Description
Stella McCartney: “I showed an old-time picture of a rose to a designer. Just imagine a luxurious flower, heavy and beautiful; its petals fall off just by your gentle touch. I would love to keep this frail beauty, this moment of perfection in the perfume.” The designer of the perfume is the famous Jaques Cavallier. No matter the reputation of rose perfumes as old-fashioned, Stella, with her classical retro chic, stands apart from the batch of new perfumes and attracts attention with her peculiarity. In the top notes there are rose oil, peony and a gentle touch of fresh tangerine. In the heart of the perfume there is rose, whose gentle scent is emphasized by the deep note of amber in the base. The perfume was made in 2003. The nose behind this fragrance is Jacques Cavallier.
Gravicapa – :
I can’t believe I’ve never reviewed this fragrance. This has been my signature fragrance for over 10 years now. In 2006 I visited Paris with my Mum. I was 15 and we went into La Galleries Lafayette, and my Mum said I could buy a fragrance. At 15 this was my first ‘proper’ fragrance. We laughed because we travelled to Paris from London, only to walk away with a British perfume!
I tell you this story because my Mum passed away almost 5 years ago, and this scent will forever remind me of her and that trip to Paris. I could sit here and list the notes blah blah blah but sometimes a perfume review just has to say what it means to you. All I know is that I will always have a bottle of this and when I wear it I feel close to my Mum.
VLADRA – :
Quiet and sophisticated. Ideal for office and the occassions you want to wear perfume but don’t want to be imposing. It is floral, but firm, well finished, like soft sound of the sea somewhere in the background.
alexei08.2008 – :
This perfume is very distinct & unique there are many rose scents out there but this one was just polished precisely & beautifully , it has this alluring bold silkiness to it that makes it ultimately elegant to say the least this perfume screams out ” The Secret Garden”
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jmq822JeomiWogkig – :
This is EDP I am reviewing. Just a bit too much of everything – too much peony and too synthetic of rose. 20 minutes in the fragrance turned bitter on my skin. Just not my cup of tea.
SNAIPER – :
Now I think the key is how you spray. So far Stella wasn’t my type of perfume because I have sprayed it too close to skin. It was like natural rose oil. Icky.
Today I sprayed it from distance, big poof and then it was a Moment. Amazing citrus accord was there and all details have fallen to places making pretty picture of realistic vase full of velvety, just picked flowers, still full of life and oils in their dark red and pink petals.
Stella has attractive floral thick sweetness that surprisingly pleases even mine saccharine infused soul. I think gourmand lovers would enjoy this perfume as fresh summer alternative.
stasseactiown – :
Review of the original formula: nice fizzy, rose and peony scent. Nothing synthetic in this composition. I enjoyed wearing this 15 years ago but my taste has changed so I don’t have the urge to buy it again.
gefil – :
I liked its smell quite a bit. It is a subtle modern rosy scent (not an old lady’s smell whatsoever). However, I wouldn’t repurchase it since it was too weak and never lasted too long on my skin.
romeo_49 – :
I really want an old phormula of Stella! Love rose fragrances!!
tzepeh – :
I am very late to the hype of this but I got there at last and so glad I have. I needed time to understand rose as a fragerance and appreciate they are not all “granny-ish” this is stunning. Sweet fresh warm rose. With a delightful amber base. I love it. Very similar to Juliette has a gun miss charming but the staying power on Stella is better (for me) and this one seems slightly fresher because there is no musk.
wtb855Unlogrere – :
Oh Stella… How happy I am to have you on my beautiful perfume tray. I tried the new formulation at Sephora & I even ordered a sample from Ebay to give it a fair chance. However, it was like I was spritzing air onto my wrist… Seriously. It was like fairy dust. Spray, poof, & gone. But THIS! This Stella has some teeth, and she bit softy because she is a Victorian Queen.. Mmmm I love her. No need for wrist sniffing because this Stella is wafting in the air. I see yall side eyeing me for falling in love with a fragrance that has been discontinued for 4yrs now. Well.. Better late than never 🙂 I have a full 50 ml bottle that I’ll just have to spray sporadically. This feels like a bottle of Rose Wine to me. So beautiful..
