Rose Anonyme Atelier Cologne 2012Cologne Absolue

Rose Anonyme (Cologne Absolue) by Atelier Cologne

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7.2 / 10 184 Ratings

Rose Anonyme (Cologne Absolue) is a perfume by Atelier Cologne for women and was released in 2012. The scent is floral-spicy. It is being marketed by L'Oréal.

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Perfumer

Jérôme Epinette

Fragrance Notes

Top Notes	Calabrian bergamot, Chinese ginger, Turkish rose
Heart Notes	Turkish rose absolute, Somalian frankincense, Malayan oud
Base Notes	Indonesian patchouli, Indian papyrus, Benzoin Siam

Ratings

Scent

7.2 | 184 Ratings

Longevity

7.2 | 137 Ratings

Sillage

6.4 | 140 Ratings

Bottle

6.9 | 134 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 14.12.2020.

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01/17/2019

8.5
Scent 8
Longevity 7
Sillage 7
Bottle

Minigolf

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Minigolf

.... "I'll teach you the tones of the flute."

.... said the "snake charmer" and looked resolutely into the basket in front of him, in which a cobra sluggishly waved her eyes and eyeled him slightly angry.
Then "Ranja" let go of his instrument when someone spoke to him quietly: "That's probably just the wrong melody", this someone said quietly cheerfully. "It sounds so pregnant and a little sad what you play. Something fresh, "spicy" should come from there. Something light and buoyant it should be..." Ranja looked up, looked at the stranger and replied slightly perplexed and questioning: "Do you really think that?...Could be...Could be...Could be. But I'm not feeling so happy right now..."
"That could change" the other chattered cheerfully and held a square bottle of pink liquid in front of him. "With a few splashes of it on your neck and head your mood will probably improve and encourage your flute playing. Your snake will thank you too!"
Now Ranja curiously held out his "collar" to get some sprayers. The other laughed mischievously and... "Pffft... Pfffft... Pffftonic voila, the Lord! MY water. Trace and inhale..."
After a few minutes Ranja made big eyes, smiled and was stunned. "Hey, you were right. Mmmh, it smells like roses! And fresh ginger...Spicy and light at the same time... and I suspect incense, oooh and....what is that?
Am I at the market of Marrakech or in the cool forest?...woods, fine and fresh...... I feel much better now."
The joyful "outbreak" pleased the "stranger". And when "Ranja" asked for the name of the scented water he just said: "Keep it with you, but it doesn't have a "real" name, I just call it "Rose Anonyme"..." waved and disappeared in the crowd.
Ranja now put his flute to his lips with a swing and the cheerful melody came into being by itself.
Even the snake didn't keep it in its basket anymore. She raised and lowered herself, wobbled her body sometimes down, sometimes up, made "eights" and garlands, and it seemed as if she was smiling at the audience...

2 Replies

05/12/2018

7.5
Scent 8
Longevity 7
Sillage 8
Bottle

DonJuanDeCat

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DonJuanDeCat

Very helpful Review 7

No, no, don't crumple the rose!

Ooh, Atelier Cologne. About a year or longer ago I was really keen on these scents. I don't know why, but somehow they had a certain attraction for me, so I wanted to test as many fragrances of them as possible. I was even about to order samples from their website if I hadn't finally discovered the scents here somewhere.

Anyway, I tried a lot of these fragrances of course, but at some point the brand went down a bit, which is only because I always discovered new fragrances, so it wasn't the brand itself. Now I got some samples of Atelier Cologne from you fragrance crazy people again, and even if I already know some of them, there were also some I hadn't tried yet. Rose Anonyme for example!

Hmm... Rose Anonyme? Well, that looks like me... because if I gave a worshipped lady a rose that doesn't know me yet, I'd probably be a little shy and give her the rose with the ugliness of anonymity (*SCHLUCHZ*)... She'd enjoy it, maybe sniff it... and then maybe crumple it up and throw it away, waaah!

Maybe I only have this thought because I recently saw the movie "Enchanting Lies" with Audrey Tautou (uuuh.... she looks good!!!). Because in the film she gets an anonymous love letter from her admirer (who is one of her employees), who also doesn't dare to confess his love. By chance she reads this letter in her shop, so that the guy in love can also see how she reads the letter. Afterwards you can see her smiling as she likes the letter. The guy has to smile because his letter arrived well, just to see the next moment how she crumples it up and throws it into the trash can!!! *sigh* :D

Well, I'll get the scent!

