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nimik96 – :
Think Creed Green Valley and Ed Hardy’s Love and Luck mixed together and presented in a Gothy perfume bottle at an outrageous price. There you have Rock Rose by CC
Not one of CC’s best new offerings. There are some better for sure & forget those comments about CC just making overpriced junk frags. You might be pleasantly surprised as was I.
Beeklymaymnzdhzt – :
I absolutely love this fragrance, along with many other Clive Christian’s. Rock Rose is similar to a few aromatic designer fragrances but the notes in this are blended WAY better than anything else and the performance is miles ahead of any others.
Unfortunately the price tag is laughable and completely unrealistic for most people. I dont care how good a fragrance is, asking 500+USD is a stretch. I suppose if you piss dollar signs, then by all means give this one a go
denisenko – :
I truly appreciate fragrances that make me find a new favorite note.
Clive Christian in particular is very respected by me for making me aware of how much I despise ylang ylang with No.1, and how much I love rose wih Rock Rose.
Unfortunately the house is not easy to find in canada so I only tried this for a brief wearing at an airport in london so I don’t have any idea about it’s performance. However in terms of scent alone this is already in my top 5. It weirdly reminds me of Millesime Imperial but without the cloying effect that sniffing too much of MI can cause.
blepAnype – :
This is a curious one. It is aromatic from the herbs but also opens quite sweet. You do get the cocoa. Thankfully the sweetness quickly eases off. It is very unisex. It’s not harsh in anyway although the aromatic notes get quite intense.
The lavender now intensifies and it is easily identifiable as a fougere. A rich one and quite dense one at that. The sage is very evident. The delicate violet is not easy to pick out!
You can just about make out the rose, amber and cocoa in the background.
This is very potent stuff. A big sillage and longevity to match.
Mewwg208JeomiWogkig – :
This is just eyes roll up into head juice.
A somewhat tobacco-leafy fougère on stout musk base with …
Forget it! it’s just eyes roll up into head juice!
polli2007 – :
مبدئيا : اعجبني جدا
لكن سأعاود تجربته بسبب سعره المرتفع كعادة عطور هذه الدار الرائعه
العطر يحتوي على روائح طبيعيه.. يميل يشكل عام لرائحة الورد
ان شاء الله سأكتب عنه لاحقا
8/10
: تحديث
كنت قد ذكرت ان رائحة الورد بارزه.. لكن لا تلبث ان تسيطر زهرة البنفسج على المشهد كما ذكرَت اكثر المراجعات هنا
العطر فعلا جميل وفاتن بمكونات طبيعيه جدا
سأضعه في القائمه المفضله ان شاء الله
عطر يجعلك في مزاج عالي ونفسيه رائعه
شكرا للدار المميزه دائما.. كلايف كريستيان
9/10
will – :
I own and wear several Clyde Christian fragrances. Rockrose is an awesome fragrance. It is crowd friendly and mild to the nose. At one point I was blending it with the women’s CC Cosmos flowers. It was too sweet so now I just we’re alone. It doesn’t last a very long time on me but I wear it on my skin not my clothes. I’ve purchased two bottles so far.
Ферхат – :
Sweet and nice, smells like Rasasi Hawas but less projection. I’m finished with over the top $550 dollar fragrances, Rasasi Hawas is a quarter of the price and pretty much exactly the same. It is as one reviewer stated, easy to like but dumb as hair, I second that.
charger – :
could someone please change this rose to cistus?
nurlin – :
I sampled this a while back and knew I’d have to buy a bottle. I’d been keeping an eye on the usual discount sites waiting for a bottle to pop up at a good price and one finally did, so I snapped it up.
This is really smooth stuff. It’s a fairly linear scent, but it really doesn’t need to change much. It’s beautifully blended rose and lavender with some very nice fresh spicy notes. There’s a little bit of wood and some subtle powder, probably from the cocoa. It’s honestly kind of difficult to pick out individual notes since everything is balanced so well.
Overall, this is a very sexy, classy scent. This is better suited to sophisticated older men, I feel. A successful businessman in an expensive suit. Very versatile scent, works any time of year, day or night. Works as a date scent, an office scent, formal events, you could really wear it almost anywhere.
Easy 10/10 for me. It is obviously very pricey, which might turn some people off, but if you’re a collector of high-end niche scents you really can’t go wrong with this one.
