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01/08/2013
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Roses in the wilderness
It's pretty hard for me to find much to fault in most of the Parfums de Rosine rose perfumes, and ROSA FLAMENCA is no exception to the rule. This creation has the somewhat home-grown feeling which I have come to associate with the perfumes of this house, while still smelling very natural and appealing. I never find the Rosine creations to be slick and polished perfumes, but I nearly always find them likeable precisely because they are so straightforward and down to earth. This is a feeling which I tend to have about the perfumes of Annick Goutal as well, but I find that in the case of Les Parfums de Rosine, the perfumes are just a notch less sophisticated and more rough-hewn.
Still, they are good, and ROSA FLAMENCA offers roses ensconced among several other flowers, grass blades and some wood, although I would not have identified the latter as having derived from a fig tree. I also do not find orange blossom to be dominant, as others have reported. To me, ROSA FLAMENCA is more like a bouquet of wildflowers into which a few long-stemmed red roses have been inserted. The rose scent is stronger than that of any of the multi-colored flowers which surround it, but they are important as the chorus to the rose diva.
I was expecting something spicy--red and flaming--but instead I have found in ROSA FLAMENCA a rather pastoral scene. I actually thought that there was a touch of oakmoss in this composition, but it is not listed among the notes. There is a slight dirtiness here, but it is very light, rather like the soil still clinging to the roots of a bunch of wildflowers plucked to form a makeshift bouquet. At the same time, I also find a touch of good old-fashioned soap in the drydown.
Still, they are good, and ROSA FLAMENCA offers roses ensconced among several other flowers, grass blades and some wood, although I would not have identified the latter as having derived from a fig tree. I also do not find orange blossom to be dominant, as others have reported. To me, ROSA FLAMENCA is more like a bouquet of wildflowers into which a few long-stemmed red roses have been inserted. The rose scent is stronger than that of any of the multi-colored flowers which surround it, but they are important as the chorus to the rose diva.
I was expecting something spicy--red and flaming--but instead I have found in ROSA FLAMENCA a rather pastoral scene. I actually thought that there was a touch of oakmoss in this composition, but it is not listed among the notes. There is a slight dirtiness here, but it is very light, rather like the soil still clinging to the roots of a bunch of wildflowers plucked to form a makeshift bouquet. At the same time, I also find a touch of good old-fashioned soap in the drydown.
