Smells very close to Tom Ford Rose de Russie, but with too much cypriol and vetiver. It's pickley from the start and once the top notes fade it's eternal pickle juice costing more than liquid gold. Update: the cypriol is indelible, lasting on skin well into the next day after washing, and preventing the use of other perfumes. Too much! I do live the opening but I don't like what I'm left to deal with.

Despite the fact that I hate weed and the smell of weed, I love this perfume. And boy, it really does smell like weed, but only if you get in close with your face on your skin. It's very gingery and rich, but what I love most is the lack of any discernible patchouli or vetiver, which would have made it sharp and/or pickley. It's a journey too, with epic performance, and the real treat is the very far drydown (like, next day) which has the vanilla come to the fore. Can't stand Oud for Greatness but this is top.

There's a lot going on here. The opening for me is coconut and basil shoved in your face/up the nostrils before quickly making way for some vomity, poopy rotting fruit, with shit loads of syrupy sugar. It's an assault on the senses, bearing no resemblance to the advertised notes (except the grapefruit) and is more like a Xerjoff than an Amouage. Sickly.

There's something giving off some herby skank in the opening, I think it's the combo of jasmine, lily of the valley and rosemary, and it's both strange and compelling. The herbal note is slightly reminiscent of Granville by Dior, but it's less piney (although there is a piney nuance here). The amber, patchouli and oakmoss are very pronounced, forming a sort of sweet, warm, slightly pissy undertone (good though). As this is astoundingly cheap, I say perfume enthusiasts should snap it up, then give it a few mins before judging, it's growing on me by the second. Good alternative to Bois du Portugal.

The most nuclear freshie I've ever found, except 724 by MFK which is on a par. This is a lovely scent. Honeyed flowers and tea create a warm aura. Despite the summery notes, I find it's too much in summer, and works better in autumn and winter. Don't overspray!

This is a weird perfume and probably should have been released by ELDO. A wondeful sweet rose and pepper opening quickly makes way for clovey, salty, fishy even, bizarro musky skank, still with a whiff of rose, sort of like you doused your rose bush in brine from a tin of mussels. If that sounds horrendous, it's because it is, but it's not as far gone as Secretions Magnifiques, there is merit here. I'm only 20 mins into the wear (at home) so I'll reserve judgement for now... It's certainly interesting and very cheap so no big deal if it turns out to be BS. OK, yeah, no. This smells more spunky than Secretions Magnifiques, or does it, I can't decide. I think it's some sort of interplay between the clove, flax and elemi notes. This is a difficult one to call, one day I hate it, another I'm obsessed. Drydown for me is hardcore sandalwood. The whole thing smells synthetic almost like an Absolus D'Orient from Guerlain.

Wondrous opening which is gone in seconds, leaving a not unpleasant scent. It's very musky, and I don't get much grapefruit, which I'm happy about as it tends to bore me being such a common note. The ambergris and apple are dominant on my skin, at least for the first few minutes, with the galbanum giving it a crisp edge. As with most of the "cheaper" Rojas I've tried, the amazing opening is addictive and I keep wanting to respray to get it again, while the main scent is very, very good, but doesn't blow my mind. In the dry down I'm getting A LOT of vetiver and coconut.

I just don't get it, this Roja Dove hyperexpensive crap. This has all the elements of a decent blue fragrance, but executed with absolutely no soul. There's not even any freshness. It's like a hybrid of Aventus and Bleu de Chanel, and it seems like perfumery by algorithm or committee. If this was 100 euros it would leave me cold, but at the asking price it's a total piss-take. There's something about this whole brand that just makes me uncomfortable. I've smelled and worn a lot of their perfumes and every single one is derivative and soulless, and worse still, I can almost always immediately think of something 10 times cheaper doing the same thing or better.

As Radical Rose is the same scent but with the performance cranked up to SCREAMING, this is a good, and much cheaper, alternative if you don't want to be grabbing everyone by the throat, shaking them and shouting ROSES MTHERFCKER in their faces.