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🌹 FREDERIC MALLE: Une Rose (Rose Tonnerre) Edouard Flechier 2003 🌹 SERGE LUTENS: La Fille de Berlin Christopher Sheldrake 2013 It has been rainy days In Finland lately and these two beautiful rose perfumes - especially Une Rose - performs best in rainy days and high humidity. LFdB works well in shiny weather as well. These two are often compared to each others and that’s why I wanted to make a post of them together. There are only few similarities in these two scents: both are very realistic roses, both are very bright but I don’t see them as green. The smell of them start to separate straight away after the opening. 🌹 La Fille be Berlin is a very safe choice, and if you are used to Serge Lutens’ perfumes you may even think that it’s boring. It’s not unique but it’s beautiful for sure. The petals are fragile and thin and the smell of a rose is clean. There are no other notes which I can detect, just luminous rose with a metallic undertone. I would say it’s linear and one of the easiest scents to wear and for people around you. 🌹 The petals in Une Rose are thick and a little bit shiny - like there is some waxy surface on those. The smell is much deeper and stronger. If I compare it to LFDB it reminds me of a lipstick - not in a vintage way but it feels that there is something over the instant smell of a rose. On the other hand Une Rose is like some amazing rose water but powerfull one. In sunny day I don’t understand it so well but it bursts into flower and begins to shine in the rain, there is something amazingly melancholic in it and it’s beautiful. It lingers in the air while you move and it feels that every raindrop absorbs the scent from around you. This is not so complex either but very interesting one and the longevity is very good. Thank you for reading and if you want to follow me on IG: @ninamariah_perfumes
Rose Tonnerre opens with a bright and juicy rose with a heady geranium - it’s intensely floral yet delicate and clean at the same time. It’s got a sweetness coming from the honey, however this is light and airy instead of being thick and syrupy. A sweet, earthy accord of truffle presents itself in the heart which combines amazingly well with the rose - giving the scent a very slight gourmand quality is it pairs with the honey. Despite this, the rose and geranium power on at the forefront throughout the life of this fragrance. Overall this is a fantastic rose-centric perfume, with unique notes thrown in there to give it some character. It’s very pleasant, enjoyable and blatantly feminine, and definitely does not lack character. It’s perhaps a more female-oriented alternative to Portrait of a Lady.
Loved the scent. Found it to be a very elegante and matured rose profile. Unfortunately, longevity and specially sillage were too short on me. Other than that, would love it to be my rose fragrance.