Velvet Rose Sonoma Scent Studio for women

Every greenish rose perfume evokes immediately recollections of Perfumer's Workshop TEA ROSE, and Sonoma Scent Studio VELVET ROSE is no exception to the rule. TEA ROSE is probably sharper and greener than VELVET ROSE, but the two are close neighbors on the grand olfactory map, much closer to one another than any of the other SSS rose perfumes are to each other or to TEA ROSE.

Don't get me wrong: I like green rose perfumes, I really do, but I do kind of feel that if you've smelled one (good one) you've smelled them all. I only need one, and I already own TEA ROSE. But if anyone out there thinks that TEA ROSE is too low-brow because they practically give it away for free, by all means, buy yourself a niche green rose perfume! As for me, I'll spend my niche bucks on something less readily available and hopefully unique!

Imagery:
Early morning on what will soon become a hot summer day. A garden of David Austin old world roses are still damp with dew with the remnants of the evening's dew. I think that surely heaven must smell like this.

Reality:
This fragrance returns that memory to me. I ordered a sample of Velvet Rose hoping to experience that memory with the first whiff. Most rose scents - in my very limited experience- are either too thin or too heavy. There is a line between "I am a confident woman who loves roses" and " I am a lace-y, ruffled girlie girl who loves roses and cotton candy" that seems to be a difficult line to maneuver in fragrance. Velvet Rose is a lush, lasting scent that brought my memory home. I am Velvet Rose enthralled!

After I ran across a review of Velvet Rose I decided I needed to try it. I've always become intoxicated by the scent David Austin Roses and hoped to find something that would remind me of my former rose garden- just as it smelled early in the morning of what would become a hot day. Lush,blowzy roses with velvet soft petals and intoxicating fragrance. Most rose fragrances are either too thin or too overdone for my taste - too sweet,sticky and ruffled 'girlie". Velvet Rose captures the scent and the 'feel' of my rose garden. Rather than ruffled girl it screams confident rose lover! Amazingly too - it lasts. I used some last night and can still smell it this morning. For me - this is a memory scent and a very good one at that !

Have you ever smelled Creed's Fleurs de Bulgarie? Did you like the rose note? How about Luten's Majeste La Rose, did the green tartness grab your attention? And what about Kurkdjian's Lumierre noir pour femme and JHaG's Lady Vengeance - did the rose/patch combo work for you?

Then run for this one, because this is what you'll end up buying. This is now the fourth fragrance I've tried from this line and I can add another praise: it LASTS. I put the smallest dab on last night before bed, and 12 hours later (yes, I'm still in my pajamas), it is still here in full strength.

What's left, though, is the medicinal high note of the patchouli (which I love, aka Lumierre noir), and a very high quality bulgarian rose. Bergamot and clove, other favorites of mine, really make this scent sparkle.

Sorry I can't give a more poetic description, but when it comes to scents I actually want to buy I"m much more pragmatic. This is a keeper.

Very unique rose fragrance that - I believe - not only rose scent lovers will appreciate. It's so fresh and natural, that you just feel like sitting with your head in a rose bush wearing it. Yes, it does make me imagine not only rose flowers, but the whole plants, with leaves, stems and roots. It's also very long lasting. Very good choice for spring and summer!

Based on the recommendation of some posters over at "Now Smell This," I ordered this one unsniffed. I'm still on the fence about it.

It opens with a waft of something greenish and bitter, almost medicinal, that lasts 5-10 minutes before flowing into big armfuls of luscious, dewy fresh roses. Yes, fresh roses -- not rose attar, rose absolute, rose jam, or rose potpourri, as is so often the case in rose-focused fragrances. This phase lasts about 3 hours on me and is very, very attractive. Later, the patchouli begins to come through. It's herby and green, not "head shop" patchouli, but this is one note that I particularly despise, and is the sole reason that I'm on the fence about loving this fragrance. I'll suffer a lot for big armfuls of luscious roses, but I'm not sure I can continue to suffer the patchouli (described as "a hint" on the SSS website) on a regular basis. I seem to be particularly sensitive to patchouli, and most people aren't. If you're not bothered by it, Velvet Rose is a gorgeous choice.

Definitely not your "old lady" fragrance.

I asked a fellow perfumaholic for a sample of Sonoma Scent Studio 'Vintage Rose', but somewhere between here and Calgary our signals got crossed, and I ended up with 'Velvet Rose'.

It's a green rose, a 'real' rose', a just-cut garden rose with the leaves and bitter stem still on. Very nice. I almost can't smell the other elements here -- that's how smooth the composition is. But I said 'almost'. There's a carnation lurking somewhere! Definitely, though I don't see the note listed.

I've realized that there are many people with otherwise great tastes in perfumes that simply hate rose fragrances ("smells like an old lady" they say), but as I go weak in the knees for rose, I've sampled a large number of the perfumes. SSS's 'Velvet Rose' is a very nice one, and since I'm sampling the oil, lasts and lasts. If this smells like an 'old lady', then hey, I want to be that old lady!
Now to get my hands on that Vintage. . .