Crown Rose Crown Perfumery 1873
5
I love the smell of dried roses in the morning...
Crown Perfumery is basically my only experience of vintage perfumes acquired as vintage perfumes--rather than perfumes which become vintage because they joined my collection before having being reformulated (which automatically turns them into vintage perfumes!). No, the bottles from Crown were discontinued a while back, when the house shuttered its stores, but they are lingering about in some dark warehouses here and there. Because no one cares about them, apparently, they are invariably inexpensive, so blind buys are not too much of a risk.
CROWN ROSE intrigued me because its description explicitly stated that one of the notes was "old roses"! What? I thought to myself, as I added it to my shopping cart. Turns out that the description is right: old roses, as in dried rose petals, are in abundance in this composition!
The perfume opens a bit discordantly, but I write that off to what all of the vintage lovers say about their treasures: that the top notes "have burned off". I never really understand what that means, to be honest, but I'll take it on faith that the short-lived jarring opening of CROWN ROSE is simply the price which one must pay when one opts to don an "old" perfume. This one could be more than twenty years old--who really knows????
The drydown, on the other hand, is quite nice and even reminds me of Creed FLEURS DE BULGARIE. I am nearly certain that there is ambergris in the base, and it's likely to be the real deal, given how old this perfume is. My bottle obviously was not produced in 1873, when the formula was created, but it also was not produced in the twenty-first century...
The scent of dried roses is decidedly vintage, which I distinguish from the scent of dowager roses (which I dislike). Nor is this a tea rose. CROWN ROSE reminds me of the spirit of vintage clothing shops, where I once bought a Vogue design purple wool jacket. This perfume, too, is sophisticated in a retro way.
I consider this to have been an excellent score--true vintage lovers, this one's for you!
CROWN ROSE intrigued me because its description explicitly stated that one of the notes was "old roses"! What? I thought to myself, as I added it to my shopping cart. Turns out that the description is right: old roses, as in dried rose petals, are in abundance in this composition!
The perfume opens a bit discordantly, but I write that off to what all of the vintage lovers say about their treasures: that the top notes "have burned off". I never really understand what that means, to be honest, but I'll take it on faith that the short-lived jarring opening of CROWN ROSE is simply the price which one must pay when one opts to don an "old" perfume. This one could be more than twenty years old--who really knows????
The drydown, on the other hand, is quite nice and even reminds me of Creed FLEURS DE BULGARIE. I am nearly certain that there is ambergris in the base, and it's likely to be the real deal, given how old this perfume is. My bottle obviously was not produced in 1873, when the formula was created, but it also was not produced in the twenty-first century...
The scent of dried roses is decidedly vintage, which I distinguish from the scent of dowager roses (which I dislike). Nor is this a tea rose. CROWN ROSE reminds me of the spirit of vintage clothing shops, where I once bought a Vogue design purple wool jacket. This perfume, too, is sophisticated in a retro way.
I consider this to have been an excellent score--true vintage lovers, this one's for you!
1 Comment
Coutureguru 13 years ago
Sounds delightful !!! ... puce with envy here :) ...