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rosy ray of hope
The early evening of a grey day like today, when it has been raining for hours, is a good opportunity to comment on a summery scent of roses and let yourself be carried away by it.
So a little bit of summer hope comes to me: already longed for now!
Some fragrances from ID Parfums Paris/Isabel Derroisné have often attracted my attention.
The fact that they are only enjoyed by a relatively small circle of enthusiasts is probably due to the fact that, as far as I know, they are only marketed by the cosmetics company Dr. Pierre Ricaud.
So today they are doing the same thing as the very first fragrances by Yves Rocher did back then: they are only available by mail order.
Thus, they receive relatively little attention. Although many of them can easily keep up with some of the common fragrance creations found in drugstores.
Some of these fragrances are even very original and tell beautiful stories that are worth listening to.
A few days ago I received a sample of the new summer scent "Rosa Folia".
Leslie Girard created here a lovely bouquet of roses that would delight any woman in flower form.
Here, too, you can feel female creativity based on good, solid craftsmanship.
I mean this in a really positive way: everything that is created with love and devotion is simply beautiful!
"Rosa Folia" immediately enchants with its summery fruitiness: blackcurrants with their slightly bitter yet sweet spice meet delicately dosed pink pepper.
This introduction is underlined by a mixture of berries, which I can't exactly define (there might be a hint of raspberries in it) and the noble aroma of the rather rarely found rosewood.
Unfortunately, some tangerine peel (according to the brochure) was added again; with this, the usual synthetic note appears in the fragrance for a short time.
What a pity, in my opinion this is an addition that the perfumer could have done without.
Fortunately, this element that disturbs me loses itself quite quickly For this an incredibly rich heart of roses opens up: immediately I think of the heavy flower heads of full-bloomed old-fashioned scented roses!
A walk in the sunlit rose garden, where this queen of flowers is still herself and not an artificial plant, appears in my imagination.
The memory of one of the paintings of Claude Monet's rose garden in its bright colors comes to my mind.
The impression of a midsummer afternoon, perhaps at the "hour of Pan", when thick contented bumblebees and many colourful butterflies stagger through this rose garden and the cicadas offer their loud adoration to their supposedly so mute women, seems almost perfect.
I'd like to be there right now! (Outside it's still raining!)
This so pleasing fragrance dream is based on probably light, pleasantly scented woods, which are embraced by a rich woody ambergris chord.
The small yet so fragrant violet fits very well into this final note: it sets the final, still missing accent on this symphony of scents.
This "Rosa Folia" is a fragrance creation which at the moment even conveys a rather favourable summer mood.
Feminine, sensual, with a touch of sophistication and on the other hand as naturally unencumbered and dreamy as a woman just fallen in love in summer.
Here this summery, very charming rose scent was captured in a classic flacon.
It lies well in the hand and its straight lines wonderfully underline the opulence of the fragrant content; a little more than this almost-purism would have been too much here.
Rose scented friends should perhaps give this "Rosa Folia" a chance.
I'm pretty sure: she'll make it worth their while!
So a little bit of summer hope comes to me: already longed for now!
Some fragrances from ID Parfums Paris/Isabel Derroisné have often attracted my attention.
The fact that they are only enjoyed by a relatively small circle of enthusiasts is probably due to the fact that, as far as I know, they are only marketed by the cosmetics company Dr. Pierre Ricaud.
So today they are doing the same thing as the very first fragrances by Yves Rocher did back then: they are only available by mail order.
Thus, they receive relatively little attention. Although many of them can easily keep up with some of the common fragrance creations found in drugstores.
Some of these fragrances are even very original and tell beautiful stories that are worth listening to.
A few days ago I received a sample of the new summer scent "Rosa Folia".
Leslie Girard created here a lovely bouquet of roses that would delight any woman in flower form.
Here, too, you can feel female creativity based on good, solid craftsmanship.
I mean this in a really positive way: everything that is created with love and devotion is simply beautiful!
"Rosa Folia" immediately enchants with its summery fruitiness: blackcurrants with their slightly bitter yet sweet spice meet delicately dosed pink pepper.
This introduction is underlined by a mixture of berries, which I can't exactly define (there might be a hint of raspberries in it) and the noble aroma of the rather rarely found rosewood.
Unfortunately, some tangerine peel (according to the brochure) was added again; with this, the usual synthetic note appears in the fragrance for a short time.
What a pity, in my opinion this is an addition that the perfumer could have done without.
Fortunately, this element that disturbs me loses itself quite quickly For this an incredibly rich heart of roses opens up: immediately I think of the heavy flower heads of full-bloomed old-fashioned scented roses!
A walk in the sunlit rose garden, where this queen of flowers is still herself and not an artificial plant, appears in my imagination.
The memory of one of the paintings of Claude Monet's rose garden in its bright colors comes to my mind.
The impression of a midsummer afternoon, perhaps at the "hour of Pan", when thick contented bumblebees and many colourful butterflies stagger through this rose garden and the cicadas offer their loud adoration to their supposedly so mute women, seems almost perfect.
I'd like to be there right now! (Outside it's still raining!)
This so pleasing fragrance dream is based on probably light, pleasantly scented woods, which are embraced by a rich woody ambergris chord.
The small yet so fragrant violet fits very well into this final note: it sets the final, still missing accent on this symphony of scents.
This "Rosa Folia" is a fragrance creation which at the moment even conveys a rather favourable summer mood.
Feminine, sensual, with a touch of sophistication and on the other hand as naturally unencumbered and dreamy as a woman just fallen in love in summer.
Here this summery, very charming rose scent was captured in a classic flacon.
It lies well in the hand and its straight lines wonderfully underline the opulence of the fragrant content; a little more than this almost-purism would have been too much here.
Rose scented friends should perhaps give this "Rosa Folia" a chance.
I'm pretty sure: she'll make it worth their while!
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