Aqua Allegoria Flora Rosa Guerlain 2013

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A limited perfume by Guerlain for women, released in 2013. The scent is floral-fruity. It is being marketed by LVMH.
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Main accords

Floral

Fruity

Fresh

Sweet

Powdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Red berries

Heart Notes

Rose

Iris

Base Notes

Musk

Perfumer

Thierry Wasser

Ratings

Scent

7.2119 Ratings

Longevity

6.398 Ratings

Sillage

5.7101 Ratings

Bottle

8.4114 Ratings

Value for money

6.320 Ratings

Submitted by TomLavender, last update on 05/01/2024.

Interesting Facts

This scent is exclusively available at duty-free shops.

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/23/2014

5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 8
Scent

Coutureguru
223 Reviews

Coutureguru

Very helpful Review 8

What a beautifully Rose tinted surprise!!

Technically I shouldn't like this fragrance … berries (fruit, my nemesis in many a frag) and musk!?!? I should be running for the hills … instead, I bought this beauty immediately after trying it yesterday in the Duty Free at Abu Dhabi International. It's just gorgeous!!

I had always been led to believe that Guerlain's AA range were very watery, more like body mists than Eaux de Toilette. Wrong!! I also tried new Limon Verde, which smells like spilled caipirinha (but in such a good way!!) and Neroli Bianca , which I fell in love with and will be buying on my return journey!

Flora Rosa opens with a jolt of Pink Grapefruit to my nose … I know it's not listed but I'd lay my head on a block that it's there! I may just be smelling the tartness of sour berries but the citric nature of the opening is undeniable! Thankfully, this 'berry' opening is not very fruity and sets a beautiful stage for a sublime Rose and Iris chord to develop calmly.
These are not red roses, they are more pink and white … subtle and reminiscent of Tea Rose … building in grandeur as if one were adding freshly cut roses to a vase individually over a period of time, enjoying the intensity of them as more and more blooms fill the air with their scent.
The faintest hint of Iris adds a cosmetic touch to the composition, giving it a slightly retro feel … lipstick-y if you will.
The (undoubtedly) White Musk that this fragrance contains is blessedly subdued by the Roses and seems to act as a fixative … more of it would have rendered this fragrance unwearable to me.
Sadly Aqua Allegoria Flora Rosa is a 'travel exclusive', making it tough to find unless one travels via large International airports frequently. It hardly makes sense that something so lovely from Guerlain would be made almost impossible to buy!

If you enjoy fresh Rose fragrances and have the opportunity of getting your hands on this I wouldn't hesitate for a second. Highly recommended as a blind buy for Rose lovers … if you don't travel, find someone who does!

02/02/2021

4
Pricing 9
Bottle 1
Sillage 3
Longevity 3.5
Scent

Jungsmama
23 Reviews

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Jungsmama

3

The bottle clouds

Since I'm an absolute Flakon girl, was quickly clear - he must get.
Quickly he was ordered, and unpacked full of anticipation. - The bottle is beautiful, no question ... whether the fragrance is good?
Sprayed on me came directly a dense cloud of dark, fresh berries.
After a few minutes it settled and a soft rose with musk emerged, but the berries were still in focus.
After about an hour, the scent has evolved so that it unfortunately only smelled like chemicals on me. Even my peers asked me what smells so chemical here.
Unfortunately, a total failure

05/15/2020

Pinkdawn
67 Reviews

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Pinkdawn

Top Review 16

Lively daytime scent, exclusively for Travellers

Flora Rosa - here it stands before me, the honeycombed bottle of Guerlain Aqua Allegorias, filled with the pale pink EdT. I got the fragrance today after I bought it on ebay at a relatively low price. Why? Because Flora Rosa is a limited edition, "Travellers Exclusive", as it says on the box. That means the perfume is only available in duty free shops, airplanes, ships, etc.
So that's how I became a traveller, without even having travelled from Vienna-Mariahilf to Vienna-Floridsdorf. But in subways Flora Rosa is not offered anyway.