Longevity- Unknown as of yet because this was love at first sniff.
Sillage- Who cares as long as I continue to get these beautiful wafts all around me.
Regrets- That I am so late to the game..
Sucre – :
Gorgeous…rich and warm and floral. The rose is lovely; a gorgeous old tea rose with a bite of rose Turkish Delight.
Масямба – :
Rose and amber, delicate and beautiful.
It can smell a bit like candy initially but the bloom on this fragrance is just lovely.
I had the old formulation (2003), not sure about the new 2014 version.
This perfume was way ahead of its time.
UntorkDognoro – :
A true rose scent that is inoffensive and modern. This may sound strange but for me this is a scent that somehow smells even better when my body heats up. Originally I tried a sample and I went to the gym later, while doing cardio I found myself actually smelling better the more I sweat. So weird but totally sold me on it as I have never experienced that before. They also did a great job on the bottle, it is beautiful.
Chimitcyren – :
Freshly cut roses sprinkled with dew drops. Stella went from a solid like to a deep love for me. In a sea of many forgettable florals, Stella is a unique floral that begs attention. She’s elegant, classy & a head-turner in warmer climates. Reminds me of those huge floral arches you see in weddings. Stunning performance with a grandiose feel to it. Forces you to up your game, dress up and wear make up to match it. If you like florals, you can’t go wrong with this. Spritz sparingly, or not if you want to fill the room with your whiffs and keep being reminded about this beauty for days on your clothes.
xatberg – :
This is definitely a true rose smell, but not the garden variety. This smells rather like red roses from the florist. It smells very elegant and grown up, but not necessarily mature. It is a beautiful scent, but not necessarily my favourite among rose scents.
From the notes I get more or less only the rose and peony notes, and later the amber. Sillage is kind of just right. It is not annoyingly strong in the kind of way when you constantly notice it. But you don’t need to stick your nose to your skin to notice it. Longevity is ok, it starts to fade in about two hours, but sticks around for most of the day.
My main problem with it is a strange one. It changes very notably over time, not the notes, but rather the personality and characteristic of the perfume. When sprayed, it is a very fresh rose, and would work well as a everyday perfume. Then it starts getting darker, and darker. In a few hours it is a deeper rose-amber-scent that would work better for night time events. I find that generally I want one OR the other of the perfumes phases. Not both.
As for the last point. Perfume does act different on different skin. This might not happen on most other people, but for me this was a deal breaker.
karrabas – :
I really advise you to wear Stella when the temperature is a little warmer, wherever you may live. She doesn’t bloom in the cold. I bought Stella about six months ago as a blind buy, based on reviews and the fact that I can’t resist roses – growing them, wearing the occasional rose motif on clothing, and in fragrances. At first I was disappointed. No depth, no amber, little silage or longevity, just a soft rosey scent. Money not well spent I thought.
That was at the height of Summer – please let me explain. In the hot, unbearably humid sub-tropics of Australia, we live like nocturnal creatures, only emerging from our air conditioned homes, offices and cars after dark. Stella was muted by the artificial cold. Today it is mid-Autumn and I am wearing her in my garden, where she belongs. If I came across a real rose with this scent, I would be very well pleased and tempted to buy it. Money well spent after all.
InhiniVex – :
When people used to write about reformulations, I used to think they were making a huge fuss about nothing. With Stella, I understand. The 2003 (original) fragrance was fresh, uplifting roses. The new, 2014 version is harsh bathroom cleaner. It’s sour lemon! Stella, what have you done?! I love modern rose scents and thankfully have Roses de Chloe and Rosabotanica, but if anyone can tell me where to buy original Stella, I’d be so happy. Thanks.
