Imogen Rose Lush for women

A lovely sweet and slightly powdery rose. The rose and tonka are the strongest for me, giving it a slight gourmand feel a little like Yves Rocher Rose Absolute. However, Imogen Rose leans more towards the light and romantic side, whereas Rose Absolute is thicker, spicier and more sensuous. The natural ingredients in Imogen Rose are evident in how realistic it smells. The vetiver adds a woody, earthy depth, and the drydown is dusty, honeyed rose petals. For me, it doesn't quite outdo Pacifica Persian Rose or Yves Rocher Rose Absolute, but nonetheless it is a gorgeous scent. Definitely recommended.

First it is a strong rose, with lots of orris root, bergamot and maybe there is some vetiver, I presume, to make the rose a bit smokey and earthy: a bit like a dirty rose, and not only the flower, rather the whole plant (even the thorns, perhaps?). Later the orris and vetiver fades, so the tonka can swweeten the rose, and turn it into a powdery, girly, honey-scented rose. If it agrees with your skin-chemistry, it is a very nice, wearable rose, not the typical super-powdery one, but also not the most complex, dark, mysterious rose. Just rose, as a plant, first fresh and earthy, then a bit sweet - just as the plant grows, and finally blooms.

Well, I have to say that Imogen Rose has amazing longevity. The first time I wore it, I put it on before going to bed. The next morning, over 8 hours later, I woke up and it was not only still there, but it was going strong - enough to give me a headache. I washed it off and thought it must've been a bad idea to try it for the first time as a bedtime fragrance.

But now, trying it again, I still can't say I like Imogen. On first application, it's a beautiful deep rose with smoky vetiver. I want very much to like this. But something about it is syrupy sweet and powdery at the same time, and that triggers headaches for me. It's just a little too cloying, a little too strong. I've been looking for a rose perfume, so it's not like I don't like rose - it's just that this particular one isn't for me.

I bet I'd love to smell this on other people, but it's not a fragrance I can have on myself for too long.

this is a review for rose lovers, otherwise don't bother reading it or buying Imogen rose..It is powder and rose, a smoky dusty soft rose, I only get some iris in the opening lasting a few minutes, rest is all about rose, not old lady like, simple but chic, I luuuv it, but unfortunately sillage and longevity is weak as in all Lush scents..this one is more pricey as it is made of real rose petals, not synthetic at all, but I question whether it is worth the money or not..and for the ones unfamiliar with Lush perfumes, they are tiny tiny GORILLAS (don't get fooled by the pictures it is only 30 ml).

Well yes, the smell of a rose, as a perfume. This one does excactly what it says on the bottle. The scent may be not to everyone's flavour, as it could be regarded as a bit "grandma-ish." But if you are over 30 and combine it with some elegant, but by any means modern outfit, then it should work.

This is a 'Hippy' rose.

Lush try to sell it as a natural pure rose and poo poo other rose scents. I even had one girl tell me people don’t like rose fragrances because they are synthetic. Yeah okay sound like a lot of marketing spin to me.

I agree Imogen Rose is pleasant but.... I smell a whole lot more than rose going on here and it can often really mess with its beauty (practically when the body heats up).

Every Lush employee should sniff 'Stella Nude' a gorgeous clean rose before mouthing off about rose scents.

I keep Imogene Rose for the casual weekend, no makeup, dirty jeans, un-styled hair, mucking it up in the great outdoors.... but Stella Nude evokes.
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I've just found the best use for Imogen Rose which doesn't destroy it's beauty with my body chemistry.

I use the solid perfume to scent my hair. Gorgeous.

With no alcohol to dry it out I simply pat it through the mid length and enjoy the soft scent all day long.

The bar for straight rose scents is set high. Even vintage-style rose, with a powdery backdrop somewhere between violet and vanilla, is still a crowded field; the losers in this race often fall down by smelling not merely old-school, but actively dowdy. For this reason, 'rose' for me tends to mean big, buttery rose soliflores that can be applied only in tiny quantities – or you risk suffocating everyone – but really 'pop' in the right setting.

In contrast, 'Imogen Rose' is a ladylike affair. The drydown reminds me quite a lot of the heavier and now-extinct 'Snow Rose' by Floris, one of the most unapologetically powdery, cosmetic-y rose perfumes I've ever worn; I used it to get in the mood when wearing Victorian costume. The nearest currently available equivalent might be 'Red Rose' by Arabian perfumers Al-Rehab, a 'powder and lipstick' cosmetic-y rose with a major nod to Kenzo Flower. Others have suggested L'Aimant, which is very powdery to me, but I can see that if layered over any basic rose scent, especially in crème form, the outcome would probably be an awful lot like Imogen Rose.

