Une Rose Frederic Malle for women

It smells like rose. What a surprise! A perfume that smells like its name. It’s a citrusy, greenish rose tinged with lots of geranium- and citronella-type components. After 5-10 minutes there is a huge cloud of sillage that just keeps getting bigger and bigger. The mega-sillage lasts for a couple of hours, after which the whole thing dries down into a greenish, citrusy, slightly woody rose that lasts for 6-8 hours, after which it’s just a light trace on the skin. For anyone who is a fan of rose soliflore scents, this is a must-try.

To my nose, Frédéric Malle UNE ROSE is a slightly green and rather earthy rose soliflore. I agree with the manufacturer's card, which describes the scent as that of a rose complete with its roots. So it's not the rosebush-in-a-blender, clean, green rose snapped complete with leaves and thorns, which is quite a bit more common. Instead UNE ROSE is a dirty rose, slightly sour around the edges, like damp, fermenting soil. The geranium is not overwhelming, but I do detect it along with the rose.

There is some real depth and complexity here, but, limiting myself to one rose perfume per house ((-:), I'd opt for LIPSTICK ROSE instead. UNE ROSE is a must sniff for rose connoisseurs, but receptions to the distinctively earthy quality of this rose are bound to vary a lot.

For me, this is a very lovely full and lush rose and during its wear time (on me it clocks well over 12 hours) you get to experience its entire life cycle, from first bloom, to its death.

Its like with the spray the rose is afixed to your skin as if it were the dirt the rose will grow in.

Upon application, there's an amazing burst of fresh rose. It reminds of mid spring, when my rose bushes have just started to bud and the buds are growing. An amazing greeness about them. You get the coolness of the earth about 15 minutes later.

It dosen't stop there however. Over time it deepens and settles, and literally blooms on your skin.

4-6 hours in the rose begins to intensify. it dosen't go screechy, there's still restraint there. But now it blooms and does so until its fullest, on me its at its peak at 6-8 hours.

10 hours and I can smell rose decay, some wine dregs, and earth smells. From about the 10 hour mark it starts to fade. Even after an entire day, I wake and smell it on my skin still, faded memory of what it was. Yes of course, but still the beauty of that rose remains stamped in my mind.

On my skin this is a very strong perfume. A single spray on my skin perfumed over 1000 sq foot house! So its best to take care when spraying this for sure.

It is somewhat linear, but I don't mind that, there are some lovely things that go on if you pay attention to them.

Lastly, this perfume made me smile for an entire day. And when I went out during my day, others also enjoyed it on me. To me it dosen't smell old, but very fresh, a bit young, and very daring. I wore this in dungarees and a tshirt.

Also there was no need to stick my nose to my wrist, you could smell it quite easily coming from it!


Recommended for rose enthusiasts.

It's very difficult to capture the scent of dewy-fresh roses from the garden. No perfume so far has done it (that I know). The result from trying is much like Une Rose. A soliflower fragrance with a slightly powdery rose in the middle. The thing is that it would be perfect if it didn't had the micro powdery note, because that makes it somehow dry and not dewy fresh. It also makes it somehow perfumey.

Don't get me wrong, I really really adore Une Rose, and I'm on the fence buying it. Perhaps it's closest to a true rose you can get but still it's not identical.

On the other hand, a very cheap fragrance: Tea Rose, from Perfumers Workshop is also close, in fact it's also the closest one to Une Rose I ever smelt. But if Une Rose is a dark red velvety rose, Tea Rose is a big pink one and maybe not as wellcrafted.

However, as Tea Rose costs only 1/10 of Une Rose I think that if it's good enough for Nicole Kidman, it might just be good enough for me. The next Malle fragrance I will buy is En Passant. After that I may spend some money on Une Rose

I somewhat agree and disagree with armchair sailor.On one hand I agree, that you can not produce exact rose smell in any perfume, on the other hand i recon, that if someone loves rose smell so much, and misses it during winter or other days, why not to have something rosy for the mood? To me this one is not as bad as other rose note perfumes, and remind me of bulgarian oil, that was sold in my childhood in small veils.
I had little sample of this one, but frankly, I wouldn't buy a whole bottle, only if it is "dirt cheap".

A beautiful intense dark red rose

Do you want to smell the wonderful perfume of a rose after the rain? Well, go out and smell a real one.
No master perfumer will ever come close to what nature produced. What puzzles me is why one should want to wear a rose's perfume. It is beautiful on a stem, it doesn't belong to your decolleté. Perfume art, as I intend it, is an abstract exercise on beautiful smells. To challenge nature means to lose. Badly.
I love to smell a note of rose in perfumes. But to replicate roses (or any other flower) is pointless.

This odor is not suprising.Such as rose water.Extracts used in high quality...

WOW! Went to Liberty today and the assistant gave me the sample of "Une Rose" which quite frankly is the best and most authentic Rose I have ever smelled.
I love "West Side" by Bond #9 which is a boozy, vanilla, biscuit-wafers, kind of rose, but if you want a bursting rose after a long rain, when the bud opens in the sun, THIS IS IT!
The Jacaranda Rose explosion of a perfume!!!
Unbelievable!!!
(oh and before I forget Czech & Speake also do a lovely one called "Dark Rose" which is also worth a try albeit just a cologne)

Ista, a perfect description.

This really is just one rose, like its name indicates and this rose is so beautiful! All the things they say about it are true, the ripped from the ground with it's roots story, how it just screams rose from the garden, wet, sensual, full of life. The composition is art. Yeah! Beautiful fragrance for us beautiful women! … and men? who knows ?
One of my favorites from this house, along with Musk ravageur. Even though it's not really me, this is so striking it's irresistible.

