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La Rosa Pour Femme
Armaf La Rosa Pour Femme Eau de Parfum 100ml is a full, slightly retro floral from 2016, the kind of fragrance built for someone who wants flowers to smell like flowers rather than like confectionery.
The start is fruity and tart. Pear gives a thin, watery sweetness, blackcurrant brings a sharp green bite that borders on sour, bergamot keeps it perfumed, and pink pepper adds a dry little sparkle on top. It is pleasant and quite brief, and its only real job is to get you to the middle.
The heart is the whole fragrance and it is generously built. Mimosa reads first, powdery and honeyed, almost dusty in the way yellow flowers often are. Tuberose and ylang ylang supply the weight, both of them fleshy and creamy, with tuberose adding a faint rubbery sharpness that keeps the blend from going bland. Jasmine fills in the warmth, and neroli lifts the top of the bouquet with something clean and bitter and freshly peeled. Five flowers is a lot, and they are blended rather than stacked, so the effect is one large bloom rather than a list.
Underneath, patchouli does the darkening, tonka bean adds a powdery softness that settles over the flowers like talc, and vetiver keeps a thread of dry earth running through so the sweetness has a floor. In wear it is rich but not heavy handed, lasting six or seven hours with real presence for the first two. Autumn and winter evenings suit it, and it is squarely aimed at women.
Armaf fragrances are made by Sterling Perfumes Industries in Dubai, a company dating from 1998 and part of Fakhruddin Holdings, with manufacturing in Dubai Investment Park from 2009. The Armaf label began in 2010 with French styling in mind; Club de Nuit is its signature line.
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