Aoud Rose Petals Montale for women

While I'm NOT a big fan of rose scents, this one is nice if used lightly. Very strong in the beginning, but beautiful and seductive once it dries down. The perfect rose scent for a man. However, as nice as this scent is, I have to say that Caron's Parfum Sacre is the most beguiling rose scent I've ever smelled.

@40plus&fab is dead right - I put a tiny drop of Aoud Rose Petals on my arm to test and at every turn I was getting hits of sparkling rose.

I've tried a fair few Montales now - mainly combinations of aoud + rose, rose + aoud, aoud + rose + whatever... If put to the test I wouldn't be able tell you which was which. But Aoud Rose Petals strikes me as the freshest and most rosy of those I've tried to date. It's also the most feminine, although I'm sure it wouldn't smell odd on a man.

The other notes listed must lend something to the overall effect, but mainly this one is all about Roses.

Everything Amy777 said!!! This is one of the most beautiful roses frags I've ever smelled ... no pee ... no headache. (my usual experience with roses) The scent trail is AMAZING . . . half a spritz will do ya fine. You can tell it is a high quality fragrance! LOVELY!!!

I like quite a few dark rose fragrances, but somehow cannot enjoy this one...the rose seems too pink and high-pitched and the aoud too oily. It's out of balance. Oh, well, there are plenty of other Montales to like. And I love Aoud Red Flowers.

Addictive. Not harsh neither medicinal oud if compared to Aoud Lime or White Aoud first notes. Oud here is soft and rose is sweet and comforting. It reminds a lot of Aseel by Al-Rehab for sure - Aseel is slightly less sweet and more earthy roses. Aoud Rose Petals is unisex and has a great lasting power and sillage. I prefer this to Aoud Queen Roses and to Aoud Damascus.

Much more oud than rosy. Reminding me about dentistry office scent.

I don't like it. Not my cup of tea.

Another lovely offering of oud/rose, but really Montale, do we have to have yet ANOTHER variation? They all smell basically the same IMO, just slightly different dominating intensities. They all seem to boil down in the end into oud and rose. Not different enough to what I already have in the Montale line-up.

This is the first time I've tried anything Oud. I am a lover of roses but they do tend to go urine-smelling on me after a while. The first spray of this was pretty intense wood, which I am not used to (this frag really is a departure for me) but now 2 hours later I am really enjoying it. The rose note DID NOT go urine-y at all. In fact, the rose is far more noticeable now than in the beginning. The woodiness must counteract the tendency of my skin to turn rose to urine. Or perhaps I've never tried such a high quality fragrance before. Anyway, I like it!

Nice fresh rose petals at first..........
Then moth balls, finishing as a cheap toilet water my
Mom used in the 50's, yuk

2 out of 10, another $4. wasted at Lucky Scent

In trying to stop my Noir de Noir addiction. I needed something similar that would move me away. I found that in Aoud Rose. It is rewarding, more subtle and more complex scent. The harmony of the Rose and Aoud, is complimented by the Cedar and Saffron in the background. ... Yes again, wearing a scent considered a woman's fragrance.

A beautiful, sophisticated & utterly feminine rose scent that cleverly nestles between the youthful (cool, fresh, sour rose) and the more mature (deep, dark, oriental, jammy rose).

Aoud Rose Petals begins with a slate-cold start from the metallic chlorinesque twist of saffron. Combine this with the medicinal, woodsy warmth of the aoud & you are greeted with a not-unpleasant "cardboard box" smell that other perfumistas have discussed.

Over time, the loud-aoud settles & the perfume gradually warms to the skin allowing the fresh, sour roses to bloom - but they never become sickly, wilted or weak.

The mid-weight woodsy base anchors the perfume & firmly plants its roots in nature's garden &, although it bows to the latest trend of all-things-aoud, it seems neither contemporary nor old-fashioned ...after all, nature can never go out of fashion.

The sillage & lasting power are reasonable (for those unused to aoud...just wait it out for half and hour before judging).

I'm still not sure if its "my" rose scent, but simply put: it is very well done.

I found something dirt cheap that smells identical to Aoud Rose Petals. It is Aseel (by Al Rehab).

faint roses on the green side (more sour than sweet)

touch of saffron and oud (giving a little cardboard smell)

not enough drama for me :)

This one is very spicy to my nose. It smells beautifully of a rose dipped in pepper. Maybe it is the saffron?? It's good, but not that good to me.

What a suitable name for this fragrance! The oud here is the softest and most delicate of the series, but I can feel it quite clearly. It is most pronounced in the beginning, and it is somewhat high-pitched, compared to the deeper baritone of the oud in other Montale creations. On my skin, the oud remains as a whisper, a supporting presence to the rose notes, even as it subsides in the background and lets the flower petals sparkle.

This is a happy fragrance, conjuring the image of pink rose buds on a spring morning, and I would recommend it to those who would like a gentle introduction to oud scents. Sillage is not as powerful as in others of the series, but rose lovers will appreciate it for its playful mood.

I like the depth of the oud and the almost creamy dry-down in Montale White Aoud, but I am very careful when and where I wear it. Rose Petals would be much safer as an everyday choice.

It's one of the most disgusting perfume i've ever tried.
No woody notes, no roses NOTHING !!!

Only old and rotten bandage stench.

Maybe it's only becouse there wasn't no chemistry between me and perfume, but when i smell my wrist it's like i would took a bath of potassium iodide.

