L'eau À la Rose Maison Francis Kurkdjian 2019

L'eau à la Rose is a thing of beauty, but also delicate and almost ethereal. She's a pixy fairy: feminine and playful. The fragrance is the embodiment of this idea: fresh, fruity, floral but also fleeting, as it disappears from my skin in under 4 hours.

I get a nice, fresh and floral rose. It ain't carnal or heavy or cloying, it smells like a rose that still hasn't been picked from its bush. I get a subtle note of lychee: sweet, pink and fruity. Peony also acts as support to the rose note and helps it linger a little longer. As it dries down, it becomes more a musky, warm rose scent. It still stays very feminine, but it becomes a little less light and a little bit more warm.

I'm not a rose girly, but this is a very nice introduction to roses. For those who want something light and not cloying, this is a good choice. I won't be buying a full bottle as the performance is bad on my skin, but I do have to say I enjoyed sniffing it while it lasted on myself.

This was one of the four MFK samples that got me into this hobby.
For months, I blew this off as just another dusty rose and never even bothered to test on my skin. I pushed it to the back of my fragrance drawer and continued on the search to discover a fragrance that truly captured the scent of real life velvety red roses freshly cut with delicate droplets of morning dew still lingering on its petals.
Then one day I decided to give her another chance and spritzed her onto my wrist. As i went about my day I kept getting these whiffs of real life roses, so reminiscent of real roses in fact that I actually looked around to see where they were. That’s when I realized I had already found the perfect rose scent that I’d spent months searching for.
Test on skin and let it fully develop before dismissing this beauty because she deserves a chance and I now want a full bottle.

i bought this in a full size because it was the only rose perfume i constantly went back to. i used up 2 x 2ml samples. i realized that it smells an awful lot like a dewy, sophisticated version of ROSE by bath and body works. very straight forward rose scent, except MFK is more watery, and smells more like roses and not rose perfume. very flower based, not green at all imo. i bought a 1.1oz for $90 on mercari. as someone who leans toward unisex perfumes, this is one i wear when i want to feel very traditionally feminine.

I think if cotton candy had a flower, this would be it. From the name and the look of the bottle, I expected something soft, delicate, floral-musky. But the first sprays hit me with something citrusy mixed with cotton candy and rose instead.
I thought maybe I was wrong, so I had my sister and friends try it too — they all described it slightly differently, but it kept coming back to the same thing. I loved it anyway, even though sugary perfumes aren't usually my thing. It's beautiful in its own way.
Sillage and longevity go from moderate to high depending on how cold it is, but I preferred it more and more in winter. I like to layer it with the Strawberry Pound Cake body splash — gives off an irresistible, mouthwatering scent.

Actually, I only read comments.
And I would be presumptuous to want to rate it. The name of the perfume didn't give me much hope. But it has something special. The rose smells incredibly good. What’s particularly remarkable is that it doesn’t smell much on the skin but rather floats around me. With every movement, streams of this rose swirl in the air around me...
and it moves and touches me, awakening memories of beautiful experiences that I haven't really had. It doesn't make sense, but it feels just like that.
Even now, after 6 hours, it is still radiant in the air around me.
Maybe the scent is called "L'eau" because it creates the illusion of permeability and is not so tangible for me.
Even though I am in the scent stream, I can't perceive much on my skin.
I find it beautiful... to be surrounded by rose water.
This "water," however, smells extraordinarily noble, elegant, and sinfully expensive.
These roses are intoxicating and give me a lovely feeling of life.