05/20/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV
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Oil versus EDP
Rose L’Orange is a fizzy orange crème petit fours enlivened with a bitter, green-tipped rose. It possesses an unusual texture that moves from syrupy to powdery without ever straying into sweetness. It feels instantly feels happy, sunny, and maybe even a little sexy, in a good-natured way. It is not dark or cluttered. The orange blossom note in Rose L’Orange also gives the perfume a mealy ‘corn masa’ facet similar to that of L’Artisan Parfumeur’s Seville à L’Aube.
While the eau de parfum stays firmly in the happy place between creamy orange and green rose, the oil version plays up the intense bitterness of the rose otto, with an edge as herbal as a sheaf of freshly-crushed lavender. Volume-wise, the oil is thinner and flatter than the eau de parfum, as if all the notes have been compressed into one line. The oil version is considerably less sweet than the original eau de parfum, even though the original itself is not terribly sweet. The oil lacks both the snappy effervescence of the original format, as well as a certain creaminess, which could be seen as a plus for men. Think of the oil format here as almost a pure Taifi-style rose otto compared to the fully-fleshed-out rose composition that is the eau de parfum.
While the eau de parfum stays firmly in the happy place between creamy orange and green rose, the oil version plays up the intense bitterness of the rose otto, with an edge as herbal as a sheaf of freshly-crushed lavender. Volume-wise, the oil is thinner and flatter than the eau de parfum, as if all the notes have been compressed into one line. The oil version is considerably less sweet than the original eau de parfum, even though the original itself is not terribly sweet. The oil lacks both the snappy effervescence of the original format, as well as a certain creaminess, which could be seen as a plus for men. Think of the oil format here as almost a pure Taifi-style rose otto compared to the fully-fleshed-out rose composition that is the eau de parfum.