Rose (1988)
by Czech & Speake

Opens up with a nice green and leafy note. The rose begins to creep in, but is a more subtle and lighter rose than used in C&S dark rose. This one stays the course fairly well and doesn’t stray much from the green and light rose vibe. It is enjoyable, though definitely very feminine. While it isn’t something I could wear I think it would be fantastic on a woman. Foe me, thumbs neutral, but for a woman this would be thumbs up.

13rd September, 2011.

This opens up with a very green, tart leafy note. A small, pink rose bud of a note slowly drifts in. The green note stays throughout the scent, with the slow drydown a greenish, woody soft and subtle close. The green opening is very tart, but the green of the drydown is dusted with a patch note, retaining the herbal qualities and adding to the woody effect.
This is a soft, straightforward pink rose fragrance. I enjoyed this, but possibly not for the price that this goes for.

21st May, 2011.

This isn't so much a rose as anticipation of a rose. To me it's like a tight pale pink rose bud that is just beginning to unfurl it's petals.

When I was small I used to try and pull apart the petals on these to get to that mysterious 'something' inside, of course I just destroyed the flower and never found it's heart. I killed the goose that layed the golden egg.

I'm waiting, waiting for that rose to open and the anticipation is killing me, but just as it begins to throw itself open it rains heavily, bruises, turns brown and begins to decay before it ever reached the height of its beauty.

It's a little green, a little sappy, a little sour and a little rotten, but by no means unpleasant. I do pick up a little carnation.

Lasting power is not great, I have compensated by over-spraying and believe me, it IS possible to overdo this. I get a very positive reaction from strangers, people start looking around for the source of the scent and when it's been located I get big beaming smiles !

Best applied little and often, it's very unfortunate that they only make this in whopping great bottles as a purse spray of this would be ideal for touch ups. Czech & Speake really are missing a trick with their insistence on magnum-size containers.

I like it, but there are other glorious rose fragrances around, and I'm not sure I can justify the expense that a bottle of that size demands.

16th October, 2010.

Delightful rose fragrance. Very simple and clean. Has more life to it than it's given credit for, as fans of this house tend to fawn more over Dark Rose and 88. This is a translucent, bright rose that gets some depth with an intermittent touch of geranium and something very green in back. This is more feminine than the other two scents and I think it's something that really only works on either an extremely metrosexual young man, or a young woman. Most men couldn't pull this off. But in terms of its aroma-therapeutic properties, I can say that it is truly an up-lifting soliflore to have. I imagine the bath oil that goes with it is very soothing. Thumbs way up.

12nd June, 2010.

This has a very green, crisp opening. When I say crisp, I mean crisp! It is like biting into a tart green apple. It moves into a rose note which is delicate rather than heady. It is a very green sort of rose scent, a bit odd if you are thinking of deep red roses and the scent they give. Eventually the rose takes on a more conventional character, and there is a hint of tangy patchouli.

25th February, 2010.

Not at all complicated, and charmingly unaffected… Czech and Speake’s Rose is a lovely feminine fragrance… as others have said, old-fashioned… simple… warm…

Smelling it brings to mind the appearance of those flowery greeting cards from the Victorian times: Idyllic and pretty.

I’m voting thumbs up because of the visual image of those greeting cards and the comforting innocence and loveliness of the fragrance.

14th November, 2009.