Snowing Rose Masakï Matsushïma 2012

A strange mixture, these aquatic, almost maritime notes - combined with a fruity candy rose. More candy than rose. If this is supposed to be peach, it would be one from Haribo. Within seconds, I find the "aquatic notes" (in the manufacturer's original lingo: "accord of frozen water") to be more hardware-store woody than aquatic. This is not starting off well.

For the continuation, "iceberg rose" is promised. Hmm, I perceive an anemic rose scent. Iceberg? There is a rose called 'Schneewittchen' that is known elsewhere as 'Iceberg'. Supposedly has a weak scent, which I unfortunately do not know personally. Weak scent... Hmm... Yeah...

The advertising text for Snowing Rose promises that we will be transported to a fantasy world. Aha, that's a second clue. What do I do if I need snow really quickly? Right, I throw sawdust. We are not showered with snow but with sawdust from hardware-store wood. Another part of the fragrance checked off.

Sawdust. Let's follow this trail further. Site visit in 25554 Neuendorf-Sachsenbande in the Steinburg district of Schleswig-Holstein. There is probably exactly as much happening there as one might suspect. Aaaaabut the place is home to the wonderful (!!!) nursery Schütt, specializing in historical roses. Occasionally, a brackish breeze may waft over from the nearby Elbe estuary while the ladies prepare their roses for shipping. I don't remember the container roses from Schütt being covered with a layer of sawdust on the ground, but perhaps bare-root stock is kept moist this way.

Most historical roses smell more intense (and beautiful!) than Snowing Rose could ever dream of, but you can't have everything. Maybe it's very windy - from the Elbe, as we already mentioned - and the aroma is largely blown away. Furthermore, the Snowing Rose rose scent (calling it a rose fragrance is inappropriate) later indeed takes on a style reminiscent of Montale. Of course not in terms of volume, I mean that watery kind with the penetrating base character.

Brackish water, light rose scent, sawdust. Fits. Wow, how that all comes together!

Magnolia? Well, one might imagine something from that direction, if one knows. There's just such a thing on the premises. An early variety that is already blooming when the last bare-root roses are packed before the summer break in April. Musk? Hmm. How do I explain the weak artificial wood musk base? Especially the banal musk? Well, Ms. P. just uses some kind of cream.

Finished. Sherlock Humbug has investigated. Howgh.

I thank Tiara for the sample.

My garden is full of roses, of various kinds, among which the Leonardo da Vinci stands out as a particularly faithful soul.

A touching sight when its pink blossoms bravely bear the first snow.
This image seems created for eternity, as time also appears frozen.

And this "standing still" is also conveyed by the scent.
It invites you to pause and reflect.

The aquatic notes are cool, flowing over a peach sorbet.
The rose is delicate and fragile - like the magnolia.
A hint of lotus adds a seductive elegance.

A fragile fragrance - viewed through the ice flowers on the windowpane.

Alluring, as snowing rose conveys both coolness and comfort.

For me, an ultimate winter fragrance.

Well, to describe Snowing Rose perfectly, I might first need to describe myself :-)
Since I have no idea about top or other notes, I will just rely on my personal taste and my everyday nose. So here I go.
I am a person who is quite open and straightforward, just like the bottle of Snowing Rose. It feels good in the hand for spraying, but due to its shape, it’s a bit tricky to just set it down; it wobbles quickly... just like me :-)
Now the scent, the scent is divine in my nose, just how I imagine a fragrance for myself. Fresh, not sweet, not heavy; I even think it fades away quite quickly... just like I did when I was younger ;-). You just spray it on again.
Snowing Rose reminds me of my youth, which is now a bit in the past. Not the scent itself; I don’t know which fruits I could associate it with..., gentle, mild fruits, fruits that make you crave more.
This fragrance brings back long-lost memories.
Of a laughing, carefree girl. A flirty, dancing, constantly in love young woman. Who didn’t think about the future, who enjoyed everything life and her fellow humans offered her.
Snowing Rose is my past, rejuvenated youthful freshness.
I have come across numerous fragrances through Parfumo that I would never have noticed otherwise. I was just looking for a forgotten scent.
I would say with Snowing Rose, I have found it.
I’m sorry that I can’t explain Snowing Rose in terms of top and base notes, sillage (I actually have to google that because I don’t know what it is :-(, yes, I’m ashamed) and with the required perfumery experience!
But the scent is like I was... young, fresh, carefree, light... and unforgettable.
I can imagine Snowing Rose on any woman who loves to laugh, who enjoys flirting, who loves life. Regardless of age.