It was another blind buy. I was curious about this fragrance because the descriptions are so promising to enthusiastic. The EdT is described as floral-fruity and is said to be - according to the scents - a mixture of red berries, rose, iris and musk.

Perfumer Thierry Water is no stranger to me. That's why I dared to buy it without testing it first. I already own the refreshing Pera Granita and the gentle Rosa Rossa from the Aqua Allegoria series - both of which are highly esteemed creations by Monsieur Wasser, although I only rediscovered Rosa Rossa for myself not so long ago. Although I liked the fragrance, I was disappointed by its short shelf life. So Rosa Rossa was hardly the first choice among my fragrances. It was a pleasant fragrance for almost all occasions, for everyday life, for leisure time & Co., which I like to use generously and would rather not buy again. I discovered that I was slowly becoming fond of the fragrance and that I turned to this bottle more and more often, almost automatically. Due to enthusiastic comments, I became aware of Flora Rosa and started to be interested in a comparison with Rosa Rossa.

For both perfumes, Monsieur Wasser operates with berries, rose and musk. But the fragrances aren't very similar - except that both unfortunately have a rather short shelf life and sillage.

Flora Rosa starts off by simply thinking, "Wonderful!"
The fragrance is unexpectedly fresh, pleasant, light and lively.
I imagine the stewardess walking through the airplane with this scent, smiling and spraying around a little, so that soon the whole passenger compartment is filled with this wonderful, powdery rose scent. There's hardly anyone who could resist the charm of this perfume. Flora Rosa may be a women's scent, but most male travellers know ladies who would love to have such a souvenir. And the women are probably almost all taken with so much grace and freshness anyway.
Rose scents are not always fresh. They are often too sweet or heavy. Flora Rosa bears the signs of the times and surprises with this fruity freshness of red berries, which surrounds you almost explosively - unfortunately only for a short time - after spraying. When I think of red berries here, I think mainly of raspberries, sweet but dry raspberries that remind me a little of the raspberry juice or raspberry candies of childhood.

After this first bomb of freshness, the rose quickly appears, accompanied by the powdery iris, which ensures that the fragrance does not become too sweet and remains beautifully dry. That's how you like roses today. No kitsch, no synthetic sweetness, nothing overloaded, heavy, but an uncomplicated sophistication to which one can simply say yes. The fragrance is an ideal companion for leisure time, everyday life, travel, city strolls, walks, shopping tours, bathing trips ... For the evening it seems too light, not intense enough.

For me, Flora Rosa is first and foremost a summer scent, but it is also suitable for any occasion when you want to feel fresh or refresh yourself - like travelling.
It is a good, light rose-raspberry scent that makes you feel cheerful and gives you a feeling of being well-groomed.
The musk stays rather in the background. But it rounds off the fragrance and "grounds" the airy, light, buoyant a little, without diminishing these qualities.

I can't imagine there's much wrong with Flora Rosa. It is a fragrance that suits every woman, young or old, blonde or dark-haired, dreamy or business lady. It adapts itself as a discreet companion, pleasing, pleasant, fresh - like pink roses, wetted by dew or just after the rain. The raspberries play an almost equal role and bring something youthful and lively into the fragrance.
"Sophisticated" or an intellectual, elitist niche scent that poses riddles or provokes analysis, it is not. Instead, it is likeable, easily accessible and modern.

I like this scent and will like it even more when the hot days come. It may not be a "big", "special" scent, but it is all around lovable and universally wearable.

Rosa Rossa from the same workshop, only five years later, is a bit more substantial and has more depth. The summery raspberries have turned into blackcurrants, accompanied by bergamot, lemon and lychee. Plum and a romantic peony have been added to the rose, and the (white) musk has become fine sandalwood and aromatic cedar. I read at fragrantica.de that Rosa Rossa even contains ISO-E Super. So I am not surprised that the fragrance seems so interesting to me. And not only that: Rosa Rossa seems to me more noble, elegant, mature, softer, very feminine and - due to the more contained scents - more complex, even though it is also an EdT - I took another look. The lovably impetuous, natural freshness of Flora Rosa is unbeatable.

Conclusion: One should not compare the two, but wear them alternately.