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Ishigedjei – :
this went on a little sour and oakmoss but that may have been because it went off as it is vintage; in the heart it is a sweet, grassy rose bordering on a little jammy but not quite so. I also detected a tad of lily of the valley.
qwerty999 – :
I am rather amazed by this perfume. Something about it really must work with my skin chemistry, because I could still smell this on my wrist after 24 hours (and a bath during that time). I also sprayed it on my clothing, but it did not last long on the fabric. The sillage is good as well.
For an hour or so, the notes were quite smoky and strong, perhaps a little bit sour since this is a vintage perfume. But it wasn’t highly unpleasant. Soon, it mellowed out into a soft yet spicy rose. I think La Rose is quickly becoming one of my favorites.
I bought this perfume when I heard that grand duchess Olga Romanov of Russia, the daughter of the last Tsar, used Coty’s La Rose. Her sister, Tatiana, used another Coty fragrance: Jasmine de Corse. I was unable to find the jasmine perfume, but La Rose Jacqueminot I did find. And I am definitely in love with not only its history, but its scent as well.
Варфаломей – :
A sweet little rose perfume the likes of which I’d never experienced before! Forget about any other rose perfume you can think of: Stella McCartney, Tea Rose, Jo Malone, this is a rose perfume that is set apart from the rest. I won this fragrance by bidding for it on ebay. I have a 1980’s edition spray bottle. I’m not sure if it’s a cologne, toilette or parfum concentration. Because it doesn’t last very long on my skin and it seems to eat it, I’m guessing it’s a toilette. I was interested in this fragrance for it’s history. I’d read the reviews here, all of them, and this perfume sounds like my cup of tea. I was not mistaken. It’s such a dreamy rose.
This is an innocent child-like rose. She is sweet, too sweet, almost but not quite sugar coated. Like the previous reviewer states: a rose dipped in beeswax. Smells like honey. This is a rose & honey scent with a cloyingly sweet scent. The pretty florals are not limited to roses (pink, red, white) but also violets. I smell quite a bit of violet. There is also a lily note, ever so soft, in the background. There’s faint green moss, woods & vetiver. Because of that super sweet honey there’s no way this can pass for a chypre or rose chypre. A lot of people smell different things about this one. It’s one of those perfumes that changes her face for each individual. For me this is a sweet honey rose bud, very dainty & pretty.
This is evocative of a little rich girl from the 1900’s Edwardian Era, with a pink bow on her light brown or blonde hair, a pink sash on a red dress; almost like a living Victorian doll. I’m thinking: “Poor Little Rich Girl” starring Mary Pickford? The 1917 silent film. Smells of a pampered very sheltered girl who wore a little splash of rose toilet water every day to smell as sweet as she looks.
This is such an adorable & complex scent. At times if you put your nose to it there’s more going on, a mystery chypre. Green notes, moss, woods, a wild forest berry, perhaps patchouli oil, honey, a secret garden; tobacco leaves. It’s a beautiful, romantic rose perfume and very VERY old fashioned, so outdated as to belong to even another century and it does, this fragrance was released more than 100 years ago in 1906. I want to thank reviewers kmarich Lucia Lawson & Gigi the Fashionista for your terrific reviews on this absolutely beautiful and delicate rose scent of floral sweetness.
realMarik – :
I remember when this was relaunched in the mid 80s with Chypre and Les Muses. It was marketed in drug stores with all 3 for about $20USD. I remember the TV ad and thought this is clever. I was only wearing big 80s men’s giants so these went unsampled into history. I was curious however.
30 years later I picked up a bottle of La Rose for about $100. Yes the legend and the mystery won the day. I had to explore the empire builder. Upon first sniff I was appalled. It clobbered my nose. How could I waste my cash on such cheap rubbish?!
Then it started to develop into a time machine to 1900 as a beloved classic. This had to be revolutionary at the time. Others would come later, literally 1000 of rose centered creations. Yet like Chypre, this was the first Rose masterpiece. There are more notes than listed on the tree above. I get oakmoss and a bit of leather. Beeswax? It reminds me of a wax dipped rose that my grandmother kept on her dressing table. Who knows?
