning of what will surely be a long and passionate love affair for this rose fanatic!
Leha1986 – :
I’ve tested my teeny bit of this scent twice (the amount my sample held), and I can certainly vouch for the quality and artistry of the fragrance. It’s lovely and largely inoffensive. It smells like a delicate rose found in soap at expensive hotels. And the spice and depth is unique among other bright roses.
But I prefer my roses dark. If I loved rose just a bit more, this would be a winner for me. Maybe I’ll eventually grow into the refinement, but for the current prices, and my current tastes, this is one I’ll recommended to others, but I won’t be adding it to my own wardrobe.
I’m very thankful to the Fragrantican who so graciously shared the sample for me to test!
Angelina_fromAC – :
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
WERTUOZ – :
It’s spicy, intense, sour, but after all, she is a girl. It has patchouli in it, but not as noticeable as the one in Rose Privée by L`Artisan Parfumeur.
It is a girl with attitude, may not be everyone’s cup of tea. It is irresistible to me, I love it, but I cannot imagine myself wearing it. I don’t have a dress or attitude to match it.
lena_antoniva – :
Berlin: A Restrained, Red Rose
It is almost an indulgence, lusting after a perfume like this. The search, the wait, and the anticipation was almost as good as finally getting to have this perfume on my shelf (it was surprisingly hard to find.) I would happily fantasize about what I thought it was going to smell like—is that typical perfume insanity, or just insanity? I think it’s mostly because there are few newer releases that I get excited about. But this, a purported moody dark rose perfume, and that color! Forget the bottle, the plain rectangular glass that many SL perfumes are housed in—that deep red perfume is to die for.
I thought that this perfume would be mature, and dark, and full of mysterious smoldering layers, but then I remembered that the name of this perfume is “The Girl From Berlin” and NOT “The Mature Older Woman From Berlin Who Has Lived Through Hard Times.”
So there’s that. This is a linear rose perfume, but it is not a juicy fruit young playful rose. It is serious and woody and slightly musky and has this really wonderful restraint once you get to know it. Like—the rose is darkish, tinged with the sour geranium, but it never goes full black rose, and neither does it ever become too sour. It is just perfectly dark and a bit sour on the edges. The rose is accented with dry woods and greenery, too, but the combination of woods and greenery never overshadows the rose, it just lays pleasantly underneath. The green is not fresh at all, rather it has a faint hint of vegetal smoke to it. And if you think this is a patchouli rose perfume, you are wrong. The patchouli is really raw and green, but faint—it just lends a nice background to it all. As for the honey, well I don’t find this rose to be honeyed at all. Maybe it just prevents the rose from descending into a pit of dark patchouli territory.
I like Berlin very much, and its very restraint makes it the grown up rose perfume I wished for. It never spills into being too fruity, or too sour, or too shreikish. Berlin’s Rose is never pushed aside by too much patchouli, or smoke, or honey. The lasting power is really good, about 8 hours, and it projects nicely. It was definitely worth the wait to find this.
avarg – :
I finally received my FB! The first 5 minutes smelled like holding a red rose banquet, as it settled, it became sweeter, it’s still dominated by rose but with a slightly “slutty” edge, with the civets notes coming thru. The animal notes are not strong so it is still suitable for office wear without being offensive.
Longevity is pretty good, I wore it to sleep last night and could still detect it this morning.
Beautiful.
Руслан13 – :
This fragrance is almost the same thing as smelling an actual rose. This rose is dripping with honey, and is just beautiful.
More on the feminine side but I enjoy a challenge. This is as close as I’ll come to doing drag, MMMMkay?
But definitely a very refined scent. I can see a beautiful woman of any age, pulling this off. Then again, I also think a young man spraying this under his tuxedo for a formal occasion could wear this with class. Something unpredictable but I am sure it would garner compliments.
Paifsclal – :
La Fille de Berlin 1.7 bottle
The steel German rose.