кацо55 – :
‘Nobile VII – Rock Rose’ opens with a hesperedic accord featuring the tart freshness of bergamot. Black peppercorn and neroli flower offer a counterbalance of piquant spiciness and sweetly indolic floralcy respectively. The combination of citrus, spice and floral top notes in perfumery is certainly not groundbreaking, but in ‘Nobile VII’ it is done so in a sublime way. With a deft hand and a painterly effect, the contradictory notes mingle into one intoxicatingly exuberant scent. The eponymous rock rose appears in the mid-range, accompanied by lavender, violet and clary sage. Rock rose’s earthy, balsamic scent shines here, featuring its warm ambery undertones. The pairing of lavender and violet flower helps to soften the composition while still allowing the rock rose room to breathe. Clary sage offers a balmy, woody aroma (not much unlike the smell of loose wet tobacco leaves) which helps to amplify the rock rose further in the forefront. The base of ‘Nobile VII’ is comprised of a unique pairing of notes which include cocoa, amber, patchouli, and vetiver. Amber and cocoa seem the most predominant, continuing the warm rich tone set in the top and middle notes. Faint hints of vetiver’s dry woodiness and patchouli’s denseness can be appreciated well into the drydown.
As a men’s cologne in the styling of historical fougere fragrances, ‘Noble VII – Rock Rose’ excels. It strikes the perfect balance of mass market appeal while still exhibiting the handcrafted and unparralled quality one is to expect from the Clive Christian brand. At once sweet, spicy, woody, and herbal, ‘Noble VII’ unfurls itself upon the wearer’s skin in an astonishing olfactory performance. From its grand hesperidic opening to its warm and comforting drydown, ‘Rock Rose’ is currently my favorite offering from the perfume house. Women will love this scent on a man, given its ability to playfully articulate masculinity, fortitude, and sensuality all at once. With its “extrait de parfum” concentration, both sillage and longevity are excellent, and help to impart the composition with a strong projection. Easily suitable for both formal and casual settings, the versatile ‘Noble VII’ comes across as a universally pleasing scent, one which is capable of transcending the traditional constructs of societal mores. I personally will be looking forward to wearing this exquisite scent in the spring and summer months ahead, hoping to share the beauty that is ‘Nobile VII – Rock Rose’ with the world around me.
Read my complete review at my personal blog:
Fragranceemergency.blogspot.com
titan1 – :
Aren’t all fragrances really “skin scents”. ?
bodiaman – :
Not bad but definitely not worth the price. For some reason I get cinnamon in the mix & the projection is weak. Sits close to my skin & I don’t get much rose at all. On a scale of 1 thru 10 I give this a 5.
martel888 – :
A lovely, well-refined fragrance that oozes quality. The only problem is that it only lasted 5 hours maximum on my skin and at a price of £7 for every 1ml, it just does not justify the price tag. Sillage starts off well and is pleasant, but after an hour or two, it sits very near to the skin.
kos_38 – :
CLASS, LUXURY, NOBILITY
Masterclass in formal posh perfumes
But that price tag tho …….
And girls you can DEFINITELY swing this, ignore the ‘masculine’ tag
vening666 – :
This smells very refined and classy..although the price point is insane!!!
unseboorb – :
I’ll likely get slated for giving another CC fragrance, yet another glowing review but it deserves it. Well….’glowing’ might be taking it a bit far because taste wise, this is not really my thing. However, in terms of complexity, creativity and sheer quality, I have to doff my cap to Rock rose.
If I’m not very much mistaken the resin Labdanum comes from a plant called the rock rose? Well it would appear that there’s a type of rose call the rock rose, because the labdanum one doesn’t resemble a conventional rose? Anyway I digress, if you’re expecting a resin bomb then you’ll be out of luck because this is a fresh uplifting scent on the surface but with something slightly more sinister lurking beneath.
The opening is very bright with airy citruses and musk but with a very clean and cold feel added to by the breathy, minty vibe. It immediately strikes me as more in the Lyric Man genre of rose fragrance and as it dries down you get a little more dirt from the clary sage and a more floral feel of neroli. It’s strange because although very long lasting on my skin it evolved very differently to how it did on the card and sprayed and put in a bag while shopping. Smelling it now I do get much more of a luxurious base from it and yet more confusion of something resembling a deep leathery and resinous feel, but still with all the top notes there, even the mint. I have to say this revelation was far more remarkable than if I’d just worn the fragrance because I didn’t notice just what a complex creature Clive Christian Rock rose was.
My girlfriend absolutely adored it from the first whiff and she wore it on the same day as me. Frankly if it was hint to get it for valentines day, she can keep wanting for this price. CC fragrances seem to be constantly rising in price, the one I bought a few years ago seems pretty reasonable compared to the hike I’ve seen since. Anyway…creatively this is a winner for me and something which has to explored and worn several times or you might mistake for something more linear. Great but not exceptional.
serboz – :
Rose-based scents play well with me… luv this one!
pom4ik666 – :
I love the scent but I could never justify the price. Lol.
