Red Roses Jo Malone for women

I saw this perfume pop up as "just reveiwed" and, having tested it myself recently, figured I'd read what everyone has to say (and add my own "humble" opinion, of course!).

First, I love love love (ok, ok, am obsessed with) the scent(s) of roses, both the actual blossoms and rose-based perfumes.

But on Red Roses I agree 100% with Euse -- Red Roses is beyond disappointing.

It's a harsh, honking, spiteful rose, artificial, and without charm. A simple spritz on the hand made me back away from the Jo Malone counter. Seriously, the smell is that alarming!

You know how you end up with a wrist-full of perfume that you just cannot stand and hope to God it will fade asap? Well, that didn't happen with this. This creature simply would not go away. Scrubbing it off my wrist did nothing. Showering later that day barely managed to budge it out of my skin. Great longevity for a truly awful perfume! Freakin wonderful.

For all of you who love it, I think that's great! Everyone's nose is subjective. But for me this is just a no go ... a shame too, since I'd have loved to have fallen in love with it!

I like this! It smells just like luscious red roses and pretty nothing else, but in a good way. No mint, no lemon, maybe a vague hint of violet leaf. All I can smell is red rose. It's long lasting and can be suffocating if overdone. You really need to like roses to enjoy this one.

This is such a lush rose scent, like freshly cut red roses in a bottle.
It starts off very strong, with that slight tea-like scent roses always seem to have that is quite deep and green, very natural. The mint note is definitely present and gives it this nice tang without downplaying the rose at all. Eventually the violet leaf softens it and it relaxes into a dreamy rose.
For rose lovers this is a must-try. So elegant and grown-up and feminine.

Smells like a true red rose! Nothing more nothing less. The body lotion is very nice, the frag...not too nice.

Based on the reviews I was reading here, I was expecting a really voluptuous rose, so now after trying it on paper and my skin, I am quite disappointed, it is nice, it is pretty... but it is boring and quite synthetic too.

Spritz this once or twice over your hair in the morning for an all day freshness. Talk about the perfect bouquet of roses. I find that it blends with most fragrance that I wear everywhere else.

Very true, very pretty rose. Just like burying your nose in a bouquet of freshly picked red roses, still wet with dew. The mint is only hinted at, giving it a slight piquancy, but never competing with the rose. On me, it's not linear - as the hours go by, it develops a sweet, honeyed note (the beeswax) which is still very pleasant, like dried rose petals in pot-pourri. My favourite go-to rose when that's exactly what I want - a true-to-life bunch of glistening red roses! Yumm!

This has a Bulgarian rose feel to it. Rose perfumes usually give me a headache, and Red Roses was no different, but I still enjoyed it, and wear it now and again. What really sets it apart from other mid-shelf roses is its greenness. The stem and leaves are perceptible under the freshness of the flower, and that makes for a pleasant and well-balanced perfume. There's nothing complicated here, and at the end of the day you're dealing with a simple rose soliflore. But it's the best of its kind, and for the record, I think it beats Creed's Fleur de The Rose Bulgare.

This is not a rose I would enjoy wearing, definitely, but it doesn't mean I enjoy it. It has some similarities with Creed's Fleur de Bulgarie, but Jo Malone's rose is a bit simpler. It opens cold with loads of lemon accompanying rose. This is the part I enjoy very much as I find it to be very refreshing, elegant and sparkling. The part which is a turn off for me is when violet leafs hit it, on my skin the perfume becomes metallic and I can't enjoy this feeling.

Definitely worth a try, not bad at all.

This smells exactly like what the name suggests. Red Roses. There's a slight dew in the air and you dance in it. The dew turns darker. One raindrop hits your nose. You run smiling into the rose garden. Hundreds and dozens of roses are now around you as it starts to rain. You drop to the ground under a single rose. You see a drop of water on the rose. It falls off the rose and hits your nose. Red roses with a tiny pinch of salt dash of Lemon. Not for me but this is what it smells like

This is my every day scent. I layer it with Jo Malone Vintage Gardenia in the evening.

I love the fact that though it's strong and heady, because it's a simple, straight forward scent, it's not overpowering or unpleasant.

@Dresendoll dark chocolate at its base? Yes! But what I get is a burnt cocoa smell. Very sweet. Like the center of a daisy and I don't like it. Is that what makes it smell slightly like urine? I dont' want to smell that in the dry down.

At first it smelled like rich, dark red roses that are full of dew and have just been picked from the garden. A few minutes later the greeness cuts in. But in the end, I find that you're left with something closer to pot-pourri.

Update: Same as before. Pot-pourri.

Ugh! This starts off as an acceptable rose smell but finishes up like stale saliva like you've licked your wrists. Really disgusting, I've tried a few Jo Malone fragrances now and really do not get the hype.

This is beautiful it can be worn by non rose lovers like me.This is one of the best rose fragrance available.Its not a heavy powdery rose its fresh and slightly sweet.This is so beautiful.

it's pretty,it's quite green,it smells lightly botanical to me, you can get the same from rose essential oils. There is something with Jo Malone fragrances - they are full of promise but they are lightweight, I am learning to love deeper and more complex blends

Could not go without it in my wardrobe. Its my favourite rose scent.

I agree with Leesee: this one's quite linear. Not too sweet or too powdery. Sprayed lightly, it's one of the nicest rose soliflores I've smelled, and does layer beautifully with other light fragrances. (A favorite: peach+rose. Green+rose and hyacinth+rose are nice, too.)

I think, however, that I prefer the absolute lushness of SSS Velvet Rose.

A juicy, almost jammy rose blend that has impressive staying power, and that layers surprisingly well with other, non-JM scents (though it also layers beautifully with JM scents as well). My only quibble, and it is a minor quibble indeed, is that this scent is, as pimentosugars notes in an earlier review of the scent, extremely linear -- where you begin is where you end up. That's not a problem, if what you want is to smell like roses, and all day long. But if you want a perfume that really takes you on a journey or a perfume that transforms you -- even if only for a few precious minutes -- then Red Roses is not the scent for you.

I love it! It's v-velvet. It's like those old lotion commercials where they pour the lotion on a rose pedal, it's so lush.

Apparently, Jo Malone's Red Roses has seven different kind of rose in it... I could only smell one; deep, velvet of texture, ruby red in my imagination, The green notes are almost undetectable but they keep it from becoming too thick and gothic. There is none of the powdery pinkness of say, Stella or Joy; there is no touch of damask or turkish delight! This is strongly monofloral, rich, deep, lovely but not complex. To Jo Malone we see a rose is a rose is a rose!

I'm loving perfumes with rose notes... This one seems good with the red rose. mmmmm!