Description
Jo Malone launches its new fragrance collection Rock The Ages in early 2015. The collection is limited and available from March 2015. The aim of the collection was to depict different periods of British history through the inspiration of drama, atmosphere and characters of each of the periods. The collection contains the following scents: Tudor Rose & Amber, Lily of the Valley & Ivy, Geranium & Verbena, Pomegranate Noir (reissued) and Birch & Black Pepper.
Tudor Rose & Amber evokes the bloody and turbulent Tudor era. The fragrance contains Damask and Tudor rose as well as ginger in the heart, spicy beginning of pink pepper and clove and the base of golden amber, patchouli and white musk.
The fragrances are available in bottles of 30 ml.
The nose behind this fragrance is Christine Nagel.
pek210 – :
I love this boozy black rose with a smidgeon of dirt, but just a smidgeon, so i often layer this over my figs and patchoulis to add a floral dimension. i can’t deny the goth vibe it may instill, a dark dreary castle with the light piercing through one small window landing directly on a solitary black rose tinged with red in a vase on a heavy ornate wood dressing table. but it’s not quite vampire dark. and it can stand alone as a lovely, deep dark fairly linear rose. i pass by this bottle often b/c i want to hoard the juice as i doubt i’ll find a better rose for my nose.
assasins – :
Chatoyant, to answer your question about how this compares to JM Red Roses, I find it very different. This one opens with a sharp kick of pink pepper and ginger. After a few mins, the rose comes in. It’s a dark, vintage rose that almost smells like dried rose petals to me. After about an hour, it mellows into the amber, clove and musk notes (dont notice much patchouli). Eventually, the rose dissipates almost completely and you are left with the warm amber scent tinged with clove that lays close to the skin. Longevity on this one I find to be better than most JM fragrances and also a bit more sillage. To me this is almost an oriental. It’s spicy, pungent and slightly sweet and evokes images of dancing candlelight and shadows during a royal ceremony in a great stone castle during the Middle Ages. I like it quite a bit.
Red Roses on the other hand (my favorite rose scent to date) is all rose, rose and more rose with just a hint of citrus. It features all kinds of uplifting rose notes that together smell like a late day walk through a rose garden in full bloom. Not heavy, not too mature, not too sweet at all. To me, it’s the perfect, realistic, unadulterated rose juice. I love it and it stays with me just about all day. I wear it alone and also layer it with pretty much any other JM scent.
Back to Tudor Rose and Amber, I layer this sometimes with Red Roses when I want to accentuate the rose note in it and make it more floral. I also layer it with JM Mimosa and Cardamom when I want a more complex oriental fragrance. This combo is one of my favs and has real staying power.
Hope this helps.
lan13lan – :
I’m curious about how this one compares to Jo Malone ‘Red Roses’ – comments?
kach – :
tra le fragranze che hanno come base la rosa le mie preferite sono voleur de rose de l’artisan e stella della mccartney: sono due sensazioni estreme, la prima è una rosa sostenuta dal patchouli che restituisce un allure orientale/arabo, l’altra iperfredda ed astratta. qui siamo su una riuscitissima sintesi di queste due estremità, secondo me. le prime note sono quelle dei petali freschi e di pepe rosa: un inizio pungentemente straordinario e ghiacciato. quindi si inaugura la fase più profondamente speziata, con i chiodi di garofano e lo zenzero, che guidano l’evoluzione dapprima fredda su una base resinosa di ambra e patchouli. la persistenza è notevole, il sillage idem, l’effetto generale complesso ma equilibrato. peccato sia in edizione limitata e quindi tra un po’ introvabile. ottimo!