Germans by nature posses a cold exterior for protection and comfort. My grandfather was German and even though he loved me he had an icy reservedness that lasted a lifetime. La fille is a cold scent. Lasting a lifetime. Germans love to to go with one thing and stay with it. It doesnt change, like this Lutens, its a blast of vintage tea rose with a smirk then transforms itself into a deeper jammy rose. Just a voluptuous rose scent overlayed on top of a steel skeleton. Its self made beauty. The rose enchants, the berries seduce with the honey and musks to bring you in closer..(and the musk is wonderful) ..yet she is still aloof and blooming for everyone else at the time you fall for her. Underneath is a spicy temper that is quite capable of thrashing you with the rose and the thorns. All in all a seductive beauty thats tough as steel (the metallic accord) underneath. Beauty, sexy and an iron will. Your doomed to love La Fille de Berlin.
Sanek1771 – :
This has one of the most beautiful jammy rose notes ever but it smells sooooo peppery to me, I guess it’s the geranium? That sharp, bitter note unfortunately kills it for me 🙁
banan21 – :
Strange bright rose. A sharp cutting edge. Not bad but the camphor in it makes it slightly difficult.
PanfiliJ – :
tons of fresh, soft roses. A darker kind of red rose but very pleasant and with a soft peppery touch. Developes into a soft soft rose. Could imagine this to be a classic rose for younger women who are about to move away from the super sweet floral fruity scents to more mature floral ones – without it making you old.
Longevity is fine – up to 5/6h, and scents never last on me. So it is quiet good actually
Treneri – :
I can’t help it, to me it smells like a bouquet of lush bordeaux roses and… garlic flowers! I have never smelled palmarosa as a raw material, but I guess its description “unusual green note with vegetal nuances” means “garlic flower”.
kuzmich_boy – :
What a disappointing experience!
Not because it is a bad perfume, i might even buy it in fact… sounds so whimsical, these women, what do they want?! 🙂
But let me explain – rose is my favourite note in perfume. And I do get rose here, lot’s of pure rose… what I don’t get is the story that Serge Lutens usually so masterfully communicates with his perfumes. I don’t feel it here… I’ll try it again some time, maybe one day I’ll feel the pepper, spices, sandalwood or see the depth of this perfume. Right now I think there are many other much more interesting rose perfumes!
Myncinhinia – :
On me this fragrance has real bite, and I’m surprised more people don’t mention it. Yes, it is velvety, very luxurious, but I also keep wanting to pull away from my wrist to protect my nose. Is it from the geranium, or spices not listed? Pepper can often add a rough element to fragrances, but here the pepper does not affect the silkiness of the rose. In fact, the peppery note feels separate and prior to the dominant parts of the composition. An hour later, I still have to go through the pepper to get to anything else. There is also a metallic element to this fragrance belied by all of the rosy silky sweetness. It is something silvery but not edgy, like putting your nose up to an old silver vase. I can imagine the mature burgundy roses in it and petals strewn around its base. The metallic aspect and the pepper both keep this fragrance interesting, but ultimately also deter me from wanting to live with it.
Murzik – :
An interesting composition, but a bit too loud while at the same time not interesting enough to beg for that much attention.
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PAITMESEERABE – :
La Fille de Berlin looks gorgeous in the bottle and the look certainly enhances the experience of this fragrance. Serge Lutens has managed to concoct a deeply scented realistic rose that to my nose is neither powdery nor feminine. What I smell is a garden fresh rose, strong at the outset, fading to a softer floral with a longevity of around six hours. As a man I can wear this with a suit and get compliments. To me, this definitely isn’t a musty old floral scent, I find it invigorating and beautiful.
diplomat – :
A vintage smelling deep, dark, red, full-bloomed roses, enhanced with patchouli and powdery musks. I smell hints of dark, red, jammy berries as well. Its very well rounded and very long lasting. The juice itself is very gothic and attractive to look at; I must admit its the only reason I purchased it.
