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garik – :
Sharp roses and saffron with some citrus and a leather maybe!
Quite huge on the rose side (as of the first few minutes).
when the juice settles a bit it goes rosy with a cooling background that calms the sharpness of a rose while i barely can smell the leather (if there is any). after awhile the rose sit aside and the floral comes in balancing the whole juice at ease to make the one who wears it enjoys what heshe wears.
After all im not a fan of roses but this one here is quite impressive cause it’s not the usual rose that i get to smell anywhere.
Ritisediangen – :
The souring salad that seems to be perpetually living in the back of the fridge, or that shriveled old banana hiding blackly at the bottom of a fruit basket would be, if they could be, overjoyed at finding their olfactory contributions to the world immortalized in this, I’ll say it, rather fetid fragrance. Whips and Roses is pure vegetable compost; its synesthetic color, a regurgitated green. For those who love a good green/leather combo and may have been hoping to find here something kindred to the likes of the beautiful bellicose Bandit, this Eau de Oscar (as in, the Grouch) may turn out to be rather obnoxiously noxious. Of course, there are some who are quite charmed by this scent’s punishing pungency, and who am I to judge; Secretions Magnifiques has its own chapter of rare devotees, so why not this? Wear it and you’ll, quite literally, reek of exclusivity, among other things.
vlvinnik – :
I can only smell roses with this. Maybe what Avon’s Roses Roses Roses smelled like? Needs more whips:)
prisarareappy – :
A rose, just clipped from a thorned bush, is what you get with WHIPS AND ROSES. Only it’s as upon the inhale, your nose isn’t deep into the bud but up against the stem. It smells of a real rose STEM. It’s unique, like no perfume you’ve ever sampled, but the longevity and projection are sadly thorns, too easily stripped away.
timosh89rus – :
I so wanted to love this! It sounded so interesting, a rough rose that I could wear when I want to feel tough and feminine at the same time.
Unfortunately, it smells like steamed broccoli on me. 🙁
Zakxar – :
Indeed, the opening leather is sharp (birch tar emphasis), and the opening rose is bright and sour. A strange thing happens in the heart: the combination smells alternately of tar+iris (a bit powdery and acrid and sweet) and fruity rose (sweet plum compote?). That’s pretty interesting, and worth a wearing, at least.
ibopozik3 – :
I do like this and it is fascinating to me.
The opening is some rosy floral but also really seems to have the slightly astringent ‘green’ scent that comes when you prune rose bushes. From the notes listed here I don’t understand how he achieved that.
In the drydown, this is not a pretty-pretty feminine rose. Also, although there a number of floral notes listed the overall effect is not heavily floral, but subtly so, and tempered by the citrus which persists beyond the opening.
The rose and citrus accord is similar to what is achieved in Hermes Pamplemouse Rose but not with grapefruit but orange/bergamot with rose. The leather is subtle and definitely there, but it does not jump out and hit you. It is more suede than smokey leather.
The overall effect is that it is just well balanced. It definitely seems unisex and could be worn by either a man or a woman.
It seems quite close on my skin but may project more in the warmer weather. Also, I only have a sample and I think it is something that may work better with more sprays.
This is definitely worth trying
beatapolansca – :
I wanted to love this based on what I had read. I just don’t. It starts very sharp on me, then quickly moves on to smell like dust and grass, and then it disappears. I am going to put it away until warmer weather and see if it works then.
elenaromanyuk – :
rough yet gentle; pain yet pleasure … a dungeon in the middle of a rose garden.
a scent that teases u with hints, confuses u with meanings, caresses u with pitiless seduction till u surrender to its shameless beauty.
Рittermtn – :
One of my Favourite from Kerosene!!
I just love the leather notes in here + hints of roses!!
However the dry down is just roses and a bit of a powdery note …leather disappears.
If this had a stronger leather prominence It would have been to perfect scent for me.
I am a man and I find the dry down a little too floral for me to pull off…However the beginning when the leather note is still present I just LOVE..and can easily be worn by me.
longevity is AMAZING . Silage is also quite good!
kolesja75 – :
Wow, this is potent and hard to scrub! So for longevity I give it a 10.
Overall what I get is a tiny dirty rose smothered in a dirty old leather jacket from 1945 that was stored in plastic wrap in an old attic for the last 10 years.
I had envisioned something very different especially since I freaked out over and LOVED two other Kerosene perfumes: Pretty Machine and Unknown Pleasures.
I wanted to like this, but nope, not on me. 🙁 I want to sniff this on a guy. I bet on the right person it would be awesome sex in a bottle. Maybe I should call my ex…
Nahhhh!
NOIRE – :
Oddly I pick up almost none of the listed notes in this. On my skin this smells like I just cut weeds. A blend of different green scents with a strong touch of fresh grass. I actually like it but the longevity isn’t the best.