Gireendcoonse – :
I have been searching for a replacement for my beloved pre-reformulation Stella and this is a wonderful contender. Just lovely.
rim348166 – :
Gul kokusunu çok severim. Ama ülkemizde farklı sebeplerle pek sevilmediğini görüyorum. Çok baskın ve çıplak gül kokusunun keyfi başkadır ama o tarzı bir parfüm olarak sevmiyorum. Birçok gül temalı parfüm kullandım ancak içlerinde sadece bu aralarından sıyrıldı. Yumuşak, sıcak ve güçlü. Amber ve gül on planda arkadan patchouli el sallıyor. Serin havalarda çok şık bir akşam parfümü olacaktır. Doğulu bir havası yok, daha çok batıya yakın. Koku dağılımı ve kalıcılık oldukça güçlü. Eğer biraz kuvvetli gelirse aynı markanın french lime blossom parfümü ile “layering” yapabilirsiniz. Hem hafifliyor hemde daha zenginleşiyor. Aynı markanın oud-rose karışımı da çok keyifli ama bu türde karisimlardan çok farkı yok ve fazlasıyla oryantal kalıyor. Onu başka bir parfüm ile hafifletmeye çalıştım ama olmadı. Kısacası gül seviyor ve hem kuvvetli-sicak hem de batılı olsun diyorsanız aradığınız parfüm bu.
demians89 – :
Strong rose laced with pepper opening without too much of sweetness. When the rose recedes, patchouli and spices peek through. It is edging, not a pretty or flamboyant rose. More intense than Labo Rose 31 but paler and less complex than Portrait of a Lady. I like this a lot.
Skif7543 – :
This one took my heart the first time I sniffed it. I hate falling in love with limited editions and thought I’d let it go. There are so many rose-patch out there I’ll just find a replacement. “A sample is enough”, I thought.
But Tudor Rose & Amber is unlike other roses. This is a particularly fresh spicy rose that still gives a dark impression. Minutes into the opening pink pepper is gone and in replacement is a boozy, fragrant rose. And yes, this smells exactly like what everyone said despite not very easy to imagine: wine-like, edible, “chewy”, thorny and warm. What stands out for me in TR&A is its border-line masculine clove and ginger note. Together they blend beautifully with the bed of dark rose petal and white amber. This perfume lasts a good 7 hours and projects enough for me to get wafts from time to time. On me this is also much, much less sweet than Jo Malone’s Velvet Rose & Oud, and radiates with more freshness.
If personifying this perfume I imagine TR&A to have a secretly fierce personality that contrasts its good look and manners.
And yes, My tiny bottle is on its way to me. When I can spend equal amount of money for an alternative of POAL at a third of the price I don’t see why I shouldn’t.
P.s. I never smelled the old Stella, but I can guarantee TR&A is 10 times better than the new Stella. If the preformulation Stella did smell like TR&A I can see why old Stella is so pricy now, and that people register on this site just to ask for a proper replacement (which is this!)
aisha981 – :
To me this read more sharp and spicy than rose or amber-y. After it settled down I like it, but didn’t love it like I was hoping to.
angel_jansulu – :
You cant go wrong with this one if you like roses. Spicy, sweet, warm rose. Oh this is stella maccartney rose and midnight poison kind of scent with cloves in it…
Sultry is the word
xswqaz – :
Must have for the rose lover! Dark, red, rich velvety roses…the rose jam kind. Almost wine like roses. Thick, chewy and almost edible. Dash of pink pepper gives it a little spicy edge and the amber and musk keeps it from being too fresh or soapy. The patchouli gives it a bit of woodiness and an edge. This is more of a baroque rose, not a fresh rose. This could even pass as gothic. I just love the stuff. Only drawback is it is JM so it doesn’t last forever. I usually feel the need to reapply after 4 hours. But this is truly a rose for rose lovers.
BOOBHEROHOW – :
I have a 3 ml sample of this and am loving it. Very good longevity and silage, damask rose that smells like the very fragrant roses of old plus an amber note that adds a mysterious dark quality. To sum up it should be sampled by all. I’m sure it will be loved by many.
notebook2011 – :
This is a potent, thorny, POAL-esque rose. It suits its name, and it definitely feels like cold hallways, leafless trees, heavy, ornate gowns, and red velvet. I wouldn’t mind giving it another go, I think I’m yet to be convinced of a better, darker rose than the sublime JHAG Lady Vengeance.