entebarabuche – :
well, well. my first bf from 15 years ago gifted me a travel spray of the original stella, along with 3 refills. i thought this was too intense for a teenager. i thanked him and tucked it away, spraying it only when he was around LOL. i just found it in my parents’ home, along with odds and ends from college. i sprayed it again, so many years later, and WHOA. i love it. here’s how i’ve changed…. i’ve read about and smelled so many more perfumes now than when i was 15. i’ve developed a clear taste. i’ve been on a long search for the perfect rose perfume. i have a basis for comparison. and of course, i have changed—as a person and a woman. today the original stella smells like a unique, fresh rose. less amber-y than ‘mille et one rose’ and just barely not “old lady” intense. i see why that was my impression years ago; stella is an unmistakable rose. however, it manages to stay buoyant. i prefer aerin ‘rose de grasse’ and for a real statement guerlain ‘nahema’. but this is a nice date scent, or even office scent if you don’t mind getting noticed (more typical in european and middle eastern offices than american). finally, i have to add to the chorus and lament that this formula is discontinued. i tested the latest stella at sephora and it is NOTHING, absolutely nothing like the original. it’s weak, not as unmistakably rose, and kind of generic. really too bad about all these fragrance regulations!
romancrimea – :
This rose made my day today!!! What a discovery!
I bought this perfume more than a year ago, tested it right away and was totally unimpressed. Thought people just got mad raving about this. Tossed it at the very back of a drawer and happilly forgot about its existance until this day…
Today I was in the mood for a rose scent. From the very morning I was searching for THE rose scent. Went through SL La Fille de Berlin, Rose Praline, Twill Rose, the Body Shop Moroccan Rose, 2000 et une Rose, Cafe Rose… Tried mixing some of them… I was desperate and then I remembered about this hidden bottle.
OMG. It pushed all the right buttons. It is such a mood picker upper on a dreary wintry who-the-f??k-stole-the-sun day!!!
Now I am f!!king happy.
Shubin_misha – :
Does anyone have this formulation for sale?
Franchuz – :
Classical Arabian Rose, that is all I get from this one!
karu38 – :
my poor nose just captures the ambery notes in this perfume… no roses or peonies.. very sad…
simple-poker – :
THE scent is gorgeous! Romantic, clean, rose, & peony <3 But the lasting power sucks!!
I own Chloe roses which I feel these both are quiet similar so I’ll stay with my Chloe roses
FusrorryFence – :
I don’t like rose scents but I’m a sucker for musk and this delivers. It smells very Arabian (think incense, smoky oud, etc) yet clean. I absolutely loved it and it was my going out fragrance. It’s kind of weak for that but gets many compliments. It’s a solid blind buy but I wasn’t impressed with its power/lasting strength and I normally don’t like rose anyway. It’s very modern yet timeless and I can see it being an office fragrance if applied sparingly.
ood954speagoessenda – :
A pleasant musky rose. A well balanced, powdery rose fragrance with slight detergent edge. There’s something a little tart and something a little watery in there, too. A very calm, lady-like fragrance.
tbd894Negeltzex – :
I still own this 2003 version.
It’s a beautiful rose scent! Very feminine and elegant.
It’s amazing and it lasts for hours, the drydown is divine.
Another masterpiece of Mr Cavallier, rose and peony on a warm amber base.
A must have for rose lovers. I adore it.
This is one of my most complimented perfumes.
The new version (2014) is still beautiful, but it’s slightly weaker and the rose note is less potent.
придурок – :
Ha! Never been a rose smell lover (except on a flower itself).
I discovered this perfume, pretty much as soon as it hit the shelves and I loved it. For some reason, it was perfect scent for work I felt. Went through two bottles of it, back to back.
Years later, I found Fragrantica and lo and behold, there was no end to my surprise that Stella is a rose perfume!! Ha, ha..
Feel like I could go back to it again 🙂
emanzurov – :
Stella is everything I hate in a rose fragrance: dusty, musky and old without that vintage smell of essential oils, civets and musks (increasingly banned and therefore nonexistent in post-2000s fragrances). Yes, Rive Gauche and Nahema are intense rose fragrances, but they are “vintage intense” and have a beauty of their own. Stella is not that. It’s also not a light, fresh, dewy, modern rose like Aerin Rose de Grasse.
My ex-boyfriend bought this for me and raved about it. I thought it reeked.
There is something in it I like: a part of the rose that smells true perhaps. But it’s smothered in so much I dislike that Stella is a definite scrubber on me.
brutalik – :
This was my first perfume love, and I use perfume very slowly so I have the original formula of this. It’s such a fresh, light, sophisticated rose. This inspired me to seek out many other versions of the amber and rose combination, and all of them have been deeper, heavier fragrances. This one is like roses on a summer breeze.
