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02/03/2021
Rossiniopera
37 Reviews
Rossiniopera
A spicy winter rose
This hard-to-find perfume came to me in a happy coincidence. On a local trading page, a man was selling his stepmother's perfume collection plus a bunch of La Prairie products. He said he had no idea of their value, and asked for offers. I offered to help him put a decent price on each of the bottles, if he would let me buy three of them at a price that I could afford. We were both very happy with this solution; he sold for a lot more money than he had hoped for, and I got La Prairie!
This has always struck me as a winter perfume. It has many nuances, but the three main notes to me are rose, sandalwood and mace. Mace is the substance that surrounds the nutmeg nut, and which classifies as a spice of its own. Unfortunately, on my skin the mace nearly suffocates the other notes. It floats around like a cloud that is impossible to escape. I do like the spice, but I wish it was more subtle. It takes seven hours before the mace finally calms down and lets the rose appear in full bloom, resting on a pleasantly sweet, resinuous base. There are other spices in the picture as well, notably coriander, and a faint veil of cinnamon. The rose is supported by other floral notes, so well blended that I find it difficult to separate them, but I notice ylang-ylang and probably carnation.
A beautiful perfume, which for some reason always makes me picture a solitary red rose, standing outside in a soft snowfall, surrounded by the blue shadows of dusk, quietly emitting its sweet, haunting scent.
This has always struck me as a winter perfume. It has many nuances, but the three main notes to me are rose, sandalwood and mace. Mace is the substance that surrounds the nutmeg nut, and which classifies as a spice of its own. Unfortunately, on my skin the mace nearly suffocates the other notes. It floats around like a cloud that is impossible to escape. I do like the spice, but I wish it was more subtle. It takes seven hours before the mace finally calms down and lets the rose appear in full bloom, resting on a pleasantly sweet, resinuous base. There are other spices in the picture as well, notably coriander, and a faint veil of cinnamon. The rose is supported by other floral notes, so well blended that I find it difficult to separate them, but I notice ylang-ylang and probably carnation.
A beautiful perfume, which for some reason always makes me picture a solitary red rose, standing outside in a soft snowfall, surrounded by the blue shadows of dusk, quietly emitting its sweet, haunting scent.
