Ecume de Rose
by Les Parfums de Rosine

There's something about this that reminds me of flat, day-old Budweiser mixed with Perfumer's Workshop Tea Rose & Fabergé Brut.

Surprisingly, it works.

26th July, 2011.

A rose meant for a man. Gender bedning and centric fragrance bias be damned. In my opinion, this aquatic and salty rose is one of those fragrances that can be worn by a man that's confident and brooding without getting into dark and sinister. Think of a light-hearted villain in a movie that, in the climax of the film, is revealed to have been good guy all along. I guess what I['m saying is is that I'm a bit confused by the scent's light rose and marine qualities combined. Not a sweet rose but a very astringent one. Different but didn't peak my interest enough to like it.

11th January, 2010.

I’d be hard-pressed to think of a fragrance combination more likely to appeal to me than wild beach roses and salt spray, and this has all the atmosphere and wistfulness I could want. The opening is fresh and leafy, then it quiets for a while, but when I think it’s another short-lived waste of time, all the notes open and the vista is exposed, and there are the roses born on their tangled old wood, and a sea wind carrying salt and minerals inland. The oceanic effect is coolly created from vetiver and musk in the base, and it - thankfully - doesn’t turn sweet in the drydown. It’s never very loud on me, although I’ve gotten compliments on it long after I’d thought it had gone.

10th May, 2008.

Ecume de Rose is a very light rose fragrance in which I could smell aspects of salt, soap, ozonic notes and a little musk at the end. It is a shy little scent and does not open up much. I compared/sniffed this against Rosine’s Diabolo Rose which is a rose force to be reckoned with, whereas Ecume de Rose faded into the background in comparison. However, there have been days when I’ve have worn Ecume de Rose on its own and it was quite lovely. I think Ecume de Rose would be perfect on a hot, humid day when you want to be very lightly scented.

Here are the notes of Ecume de Rose which I’ve gleaned from various perfume websites: Top: Blackcurrant leaf, Sea lily. Middle: Dune roses, Artemisia, Rose Attar and Rose Absolue. Base: Vetiver, Ambergis, White musk.

5th May, 2008.

I really like Ecume de Rose, but it is not my favorite of the Rosines. I prefer the bolder Flamenca, Folie and d'Ete. Ecume is very nice, and I like the freshness added by the marine notes. But, like I said, I like my rose perfumes bolder, and this is a little bit more on the restrained side. And maybe because it's restrained, I feel like it doesn't last as long. It is definitely the 4th on my list, though, and beats out Rose de Feu, which is just a little to odd, and Roseberry, which just smells awful to me.

6th August, 2007.

Third thumbs-down Rosine for me (Été and La Rose were the first two). "Metallic" and headache-inducing, I guess its the marine note that is to blame. Not my bottle of rose scent.

22nd March, 2007.