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Reviews of Voleur de Roses (1993)
by L'Artisan Parfumeur
- Availability: In Production
- Perfumer: Michel Almairac
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  |  It would be a tough challenge for anyone to make a fragrance worse than this. It smells dirty, repugnant, unfastidious, ungracious and it makes me sick. There's a total lack of sweetness, warmth and refinement that I find unbearable. I would have never expected such an unpolished and rude fragrance from L'Artisan. A total disappointment.28 September 2008 |
  | 90% patchouli. 5% roses. 5% other. That's what I smell. Sillage is minimal. Longevity is pretty good, though. It's over 12 hours later, and I'm still smelling patchouli. Lots of patchouli. If one doesn't like patchouli, this is probably one to skip. 02 September 2008 |
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| I smelled this blind. As in, someone handed me a card and I promptly said "that smells like Voleur de Roses". Turns out it was. (Not bragging because I had smelled it earlier that week). This smells like roses a little bit but it's a citrus rose that's green around the edges. Quite pleasant. But it wilts into a brown stem that smells of musks and wood. Love the flower but dislike the thorns. 18 June 2008 |
 | Rose thief is actually an apt name -- I can't detect a rose scent anywhere. Smells a bit like damp earth though -- if that's what you like. Try Costes or Rossy de Palma for better results re rose. Hugely disappointing. Kaern 29 April 2008 |
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| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The opening accord of dry, yeasty rose and patchouli is exquisite. Then, after I've worn it for five or ten minutes, the patchouli lurches out of balance and overwhelms the rest. It doesn't smell like a headshop - it smells like my brother-in-law's bong! When the drydown arrives, two or three hours later, it's a lovely arrangement of woods, but what Voleur de Roses does in the middle is beyond my tolerance. I won't appear in public smelling like I've just smoked a whole pound of weed. 11 October 2007 |
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| I want to like this. It's complex, distinctive, potent, and clearly well-made. The scent is just repugnant, though. 11 October 2006 |
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| I can't believe someone can like this. Smells like stale musty pastry or mouldy tangerines. And where's the rose? 06 September 2006 |
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| Like a damp greenhouse full of pregnant tomato plants. I had high expectations for this but was sorely dissapointed. I don't like patchouli much and this smells mostly of that to me. I'm struggling to find the rose in here. It seems to sit on me like a dead weight. 25 July 2006 |
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| Totally nauseating. There is an animal mustyness, like wet dogs or fox urine, that just makes me gag. Too, too strong and unbalanced, the top note is just awful but get better on the drydown when it begins to smell like a faded diva's dressing room on a summer's day with dust motes everywhere - not a good thing but evocative. I may be the only voice of dissent here but I cannot imagine how anyone could like this. This, for me, is the biggest let down for a while. I suspect that skin chemistry might have a lot to do with this fragrance but I warn anyone who wants to buy this to save their money and buy Acqua di Parma instead: Bulgar rose for the discerning gentleman. 02 April 2005 |
 | I have been wearing this scent now almost continuously for 24 hours and can't stop sniffing it, having done a couple of reapplications since I first put it on. The earthy sweetness of the top notes is striking and seductive, but doesn't prepare you for how good it gets as the scent develops and the soft patchouli notes waft off your skin. Rose, plum, and patchouli are obviously a fragrance marriage made in heaven. Tigrushka is absolutely spot on with her description, and as the range of reviews here attest to, this is a scent for both men and women. 05 February 2004 |
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