The
rose quest continues!
Flittersniffer of
Bonkers About Perfume pointed me to Guerlain Rose Barbare. After wearing it for a day I am, once again, Unsure. I suspect that all of these roses will require multiple wearings.
The first couple of hours are my favorite part. There are roses, of course, and something edible and... well, I want to say fruity, but I don't want to say fruity, because it doesn't have that sugary juicy summery feel about it. If you imagine crossing peach with a thick-skinned orange, this is what the peel might smell like - dense, slightly bitter, not too wet, and some sort of fruit that is neither peach or citrus.
After that, this fragrance settles into a dusty, slightly bitter chypre-like rose - bone dry, with a barely perceptible hint of unidentifiable spice. It's
not one of Those Roses, but it's also not girly-fluttery. This combination of characteristics is a good omen for future wearings.
Review Roundup: Fragrantica and
Bois de Jasmin and
Perfume Shrine and
Basenotes and
Now Smell This and
Aromascope and
MakeupAlley and
Nathan Branch and
Perfume-Smellin' Things.
Image: By Korall. Wikimedia Commons.
Last time I wore this, I noticed fruit, with some bitterness, at the beginning, but referred to a bone-dry chypre-like rose as it developed.
