Rose Poivrée (2001)
by Different Company

According to Tania Sanchez in Perfumes The Guide, this one has probably undergone a re-formulation-transformation. I certainly hope so, because I obviously got a sample of the original stuff - the stuff she says smells like 'dirty mens underwear.' It stinks. Yeah, it's just plain BAD! I am married well over 20 years and have sorted & washed alot of laundry in that time...dirty mens underwear?...yes, that's what Rose Poivree smell like - EXACTLY!

Very expensive fragrance yet worth every single penny. Probably one of the greatest rose scents ever created. It gives me a crystal clear vision of rose bushes and smooth, velvety grass fields on a dry, sunny summer day. Smells very natural, and yes, like I said, along with roses I get very strong smell of grass.

Pepper here isn`t a nostril burner at all, but it`s smoothly blended in to create a wonderful, warm breeze. It`s amazing.
And of course it has some civet in it, showing again how irreplacable ingrient it can be when it`s in the hands of a masterful blender. It doesn`t make this scent especially animalic here; it just creates a lovely deep rich aura as it wraps this fragrance together, and sending it far far away from generic and bland rose fragrances which this world is full of.

100% unisex.

Al lthey have written about it inTDC's website is true "It takes over one hundred pounds of precious Damascus rose petals to produce just one bottle of Rose Poivrée" how true.. the openign notes is just tooo real, i have yet to smell any scent with such realistic notes, ever. Rose 31 pales in comparison interms of the rose note.

Opening note is kinda rich, real and satisfying rose petal in maximum and realistic concentration...30-45 minutes into this scent the rose notes gets softer and one can feel themselves being in a rose garden. the bay and pepper notes ever reminded one of Costes..but beware this is not as spicy as costes soapy? to an extent yes...with tht combination is subtle vetiver, this gem takes an almost emotional turn, this is too beautful to ignore...somewhere in th mids..the coriander pops in and delivers a blunt cut into the equation...and all this while, its only supporting the rose note to decay with grace...soon one can feel the decayed notes of rose petals..so warm and ever so real...

a masterpiece from TDC...without a doubt.

sweaty cumin wearing a dying rose boutonniere drinking a Midori melonball with a celery stalk.

This must be as pure a rose as you can get... but it's not a perfume I'd wear. Way too pure, weird huh? Reminds of the rose candy I had once from Provins, France. It's very shocking that you can taste exactly what the flower smells like. I'd rather wear Voluer de Roses by L'Artisan which is sharper in its rose accord. I have to turn my nose up at this one.

Seemingly a perfect cross of McQueen's Kingdom and L'Artisan's Voleur de Roses. Spicy, musky, and definitely a dark rose lover's delight!

EDIT:

I received a decant of this recently and something has changed. I no longer smell rose so much as I get a harsh mix of cumin and melon. What's happened?