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| Picture: Queen Elizabeth I of England in her coronation robes, patterned with Tudor roses and trimmed with ermine. She wears her hair loose, as traditional for the coronation of a queen, perhaps also as a symbol of virginity. The painting, by an unknown artist, dates to the first decade of the seventeenth century (c.1600) and is based on a lost original also by an unknown artist. Wikimpedia Commons |
Rose Ishtar starts with a blast of harsh almost sour notes. There is a herbal wibe, dry, dark, tick and dense, sharp without any rounding sweet, fruity notes. There is also something soft spicy about Rose Ishtar. As longer Rose Ishtar dries down, the more of the rose is apparent. The rose is unsweet, tangy but in the same time dry and it's a natural smelling rose with no artificial/cosmetic notes at all. This is the most unsweet rose I have tried. When I image Rose Ishtar in this stage I think of it as a powdery mauve taupe rose if there are roses in this color.When reaching the basenotes, soft patchouli combined with a well balanced sandalwood is deepening and darkening the scent further. Here there are strings of purple in the mauve. Some discrete sweet powdery notes of vanilla and heliotrophine appears and balances the edgy aspects in a pleasant way.
Rose Ishtar is a concentrated fragrance, one has to be careful when applying, it could easily be overpowering. If properly applied, Rose Ishtar has a medium sillage and longevity for more than a day. I think Rose Ishtar is a perfect fragrance for autumn, the imagened color range, texture and tonality of the fragrance is that of the autumn. There is also something eternal over this somehow insidious powerful perfume, I can imagine the glorious Queen Elisabeth I of England, a Tudor rose, wearing a fragrance smelling like Rose Ishtar.
Rose Ishtar is a unisexfragrance but to me it's a manly rose, at least in the top and middlenotes, with its powerful, harsh edges, in the base it's more feminine. Nevertheless I like to wear it but have to be in mood for a demanding perfume that day. Because Rose Ishtar is truly demanding, special and intriguing, a rose of its own
Rating: 5
Notes: Bergamot, cassis, rose damascena, sandalwood, patchouli, vanilla, heliotrophine, musk
Whenever I hear about a perfume that lasts... not even a day - let's say 12 hours, I pay attention. I do not want all of my perfumes to have that longevity and with many I'm happy to re-apply after 4-5 hours but I still feel some respect to those perfumes that have great staying power.
SvaraRaderaIt also depends how to define the stayingpower. To me it means that the fragrance even if very softened is still unfragmented and the notes still interact in a context and not just appears as single notes without a connection. When it comes to lomgevity I want my fragrances to last into the evening as I don't want to re-apply on unwashed skin (and don't want to carry around samples in my bag). When applying on not just washed skin my experience is that the fragrance doesn't mingle right and just laying on the surface on the skin and does'nt develope as it's meant to.
SvaraRaderaWow! Nice blog, it's like a mini library. Did you write all of this contents yourself?!
SvaraRaderaThanks and yes, I write everything myself.
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