Definitely do not miss to try if you like rose fragrances. Unique!

What a fabulous fragrance! When I initially sampled this, I got a very pure, slightly green, rose note. This was really strong and I wondered whether I'd spritzed too much (this is a really concentrated scent!). Oh my, the dry down is stunning. Une Rose kept changing, and I picked up a slight zesty note in the background which brought out the beauty of the rose note in all its glory. Truly multifaceted and a cut above the majority of rose fragrances out there.

Une Rose is fucking beautiful!. I grew up in a house full of towering vases full of roses and Pelargonium so this scensory exposure is a wonderful thing for my nose and skin to behold. Une Rose retails for AU$455 here in Australia but its worth every cent. Everything from the fresh burst of fresh roses picked straight from the garden with their intense sweet scent and the dirty earthiness at their stem to the beautiful citrus notes that give an offbeat but still strong powerful smell of tropical fresh fruit that play nicely in the background while the Rose is still overbearing but in the best way possible. The woody note in this scent takes the rose back down to earth and burns it slightly. I get this kinda smokiness at the tip of my nose and then it disseappears and becomes powdery and very soft- very sensual indeed. Lasting power is phenomenal.

Thank to Ceresa I have a a sample of this perfume and I must to say that I have the same natural oily rose in pure oil of rose by some italian brand of natural products as "Le monde frais" .

Simply the best! No needs to describe it, it simply is! Once you wear it, your soul wears it!

This is the kind of rose I don't usually enjoy, although it is very beautiful, but on my skin it opened a little bit too bitter and green, it definitely has some resemblence to bulgarian rose oil as someone mentioned before, the part I enjoy the most is the drydown. Before that it's a bit too soapy and metallic for me to enjoy. The drydown though is to die for, such a pity about the heart and opening :(

This is a confrontational masculine rose fragrance, and I suppose we need more of those. The earthy/fungal opening gives way to a dark, sweet rose, imbued with hints of green and a black plastic accord, somewhat like dusty vinyl. I like the concept, but I'm a little surprised by the dynamics of this perfume. First of all, the ingredients are not as high-quality as I expected. The note separation is a little murky, and everything smells a tad synthetic, like realistic flowers and plastic have been sprayed and dampened by a chemical fixative. This leaves the entire fragrance smelling a little stale and "perfumey," for lack of a better word. These quibbles aside, it's a good one and definitely worth trying if you're a guy or gal who wants to wear a black rose out.

although i find une rose extremely beautiful, i also find it hard to wear as it sometimes tend to have a mushroom smell on my skin... But i absolutely loooove to smell it on other people, it's very elegant.

The fruits give flesh and blood to this rose, and the woods give it a backbone!
It is the most perfect, onctuous,incredibly beautiful and opullente rose that I've ever smelled, it is alive, it's breathing and taking my breath away, it's pulsating and making me shiver, it's a rose with a heartbeat!
The most amazing rendition, a stunning beauty of colossal proportions, it will make you feel like a queen, but you need guts to wear it!

Expensive, but worth it's price tenfold! It lasts a good 12 hours on skin, and I wish the bottle would last me a lifetime!

I get a spicy, green rose that dries down to sharply woody notes that almost smell of alcohol.A shame because it goes on so lovely, but the ending is just too harsh on my skin.

Suprised it does not get mentioned for men at all. As a male, I love wearing and my girlfriend wear it too. Much more natural than the lipstick rose and also more masculine. For an olive skin or Middle Eastern look, the Une Rose works. One of FM's better scents I think.

I am always searching for the perfect rose scent and this one of them. The rose is a fruity rose with a navel orange twist and then the greenery of the scent comes out. On the drydown, the citrusy smell of rose is gone and you're left with a subtle fragrance.

This is a big whack of rose right out of the sprayer! Be careful not to put too much on the first time. I like it, but it's not the best perfume for me. It becomes a little sour on me over time. It's very complex and interesting, for sure.

Dry, boozy, powdery and utterly refined. At the same time, it emits such a raw sexuality I am sometimes wary of wearing it in public. A masterpiece, and probably one of the best renditions of rose available in the market. I am humbled by the sheer geniality of compositions like this.

I agree with jeca - it definately has oily notes. Actually this fragrance reminds me the fragrance my grandmother used to wear when I was a child - Bulgarian rose oil perfume. Une Rose has the same airy sharpness of Bulgarian rose which brings me the lovely childhood memories!...

I do love different kind of rosescents and I'm always willingly trying new ones. Frederic Malle Une Rose is delightful clean, green strong rose. Suits everyday wear fine, but do have enough precense and class for evening too. I will enjoy my sample until it's all gone. Just so lovely.

This perfume starts off very sharp just as jeca writes. It is powerful and sultry. The green notes in it make the fragrance more interesting and personal than if it would be "only" plain floral... I love rose fragrances but don´t wear them so often, because they often are a bit difficult and definitly draw attention to the wearer... this one is no exception. I find it to be a wonderful rose for brave, confident and mature females. Still I think it is easy and soft to wear, a contradiction I guess?

When I wear rose fragrances I always try to imagine with kind of rose it is... Frederic Malle´s "Une Rose" is as much red rose as it´s possible for a rose to be! Very red, in full bloom and it make me think of Spain and beautiful actress Penelope Cruz.

This an intensive fragrance (25%), sweet rose, sharp at the first sniff, and fresh, with green notes, and with oily notes.
Beautiful and clear.