Year: 1998
Notes: bergamot, green apple, melon, galbanum, lime tree flowers, lotus, yellow rose, mimosa, ambrette seed, musk
Rose d'Été is yet another rose and apple composition, like Rose de Feu, but the apple is much better-behaved. Personally, apple scents are still pretty much a perfume taboo...
The most interesting aspect of this concoction is the inclusion of yellow roses. In a way, one can imagine how the coupling of this note with apple and melon might have sounded like a good idea in theory. But in reality, it's just a lacklustre green fruity-floral, with a nasty pungent earthiness lurking in the background. Fortunately, an intriguing violet accord, towards the drydown, provides a brief moment of relief.
It's simply too weak, light, soft, sheer... or whatever adjective you care to describe a fragrance, lacking in both depth and substance.
The most interesting aspect of this concoction is the inclusion of yellow roses. In a way, one can imagine how the coupling of this note with apple and melon might have sounded like a good idea in theory. But in reality, it's just a lacklustre green fruity-floral, with a nasty pungent earthiness lurking in the background. Fortunately, an intriguing violet accord, towards the drydown, provides a brief moment of relief.
It's simply too weak, light, soft, sheer... or whatever adjective you care to describe a fragrance, lacking in both depth and substance.