Its big reddish pink heartbreaker that promises all the hope and disappointment a rose can give. Its not the original classic but it comes pretty close. Its just like being in love. It only lasts a short time 6-7 hours at best. Think of the history associated with it and all who wore it originally. It just might make you cry…
Leer – :
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ROSE PERFUME OF ALL TIME
In our fragrance universe, there are so many rose scents. Rose has been used in perfumery since ancient times. It is said Cleopatra bathed in rosewater and seduced Mark Antony with roses. It was the favorite flower of the French and English during the Renaissance. The term “English Rose” referred to the beauty of Anglo British women whose cheeks were blushing pink like roses. Rose scents are found in hand soaps, talcum powder, and sachets for wardrobes and drawers. But this is nothing like any typical rose scented bath product or household item. It is set apart as a magnificent rose. It’s a pity we can’t really take a whiff of the original 1906 fragrance which was the perfume that launched the career of Francois Coty and lead to the formation of his perfume empire. It was said to be such a powerful and unforgettable aroma of a thousand roses that it filled an entire perfume convention.
In the 1980’s, several Coty fragrances from this period and his masterpieces such as L’Origan, L’aimant Chypre and Emeraude were selling in newer bottles but advertised as smelling like the original. I have a set of 6 glass spray bottle of this perfume. It smells like a spicy rose when you first spray it. There’s aldehydes and something citrusy, perhaps even an additional floral note of orange blossom. But it turns spicy quickly. It’s a heavy smoky rose, like an incense-and-rose combination. It also smells like tobacco.
The spicy smoky rose floral scent evokes images of Cuban Spanish ladies who smell of tobacco that was rubbed off on them by gentlemen smoking cigars, whereas they are hanging on to their rose perfumes. This is a sexy, rather potent potion. I’m sure it was meant to be worn as an evening cologne for the aristocratic French and English ladies of the period. It matches up with a bold red dress, or the black off the shoulder evening gown worn by the notorious Madame X in that famous Sargent painting. It’s also a perfume I could have smelled on Sarah Bernhardt the greatest actress of all time. She would have worn this perfume both on and off the stage.
At times green, herbal, with touches of vetiver and moss, and smelling like patchouli leaves and the aforementioned tobacco and incense, but at times surprisingly soft and sweet, powdery, delicate, and tender. It has a strange progression. At the beginning she is a seductive and mature woman smelling of sex, tobacco and roses, like a 19th centjury courtesan awaiting her next client in a brothel, and as it finishes, that dry down is sweet and innocent, like a little girl who still needs to hold her mother by the hand.
Absolutely beautiful and fascinating.
andron17 – :
LA ROSE JACQUEMINOT
COTY
GROUP: UNISEX FLORAL
NOTES: General Jacqueminot Rose, Bulgarian Rose, Rose Absolute, Rose Otto Sandalwood Oud
SILLAGE: Soft Sits Close to the Skin
LONGEVITY: MODERATE: 3 TO 6 HOURS
REMINDS ME OF: EGOISTE CHANEL PORTRAIT OF A LADY FREDERIC MALLE
Napoleonic Grand Armee General Jean-François Jacqueminot (1787-1865) is the inspiration for this hybrid rose. The General Jack Rose is now extinct but it was first cultivated by a French gardener named Roussel in 1853. The rose was a deep red and pink color and had double flowers. It was very fragrant, surpassing the most fragrant of common garden roses. Everyone was still familiar with that rose when Francois Coty tried his luck by creating a perfume using this very same rose. It was his first perfume. He first sold it at the Magazins de Louvre in 1906. According to the report, he was not well received at the perfume convention and he would have been ignored had he not taken action himself. According to the story, Francois Coty threw one of the bottles of his own perfume onto the floor and broke it releasing the aroma. As soon as everyone smelled it, even after having smelled so many other now forgotten perfumes that day, they fell in love with it. This was his big break and Coty went on to become one of the world’s greatest