Perfume Calligraphy Rose 2013

Perfume Calligraphy Rose by Aramis
Bottle Design Tarek Atrissi
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8.1 / 10 365 Ratings
A popular perfume by Aramis for women and men, released in 2013. The scent is floral-oriental. The longevity is above-average. It was last marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Main accords

Floral
Oriental
Spicy
Sweet
Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
SaffronSaffron HoneysuckleHoneysuckle OreganoOregano
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Turkish rose absoluteTurkish rose absolute MyrrhMyrrh StyraxStyrax French lavenderFrench lavender
Base Notes Base Notes
FrankincenseFrankincense LabdanumLabdanum AmbergrisAmbergris MuskMusk

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
8.1365 Ratings
Longevity
8.4286 Ratings
Sillage
7.7296 Ratings
Bottle
7.9277 Ratings
Value for money
7.932 Ratings
Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 12.01.2024.

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Schwälbchen

21 Reviews
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Schwälbchen
Schwälbchen
Top Review 17  
Of good resolutions and farewells
You are already a great group here on Parfumo and I very often enjoy friendly exchanges, stimulating comments ... AND ... of course the one or the other fragrance post, which my well-intentioned resolutions ... Well, you might know that too...

The package reached me last Thursday at an advanced hour. The joy about the carefully compiled content lasted only a short time, because immediately afterwards our eldest son rumbled into the cosy evening round and announced that his much-loved four-legged roommate suddenly didn't look so good. Her condition did not allow her to wait until the next day and so she had to be put into the experienced hands of a veterinarian that same evening. Once you have decided to live an enriching life with animals under one roof, you bear responsibility. This also includes one or the other unpleasant decision. And so we wished the elderly lady a good last journey after two days of intensive veterinary care. During these two days of hope, anxiety, chaos and disillusionment, I was accompanied and comforted by a fragrance selected by the dear SchatzSucher with unerring accuracy. I'd rather thank you Sven for the exquisite melange of the rehearsals and the honour that I can test these treasures.
Perfume Calligraphy Rose begins for me with a pleasant sweet-spicy prelude. It's a well-dosed 'herbal' sweetness. Not long, and the rose appears. And what a one. Not a teenage fresh rose. No, this one is slightly candied and reminds me a bit of a fruity liqueur without being sticky. I find the comparison with a rosendesert in the previous comments extremely apt and elegant. Oregano and lavender skilfully prevent the rose from slipping into the pompous heaviness and give the fragrance a kind of lightness. The wearer*in is enveloped in a protective, comforting, supple soft fragrancetaura. Warm amber and discreet incense accompany this beautiful rose for many hours. The shelf life is good with 8 hours. The initially strong Sillage is increasingly receding on my skin after more than 3 hours. This all doesn't sound so exciting now, but Calligraphy Rose is a real nose connoisseur. Further down in the comments a comparison to Tauers "Une Rose de Kandahar" has been drawn. Although both perfumes approach the rose theme similarly, the Tauer is "coarser" in the composition, louder and more self-confident. Well, if you're looking for decency, you won't go for the tauer. In a direct comparison, the Calligraphy Rose is clearly ahead. It is wonderfully balanced and manages the balancing act between spices, sweetness and a clear rose. Actually (and if a sentence already begins with "actually"...) another fragrance was preferred as the next purchase. Someone who's been on the wish list a long time. And there it still stands, because I'm all over this soft, warm, gentle fluid and I'm hoping to find a bottle left over.
My thanks go to SchatzSucher: dear Sven, thank you very much for your mail. With effort and thought you have chosen the treasures. The new fragrance experiences are a real ray of hope. And with sophistication and intuition, you've vamoosed my good intentions.

This weekend we said goodbye. My kids baked a cake. It was written in sugar with "Farewell Rosie" on it. Show must go on.

Namaste ;)
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AgnesEva

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AgnesEva
AgnesEva
Less helpful Review 7  
Like a rose garden...
A very strong, smoky, creamy-spicy rose, bombastic performance, lasts forever without being overwhelming. Belongs to every collection and will go down in the history of fragrances. It hails compliments from men like women when I wear this fragrance and it has, despite mega flag yet no one complains.
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7.5
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Drseid

819 Reviews
Drseid
Drseid
Top Review 8  
Powerful Powdered Rose...
Perfume Calligraphy Rose goes on with sweet honeysuckle mixing with deep rose with mild saffron spice support. As the composition moves to its early heart the sweet honeysuckle and mild saffron spice remain now in support, as the rose strengthens into the star, joined by co-starring powdery lavender. As the composition moves through its heart the honeysuckle turns to more of a sweet strait-up honey, as the lavender powdered rose gradually adds in a prominent smooth styrax derived incense-like undertone. During the late dry-down the rose and lavender dissipate, revealing relatively clean musk and slightly powdery vanilla in the base. Projection is outstanding, and longevity excellent to outstanding at 12-14 hours on skin.

