Roses, Pearls, and Emeralds

[Jenjin]

Rose sap, gleaming ivy, orris root, sweet oakmoss, pine needle, lime rind, and juniper.

[ghoulnextdoor]

 In Tiffany Morris’ novella Green Fuse Burning, the author writes, “Spring was an assault that arrived at the door with flowers in hand…” and Roses, Pearls, and Emeralds is the olfactory equivalent of that neon green revelation. The lime, juniper, and pine comingle to create something surprisingly unarboreal, more oceanic, but also unnervingly electric. Massive bioluminescent algal blooms cause ocean dead zones, and ultraviolet radiation runs amok in wild grottoes and caverns. The rose, oh wily troublesome rose! (Me and rose have history!) is the unexpected, benevolent note-wrangler in this composition, reigning in the maritime radioactivity and lending a soft floral haze that settles and soothes and coaxes it back to land. A little cottage garden that sometimes dreams of kaiju.

[samanare]

Deep green rose stems. The various green notes come together to really strength the rose sap. It smells like the inside of a rose stem, very fresh and green, as if the blossom had just been ripped off. The scent is very green, fresh, and fibrous. I do get a hint of rose and pine in the background. The former also being fresh and dewy. Overall, I'm reminded of a bouquet of roses, but with the flowers all cut off.

[tsukara]

So, fun fact, BPAL's rose notes tend to go full grandma baby powder on me. There are very few exceptions and I seem to have better luck with the non-flower parts. That holds true with this one. Not that it doesn't try! It tries extremely hard to go baby powder, but the orris root and oakmoss keep it grounded, I think. It also makes the pine needles smell freshly fallen. I get maybe the barest whiff of lime and I can't quite pick out any juniper going on here. 

 

As I said to the group chat: I smell like a fae forest floor (positive). On me it's a deep, forest green, the inside of Sleeping Beauty's castle when the curse is full on it. I kind of love it, tbh. And I always love to find another rare rose that works on me!

[Tamarinda]

A beautiful greenery and rose scent that fades in about an hour. Kind of amazed that anything with oakmoss would fade on me since I tend to amp it. It's lovely for as long as it lasts. Hopefully a little bit of age will help it last longer.

[feyofthefellwood]

I have so many rose scents that I almost skipped this one, but I love it and will probably have to upgrade to a bottle. It's the greenest, most forest-y rose scent I've tried. It smells like layers of green all deepening to emerald. I think it's the lime, pine, and juniper combination my nose is so enamored with. 

[RoseThornAndOak]

I get all of the good sides and none of the bad sides from the listed notes, which is a miracle. The rose sap is less powdery rose soap and more green and lush. The ivy is fresh and green, not plastic. The orris root only softens and sweetens without going baby powder. The oakmoss is present but not stomping over everything. Pine needle adds an enchanted forest vibe instead of Christmas tree or musty pine box vibe. It doesn't go super pine at all actually, far less than Blauer Mond, if that helps. The lime does not smell like pee or super strong. The juniper also doesn't go bonkers (to me juniper smells like dirty socks usually and I don't know why but not here). 

 

So that describes more or less what this is not. What *does* this smell like? This reminds me a bit of Rose Red, but less rose, more stem, with a hint of evergreen creating a darkened, nocturnal aspect. A forest, sparkled and glittered in fantasy, yet darkened with danger and intrigue. All the green notes come together to create an entirely different forest blend than usualy encountered.

 

I think it is better in the bottle than final drydown, which is a nice, softened green blend. 

 

I've encountered other fantasy forest blends I also love, but so happy to have this!

Edited May 16 by RoseThornAndOak

[Little Bird]

The only note that I was worried about was the orris (I think its powdered sugar sweetness would ruin this for me), and thankfully it is the only note that doesn't show up on my skin.  Emeralds is beautiful.  I always want to love green scents, but I rarely end up wearing them.  Emeralds is a green scent that I've loved wearing this summer.  

I can smell the rose sap, ivy, oakmoss, pine, lime, and juniper.  All of the notes sort of fade in and out around the rose sap, like they all want to be rose sap's leading man and are jostling for attention.  It's not chaotic or jarring, though; everything melds together so well and so smoothly.

I love the burst of lime, which is like a key lime squeezed over the scent, giving everything a citrusy lift that's mouthwatering to me.  It's a very realistic lime note.  There's a lot of lime for the first half hour and then it softens and enters the dance with the other notes.  Ivy is there with its smooth, cool, dark greenery, the oakmoss with its earthier, dry green, and the pine and juniper smell like sweet evergreen sap and fresh needles.  Nothing sour or harsh to me.  The rose sap truly smells like I took a rose, tore off the petals on the top, and kept the rose-tinged, green stem.  Very much that green, smooth, cool scent of walking into a florist's fridge, which is a scent that I've always loved.

All of the notes are wonderful, like the best versions of themselves, and they dance around each other in a way that keeps the scent interesting for me.  One of my favorites of this year's Lupers.