Top Notes 
Rum
Aldehydes
Pink pepper
Heart Notes 
Rose
Patchouli
Peony
Base Notes 
Benzoin absolute
Oak wood absolute
Vanilla
08/01/2025
ClaireV
958 Reviews
ClaireV
1
A mediocrity
I have to commend Rose Cut - its progression is really something. It manages somehow to lurch from a sickly sweet rum-and-aldehydes opening to a parched, mineralic dust in 2.5 hours flat. Has to be some kind of record for going from bad to worse.
The opening notes are a depressing microcosm of 'niche' - raspberry jam, rubber, rum, a pile of sugar crystals and the unnaturally white spackle of aldehydes. There's an interesting rose note in there somewhere, but it comes and goes, and its pale little flutter gets covered up by a purple soap note and what smells like me to be mint. It's the base that I really dislike, though. It flattens out into a grey, mineralic powder that seems to emphasise the very worst aspects of benzoin, specifically that kind of bitter, resinous, catch-in-your-throat facet of bezoin..
The oakmoss wood absolute, or whatever they're calling the substitute for real oakmoss, is not a real replacement at all. So here we have the dry, salty woodiness of oakmoss but without the entrancing, deep inky sludge facets of the real deal. Again, like with the benzoin, this perfume is emphasising all the least attractive facets of the base materials and discarding the parts that make them smell interesting. The patchouli is too pale and polite and cleaned-up to make any kind of impact. The rose has done a disappearing act. It has well and truly been "cut".
The opening notes are a depressing microcosm of 'niche' - raspberry jam, rubber, rum, a pile of sugar crystals and the unnaturally white spackle of aldehydes. There's an interesting rose note in there somewhere, but it comes and goes, and its pale little flutter gets covered up by a purple soap note and what smells like me to be mint. It's the base that I really dislike, though. It flattens out into a grey, mineralic powder that seems to emphasise the very worst aspects of benzoin, specifically that kind of bitter, resinous, catch-in-your-throat facet of bezoin..
The oakmoss wood absolute, or whatever they're calling the substitute for real oakmoss, is not a real replacement at all. So here we have the dry, salty woodiness of oakmoss but without the entrancing, deep inky sludge facets of the real deal. Again, like with the benzoin, this perfume is emphasising all the least attractive facets of the base materials and discarding the parts that make them smell interesting. The patchouli is too pale and polite and cleaned-up to make any kind of impact. The rose has done a disappearing act. It has well and truly been "cut".