serg81287 – :
Strong fragrance and beautiful with longer continuity in the beginning does not accelerate but after an hour or more starts stirring curiosity and have a sweet smell + Roses
yaroslav- – :
Tudor Rose and Amber is a very warm, sexy, full-on rose fragrance. The opening is strong and reminds me of Tom Ford’s Velvet Orchid. Then is morphs into scent similar to Stella McCartney’s Stella and Jo Malone’s Velvet Rose and Oud. For a moment, I get a bit of Jo Malone’s Pomegranate Noir, too. They dry down really mellows out and I get amber, clove and rose. There’s a metallic edge to this fragrance that’s most detectable in the dry down and makes this fragrance a little more “masculine” which is perfect, because it helps it to not be too sweet. It’s quite unisex, in that regard. I plan on wearing on date nights and mostly in cooler weather, but I can also see this being appropriate for formal events. Longevity is excellent at 6-8 hours and possibly longer on some skin.
If there was a Jo Malone that is similar in spirit to Tom Ford and By Killian, Tudor Rose and Amber is it.
It’s limited edition, so try it out and stock up if you like it. I recommend!
Xeroxsygnv – :
I love a good rose, especially an edible rose. This one is a wine soaked mulled wine rose jam. The beginning is spicy with the ginger and clove announcing their presence, let about 15 minutes pass and your rose is very gently spiced and with a delicious jammy note with barely there hints of patchouli and amber.
Aleks546 – :
No one does delicious, jammy rose quite like Jo Malone. And this beauty is no exception. A definite stand out of the collection for me! At first smell, it’s a strong, sharp rose with a metallic tinge (supposedly supposed to resemble the blood of the Tudor era), but then it mellows out to a delicious, sweet, jammy rose. The ginger and clove are present, adding a lovely little spice to the mix. I fell in love with this at first smell and purchased three of them! (Since they are limited edition!)
And on a side note, it mixes absolutely AMAZINGLY with one of my other all-time Jo favorites Blue Agava & Cacao! Turns into a yummy, almost edible chocolate covered rose jam! Delightful!
PICK THIS BABY UP WHILE YOU STILL HAVE A CHANCE! I know they are flying off the shelves! At least at my Nordstrom! 😉
anakim – :
This is my first Jo Malone fragrance, and what a wonderful first it is! The initial was like getting walloped by a big, thornless bouquet of dark red roses. Very intense for only a few seconds and then it calmed down into a warm dark room with a fire in the fireplace to keep away the chill, and a vase of roses sitting on a table, basking in it’s glow.
The amber isn’t powdery at all, and it blends beautifully with the pink pepper. I’ve thought that some roses smelled like gingerale or even beer. The ginger used here really brings out that chord. Everything contrasts with the rose in a way that supports it, creating a real, living rose. And not a hint of synthetics on me.
Wearing this makes all that snow outside feel like a good thing. Winter can be nice when you are safe and warm at home with some roses.
Will definitely be getting the full size bottle for next Winter.
sonuk – :
I don’t agree that this is boooooring!!!! It is a beautiful warm rosy scent with a bit of a kick. It could be used for day or night. I bought it yesterday and am constantly smelling my wrist!!! As you do. It is similar to Stella McCartney’s Stella, which is not a bad thing as this was my wedding day perfume. It is also lovely combined with Pomegranate Noir, and I am going to try it today with Blue Agave and Cacao. It reminds me of Spring and all the good things to come, blossoms, sunshine. I hope they make it a permanent fixture. Not a knock out perfume but very beautiful. I get the pink pepper too. Not at all like Red Roses, which I dislike.
r00s – :
Boooring. Smells like a typical rose scented room freshener; very synthetic and totally unimaginative.
igor_soshnikov – :
I tried this one today at a Jo Malone store. Hmmm. It’s a pretty scent. However, I found it very similar to Velvet Rose and Oud. Jam-like rose, but maybe a bit sweeter (too sweet). I don’t really smell much amber, and It’s kind of similar to many other “darker” rose scents out there. A wonderful smell, but perhaps nothing unique??? Still thinking I’d like a bottle, but slightly disappointed.
Longevity and sillage seem to be good with this..