Rose de Chine

If you like Rose you will love this. It’s kind of spicy. The opening is a distant cousin to MFK oud satin mood but it doesn’t smell like it but seems familiar. After a while it dries down to a rosey baby powder scent. For those of you that’s familiar with the lotion called Baby Magic, it’s that plus’s the base notes. I love it.

Pink rose, fresh as if with dew on it, next to a richly fragrant peony... myrrh and labdanum envelop the flowers like fine and soft chinese silk, completing the composition. A bright, springy, airy perfume.

I agree with 90sbanana I tried it just launched in my city at the beginning of February. my expectations were high and by the notes of everyone in the "private garden collection," I thought that Rose de Russie will be my favorite, and the other ones will be just another mainstream rose fragrances. Well, I was wrong like, very very wrong. Just to make an example how I would relate to something more visual of the other twos: - Rose d´Amalfi: let me say it's a lovely fragrance, shy, but beautiful, like a Portrait of a young girl with a rose is a painting by Johann Heinrich Tischbein. That's how in a quick review I will put it. - Rose de Russie: It's a person who has a hobby and knows exactly what he/she wants doesn't go with the trends it is hard to make to change his/hers point of view. Like Ivan Morozov (taking the nationality) Just with this, I will continue with Rose de Chine. These fragrances at the first sight maintain a low profile if the SA shows you the three sisters. In the beginning, I got the smell of something like an herbal tea, the Matcha Kaori "Chazutsu" and that's it, at the beginning like the Matcha Tea you feel it strange but then it became addictive. the first hour the note of tea maintains well, it develops in the form of a cozy day just feeling the breeze and getting the smell of your tea in your hands with the Chinese Peony. Softly the Rose and Labdanum start to make more presence showing that the name is because there's a rose in this fragrance, after 6 hours keeps the two with the Myrrh in the background just feeling like a personal fragrance, something natural and beautiful. In sillage, the first 6 hours is a little bubble not so big like Rose Prick, the other 6 hours its a personal smell if you hug a friend he/she will smell it, but this is not huge like RP so I see it more for a romantic date in a restaurant, or something more just with close friends. Perfect for Spring, Summer and Autumn for day and night. Totally Unisex because the Tea and Myrrh give it a masculine touch but the Peony and the Rose counteract that notes. Just the bad thing for me (personal opinion) is that I would love a superior sillage like Angel of Thierry Mugler. In the end, after 5 tries I end up buying a full bottle because it is addictive like the Matcha Tea!!! rate 8.5/10

I’ve never been into Tom Ford fragrances, but this one got me. I walked by the display and took a quick spritz thinking that it will be just like all the others from his collection. To my surprise, this fragrance got me. It lingered on, I kept sniffing my wrist throughout the day. I smell chypre, peony, rose flowers and patchouli, a sexy oriental evening fragrance, I was hooked. I went back to the store a few days later and purchased the full size bottle. I hope it will stay part of the collection, if not I’ll have to buy a back up.

After years of searching for a rose perfume that actually just smells of fresh roses, I finally find one...and it's been discontinued! 😭 Please don't stock up from Ebay - I want to be able to buy them all.