“UNE ROSE VERMEILLE is a gourmand rose, exquisite, and rare. It combines a generous amount of luxurious ingredients such as natural, steam distilled rose oil from Bulgary, real essential oil from Fiji Sandalwood, natural vanilla pod extracts and plays happily with a wild raspberry note. Fresh in its head notes, it develops into a rich assemblage, always circling an exclusive chord of rose petals, on a base of brilliant ambergris. A true homage to rose”.

 

It's instant love-at-first-sniff with Tauer's 'Une Rose Vermeille'

I can very crudely sum this up: Johnsons baby oil mixed with geranium and a hint of citronella. But this brash description misleads, making it seem cheap and synthetic, when in fact, this is premium Tauer quality. 

Notice that I've used 'geranium' to describe the fragrance rather than rose as it reminds me of Frederic Malle's 'Geranium Pour Monsieur' (obviously without the mint) but with a baby powder vibe to it. It's almost like a mint-free 'Geranium Pour Monsieur' laid with an aldehyde-free Amouage 'Dia' woman - now that's a quality perfume comparison. The oily note reminds me a little, of the rose based attar 'Marwah' by Al Haramain but much sweeter and warmer due to the slight vanilla. If you want a much cheaper alternative than this £100 bottle, then go for Lush's 'Rose Jam' as it's very similar.

It's delicious and makes my mouth water.

 

TOP – Lemon, Bergamot, Lavender

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MIDDLE – Rose, Violets, Raspberry

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BASE -Vanilla, Sandalwood, Tonka Beans, Ambergris