Typok12 – :
My husband bought me some of this back from a work trip.
It was summer and I would say this is a summer scent.
It’s very rose heavy
Pleasant but nothing to write home about.
blesswowforever – :
It’s funny that on some ladies it reeks of old rose scent and on others it is so beautiful. I decided to give it a try as my Manager smelled lovely with Stella EDP. I can smell very rich and strong roses at the beginning, but after half an hour the fragrance settles down to this cosy, warm rose with a hint of something that I can’t describe. This ‘something’ makes Stella very unique, and totally different from its opening. The opening reminds me of The Body Shop Moroccan Rose, indeed, but there is no similarity when both fragrances settle down – they are totally different. I would wear it during cooler days though, too rich for summer days.
doorhandpua – :
Stella rose this parfum o my god is so beautiful. I wear the parfum for the first time when I marry my husband. Is a perfect wedding perfume for summer. Smell like summer roses. I smell mandarin and tangerine orange and a big pink peony flower with the rose. Is missing some green leaves or stems like actual rose and is not like real roses but is beautiful. When the parfum is dry on the skin is warm and musky also with amber. The parfum does not last too long but smells good and other people near me can smell it when I wear her. A clean and sweet fruity rose parfum. I wish this came with a shampoo or body wash because it would smell so good to put it on and make the parfum stronger. I do not know about the other parfums in this line Stella Rose Absolute ? But I do like this original. Perfect summer rose parfum for women. I am sorry my English is no so good.
bkd982speagoessenda – :
I loved this for a very long time.
I bought this because it was the most wonderfull scent on a guy I met in a photo shoot (good chemistry on gay men by the way with all respect).
but my bottle went stale in like 3 years
It really changed the way I felt about it. From a classic it went to like a bleh I can’t wear it anymore?
Still maybe from a fresh bottle you will get the red roses. I remember this is one of those few scents as soon as you spray it on you fell ready to conquer the world.
It was a contemporary fell on roses but now it’s like vintage?
Am I getting old?
f60968 – :
This is a very nice rose fragrance 🙂
It is modern yet classic. I think this fragrance goes perfectly with a slightly vintage inspired feminine outfit.
tepliy80 – :
Classic vintage rose. Mature. Elegant. Sophisticated. Really classy. Not the soapy cheap kind.
Silage anf longevity are really good and smell remains pretty much the same all the time. Very feminine.
A must for all rose lovers.
UXedrictW – :
Popular fragrances are often so for a reason. And this, in my humble opinion, is popular because it’s a masterpiece.
THIS is THE original, beautiful, feminine, classic British rose.
Much copied, much emulated. But I don’t care HOW many other (mainly British) women I sniff this on…or HOW many other (definitely not British) perfume houses I see try to copy this…nobody does it better. And popularity can’t dissuade me (no perfume snobbery here).
I adore Stella. My signature fragrance throughout my thirties and for a good reason. Its sophisticated but easy to wear. People recognise it, but only ever (in my experience) in a good sense.
Peony, citrus and an unlisted forest fruits lurk here ..but essentially, Stella is THE benchmark modern rose fragrance. Hands down. There is no competition.
synderon – :
I’m on my second bottle 🙂 smells like rose, blackberry, and incense.
gazikfan – :
In the hunt for the perfect rose perfume, all roads lead to Stella. Recommended by all here, I had no choice but to cave and buy a rollerball to test. And I’m so glad I did! For sure, I’ll be buying the full size, and this may become my signature scent.
This is the pure rose floral my heart has been desiring. I put it on this morning and proceeded about my day. As I sat in my car running an errand, all alone, the scent of fresh cut pink roses filled my car like fluttering butterflies, and made me feel feminine and beautiful. Every place I went, the fragrance of roses followed.
This scent starts with rose and sticks with rose. Not roses and raindrops, not roses and white flowers. Just big, blooming, fresh roses warmed by the sun, maybe an ant crawling across a petal, bees buzzing about, heady and delicate at the same time the way roses are. A descerning flower-lover may also get peony;it adds a minuscule drop of sweetness. . But citrus? Not to my nose. There is amber, but it’s the sticky kind, the one that another fragrance attaches itself to, not one that stands warmly on its own. In this case, stuck to the amber is all rose and that is beautiful.
