Comments on: Parfums DelRae Coup de Foudre ~ fragrance review

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:18:26 +0000

Hm… have you tried Le Labo Rose or Miller et Bertaux Shanti Shanti yet?

By: kairos

kairos — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:35:52 +0000

I love rose fragrances – my curiosity because of all that I had heard and read about Joy is what started me down the perfume path. I am always looking and sniffing out new roses. My latest rose love I came across through Raphaella’s Roses on Sniffapalooza. It is Twilight Rose from Dorothy McCall’s Kingsbury Fragrances site. It is $75.00 per oz. but it is very near extrait strength and is just truly a purely beautiful rose scent with very good longevity. She offers non-talc powder and a body cream in this scent also and they are lovely layered with the parfum.

By: mjr

mjr — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:37:02 +0000

Really? Ok, so my two favorite roses are Rosine Rose d’Homme & Eau d’Italie Paestum Rose. Are there others in the vein of these two that you’d recommend?

By: Filomena

Filomena — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:47:23 +0000

I have to agree with you–Amoureuse is definitely my favorite of the line, followed by Mythique and Bois de Paradis. I have a sample of CdF and thought it was nice, but not me.

By: JolieFleurs

JolieFleurs — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:02:45 +0000

Jessica, Evelyn is slightly different than Evelyn Rose….it’s richer, though I get more peach in the Evelyn. I prefer the Evelyn Rose, but that’s probably just because it was the first one I tried. I found Evelyn one of the iffier webstores…Parfum1, maybe?

Evelyn Rose is definitely kind of powdery to me, and is a typical EDT in that light, airy feel (aldehydes???) but I get more compliments when I wear it than anything else….could be because I apply it with a heavier hand, though.

If I ever get brave enough to try the decanting thying, I’ll send you some of each, to compare…

By: AnnS

AnnS — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:11:54 +0000

I almost alwasy forget I have a small bottle of the DSH La Rose Fleurette – very demure indeed! It almost smells to me more like rose and fresh apple blossoms than anything else. It is on the DSH discontinued list right now… I found American Beauty very nice and fresh but a litte too much apple-y for my taste

By: AnnS

AnnS — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:03:19 +0000

M – it really just depends on what mood I am in. They are almost really entirely different fragrances, IMHO, as there is really a big difference between the edt and edp. The HE edt is much crisper, starting like the openings of either Chamade edt or No 19 parfum. All of of them with a lot of blended florals, aldehydes and galbanum. Heure Exquise edt then travels along a lovely dry path that has equal parts soft powdery sweet rose and dry but creamy iris (I know that sounds weird to be dry and creamy at the same time!). The HE edt is really outstanding then with a tremendously dry and rich sandalwood base which is simply gorgeous. It is totally swoon worthy! (Sometimes the edt doesn’t last very long either – sometimes about 2 hours… )

The edp of Heure Exquise is more “wet”. The opening is still aldehydes, etc, but it is less green and moves along much faster to a very round and wet sweet rose in the heart. The edp favors the rose more than the iris (IMHO), and the rose is richer, deeper. The drydown is more of a balance between rose and sandalwood, but the sandalwood is not as stunning as in the edt. There may be just a dash of something animalic in the base that I don’t get in the edt. I really mean just a dash – that gives it some depth without a lot of other woods or typical base things muddling the sandalwood. It’s lasting power it a bit longer than the edt – maybe 3 hours +/-

Actually, my fav version of Heure Exquise is the dry body oil. It is more like the edp, more simply rosy, more wet, sweetish in as much as a Goutal ever gets sweet, almost cuddly– really pretty stuff. It is more like the edp, but less complex.

Mals writes a great review of Heure Equise in a showdown with No 19 on her muse in wooden shoes blog. And there are a few other good reviews of it on the blogs, mostly paired up with No 19. I do agree that the edt of Heure Ex smells a lot like the opening and early middle notes of the current No 19 edt…… Both of them got me into iris last year btw….. Sorry for the tome!

By: Daisy

Daisy — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:57:09 +0000

now I feel badly for ignoring So Pretty in my cabinet for so long! I guess that’s the down side of developing a “collection” ; something is bound to get ignored…..I think I’ll go have a spritz right now…Thanks for reminding me.

By: AnnS

AnnS — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:53:02 +0000

Yes Another good one we can share!! I am glad I found it! It is funny how sometimes you run across a fragrance you love when you are young and then kind of forget all about it. Dune is that fragrance for me, which I wore a lot in my early 20s, but haven’t now for well over a decade. I need to revisit that one too….. So Pretty could easily have been released as a Guerlain!

By: AnnS

AnnS — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:50:56 +0000

I can definitely see how So Pretty wouldn’t work on everyone – it is a bit “chewy compote” briefly at one point with some bitterish gourmand notes (as I smell them) after the opening notes begin to transition into the heart. But that’s one of the reasons I love it – holds my attention. It has a lot of layers in the middle too. But the drydown is just amazing. I can appreciate why you wouldn’t like it though. Ah, but there are so many other roses to love that’s the great thing – there really is a rose frag for everyone.

And in the summer Mille et Une Roses is one of my comfort scents now. I used to underestimate it b/c the rose is so soft, but now I love the cuddly powder simplicity of it. And then I also discovered it layers super well with AG Eau d’Hadrien too!