perfumers and perfume label at the turn of the century and beyond. He was at one time the rival to Guerlain, and in fact Guerlain stole the formula for his first Oriental Shalimar from Coty’s Emeraude. The rivalry is not well researched but it’s clearly there. Coty’s other great fragrances were revolutionary to the industry: Chypre was the first chypre woodsy sandalwood scent, L’Origan was the first spicy “gourmand” scent and he continued to sell one successful fragrance after another: L’Effleur, L’aimant, and many others. Rose Jacqueminot is hard to describe. Fragrantica is not listing the notes so one has to be able to pick them out one’s self. That’s where the fun begins. I smelled a lot of roses and rose oil. It is soapy, not quite aldehydic but definitely oily, almost like rose water but more fragrant and spicier. There is Bulgarin rose, pink, cold but sweet at the same time. The General Jack Rose is the elusive scent. I have never smelled it before as it’s extinct but it smelled bold and aromatic. This is the strongest rose perfume of them all. There is probably a tobacco leaf scent as well. The perfume wears like a smoky floral or smoky rose. It’s incense and roses and rose oil and as such it has a lot in common with those Arabic Taif Rose or rose oils. It’s also very similar to oud and rose scents that sell big time in Dubai and the Middle East. But because of the sweet Western roses it’s not all that aromatic and can be very soft too. This is great for scenting your bath and for putting on as an evening cologne. It’s totally unisex. Guys don’t be afraid to wear roses. The rose here is more on the masculine side, spicier, stronger and not some little baby rose bud. It is very reminiscent of such smoky rose frags like Egoiste by Chanel and Portrait of a Lady by Frederic Malle. On women it may seem like a spicy Oriental rose. It’s very mysterious and elegant, and yet refined, sweet and classically feminine. At times powdery and youthful, at times mature and spicy, it’s a seduction of the senses like someone is playfully using a rose like a paint brush and rubbing it on your nude flesh. There is a distinctive sandalwood too that I am loving. This was a sexy blast from the past. Women of the 1900 to 1919 period would have smelled amazing. It would be well worth the dangerous trip into the past via a time machine just to smell the original Rose Jacqueminot especially on that day in Paris in 1906 when Coty broke that bottle and people who smelled the fragrance went wild! Beautiful rose perfume. This is probably the best out of all rose perfumes ever made.
bhecbr – :
Coty La Rose 80s Edition EDT
Rose..then a deeper mysterious rose..with a hint of lavender, citrus and violet with a little green leaves as a whisper.
They do not make them like this anymore. It is definitely from a different era, a different smelling rose than what I am familiar with, but still beautiful. Give this at lease two hours to develop to discover it.
Its perspective on femininity, perfume ideals, is all encapsulated in this vintage piece. Its release was 80s, but it has no hallmarks of a 80s release perfume, so this is definitely a tribute to the original version.
This is a unique rose with gravitas. It feels like a darker velvety rose with either a slight musk or amber.
Its a spicy, sandal woody rose that stands alone in its ways. If you are a lover of roses, this is one for you to definitely experience.
From the internet the technical details:
The fragrance was based on cabbage roses and composed of aldehydes, attar of roses, jasmine, violets, sweet and green spices and synthetic materials called ionone and rhodinol. It is described as a creamy, dark and rich honeyed rose, slightly animalic, powdery, mossy with jammy rose notes. A rose chypre to end all desires…of orange blossom then comes jasmine, rose, heliotrope, and ylang ylang.
Top notes: aldehydes, tea rose, Bulgarian rose, jacqueminot rose, green accord
Middle notes: jasmine, cabbage rose, damask rose, violet, ylang ylang, honey, orange blossom, lavender, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom
Base notes: oakmoss, amber, musk, sandalwood, tobacco
If I were to give it a concept and describe it to someone..Id call it the mythic black rose.
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Fragrantica>>Where is the listing for LES MUSES/MUSE by Coty?!