Wearing this perfume is like is carrying a perfect bouquet of hand-picked roses, all in full bloom just a day before the petals drop. It envelopes you with beauty. I’ve been wearing it all day and I’m still holding the bouquet, unwilted.
It has lasted 10 hours on my skin so far. Sillage seems good, although nobody was near me, I continue to get big, lovely breaths. When people here recommend something, or even just say what perfume carries a specific scent, trust them. Of course, every body chemistry is different and so each fragrance will be different on everyone, so you must test. I’m not sure I’d have realized that Stella was the rose perfume of my dreams without all the brilliant noses here. What in the bottle or name says “This is pure rose?” Yet it is.
If you like a fresh and real rose perfume, I don’t think you’ll be sorry with Stella.
Manko – :
This is a definate case of the bottle not matching the scent. Stella is a delicate, soliflore skin scent with sharp, crisp, green rose layered with citrus in the top. I do not get any amber on my skin. I wish I would have found this during my rose water perfume phase, as it would have been perfect. Sillage and longevity are basically non-existant
lysfure – :
Beautiful fresh alluring and lovely scent shame longevity is poor you have to keep spraying it consistently but unique and definitely the best floral perfume!
Carlo – :
smelled this off of a paper sample. Absolutely breathtaking, with the mix of floral and amber, keeping it feminine and soft, while adding a little something in there that makes it stand out. Will be testing it out on my skin in the future and I will love to do a more official review of it. So far, I really do enjoy this one.
artur_94 – :
This is ghostly and cold and breathtaking in cooler weather. Candied ripe rose petals and golden amber to ground it. Beautiful drydown. Mysterious and perfect for a fall walk. Sophisticated and ultra-feminine. Love!
Vanea1969 – :
First I have to clarify, I am by no means a perfume expert. I simply know what I like.
I fell in love with Paris Premieres Roses. I love it. It reminds me of my grandmother in the very best way. Not because she wore a rose scent, but because she loved, and grew, roses. BUT, it is an EDT and fades more quickly than I would like. So I did some research, trying to find a perfume with a similar scent.
Everything I read said Stella was a solid rose perfume. So I felt comfortable blind buying it.
Today is my third day wearing it and I have to say, from beginning to end, I don’t smell a single rose. I grow roses. I know what roses smell like. I can’t imagine a single rose was harmed in the making of this perfume.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate the perfume. I rather like it. But to my nose, it’s nearly 100% powder. Perhaps even a very expensive powder. But not rose. And it doesn’t change. From the moment it was airborne out of the sprayer, to now, 9 hours later, it smells the same. It lasts well. I can still smell it………but not roses. Just powder.
** Edited to add…..On my way home from work it dawned on me that this perfume was reminding me of a cheap knockoff I used to wear in the 90’s. It was either faux Giorgio Beverly Hills or Giorgio Red. THAT is what I think of now, smelling Stella. A cheap knock off I paid less than $10 for at Walmart.
logvinov1980 – :
I feel like, if you love rose jam, you’ll for sure love this as well. That’s what I imagine the whole time when smelling it and it really is a rose fragrance done right. Very clean and balanced. Still, I prefer and was hoping for something more complex.
djekki11 – :
Well I don’t know if something is wrong with me but I really am not blown away with this perfume. I love rosey perfumes and my holy grail is roses de Chloe.
And to be honest I like it much better than Stella… stella is indeed a nice rose perfume but it’s also rather boring. It’s just rose from start to end, whereas roses the Chloe has really awesome development. But that’s just my taste. In no way stella is a bad perfume or anything.
Melanie_fromAF – :
Even though the bottle does not represent the juice inside….
This is rose at its BEST!!!!!!
No perfume trying to be a rose, no perfume reminiscing of rose.
Of all the roses…….
This is authentic rose.
I love to give verbal Oscars to the best ones of their category….
Out of all the D&G´s,Trussardi´s and Elie Saab´s roses…..
