07/31/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV
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A mix of watery rose and gloopy tonka bean
I quite like Rania J's perfumes, especially Ambre Loup and Oud Assam. But I think Rose Ishtar is a misfire. On my skin, it is a green, sour rose (watery) swamped by a greasy layer of tonka bean paste. The rose tries to break through, but it is mostly held back by this sweet, lumpy-oily tonka, obscuring it like a thick blanket on a muggy day. There is a cheap almond smell to the tonka, a certain underlying shoddiness inherent perhaps in the tonka bean or coumarin itself, and it reminds me most unfortunately of almond-scented room sprays or candles. In fact, I don't get much rose through much of the scent's progression, except for hour 18 when the grease breaks and the rose pops out like a spurt of pus from a zit.



Top Notes
Bergamot
Blackcurrant bud absolute
Heart Notes
Bulgarian damask rose
Fiskrompet
Base Notes
Musk
Heliotropin
Patchouli
Sandalwood
Vanilla




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