Rose Cardin by Pierre Cardin
Bottle Design:
Frederico Restrepo
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Rose Cardin 1990

7.9 / 10 37 Ratings
A popular perfume by Pierre Cardin for women, released in 1990. The scent is floral-chypre. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral
Chypre
Woody
Spicy
Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
RoseRose ApricotApricot BergamotBergamot
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Blackcurrant budBlackcurrant bud JasmineJasmine CardamomCardamom
Base Notes Base Notes
CistusCistus SandalwoodSandalwood PatchouliPatchouli OakmossOakmoss

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Ratings
Scent
7.937 Ratings
Longevity
7.932 Ratings
Sillage
7.630 Ratings
Bottle
7.243 Ratings
Value for money
8.711 Ratings
Submitted by Bergamotte, last update on 09/18/2025.

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Sillage
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Scent
Skydiver19

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Skydiver19
Very helpful Review 12  
Rose ride on Pegasus
Dab, sniff, eyes up, eyelids closed - here comes the rose! And in 3D! You are immediately standing in the middle of a wild, uncastrated, ripe flower. It is rich pink - no, rather pink, and exudes its essence as if there were no tomorrow. It is neither loud, nor soapy, as some might fear, nor sweet - it is simply an originally full fragrance that beams at me here.
At the beginning, the fragrance rides on a shimmering ray of light, what am I saying: it gallops! It is dewy and sparkling, and off it goes into the fullness of life. It's a fine ride, my hair is flying, I lift my weight out of the wild rose saddle and the thing beneath me seems to want to take off. And I am so ready...

Soon the flight with Pegasus changes to a more leisurely canter gallop. And now the scent environment, which has now changed beyond my perception, reaches me again. The color has changed to a deep warm crimson, and the petals begin to close over my head. It becomes very intimate here, the velvety softness of the petals touches me almost physically.
It's not just Pegasus who is now gathering his wings to lie down, time also seems to slow down. Everything may now come to rest, but not in silence, rather in eager anticipation of what else may emerge from the subtle movements in the fragrance cosmos.

And the calm gives birth to a dark-fruit fairy who carefully drapes a transparent robe over everything, gradually blurring the boundaries of the known world. The dark fairy realm takes over space and me. A new world rises from the depths of the now purple-black blossom - or do I descend to it? -
Dormant time expands, seems to swallow everything, to want to absorb it. What initially appears as a sleepy twilight now opens up to the viewer and invites him to approach its mystery.

Not everything is revealed, nothing really - just a feeling, a vague sense of ... no, it is not tangible, not graspable in concepts. For the mind it is only dark here, but for the senses there seem to be small hairline cracks in the curtain that suggest an unreal, bright space behind it. And which he wants to explore carefully.
But as he gets closer to the interface between the worlds, the desire to explore it disappears, transforming into a simple, peaceful existence...
And here my feet feel the mossy soft earth, which smells delicately of sandalwood and is overgrown with blooming cistus. The happiness of this earth delicately reveals itself to my supporting foundation and caresses every single toe.

It also remains rosy in the base, no longer wildly playful, but settled and serious. However, nothing more needs to be done or achieved. It is enough to simply look at life and enjoy the exchange of experiences between the dewdrops of the moss and the roses.

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Fleurrare

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Top Review 13  
Every rose has its thorn
Like the Dinah Eastwood song where she sings that every rose has its thorns, Cardin's rose strikes me. It is zero playful and very serious, almost dramatic. Out of the bottle, it smells deceptively soft and fresh. After application, it shows its tough side. Not sweet at all, surrounded with tart tones the composition already gives an almost cutting tone that leaves an overall cool impression. I suppose the perfume fits very well in the age of emancipation. Although rose traditionally represents rather the soft feminine side, it is not shown here from its gentle side. I also perceive stems and thorns in the fragrance. Is really ingeniously composed. The whole fragrance is really dedicated to the rose, the other notes are just there to frame and emphasize the rose. She is the queen here. So far, I have not been able to get excited about any solo note rose. This one is versatile on the one hand, but I really only notice the rose in its various aspects. Like all the chypres I've encountered so far, the scent does a great job of evolving on my skin and it never gets boring at any point. I perceive a certain austerity. If anything, this fragrance conveys concentration and sets a mood of serenity. I would probably wear it more on occasions where I want to be extra focused. It's probably the grounding base notes that make the mind think clearer and cooler again. I imagine to the fragrance a rather calculating madame, who is intent on own advantage. But that is already head cinema! I let each / his own rose bush to imagine and leave it at that.
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EvangelineEvangeline 9 months ago
8
Sillage
7
Longevity
9
Scent
Hard to believe these dazzling rosy chypres were once so common that I managed to take this charmer for granted...that's no longer the case.
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RossinioperaRossiniopera 5 years ago
Deep, juicy, wine-like rose-patchouli chypre. A fine specimen of its genre, but you must like patchouli to enjoy this, and sadly I do not.
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