Pousierre de Rose Les Parfums de Rosine for women

This “rose dust” EdP is certainly rose-based, at least when first applied. However, it almost immediately takes on a note that to me is green, slick and oily, like a barrel of snakes slithering around, not dusty at all.

At that point I thought that it was going to disappear entirely, but it got a second wind and came back with a lot of fuzzy rose sillage, a little more like what I expected. It then takes on a pronounced fruity note, becoming something like a fruit compote flavored with rosewater, “green tea” accord and violet.

Then something strange happens. The violet swells up to monstrous proportions, producing a powerful cloud of lightly rose-scented, slightly powdery, old-fashioned violet sillage. So it’s not rose dust, it’s a violet-scented powder once it shuffles through all of its disguises. The violet sillage is absolutely amazing in its strength, and it lasts and lasts. This is the first Rosine perfume I’ve tried, and I have to say that it’s quite an introduction. I'm not sure I'd ever want to wear it, though.

Little So Pretty and Annick Goutal Quele Amour :)
Nice spring , summer scent, Who love roses.

The best 20 euros I have spent lately is on the sample pack (20 x 2 ml) from Les Parfums de Rosine. Trying them all out and giving them scores out of 10 has kept me occupied for two months. This one, however, I only scored at 6/10, there is a medicinal top note with, obviously from the name, a powdery dry down that I didn't really like, though worn to the full Latin mass on Sundays, I found an occasion to suit it.

Hmm... so, this is a no. To be blunt, as I"m wearing this I feel like Richard Simmons is dancing around me in a mankini. It's that annoying.

There is something really harsh here; I don't think it is a note issue (although it is sweet). But it's sweet and abrasive. I can't describe it, but when I take a whiff I think "Ooh Richard, get that hairy chest out of my face"

I see some are praising this as a gourmand, which might be why it doesn't work for me. I do get patchouli, yea; and the warmth from sandalwood and amber. My guess is the cinnamon is throwing it off, which hasn't worked before with me.

This is Lutens' Feminité du Bois combined with a very opulent rose. Not a bad idea at all, but to me (I adore Feminité du Bois) this feels like a quaint mixture.
Sillage is good, staying-power also above average.

I wish I'd gotten more of the notes in this one. It was very very cloyingly powdery on me, almost like baby powder, a scent I dislike intensely. So this didn't work for me at all.

I thoroughly enjoyed the journey with this scent - from the beginning (slightly crisp citrusy scent) to the heart (floral, powdery and slightly spicy) to the drydown (spiced musky floral and cinnamon scent with a hint of powder). And the staying power is amazing!

I also experienced a slight medicinal note in the opening of this, but it quickly faded into what smelled like soft powdery and faintly sweet rose pot pourri. As someone on whom rose based scents never seem to work, I was ready to write this off, until a short while later this morphed into a subtly spiced rose, with all the notes others mention (tea, fruits incence and cinammon) softly combining into a more interesting scent that I first thought it would be. It's a lovely Rosine, and I have tried a few others which I hated, but I still wouldn't buy a full bottle, not enough wow factor for me. In the very late drydown I swear I can detect a hint of cocoa in this! Which makes it even more interesting, but still not FB worthy for me.
UPDATE: OMG what is going on?? the longer this dries down the more pretty it becomes, it is now a beautifully sweet, cocoa-y gourmand rose! It is soft and no longer smells like potpourri. WOW!