Montale AOUD ROSE PETALS opens as a strong greenish rose bush perfume, by which I mean complete with stems, leaves and thorns-—and a few petals, too. This stage lasts sufficiently long to remind me of TEA ROSE and ask why I would buy another rosebush-in-a-blender perfume for 50x (or more…) the price of the queen of green rose, readily available for single-digit dollars.

After several minutes, however, the regality of AOUD ROSE PETALS finally begins to shine through, at this point reminding more of Amouage UBAR than TEA ROSE. But I hasten to add that I still do not think that the oud (or aoud or oudh) note ever asserts itself enough to warrant classifying this as an oud perfume. This is a beautiful floral composition, but it is, in the end, a floral, not an oriental perfume.

The drydown of ROSE PETALS OUD manifests the same vintage quality shared by UBAR and L’OMBRE ROSE, so for now (for the same crassly economic reason) I’ll stick with the latter. All in all, while I like ROSE PETALS OUD, its various stages are so similar to other, far less expensive perfumes that it seems best to save the big Montale bucks for something else from their vast collection, which I am only beginning to explore.

Wow! I don't think this is less unisex than Paestum Rose by Eau d'Italie.

This is sharp and the safron add the sweetness to this. Big rose with lots of cedar and little touch of aoud. I'd love to buy this for my girlfriend. I will make her try my sample. :)
Another Montale winner!

edit: oct 03, she loves it!


9/10

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It is sharper and lighter than White Aoud, without that sweet vanilla-based smell, if W. A. is a marvel for winter, I prefer A. R. P. for the spring.

I recently got a sample from Lucky Scent. I like it very much. It begins with oud and wood notes. It is not medicinal at all. It then dries down to a lovely, rich rose scent. I don't believe it is quite as deep a rose as Queen of Roses, but it is very beautiful and on me, lasts 4 or 5 hours.

This is so beautiful! I am honored to have finally nabbed a decant of this! I would love a full bottle!

I tested this one years ago together with Aoud Queen Rose (love!) and Aoud Damascus. I was looking for a strong oriental deep rose scent. Aoud Damascus is too warm and stiff yet very beautiful and it could suit an anti-conformist man. Aoud Rose Petals is too cold for me. It was the one that I liked less among the three. It is not sweet at all. It doesn't smell bad, because it is a Montale and it's so well crafted and high-quality, but on my skin it became a pungent rosy smel with lemony concentrated dishwashing liquid! There is just this strong edge of artificial strong lemony flavoured cleaner that ruins everything. Aoud is very faint here. For a more beautiful total rose scent I would go for Roses Musk.
My friend like Aoud Rose Petals so much, I bought Aoud Queen Rose instead and loved it, even if it's not an easy scent.

I could wear this everyday, and I am very temperamental-

I enjoy Arabian attars for the most part, although I am not well-acquainted with them-I live in the midwest in the USA, and I was born in the northwestern USA. This is so natural, and for some parts of my life, my associations with perfume were negative-artifice and synthetic smells. At any moment of my life that I might have smelled this sumptuous scent, I would have wanted to smell this again, often, and if possible, on myself. This is the wood of fine and precise artisanship, not the wood of wild nature preserves left to chance and hope.It's so smooth, soft, not too smoky--dark, yet not too dark. Extraordinary, neither light nor well-described as rich. And all at once, these trunks are wrapped in fresh velvety roses-the smell of real roses, which I almost never smell in perfume. I smell the source in plain rosewater, and I love rosewater, but this is even rosier, somehow.
I find this scent deeply romantic, even if a scent like this is doesn't fall under the current majority notion of a romantic fragrance.

Update:
I've tried many of the Montale line now, and this was true love at first sniff. I love Roses Musk (best full rose ever), and thought my olfactory heart was stolen by it, but the lasting power on my skin is just not as great as this one-So I love them equally, even if this is my scent.

I don't want to recommend it even, I want it to be all mine :D
There's a strong edge from the geranium. There is nothing artificial here for me. Woody, rosy, strong, but not sharp-exquisitely feminine without being sweet-- These petals will probably not wilt on your skin either.

Once in a great while, I meet a fragrance that defines beauty. Here, beauty is carried in a most beautiful, balanced, and harmonic composition.

Upon application, rose is nowhere to be seen...then, from behind a veil of natural alcohols and fresh herbs, she arrives. At first, mingled with the top notes, she is barely visible, then peeks through a little, then, again, only her silouette is seen....Finally, and most certainly to the theme of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scherezade, she rushes past, discarding her saffron cover. Her true, fresh rose essence appears. At first, she is energetic, fresh, dewy. She dances her light-footed dance until the sky darkens, when she sits on velvet cushions to sip honey mead. Late in the evening, she reclines upon a carved wooden chaise, where she falls asleep for many hours in the desert breeze.

The quality of the ingredients is undeniable. Superb.

b.n. this review is for the extra concentrate.

This is my costliest purchase ever and I have absolutely no regret. Once the initial blast of Aoud subsides, the lovliest rose as if a bud that is just beginning to open and all of its sweetness (but not sweet) concentrated within. I'm looking forward to discovering (and re-discovering) this scent for a long time to come!

A really deep, rich, intense, complex woody floral. I quite like its unusualness and gorgeous dark rose notes, ever so slightly sweetened by honey undertones.