I came across a sample of this fragrance purely by chance through another Parfumo member, which has now prompted me to write a comment.

The floral-fresh scent "Snowing Rose" comes from the Japanese fashion designer masakï matsushïma, who is known for his innovative fashion for both men and women that reflects the meeting of Japanese tradition with modernity. Celebrities such as Icelandic singer Björk, Madonna, and actors like Tom Cruise have also worn his outfits.

For me, this fragrance is very interesting because it does one thing: it plays with the tides.

As a die-hard Chloé fan, it somewhat reminds me-especially in the opening-of a Chloé scent, which is, however, more aquatic in nature. There are certainly parallels to the French fashion and fragrance house Chloé here, as the scent is carried by rose, bergamot, and peach and exhibits the classic Chloé DNA.

The fragrance smells very cool due to the aquatic notes and conjures up an icy winter landscape in my mind that slowly begins to thaw and heralds the arrival of spring. Everything is quiet, allowing you to hear the rushing of the river, which is still beneath a thick layer of ice and is seeking its way to the sea.

Somewhere in the midst of this winter landscape, a delicate pale pink rose blooms, breaking through the snow cover and gently releasing its fragrance. It looks vulnerable as it stands there, surrounded by cold and snow. The tiny ice crystals clinging to its petals have turned into small droplets of dew with the first rays of sunshine.

It is magnolia and a strong scent of lotus that lend a bit more femininity to the otherwise very aquatic undertone of the fragrance.

I am not a particularly big fan of aquatic scents, but I still find this fragrance composition extremely exciting and easy to wear.
It generally fits well into my fragrance DNA-I just have to find out if I can get used to this aquatic note in the long run.

The sillage and longevity are merely mediocre, but that doesn’t bother me personally, as the fragrance is inherently rather delicate and gentle.

Björk's song "it's oh so quiet" would fit perfectly with the fragrance and the scene described.

Oooh, Snowing Rose, what a name O_O.
I’m already caught. Snow and rose, two things I love and have stored away in a highly romanticized way.
I really like Japanese fragrances; they are often not so "busy," they are more delicate, clearer, somehow more relaxed in my perception.

The opening of Snowing Rose is floral sweet, the scent impression for me is "pink." Right from the start, there’s a note that I initially perceive as "dill"-like. A strange note, it is spicy-warm like hay, yet dusty like summer air filled with grass seeds. I believe that must be the lotus.
The pink fades to a very, very delicate rose, a gentle sunrise with a pastel blue sky in the background.
The watery notes now also come forward more strongly for me. It smells like lotus flowers by a still body of water, it is misty, but soon a storm is coming, the air is already quite humid. The scent is sweet-warm-spicy with a watery note. A warm water scent! Apparently, such a thing exists.
After a long while, the rose also emerges for me. It is a budding, green rose, very beautiful, but it remains in the background. Thus, the scent stays with me for hours. The lotus eventually becomes a bit quieter. It is the time of the magnolia, blooming powdery-white.
At some point, the flowers along with the water seem to be washed away, and what remains is a dry, clean, slightly powdery, but very quiet musk.

I really like the scent. This is all the more surprising since I usually don’t like aquatics. It is somehow original (maybe I’m just not used to Asian fragrances!) and feels very natural. It is also not sweet (after the initial sweetness has faded), which I really appreciate!
What I find particularly exciting is that the scent has a certain spicy strictness that remains until just before the end.
I’ll write it again because it fascinates me: Snowing Rose is a spicy-warm lotus water scent with increasingly powdery nuances over time.
Spicy-warm water scent!

For me, however, it was not a "Snowing Rose," rather a "Lotus before a Storm."