Reviews of Incense Rosé (2008)
by Tauer

This started as a sharp scent with a considerable amount of complexity to it that I wasn't sure if I was sold on. However, I wore it once and found something in it that I really liked. Then my girlfriend mentioned that she thought a rose and incense scent would be incredible... DING, I grabbed the rest of my sample and told her to try it. She fell in love with it, as did I. It's now her favorite fragrance and I really do enjoy it. It's intoxicating.

It shares the base of L'Air, but adds the jammy, sharp rose to the top with some more incense notes throughout. It's really wonderfully crafted, has a perfect sillage that only informs but does not overwhelm, and is unlike anything else. It's almost nothing like Incense Extreme (which I share Trebor's opinion on).

I would echo Caltha's comment and add to it: "a hot sunny day in a cedarwood forest with wild roses growing in it and a fleeting deja vu to Catholic mass" ... and you're eating a big juicy orange while you're walking through that forest. I don't like most rose notes, they don't sit well on my skin, but this is a very subtle rose note.

The most satisfying Tauer for me next to L'air du Desert ... and I do consider it bottleworthy. I don't get YSL Opium out of it, or anything potpourri-like (maybe that's the rose?): it's ocmplex, satisfying, has great sillage & longevity as Trebor points out and (most importantly) it makes me smile when I put it on.

Dazzling citrus/bergamot/spice start, brilliantly exciting like an Ormond Jayne with black hemlock in it or like an unusually successful visit to a Paris sauna in the early eighties. There’s heavy patchouli within all this but it has such sparkle and no hippy-dankness, it's winking with frankincense. Loses some of its character (it has worn itself out, poor thing, with all that jumping) as it fades down to a dust of myrrh. Terrific, not church-y at all and actually not very rose-y either. The notes are clementine, bergamot, castor, Bulgarian rose absolute, orris, Texas cedarwood, frankincense, labdanum, myrrh, patchouli and ambergris.

A gorgeous and beautiful incense scent. The incense is rich and true, and lasts from the start to the end. At the start it is surrounded by a complex blend of green and sweet notes, which grows spicier over time until finally only the woods remain to enrich the incense. Despite the name, the rose only plays a supporting role at the start. This is a rich incense scent through and through, intense and beautifully composed.

for me, it's better than L'air du dessert marocain - more feminine, although still spicy, a bit heavy and incense.
A rose done very good - not the Bulgarian-rosy-extract but still a rose, still a woman.
A scent to seduce and to feel good even if alone.