Imogen Rose is IMO pleasant enough, but in no way unusual, and there are many ways of getting the same vintage effect for less outlay.

I bought the solid perfume today and it's a wonderful, soft and creamy smell of roses on me, love it.

Usually I don't like rose perfumes so I didn't expect to like this one but I was really wrong.

I have an old love affair with Lush, the frankly gorgeous Simon Constantine, the fun shops after the Body Shop lost their social conscience, and the silly named things. However, I have come to the conclusion that their stuff is a bit like buying a bag of air. The scents are too linear, simple and a little boring, even good ones like Icon and B-Scent, which are the ones I admire the most. I expected great things from Imogen Rose, but really I would buy Coty's L'Aimant before this for a rose/jasmine kick. And I do feel that they vastly overprice their stuff. My basket came to about £30 for a few bath fizzers (all over in a few seconds) and a deodorant (£7 for a bit of Aromaco!).
Come on Lush, bring the prices down a bit - where are those socialist principles going??

I like this as a solid perfume, however it smells completely different as a liquid edt. To me the solid version smells much sweeter yet less intense and not over bearingly flowery. I found the liquid edt just a bit too strong, even with just one spritz.

I like rose scents but not this one. As a solid perfume it was still smelling ok - like roses and almond maybe - but as a spray, it was really really *ugggg". A strong harsh smell came out of the bottle and I couldn't trace any rose, just Ambrette and Orris root.

I love roses, but this one was quite boring.

I tried this in a Lush branch after being accosted by the sales assistant. She was so enthusiastic about it, spritzing it all over herself so I was quite hyped about it.

What a disappointment! I usually like rose in a fragrance but only as a subtle note. On me, this literally smells like a rose bush. My partner even said I smelt like a plant! Not really what I'm going for, admittedly.

As the notes changed, it began to smell a little vulgar and offensive on me with a really sharp, bitter edge. The sillage was luckily not so great so I didn't have to sit in a cloud of it the whole way home.

Not one for me.

Once again IMO the LUSH family offered a so-so product for big price! I stopped using their soaps because they are very expensive and short-lived and after an initial enthusiasm I could not stand those smells anymore. Many of them are very synthetical. Poor quality, high price.
Imogen Rose unfortunately doesn't escape the Lush rule. Great notes are listed indeed!
In a sense I had high expectations because I'm a sucker for rose perfumes, but I'm happy that I didn't rush for decants online when these were not available in my country. Not worthy at all.
I tested this one and other at a Lush shop for free.
I immediately smelled a nice rose with a ton of talcum. Not a bad scent in itself but one of the kind: uh, is it all here?
I sprayed other 3 and went away. I kept these perfumes on my skin for many hours and I'm glad that at least they were close to the skin.
They have a very long lasting power.
Imogen Rose did not big things for me. Only a faint rose and talcum. No nuance, no complexity, not even an attar quality of plain rose. NO Agent Provocateur, no Lady Vengeance, not even Tea Rose!
For all the fuss they make, all the quality they claim, all the marketing thing and all the cheap crap packaging... at 79 euro (why not 80 while you're there?) for a small 30ml they could do much better.
I will try again when I pass by their shop, just in case I had a fool nose today.

Beautiful!!! Big in your face boudoir like, slightly sweet mature rose, soft powder lying alongside it. Not complex... it is what it is. Loud and Proud. 10/10 well done LUSH!! Will definitely wear this and layer this..., multipurpose yeah!!

Imogen Rose is a dark, gothic rose fragrance for me.
Very dusty, earthy and insolent...yes, insolent..:)

Rose opens with vetiver and iris, the bergamott very pale, just hiding in the background. I can imagine it's like the smell of the fallen rose in the dust. After this dark debut the pale touch of bergamot start to give some life to the scent, but it's just cannot washed away the old fashioned, dusty feeling. The ambrette makes this dark emotions more darker and bitter, tonka drags deeper and gives a slightly sweet tone to the essence.

I agree this fragrance very old-school, but I don't think it's "old-lady"-like. Very depressive, sultry oriental.



P.s:
Really worth to wait the end, because after a few hours amazingly sweet, powdered rose touch left on my skin with beautifully noticable vanilla kiss.:)

The light at the end of the tunnel.:) Georgeous!

Frankly, I'm surprised at so many positive reviews on this one. This is probably my least favorite of all the Lush fragrances. It's completely old-fashioned, and yes, does smell like an old lady. I think that's because of the huge note of baby powder that runs throughout. I won't be wearing this one again, I like complicated, young, exotic scents like Breath of God!