The fragrance:

Rose, slightly fluffy oud and ginger. That is the order in which this fragrance begins. The roses smell immediately in a rather intense way, the oud is also strong, but smells airier than usual. The ginger is hinted at, but one can perceive the herbaceous note. However, the ginger is quickly amplified with the quite strong patchouli and both have a somewhat peculiar, heavy-spicy scent mixed, which goes in the direction of rather special notes, such as cardamom, which I personally don't find soo pleasant.
Oud and these spices (which luckily smell a bit better later) are partly so strong that they cover the roses a little, so that the scent radiates like a powdery oud scent especially in the heart note.
Over time, the fragrance becomes softer, the herbaceous notes disappear completely and are increasingly replaced by sweeter notes. That means, now it smells (again) like roses, which can be perceived slightly sour, but also slightly sweet, with soft, gentle notes and of course the oud.

The Sillage and the shelf life:

The Sillage is at first still quite strong, which might be mainly due to the Oud. Later, the charisma goes back a little, but remains a longer time over good smellable at one. So you leave a fragrance cloud everywhere where you appear :D
The shelf life is quite good, as you can smell the scent for over ten hours.

The bottle:

The bottle is rectangular with strongly rounded sides or edges. On the front side you can see a dark purple label, which has been put a little to the side, but reaches around the corner to the back of the bottle. In the background there are line patterns forming the letters of the word 'cologne'. On the back there's a little text with a story, but I don't know if that's the case with every fragrance. The lid is cylindrical and wrapped in leather. It's a nice bottle.

Yes yes,... once again a 7.5er rating from me... a rating that I quite often give, but you probably noticed that long ago. You should know that 7.5 points means the following for me: A beautiful fragrance, far better than the average, but still not outstanding. For me personally, it is not a fragrance that I have to buy unless I find a good offer of it. But a bottling of 7.5s is definitely worth it for me, as well as recommendations, because others might like them better. Theoretically, if the price is right, one could not do anything wrong with fragrances starting from this rating, but one should not expect anything unusual for a long time. Oh,... Ratings are sometimes hard :D

Here you can smell roses and oud as main scents. The herbaceous notes are a bit too special, especially at the beginning or in the heart note, but weaken in the further course, nevertheless you should test this fragrance yourself before you order it blind or so, since roses, oud and the herbaceous special could not necessarily meet everyone's (or every woman's...) taste.

Its fragrance makes it an all-rounder for me, so it can be used at any time of the year. During the day, I'd put it on a little more discreetly than when I went out.

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08/21/2015

LicoriceRain
57 Reviews

LicoriceRain

Helpful Review 2

Roses and Coffee?

I don’t usually care for anything rose-scented, but lately, after reading about the new Carolina Herrera fragrance Burning Rose, I decided to search for something featuring rose and patchouli. Rose Anonyme has more OUD than patchouli, so that’s a big minus in my book. (Not everybody is crazy about oud!) I was hoping that patchouli would be blended well enough that the rose note wasn’t so noticeable, but it’s very noticeable, and the oud (and possibly the patchouli) cause it to smell a bit like coffee. Yes, that’s exactly what it smells like to me, roses and coffee. Well, this might be nice for many, but I am one of the few people who doesn’t like the smell of coffee. As with ALL Atelier Colognes I have sampled so far, I am left wanting more. Even my favorite Atelier, Mistral Patchouli, seems muddled, and off.

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12/22/2014

8
Scent

Rickbr
190 Reviews

Rickbr

Helpful Review 5

I'm not so fond of Atelier fragrances, at least of their first cologne creations, which i found perfect in technical aspects but lacking originality. I like to see that with creations like Vanille Insensee, Vetiver Fatal and Rose Anonyme they kept what they were good for and invested and what was missing, more creativity. The name seems almost ironic to me, since i was expecting another saffron-rose-oud combination, another anonimous rose fragrance that while being pretty gorgeous could have been done by anyone else. It's not the case here and i'm happy to see that i was wrong. I like this rose, it's soft, slightly sweet, powdery, and i don't know if it has saffron or note, but i do get something at the opening that makes me think of saffron, and it's an impression that it doesn't last. The oud it's not aggresive, it's and oud more in the veins of montale red aoud or maybe even the Midnight Oud, altough i don't see the similarity between the two fragrances. What stands out on this one to me is a sweet and woody background, that makes me think of one Thierry Mugler Amen variations, as if the have made an Amen Pure Rose. Montale-like rose-oud and Amen? Yes, it could be a mess, but it's has been fine tuned and it's gorgeous, comfortable, rich, a real pleasure to smell on skin.

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03/08/2014

2
Scent 7.5
Longevity 7.5
Sillage

Silverfire
130 Reviews

Silverfire

A Monstrosity Upon My Skin

Rose Anonyme smells like a smooth fruity ale, until it hits your skin; then it becomes a powdery, sharp, floral with a plastic-knives-in-your-lungs two-feet projection. Smell familiar? It's toilet deoderizer, for the win, but it has enough smooth citrus underneath to invoke nausea. It radiates for hours and hours and even scrubbing it off only dulls the scent, but doesn't remove it completely. This is as bad as Silvern, and Isse Miyake for men -- two scents that became monstrosities on my skin. Now an unholy trinity of stench has been formed, with Rose Anonyme joining in the shadows beside the other two.

