Nothing complex, nothing deep, nothing really spicy or woody, it's just a rose fragrance, a quite sweet rose fragrance, which is yet another minus. I dont normally associate fragrance with music but this one caught me out and from the very first inhale I heard Vide Cor Meum.

On comparisons with Oud Satin Mood which I have, I get no oud in this and rose is the prominent note, while OSM has a prominent though smooth, non-skanky oud and a more obvious vanillic base. After about an hour, the oud lessens quite a bit, and I'm okay with what remains, but the oud is always there in the background gnawing at me.

This on the other hand is a very sweet rose fragrance that gives that impression of OSM but a feminine version and it’s a Perfect option for women thank god I wouldn’t want my wifey to use up my bottle of MFK’s OSM anyway. It's strong, I sprayed once on a piece of paper and left it at arm's length, I can still smell it from here. It lasts long on the skin and I can still smell it on a sweater that I folded up over two months ago.

I sprayed this on at 5 this morning now it is 5 at night and I just got done working out and the heat of my body reactivated the scent and I can smell it all around me again. The composition is made of two kinds of accords the first one consisting of white petals, rose and pink pepper, while the other is more sensual and warm with Siamese benzoin, Virginian cedar, musk and amber. At first I was worried that this would be too mature, however 'Rose Absolue' is youthful and classy. I find myself still wishing I was getting more vanilla, but this is definitely a favorite of mine and given that it's relatively inexpensive I will probably be springing for a full bottle in the future. Hmm, very similar to Oud Satin Mood by MFK, only that this isn’t as Oud-y and is a sweet, jammy rose.First on - delicious plum liquer quickly followed by a rose lipsticky kind of scent which gets uplifted by musc during the day, never staying quite the same. This makes me think of handmade rose soaps and my grandmother (as she used to have them all over her drawers and in the bathroom, incl. So bold, bright and well-crafted that despite being based around such a classic "girly" flower, it does not smell dated but seems relevant, daring and even a little vampy! And the rose stays on from start to finish, when in so many other perfumes it disappears quickly :) Deliciously gorgeous! I am very picky with rose as a note, but I am a gourmand fiend, so mixing the rose with gourmand notes makes me much more intrigued and I fall in love with this!

New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging .I will say this reminds me of my bottle of Love Chopard but for me L'Extase Absolu is actually sweeter.