Oh my gracious this is beautiful-not at ALL what I was expecting.I guess I expected a fussy rose scent but I actually don't get much rose-at least not in the traditional sense.I have the solid perfume-not sure if there is much difference between it and the liquid.It smelled a little odd before I put it on(maybe because it was so not-rosey) but once I did the first thing I smelled was honey(??!!)then I realized it must have been the tonka-ambrette seed combo.I smelled floral underneath-like the deepest,darkest,least powdery rose ever.Definitely not a tea rose type of smell.It smells so familiar to me-maybe because it has the undercurrent 'Lush' smell....will edit when I figure out what it smells like.
Overall on me it is a honeyed rose-not much throw but lasts forever and had me wanting to eat my arm.I think even people who don't like rose scents would like this.....lovely:)

A pleasent scent but I would advise everyone against buying the solid version it's hard to push up and beware if you push it up too far you can't push it back down as the wax is too mushy, stick to the spray version peoples :) xxxxxxxxxxxx

fantastic twist to the old and charming rose.very modern and frizzy almost.but again too expensive.the wax version is very light,dont pay off into the skin.lush have to put down theyr price.thats all.

Imogen Rose is the 2nd of the Lush Gorilla Perfumes samples I've worn for a day and here's my impression: top notes are a very nice rose, but not too agressive or strong, at least not to me. Middle notes are 'interesting' - powdery and a bit spicy (the orris root?), It reminds me of nothing so much as the way my father smelled after a day at work. He wore Old Spice (Shulton), and Imogen Rose's middle notes smelled to me like he did at the end of the day -- sweet and kind of spicy/powdery. However I find that so far, the Gorilla Perfumes have not had a lot of staying power on me. They are pretty much gone after a couple hours, even Breath of God, which other people swear lasts forever on them.

This is for the perfume version. My advice is buy the edt spray. I like Imogen Rose, I really do, but the perfume is just way too *strong*. It puts my vintage Opium to shame, that's how strong it is. I had to sniff Tiger balm after to get the 'powder' out of my nose and I'm keeping it in a zip locked bag. I can smell it through said bag.

Having washed it off my wrists, I am left with a pleasant, unique rose scent. Its a shame the edp is so strong, it doesn't do what is truly a wonderful fragrance justice. The edt however has it spot on, still one squirt only but its at a dilution where you can still detect the notes. If you smelled the perfume and thought 'Oh my God, too strong' don't be put off, the edt is lovely.

This review is for the edt spray and the stick version. I have a bottle of full size edp on its way to me, so I'll talk about that once I've tried it :)

I was pleasantly surprised by this :) For a long time I believed that Lush fragrances hated me(a pity because I love Lush stuff). One day, a friend of mine sprayed some of the edt on me and it was beautiful. Thankfully I don't get the baby powder note from it, mostly vetiver (usually comes out strong on me), rose, and even a bit of the bergamot.

Why did I not get baby powder? I did get 'powder', but it was more like a woman's face powder drowned in rose. My skin sometimes ruins frangrances with musk notes by making them smell like the dreaded baby powder, so I assume that the use of ambrette seed and not musk is why I was spared :)The ambrette seed makes the powder more 'elegant' instead of asphyxia inducing.

As for the stick, it smells mostly like the edt but it seems heavier and 'waxy', although there is less perfume oil than the edt. I have this problem with *all* of the stick fragrances, so I assume it is the wax that is the problem, not the perfume.

This is a strong fragrance, so 'one squirt only'. Use it like you would use Poison or Opium. The edt is a lovely fragrance and my boyfriend loved it too. I hope the edp won't be too much stronger though as I think the edt was just right. Watch this space.

I don't think the rose here is the dark one. It's a soft rose, almost baby-like with some wood to keep it unusual. It smells like real rose with some sweetness on my skin and that's why I love it. It's a dreamy perfume with lots of romance and love in it combined with a gentle touch of a baby powder. It reminds me of old rose perfumes but has more style and loveliness. Beautiful.
"...just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed that with the sun's love
in the spring becomes the rose."

Very earthy, honeyed rose. I have nothing to compare it to. It's a rose fragrance and yet, like no other I ever smelled. There is peppery ambrette seed, roots, syrupy kind of sweetness reminiscing of natural perfumery in all its rawness, and then there's a powder note with a distant nod to Chanel #5. It has everything and more... so if you're not a rose lover, but drawn to everything dark, unusual and natural- do try Imogen Rose, it will surprise you. But if you ARE a rose fan, beware, this is unlike any other. I should add now that I absolutely adore it. :) Thank you LUSH for not creating watered-down, middle-of-the-road fragrances!