And what gentle quietude this plissé of petals has: it is lost innocence in a bottle, pinkly redolent of another age, when women were as pale as lilies and as luminous of complexion as an Alma-Tadema tableau. I spray it, and a canopy of flowers falls like confetti through the air: it’s the olfactory equivalent of the spring/summer 2007 catwalk confections of Alexander McQueen and Peter Jensen, which were a three-dimensional tumbling tumult of blooms.
— Bethan Cole writes about La Rose de Rosine in Past Scents, in today's UK Times Online.
This is a Calgon concept of rain, basically a kind of Febreze for humans. It is a classic example of what is known in the industry as trickle-up from functional scents or what Americans have been taught to read as “rain fresh” in the cleaning-product aisle
— Chandler Burr on Marc Jacobs Splash: Rain, in todays New York Times.
Thanks for alerting us to that excellent article in the UK Times Online. I'm a Poiret fan, and I'm also deeply in love with La Rose de Rosine. I've been wearing it for the past two years, and it always seems just perfect to me. It's so feminine, without being (dreaded word!) “girly.”
Well. I suppose the Rosines are ok. But, personally, I will always choose a floral-fruity celebrity scent … perhaps a J.Lo or a Lindsay Lohan, or best of all, a Paris Hilton original.
HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY, ROBIN!!!!!!!
M, if you haven't been to basenotes today, do go and see their April Fool's!!! Very cute 🙂
I need to try it again — I got stuck on a few Rosines early on (especially Ecume) and dismissed the rest.
Oh my, Chandler Burr's comment made me laugh. That's exactly how I feel about most scents labeled “clean” and “fresh.” They're urinal-puck fresh. One reason I love Olivia Giacobelli's creations so much is that they smell truly fresh, like snapped twigs and crushed petals and pulled grass — genuinely fresh, not some detergenty approximation thereof.
K, and I have to agree with him entirely on the Marc Jacobs Splash scents, which are very Yankee Candle-ish.