Evgeny151317 – :
This stuff’s dumber than hair but easy to like. What’s hilarious about it is that it smells like a merger of several bro-cheapies — a mashup of the original Varvatos, CK Shock / Euphoria, and at least one of the Zara scents too (the one that knocked of 1 Million) that morph into the same sickly-sweet base used in Armani’s diabetes-inducing Myrrhe Impériale. Although I haven’t smelled the Varvatos or the CK scents in some time, they represent a fragrance “type” — which is exactly the mode this is working in, for a laughable $550. The scent: slightly fruity, tobacco-infused, bro-amber cut with a manly-man floral bouquet (GIT’s violet leaf, basically). Given the perfume’s name, there’s not much in the way of labdanum. Sugary, plump, blurred — pleasant enough but low-IQ. If it were priced around $70, I’d consider it an appealing albeit redundant contribution to saccharine masculines. At this price point, it’s a joke but one that’s consistent with the brand’s usual vulgarity. Cheap yet expensive.
WAWAWSW – :
Like this? Try Hilfiger True Star Men for a fraction of the cost. This is nice. A bit pricy for a designer….
a.buhalkin – :
Now rock rose is even worse than Cosmos flower! a typical lime rose with neroli and clary sage beside lavender.
Nothing special and nothing new and it’s price tag is over exaggerated and quite ridiculous.
olyapavlova – :
I’ve tried this scent twice from a sample. I like it much better than its counterpart “Cosmic Flower”, even though I am a female.
On me, Rock Rose develops into a full blown crispy sweet oriental scent leaning a bit on the male side.
I see no similarities to rock rose essential oil, at least not to the kind I own. To me, Rock Rose seems to be leaning on the amyris side of scents.
It surely is worth a try, but I highly prefer V for men to this new creation.
irinosad – :
Rock Rose by CC is a very well crafted fragrance that is true to its name. The opening is undoubtedly masculine, but after the first transition occurs it becomes gender neutral – still leaning slightly towards the masculine side. The second phase slowly transitions into a green/sweet/floral/musky kind of scent, which smells almost exactly like the essential oil of rock rose (with a touch of sweetness). The dry down to the base notes is somewhat inviting (warm) with a hint of … I don’t know! I honestly think it’s the massive amount of ingredients in this fragrance that makes it difficult to define. I must say, though, it does seem to become gender neutral after a few hours, leaning towards the feminine side. But it really depends on the wearer’s skin and chemistry with the fragrance.
I strongly feel that this fragrance was well designed, however, it doesn’t draw me in or excite me (which is usually what I look for). Instead, it’s a calming fragrance that will work wonders in the heat and compliment the vitality of spring. By no means is this a head turner; it’s rock rose subtly supported by a mysterious blend that creates enough intrigue. You either like it or you don’t. Rock Rose is a fragrances that literally is in a state of constant change. On myself, I enjoy the opening, the first transition, but everything after that is not to my personal taste. For a fragrance to be great for me I need to love every phase – beginning to end – and the end, while nice, is not something I enjoy wearing.
IMHO
Scent 7/10
Longevity 9/10
Sillage 6/10
Overall:7/10
Recommendation: 1 spray of C on your chest, one spray of X on your clothes and one on your wrists, followed by one spray of Rock Rose on your wrists. After trial and error I found this combination to be very nice. I wouldn’t recommend buying Rock Rose just to compliment a combo. Unless you’re wearing it exclusively with Cosmos Flower, which is an amazing feminine combination.
Analysis:
There are essentially three different ways to smell a fragrance on your skin and it’s as simple as how quickly you breath in through your nose: fast, medium, and slow. These methods of smelling a fragrance will strongly determine which notes you pick up on the most.
Immediately after spraying Rock Rose I smell the cardamom, black pepper, spearmint, patchouli, mandarin, neroli, tobacco orange, a hint of lavender. This lasts for about 2 minutes and then the rock rose comes into play with the nutmeg and cinnamon slowly emerging. The patchouli dies off rather quickly followed by the black pepper and neroli. After a short while the nutmeg and cinnamon fade away as well. To say the least, the opening of this fragrance is extremely complex. The transition into the heart notes is rather quick (about 10 on my skin) and this allows the base notes to play their role and beautifully infuse with the heart and top notes.
After about 20-30 minutes the musk has a strong presence, and I think this is mostly due to the interaction between the many green (heart) and woody notes (base), which through combination creates a musky scent. All of this compliments the natural aroma of the rock rose, which is where this fragrance resides.
The rock rose remains present in the final phase (fourth hours after application), but many of the heart notes fade into the somewhat sweet, mildly musky base with a hint of woodsy notes. A huge shift from the opening.
abrabZext – :
While Myths Man (Amouage) contains an unrealistic chrysanthemum note, Rock Rose actually captures the flower’s essence quite well!
The flower tea is a popular summer drink in Taiwan with a medicinal cooling properly that not only tastes floral & minty-spicy, but also lightly bitter and almost tart (+sweetness from sugar or honey). The fragrance somehow showcases these facets and creates an almost complete/realistic image (I’m sure it was not intended); however, other than that it’s just an ordinary “nice” fragrance (at this price range) one can live without… I’m quite disappointed at Clive’s new direction (even his Twists were mostly okay)