Pelko – :
John Pegg, the perfumer of Kerosene, has a huge fan club and the hype which precedes his perfumes naturally sets up expectations. He has been hailed as some sort of Wunderkind self-taught perfumer who began working out of his garage. I believe that when he first got started, this was an edgy, cool and exceptional thing to do. These days, not so much so. Today, “self-taught” perfumers are sporing like mushrooms, as though to prove that anyone can mix essential and fragrance oils together. And of course they can: there’s certainly no law against it!
WHIPS AND ROSES to my nose is closer to THORNS AND HYACINTH. The opening smells decidedly of tea rose without the petals, as though the “rose stems”–listed thus among the notes–were thrown into a blender and pureed, the petals having been reserved perhaps for the production of an independent batch of rose water or soap.
As this perfume dries down, it smacks more and more of hyacinth and less and less of even the green part of roses. Moreover, the expansive hyacinth-like note (which may be mimicked in perfumery through the use of the very same molecules used to produce the scent of rose stems, for all I know!) mutes all of the other alleged notes of the composition.
Not a rose perfume, not a leather perfume. There is a slight powdery wood in here somewhere, but overall I find WHIPS AND ROSES to be a rather cold and sterile, muted-floral green.
bhc734Negeltzex – :
Kerosene is a relatively new house, of course their is an excitement about it. I got excited as well. I am still searching for the ONE and to be honest I have always thought that a new house could bring that to me. What would be the point of launching a new house if there is nothing new to offer to the market, isn’t it?
So given the raving reviews, I was very much looking forward to test Whips and Roses… Daring name should be given for a daring perfume.
Not fulfilling my expectations though. The initial dusty opening intertwined with some leather, well it did not bother me too much, however, then I was looking to see the evolvement. Once the dust settled, I was left with a faint rose, not a bad one but nothing outstanding to be honest.
I had to sniff superclose to my skin to get anything at all, which is quite a shame given the price. I am sorry but I have principles, such as high price should come with high quality. Then even the faint whispering rose was gone in 2-3 hours.
All those dreams about this fume, now all gone to thin air. Cure for a broken fragrant heart? Get back on the horse and see what’s next on my test-list, put through a sample order quickly. That is my way.
qwe23 – :
Kerosene rocks!
podstavkin – :
This is the kind of rose I never go for and let me tell you why. It opened with a good rose, sour and cold, but as soon as the leather appeared it turned to be weirdly metallic. I did not get any grapefruit or bergamot at all.
The heart part gets even worse. I did hope for sandalwood, so maybe this would get a bit more wearable for me, but nope, the one and only note which arrives in the heart part for me is iris, so the sour and metallic rose and leather combo is joined in by an “old lipstick like” powdery iris, and sorry, but it is awful on me.
I can understand that for some this might work as it is all about chemistry, but for me “Whips and roses” seriously lacks something.
1Mihan1 – :
This started off very screechy, almost unbearingly so. I was aghast and wondered what to do with my bottle. I decided, thankfully, to give it a chance to develop and reveal its true self. Which it did, over time. When the astringent first notes wore off, it became a velvety rose and leather composition and I understood previous reviews that described this as a butterfly emerging from its cocoon. Patience is very much a rewarded virtue when it comes to this scent. Sillage remained close to the body for me and longevity was very good. The price however is off-putting and I would rather wait for this as a gift than to buy it again. Not the safest blind buy but the floral musky dry down is worth the wait. A previous reviewer described this as a biker girl in a leather jacket and I very much agree with the analogy, but my biker girl is wearing a velvet rose printed dress in hues of pinks and reds underneath the leather.
GOG3 – :
A little sweet; very juicy with a bang of rose and background of sandalwood a few white flowers mixed in a leather glove
fun!!!
hulo – :
WOW!!!!!! This is fantastic! An opening of juicy, ripe almost edible rose whcih hangs around for a bit. Then that saucy little leather whip rears its lovely head. Oh yeah, baby!!!
This is coming from someone who hates floral scents….TOTALLY love this!!
iceiron – :
Whips and Roses 1 of 2 of Kerosene’s latest offerings opens with a beautiful and natural rose scent…over time this almost leather jacket/biker girl leather comes in and the war begins!!! There is a tussle, the nice floral girl is slowly transitioning into a darker more aggressive woman she finally gives in to the darkside by the end; however, she keeps her femininity (rose) intact. So what starts off as a wonderful rose floral, slowly becomes a floral with an edge by the end of the duration you have a darker leather with a soft side.
The journey of this fragrance is superb it as if you are looking at a caterpillar coming out of its cocoon. You see the caterpillar walk up the tree, wrap itself in a cocoon then break the cocoon spreading its wings and taking its first flight.
I have tried about 7 niche rose scents and did a little comparison battle and this one was the winner of the most unique and as long as Kerosene is making it I will own it!
I talked about this fragrance as if it is purely feminine I would say males who are sensitive to the feminine/masculine scale that this does tip towards the feminine; however, if you are confident (which I obviously am LOL) then this is quite easy for a male to pull off. I would put it 60 feminine 40 male.