Beyond Rose Clinique (2014)

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7.4 / 10 47 Ratings

Beyond Rose is a perfume by Clinique for women and was released in 2014. The scent is floral-spicy. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.

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Fragrance Notes

Top Notes	White pepper, Freesia, Mate leaf
Heart Notes	Rose absolute, Rose oil, Osmanthus, Styrax
Base Notes	Labdanum, Amber, Benzoin

Ratings

Scent

7.4 (47 Ratings)

Longevity

7.8 (35 Ratings)

Sillage

7.2 (36 Ratings)

Bottle

8.3 (41 Ratings)

Submitted by Michael, last update on 01.12.2019.

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02/13/2019

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Bastiaan1975
2 Reviews

Bastiaan1975

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Beyond Rose

From the top, Beyond Rose seems to be following the path laid out by Mark Buxton's sheer Comme des Garçons 2: a beautiful, dry woody rose that, nevertheless, I personally find a little too stark to wear comfortably. It also takes a cue from the more recent Montale school of oudy roses, and marries CDG2's jetblack, terpenic structure to a coumarinic amber accord. That doesn’t necessarily make it sweeter, however - I also detect a hint of salt. It does make it friendlier (and more office-friendly) than, say, Black Aoud. There is a warm lightness in its heart that renders Beyond Rose more versatile than its precious packaging suggests.

10/06/2016

10.0 10.0/10

ScentedSalon
96 Reviews

ScentedSalon

Helpful Review 4

Chewy Rose

Once again I waited a long time to blind buy a perfume and when I finally did, I was sorry I didn't do it sooner. Beyond Rose is just what I wanted from a rose perfume: dark rose and spices with a resin base. It is what I wished Rosier Ardent could have been but never was. The rose is strong and sweet with a spiciness and amber. I can detect a milk note that makes the perfume dessert-like. As another reviewer described, there is a chewiness here, like nougat and rose-water lokhoum. The sillage is strong and the lasting power ok. I love the bottle and the whole look and feel of this perfume. It is a good thing ebay exists: otherwise we would never find this beauty (at a Clinique counter.)

04/07/2015

5.0 7.5 10.0 5.0/10

Gold
468 Reviews

Gold

Helpful Review 4

Clinique goes Montale

What a title - who wouldn't desire a perfume that ventures "beyond rose"? I had extremely high hopes for this one. Alas. I'm really disappointed. Coutureguru said it all in his brilliant review below: this new fragrance by Clinique seems unnecessary! It doesn't offer anything new. I detected oudh in it, although oudh is not mentioned in the pyramide, but this fashionable, ambery-woody mix of the decade seems to smell like the artificial oudh contained in countless new releases. Rose plus amber-benzoin-oudh etc. - well, we all know this is a mélange which works and smells fine. Coming from a company which used to be famous for unconventional, surprising fragrances (think of "Aromatics Elixir" or "Wrappings") and promising to go "beyond rose", Clinique's new perfume does not deliver. On the contrary, it feels repetitive. Montale did this stuff years ago.

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12/06/2014

5.0/10

Coutureguru
223 Reviews

Coutureguru

Greatly helpful Review 6

Could have been SO much more!!

So then ... Clinique (essentially Lauder) rips off Lancôme nowhere near as stylishly (just compare the bottle of L'Autre Ôud to this one), and serves up yet one more rendition of an Arabic Rose a la Wood Mystique, Perfume Calligraphy, Velvet Rose & Oud (yes, Lauder owns Jo Malone) and Sahara Noir (yes, they own Tom Ford too!!). Each are subtly tweaked to make them appear new and different ... but at the heart, I'd hazard a guess that these fragrances are all out of the same catalogue.

The rub here is that I cannot call any of these fragrances bad ... they aren't ... just unnecessary! What drives me, a total Rose addict insane, is that if one is to call a fragrance 'Beyond Rose', then imagine the possibilities that could actually exist! If I, certifiably Rose mad as I am, can find never-ending Rose heaven in something as inexpensive and simple as Perfumer's Workshop Tea Rose ... then BEYOND Rose should literally have had my nostrils a-twitter ... which it didn't,
Granted, this is a nice fragrance that I have smelled in many incarnations ... amber-ish, sweet but not overly so and definitely Rosy, straddling the gender line with a woody and slightly metallic dry down that is so reminiscent of a multitude of oils and middle eastern fragrances that can be had for pennies in comparison to this $100-plus rendition of something the Lauder company has produced before ... seemingly ad nauseum. A little web sleuthing reveals that Harrods sells this fragrance for £110 per 100ml. Come and buy it here in South Africa, where it sells for R 1135 ... or roughly £65 per 100ml ... BONUS!!! I think the powers that be realised that no-one would spend nearly double on this here ... it probably won't be around for long in my neck of the woods either ... not in the current economic climate. A few hundred Rand more gets me a niche bottle of something down here ... I'm certainly not gonna waste it on a Lauder regurgitation!
Now, as I have said, this is not a bad fragrance by any means. In fact I have rather enjoyed wearing the generous test I gave myself this afternoon. Five or six sprays to each forearm have held up generously in the Summer heat, radiating about a foot and drying down fairly well ... if a little metallic. The promotional blurb maintains that Beyond Rose is "an elegant rose with spicy undertones and a tantalizing trail of amber. Aramia's past, present and future meet in a sophisticated fragrance that is both modern and complex. Engineered to blossom over time and linger in your memory" ... mmm-yes ... OK ... who the hell is Aramia?

I really wish some perfumer out there would take up the challenge and truly create a fragrance that is BEYOND ROSE. While this Clinique offering is nice, it certainly is not memorable, sophisticated or complex ... at least not to my nose. The Lauder company continues to disappoint.

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