Rose de Petra is beautiful. It is a high quality rose on top of a light weight, sweetly spiced ambery base. The spices are present but muddled and indistinct (I had hoped for a discernible cumin note but didn't find one, no clear cardamom note manifested on my skin either), the fruitiness is low key and reads as part of the pinkish sweetness of the rose, and base is an melange of soft ambroxan and myrrh. The lack of a fixative basenote listed in the pyramid above seems like a strange oversight as it's clearly present.
The good news is that Rose de Petra is very easy to wear and incredibly lovely. It's that kind of rose note that makes your mouth water even though it doesn't necessarily smell overtly edible. The bad news is that I've smelled an eerily similar fragrance that was made the same year: Aramis Calligraphy Rose (ACR). The differences are very slight with ACR having a slightly more powdery rose and a bit of an herbal note thrown in, but all that means is that ACR ends up being more complex. As Rose de Petra dries down it gets a touch soapier but still maintains the spiced resinous base.
You're going to pull up their pyramids and argue that the note lists are different. I know. But may I remind you that notes are notes suggested by the perfumers and not ingredients. Do a side by side test like I did and tell me I'm wrong and that they are aren't very, very close.