The Oscar goes to STELLA!!!!!!!
dlexy – :
One of my holy grail perfumes. I never want to be without a bottle. Reminiscent of a rose garden early in the morning, when the blooms are full and glistening with dew. The touch of citrus and white amber give the scent some weight and structure. I adore Stella and never get tired of it. The original version is still my favorite. A masterpiece by Jacques Cavallier.
mgt498Bessinepome – :
This is jammy asf! almost like raspberry preserves made with rose water
Calaliairee – :
Stella is just fabulous! Simply gorgeous. I love her perfumes. They are such beautiful roses. This one is so gentle and refined, soft and delicate roses. Beautiful. Perfect. I get compliments, compliments, compliments when I wear it, which is a lot. I just love the gorgeous bottle, and the colour, and it lasts so well on me. It stays beautiful for 10 hours and more. It’s so beautiful.
shh-tv – :
I bought stella and florabotanica on the same day!two aspects of roses,two aspects of me…I find myself yearning for stella when I feel more down to earth,more mature,more of a mom,warm and comfy!but sometimes I smell florabotanica and I smile like a little devil…definitely more airy…like flying…
natasha – :
Last year I was a hardcore rose lover,back then I tried to buy every rose dominant perfume that I was able to put my hands on but always all of my searches ended to stella Mccartney which wasn’t available in my country and I heard it’s discontinued
I sill like roses but not mostly as a dominant note.Ofcourse they’re always some exceptions.it’s always good to have a well crafted rose perfume in your collection.needless to say when I found stella available in instagram page of Eiffel_shop with a bargain price I had no choice but order it ASAP.I’m very glad I did
As I said,I’m not a rose lover as I used to be so I don’t want to collect all rosey fragrances but I believe all women need to have at least one good rosey perfume.stella isn’t my most favorite rosey perfume but it’s among very good ones.I like it and I find it wearable and balanced
Rose is the dominant note here but orange and peony add a fresh and bright quality to rose and prevent it from turning to a classiccompletelyc rose.there’s also amber to add sweetness and ground other notes with it’s warm quality and prevent them from becoming sharp,cold and metallic
I prefer to wear it in spring but I believe it’s easily wearable year round in case it’s not too cold or hot.longevity and sillage are both good.more than moderate and it’s more than my expectations for such a delicate scent
Stella McCartney is simple,almost linear but it’s also ageless,timeless and deserves all the bright reviews
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P.s:I don’t know what makes me to think of a purple rose while smelling it.maybe it’s just the color of bottle but I think I can smell something like litchi or a hint of berry like fruits
igoriks – :
I thought I had reviewed this scent ages ago, but I just realized that clearly I haven’t yet..
I ordered this wonderful scent years back in several samples when I first started my exploration in the perfume world, then I was gifted a 30ml bottle. Back then I did not appreciate this fragrance much and ended up letting it go. If I knew it would be so hard to get the original version nowadays, I would probably think twice.
All these past years, I smelt it a few times somewhere and I would always be stunned by its beauty. I’m not very big on floral scents, but to me this is the best rosy scent and the perfection of rose fragrance. It’s a delicious and sweet rose scent with a touch of freshness..it smells heavenly and perfectly balanced with all the notes..high end and modern..again this staff is heavenly and extremely womanly..the sillage is great and longevity is decent..the packaging is top of the line personally..To me the scent is very versatile and can make a brilliant signature scent. Hot, sexy and classic!
torres3a – :
stella opens with a burst of freshly cut roses. not the intense deep dark burgundy roses but the velvety red roses. it is a lovely radiant slightly sweet scent that is very pleasant and not overwhelming and that’s about it from me for stella has all but gone within the first hour.
bodnarkk – :
This is a STELLAR rose perfume! Subtle and sweet with incredible sillage and longevity! Gentle and beautiful. Expensive, but worth the price!
medik-35 – :
Stella is not just another rose perfume
I thought this was like some of you have said, a bit similar to Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet, because it does have those same notes of rose, peony, amber and mandarin orange citruses, but I think this is a much better fragrance because everyone knows that Blooming Bouquet doesn’t last longer than any of those cheap Victoria Secret body mists.
No offense to VS perfumes but they don’t know how to make a good rose perfume.
Finally you have here a Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet rose perfume with stronger projection and better longevity.