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dimon27ru – :
LA ROSE: A ROMANCE OF ROSES
Notes in Coty’s La Rose Jacqueminot: Jacqueminot Rose And Every Other Rose: Red, Pink, Yellow, White Roses
The Year is 1904
Francois Coty’s La Rose Jacqueminot was launched when Coty literally threw the bottle on the ground, breaking it and releasing the fragrance to the people that had shunned him in the Magasins de Louvre in Paris. Upon smelling it, even with all the other perfumes at the convention, everyone went nuts. You’d think they had never smelled perfume before; and in a way they hadn’t. This was an early period in modern perfumery and Coty is credited as the Father of Modern Fragrance. But his initial attempts to create a perfect and revolutionary new fragrance was difficult. He was desperate to sell La Rose a combination of every rose scent including absolute rose and the now extinct Jacequeminot rose but no one would buy it. Some sources claim that what happened at the Magasins was simply a publicity stunt. His mother in law was a sales woman at the Magasin and was paid to become excited about the fragrance as were many other sales girls. Whatever happened that day in 1904, it was the best day of Coty’s life. Everyone was wild about La Rose. It was unlike any perfume that had come before. In 1889, Guerlain had sold his Jicky still the oldest selling perfume today. La Rose has something in common with Jicky in that it’s a rose perfume made up of abstract roses that you can’t quite make out. To my nose it’s a heady, soft sweet rose scent that might even be artificial and synthetic. Perhaps that’s only found in the reformulation. The vintage can smell powdery but that’s not because the roses in it are synthetic chemicals but real roses and attar that turn powdery. Of significant mention is the fact that this contains the dominant note of the General Jacqueminot rose which is now extinct. It grew in the Caribbean before it was brought to France and it had double flowers and was extremely fragrant. The only way to smell this long lost rose is to wear this perfume. This fragrance absolutely divine and very romantic. I have a vintage La Rose circa 1905. To me it smelled of pink roses, feminine, soft, heady, and sweet. It was rose petals and romantic old timey old fashioned rose bouquets. This is like a sophisticated, beautiful, fashionable French woman of the Belle Epoque taking a stroll down any of the floral parks of Paris: the Bois de Boulogne or smelling roses in the Parc Monceau. It’s such a romantic perfume. It takes you to the 1900’s when men were still men and women were ladies who wanted to be taken seriously, respected, admired more for their charm, intellect, personality and to a lesser degree their beauty and clothes. This is not grandmotherly to me, it’s sexy to me. It’s not sexy in an aggressive way but in a coy, and sly way. I found it interesting that the fragrance has two distinctly different personalities. On my clothes it smelled like a smoky rose, a rose on fire with warm incense or tobacco. It was a dark mysterious rose with a sexual allure. It was as if the rose was trying to seduce both the wearer and anyone who is near the wearer. When I applied it on my skin it softened to such a sweet rose, like a baby bud that had not yet opened. It’s youthful, flirty and airy. There are no realistic green notes or wet dewiness you get from other perfumes sold today with “100 percent natural” rose scents like TEA ROSE by the Perfumer’s Worskhop or DEMETER FRAGRANCE LIBRARY ROSE or even ROSE DE FRANCE by HISTORIAE. This is more a fantasy of roses, a romance of roses, a Rose Queen at the Parade, in all her beauty and glory on a float made of roses. She waves at her adoring public from a horse drawn carriage that travels down the avenues and boulevards of Paris. I can imagine women going nuts over this perfume back in the years 1905 through 1912. This could have been one of the perfumes taken aboard the RMS Titanic and worn by a first class passenger. This will delight rose perfume lovers but this is not a realistic rose. If you like powdery, fantasy perfumes that make you dream and fires up your imagination, this perfume is for you. It will suit writers, artists, fashion designers and history lovers. Vive La Rose, Vive Francois Coty.
hbrmqlxffdMV – :
Received LaRose today, happy birthday to me♡. Bought (Somewhat) blind after reading numerous reviews and searching classic vintage perfumes. As if the history alone was not enough to encourage me to invest, the true fruition began as the first beautiful cloud hit my senses before even fully unwrapping. It simply got better from that point.
Poljana – :
This is a very sophisticated rose fragrance and the silage is amazing. As Kiku says, it is certainly “not a polite rose”, but right up front, not brazen, but definitely assertive, spicy, woody and with maybe just a hint of tobacco? This assertive rose makes me wonder how exactly this composition was meant to appeal to the woman of the early 1900’s. Did Coty perceive his market audience as women who would appreciate this bold rose?
I own several of Coty’s 80’s relaunched fragrances. I agree with Ian Johnston that reissues of these early gems in their original formulations would be very nice and much appreciated by many people.
mandoza – :
I have a bottle of this which Coty relaunched in the late 1980’s along with Chypre and Les Muses, and agree that it is very fine as were the other reissues which now seem to be no longer available. In some ways it resembled the then available Rochas perfume Mystere. Whatever it would be nice if some of the old Coty masterpieces were reissued in a formulation which matched their former glory – something Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez also argue for in their book Perfumes, the A-Z guide.
mediked – :
The queen of all rose fragrances. This is not a polite, delicate rose. The opening is practically an assult of heady and spicy roses. The dry down softens into a softer, warmer version of the opening. Some sites say this perfume has been discontinued. Others say it is in production. One said Coty is planning a relaunch. If you can find it buy one and give it a place of honor on your dressing table.