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07/28/2013

8
Scent 10
Longevity 10
Sillage 10
Bottle

Tar
261 Reviews

Tar

Missing Category

I would like to kindly ask www.parfumo.net to put in the Type section something like: Cold. Or: Timeless. Or maybe: Metallic. I desperately need these categories to say something about Rose Anonyme. I want to catch a man on the street, grab him in my house and use Rose Anonyme on him insanely!

I strongly believe that creators could not give better name to this work of art than Rose Anonyme: rose is there, I feel it but it is hiding somewhere in the moonlit night. This is a scent should worn only midnight. Creamy but cold, also metallic and staying away from everyone on its own majestic procession, so it emits almost the same gift on different people. I think every scent containing a lot of papyrus is floating over the time and gender, like OPUS I and ROSE ANONYME, so I am totally amazed and a bit scared. Even if I take it off every day from the shelf and sniff it, I put it back without using. Not an easy-to-wear, since makes you unapproachable and demands for dignity.

This fragrance will stay with you in your mind.

3 Replies

03/03/2013

8
Scent 7.5
Longevity 7.5
Sillage 5
Bottle

Miaw2
339 Reviews

Miaw2

Brilliant

One word: brilliant.

Forget about medicinal oud smell. Oud here is light and clean.

Rose Anonyme is a gorgeous blend of sweet and delicate roses with a decent lasting power, great sillage and projection.

Opens a bit citric then turns to a rose+oud+vanille smell that's stunning.

Reminds me of Montale's White Aoud because of it's sweetness, but Rose Anonyme is less medicinal in the opening, also less sweet when dries down.

Unisex for sure.

Absolutely thumbs up!

Updated December 2013

11/30/2012

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Helpful Review 6

cologne redux

The proposition of crossing the bright effusive tenor-like quality of an eau de cologne (the genre, not the dilution) with the concentration of an eau de parfum is a wonderful idea, but is not particularly new. Previous attempts have tried to make the classical edc notes (citrus, herbs, etc.) last all day. The only success from this approach that occurs to me is the typically male, cologne-like chypres from mid-20th century France such as Chanel’s Pour Monsieur, Monsieur Givenchy, Rochas’s Moustache and Eau d’Hermes. Rose Anonyme twists the challenge and brings the sentiment of an edc to new accords. Rose Anonyme comes off fresh-faced and pretty like a cologne, but has the patience of an EDP. It's simplicity is easy to wear, but it is far from simpleminded.

Skipping the solely citrus focus of an EDC, RA instead plays on a number of facets of Rose scents. The lighter, brighter aspect of rose, initially highlighted by bergamot, give way to a loud, rosy pink peony quality, and eventually to a dusky rosewood like feel. This is all filtered through a reedy incense and a metallic musk. I think the "ginger" note is a red herring, redirecting our focus so that we read the synthetic quality of the musk as something more botanical. Not exactly Nature Boy, I say wear your synthetic proudly. This is a wonderful and inventive perfume. Don't bother feeding me the nature trip.

Not just beautiful to wear, RA is that refreshing reminder that there are new ideas to be explored in perfumery.

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10/15/2012

6
Scent 7.5
Longevity 7.5
Sillage

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Angel La Rose meets Fancy Nights...

Atelier Cologne ROSE ANONYME "cologne absolue" (isn't that an oxymoron?) opens with a striking resemblance to Thierry Mugler Jardin d'Etoiles entry ANGEL LA ROSE. The first word out of my mouth was actually: patchouli. Then the rose swept in and I felt as though I really was wearing the Mugler flanker for a couple of minutes.

ROSE ANONYME continues to develop, however. What I perceive next is the emergence of a very strong and dominant papyrus note. Because focal papyrus is rare in my experience of perfumes, I have a very strong memory of it and it appears most markedly of all in Jessica Simpson FANCY NIGHTS. I'd thought that the reason why I did not take to that perfume was because it was a vat-produced Parlux juice. Now, after sniffing ROSE ANONYME, I think that it must be the papyrus which makes me less than enthused about that perfume, too.

It took me a couple of minutes to figure out what exactly it was that I was smelling, but once I did, the connection to FANCY NIGHTS seemed unmistakeable. ROSE ANONYME is a nonlinear, very interesting journey to take, but because of my papyrus problem, I won't be pursuing this creation further. Anyone who likes FANCY NIGHTS will probably fall in love with ROSE ANONYME, as the quality is much better and papyrus also abounds.

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