The first spritz is definitely citrus in the form of mandarin is sweet and bright, fresh and perfumy.
The rose blooms quickly and lets you know this is a womanly rose scent. A tad outdated by today’s standards but that’s not a bad thing.
If you like rose fragrances this is one of the better ones out there
A gorgeous absolutely beautiful bouquet of pink roses
For me this is a pink rose perfume despite the purple packaging. It’s romantic and soft, yet very strong at the same time.
Stella is beautiful, confident and mature and a perfect gift for Valentines Day!
My husband bought me this perfume 3 years ago on Valentines Day and I liked it so much I continually buy it once I’m finished with it.
A gorgeous and very well crafted rose perfume
fitchew – :
This is a lovely clean fresh rose scented laundry detergent type of smell but that’s a good thing.
At the first whiff I get a fresh and citrusy scent of mandarin orange peel which matches up with roses on bushes. If you ever stop and think about what roses (and rose bush) smells like it has a similarity with the scent of citrus, particularly oranges.
It has a little hint of Tea Rose by the Perfumer’s Workshop and also Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet.
The peony floral note is present in both Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet and this one and it’s all the flowers they need. If you like roses and peonies, this is a lovely pink bouquet of roses and peonies.
Stella is dainty and feminine, soapy, clean, and sweet.
It makes me think of a princess in a pink gossamer gown or a ballerina. Totally a perfume for a prima ballerina.
This is quite pleasant and pretty.
The dry down is an amber but it’s there to provide it with a clean finish.
Amber is also there in Tea Rose so it’s this dry down – after the citrus note – that totally reminds me of Tea Rose but this is more subtle and softer. One might even say that it’s faint and a skin scent.
If you have no issue with rose fragrances and they work well on your skin this is for you.
Unfortunately longevity is an issue for me.
This perfume could have lasted a little longer but while it’s on me it sure smells great.
Casual and cool
Perfect for spring and summer
It matches up with anything pink
Pink dress shirts or blouses, pink T shirts, pink high heels
This is a pink colored fragrance!
Pretty roses
ThehT – :
la recensione si basa sul profumo nella sua prima versione, antecedente al 2014. nonostante la mia idiosincrasia nei confronti dei floreali, e i profumi a base di rosa non fanno certo eccezione, questo accordo è per me meraviglioso. la rosa qui non è polverosa, dolce, caramellata, o quella dei vecchi rossetti, ma è piuttosto una rosa fredda, come di petali messi in un freezer. questa nota così astratta e ghiacciata è sostenuta ai primi spruzzi da una manciata di sentori agrumati e guidata, poi, dalla peonia, che la rende quasi acquatica, e che la accompagna, gentilmente su una bellissima base ambrata. stella è un profumo persistente, con una bella scia che, per quanto fresca, non dispiace d’inverno. ottimo.
SaNyEtChEk – :
Nope. Too clean and sharp for my liking.
Very ordinary and overpriced.
This reminds me of British Rose by the Body Shop which, too, I do not like.
Meudn499InsuffBooni – :
This scent was good while it lasted. It was posh without admitting you had money. It was confident and cool. It didn’t try to hard and I appreciate that. Pretty and trendy, this perfume has upturned collar and a moisturized face with a hint of mascara, a dab of blush and a sheer barely noticeable lip stain. Pretty for its time but forgettable. Worth the money but would not buy again, it’s out-trended.
solovei474 – :
This fragrance doesn’t necessarily smell like men’s aftershave, but something about the scent gives it that quality. Maybe it’s the synthetic vibe I get from the smell? That’s not to say I think this fragrance is unisex. It smells fairly feminine to me.
I imagine a business woman on the the go, not a seductress. I don’t think it’s suitable for a night out on the town, unless you’re dressed in all black and wearing a blazer.
The kind of woman I imagine wearing this is someone who would wear Stella McCartney handbags, particularly the edgy ones with the shiny silver or gold hardware.
I’m sure this sounds super duper subjective like most fragrance reviews, but I still wanted to give my 2 cents 😀
versusx – :
I still have some left of my bottle bought in 2004. Never tried the newer formulations, actually. I remember Stella being different from the other new launches at the time. Must admit I