The scent reminds me of the 80’s powerhouse perfumes and grannies who wear precious gems, couture, big hair, and thick powdery make up.
I don’t know if and when I can wear it myself.
Edit 1/7/18
I purchased it once, then sold it. However, the red velvet juice, which is the most beautiful juice I’ve ever seen so far in a perfume, and its hauntingly beautiful deep, dark, powerful rose aroma made me purchase another bottle! I feel inferior and undeserving of wearing such a beautiful creation! A single spray into my wrist is enough to leave an impressionistic scent after a human sucked blood out of it, converting him into a vampire LOL! If a vampire’s blood has a scent, this is it!
Uzumakix3 – :
Beautiful lush, deep red, velvety rose!!! It’s full of that rich blood red rose smell, that gorgeous intoxicating, almost overwhelmingly glorious sweet fragrance!! It’s fabulous!! And I love the bottle, and the gorgeous rich pinkish red of the liquid. Absolutely beautiful. It’s like crushed velvety rose petals. I love it!!!
kva1974 – :
I like Perfumer’s Workshop Tea Rose, but mostly I use it to scent my bed linen and hand lotion due to its pure simplicity. For a long time, I really wanted a rose scent that was slightly more complex and smoldering while still remaining a true rose to wear as a perfume. I finally found it. This is the clearest, most effortless and beautiful rose I have tried – quietly sexy and elegant. It’s not fussy, loud, old fashioned, or cloying in the least so it’s very easy to wear, and it lets the rose be the star, while also providing some very subtle and tasteful supporting notes. I searched through the designer fragrances and other niche fragrances, and they all either buried the rose, bored me somehow, or made the rose into a very loud, gawdy character, which the flower itself is anything but. Rose is my middle name and I have a rose tattoo, so my rose fragrance had to be nothing short of perfection, and for me, this one is, though I sampled a lot of imposters before finding this true beauty.
serjo2307 – :
What am I looking at here as regards the note pyramid. (Big fat question mark) It used to be just rose and pepper.
Deroxwvaqv – :
It’s good but not my favorite rose or serge. It’s not really a realistic rose but it’s rosy, grand, juicy and lovely. Goes one really powerful, takes 15-20min to calm down into a really lovely smooth rose with a hint of sweet. Dry down on me is not great, a bit metallic and dry.
I have a few different roses and glad I have this one too…though I could be just rose hoarding.
TDI03 – :
I’m not a “rose” fan to begin with. I don’t mind having “rose” in my fragrances but not over bearing “rose”. I’m thinking of buying this fragrance because of the reviews and I love the smell of Geranium and honey. So what do you think? Is it worth a purchase….I normally like perfumes with amber, patchouli, vanilla, musk….a more oriental type of fragrance. Some of my favorites are Kenzo Jungle L’ Elephant, Reminiscence (various) and Givenchy Organza Indecence (the old formula). Looking for some advise. Thanks.
krot3000 – :
What is a rose without fragrance? There are too many repeat flowering modern roses with little fragrance. This sumptuous fragrance reminds you in an instant of that “classic” seductive darkest red velvet petalled rose. Mata Hari must have had something like this to assist her in seduction. It’s in my top 5 rose fragrances.
The accord of rose, rose geranium and palmarosa have cracked it. The honey just adds enough sweetness to create perfection. If there is oakmoss in here then it is very low key.
My only wish is that the longevity would be better but I will forgive such a lovely fragrance. Some guys might love this but I’ve got to say it couldn’t be a more womanly fragrance if it tried.
atasgr – :
As a rose fanatic, I’ve sampled a lot of rose perfumes over the years. I have to say, this is the most beautiful and lifelike I’ve ever smelled. It captures not only the beautiful rich scent of a carefully cultivated blood-red bloom, but also the velvety feel of the flowers. When I smell La Fille de Berlin, I can almost feel the silky petals between my fingers. I love the dark pink of the juice and the simplicity of SL’s bottles. It’s a love! Although th