Perfume Calligraphy Rose has been a composition on my radar for quite some time, but its limited distribution made trying it always just out of reach. Finally having now gotten a chance to sniff the composition it is clear it was worth the wait. No, one is not going to find a super-innovative concoction as let's face it, powdered rose has been done many times before. What distinguishes Perfume Calligraphy Rose from its many competitors is its outstanding performance and solid execution while still adding a small wrinkle or two to the standard powdered rose fair with its styrax derived incense undertone and honeysuckle derived sweetness. The powdery lavender can get just shy of too powdery at times, but deftly remains just within tolerable limits for the powder averse. That said, in truth, the *real* way to enjoy Perfume Calligraphy Rose is smelling its fabulous and powerful scent trail, as the powder becomes barely noticeable, letting the rose and incense accord shine in all its glory. The bottom line is Aramis has a solid history of producing quality compositions at bank account saving prices, and while the limited distribution Perfume Calligraphy Rose with its approximate $100 per 100ml price point is about double the cost of their regular line offerings, this "excellent" 4 star out of 5 rated winner keeps their bang-for-the-buck tradition intact and is well worth a sniff (and purchase) if one can find a bottle.
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jtd

484 Reviews
jtd
jtd
Top Review 9  
Calligraphy Rose
The rose is often maligned among fumies. It's quaint, it's prosaic, it's the low hanging fruit of floral perfumes. It's lovely on the bush but uninteresting in the bottle. Perhaps the rose's greatest sin among the cognicsienti: it's common.

I see it differently. The rose’s ability to play the common denominator makes it the ultimate contextual note. Whole genres are created through the rose's affinity with woods, ambers and resins, fruits and mosses. Rose notes make the most beautiful chypres, fruity florals, florientals and woody florals. It has so many intuitive pairings because there are many facets to rose that are enhanced by other materials and notes: patchouli, oakmoss, cedar, citrus, musk, labdanum, vanilla, berry. Rose perfumes can be woody, jammy, sweet/dry, bright/dark, soft, garish, innocent or skanky. Rose is to flowers what sandalwood is to woods: the broadest, most encompassing example of its genre. The best analogy I can come up with for the rose is blood types. Rose is the AB + blood type of perfumery: the universal recipient. The rose can be paired with just about anything.

And here is the trap.

Many fumies disdain rose perfumes because, where's the artistry in a note that can't help but smell good? What good is beauty if it's common? My counter to this line of thinking has two parts. 1) There have been terrible rose perfumes, so quality isn't guaranteed. 2) Smell Amouage Lyric Woman, Vero Profumo Rozy or Paco Rabanne la Nuit and tell me that rose lacks character.

Aramis Calligraphy Rose takes full advantage of the rose and uses oud to make a woody rose/floriental hybrid. A hybrid/hybrid. The rose springboards off a light oud note to create a heady, jammy, boozy perfume with lush sillage and a long arc. Aramis clearly sees the perfume as a market-expander, a foot in the door of an Arabic sensibility and demographic. The marketing strategy is simple to the point of crass, especially compared to Amouage, a comparison Aramis would desperately like the consumer to make. But the perfume is lovely. It steps straight into the line of fire of the rose critics by being a 'feel good' fragrance. But passing the Guy Robert 'smell good' test is only the first hurdle of any perfume. From there, a perfume must then be considered in light of criteria such as coherence, balance and thoughtfulness, and Calligraphy Rose rises to the occasion.
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ColinM

516 Reviews
ColinM
ColinM
Very helpful Review 9  
Resinous rose
I am usually not a fan of rose – not at all, honestly, except for a couple of masculines - but this Aramis scent nails it completely. It manages to smell “rose”, but without that sort of haunting soapy heaviness many rose scents have (or on the contrary, without smelling like floor cleaner as many cheap rose scents). The key here is how perfectly they managed to balance rose with a smoky-dusty sweet resinous base, which is discreet but perfectly enhances the elegance and the juiciness of rose “taming it down” enough to provide some more dynamism and colour. This fragrance is quite simple actually, as it’s basically a resinous rose; but it’s really pleasant, solid, much versatile, surprisingly unisex and compelling. Nothing ground-breaking, but perfect for “mild fans” of rose which wouldn’t wear rose bombs, but still enjoy the note a bit. Silky, warm and classy. Honestly if I’d ever buy a scent with “rose” in its name, it would be this. It’s cozy, effortlessly refined and really pleasant to wear. Total good quality for the price.

8/10
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BertolucciKBertolucciK 3 years ago
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8
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8
Longevity
7.5
Scent
Oriental scent composed by a sweet syrupy/resinous rose, with saffron, myrrh, styrax and a hint of lavender. In the drydown, labdanum, amber
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