The other night, I was talking with friends, and for the first time this year I heard crickets in the garden outside. I said, "Wait, are those—?", and a friend cut in, "Don't say it!" She knew I was going to say the crickets' chirping was a sign that autumn was coming. None of us wanted to admit it. Seemingly overnight the slant of the light has changed. Mornings are cool, although afternoons can still drive you to seek shade. The air smells different. It's a bittersweet time of year because it is so beautiful but so short and signals that months of cold rain are around the corner. Those heartbreaking few days bridging the warm luxury of summer and the woodsmoke-tinged air of fall are to me what Tauer Perfumes Une Rose Chyprée feels like.
Andy Tauer, the founder and nose behind Zurich-based Tauer Perfumes, describes Une Rose Chyprée as "an oriental rose on a chypre base". He lists its notes as rose damascena, bay, cinnamon, bergamot, lemon, clementine, green Bourbon geranium, labdanum, oak moss, patchouli, vetiver, and vanilla. In the initial announcement about Une Rose Chyprée earlier this year, Tauer said that each 15 ml bottle of the Eau de Parfum contains one pound of steam-distilled rose petals as well as rosa damascena absolute.
The rose in Une Rose Chyprée isn't the full, fruity, blown rose of summer, but a darker, spicier rose joined by juicy citrus and definite cinnamon. What sounds on paper like a recipe for an aerosol air freshener turns out more like a freshly manufactured vintage perfume, if that were possible. Une Rose Chyprée's murky base smells like a moss-green tapestry hanging in a cold church. Now imagine that tapestry laid over a warm lawn and strewn with rose petals, torn bay leaves, clementine peels, and pieces of a wood cask that once held cinnamon sticks. I also smell a hint of something floral that almost vibrates, like narcissus, but it isn't listed in the notes and is probably an olfactory illusion.
Une Rose Chyprée is rich, full, and balanced. It doesn't lean too much into traditionally feminine or masculine directions. I think Une Rose Chyprée cries out for 1940s suits and peau de soie cocktail dresses, but it would do something nice for worn jeans, too. It is elegant enough for the opera, but friendly enough for an afternoon coffee. Really, though, the perfect time to wear Une Rose Chyprée would be sitting in the garden after dinner with birds splashing in the birdbath, the Italian plum tree heavy with fruit, and the promise of good sleeping weather ahead. And, yes, the sound of crickets.
Tauer Perfumes Une Rose Chyprée is a highly concentrated Eau de Parfum that comes in a 15 ml spray bottle ($75). The fragrance is golden and almost as viscous as Parfum. A few drops last hours. I'll need a bottle of it as soon as my sample runs dry. For information on where to buy Une Rose Chyprée, see Tauer Perfumes under Perfume Houses.
Beautiful review of one of my favorite scents! I was just noticing the crickets and cicadas last night myself, and commented to my daughter that it meant summer was coming to an end. How funny! This one is high on my to-buy list as well.
I look forward to summer for so long, every day willing to temperature to make it to at least 70, and then poof! it’s over. Crickets, geese, cool mornings–over.
It sounds lovely, since rose is my absolutely favorite scent. However it is presently too rich for my pocketbook. Denise, who is actively househunting.
Well, with any luck it will stick around, and once you’re settled in your house and caught up with the mortgage you can buy a bottle!
Evocative review of a lovely fragrance from the talented Andy Tauer. I will be wearing this one to my sister’s October wedding – just a light dab I think or it may fight with her Fracas.
A Une Rose Chypree and Fracas showdown could get ugly. You’re smart to stick to a dab.
Well, I live in “exceptional drought” country and have forgotten what rain and cool weather feel like. I don’t think autumn will ever get here. Maybe a sample of this would put me in an autumn mood, at least. Thanks for the lovely review.
Drought doesn’t sound like much fun, and I do love autumn fragrances. I hope you at least have cooler night now.
Ahhh, Damselfly, we must live in the same area. I was reading the post, remembering when crickets meant autumn was close, and thinking, “Only 30 or so over-100 degree days left in this year!”
I’m not a rose fan, but it sounds like there is much more here than rose, and it does sound intriguing–for after Thanksgiving.
Actually, I think Une Rose Chypree and Thanksgiving could be really nice together!
What a lovely review! I’m putting this on my next decant “to order” list and can’t wait to give it a try.
Let me know what you think of it!
Angela,
I was anxiously waiting for this scent and I bought it unsniffed–first time ever I did that. I just felt that I would love it and it did not disappoint in the least. Months before it was available for purchase, I inquired as to when it would be on the market (or if I could pre-order it ). I received a hand-written response from Andy Tauer admonishing me that I should never purchase anything “unsniffed” and recommending that I purchase it from LuckyScent to avoid all the overseas charges. When I finally received the little bottle (it almost seems like it should have an “eye-dropper” instead of a spray), I was enchanted at first sniff. I know this is the first of his new special line and supposedly “limited”, but I hope it is available for a long time.
What marvelous service! I’m so glad it turned out to be one of those unsniffed but rewarding purchases.
Good review, Angela. The cicadas came and have very nearly went here, and there’s just a heaviness and almost over-blown aspect to summer right now. As if it were a fruit on the verge of over-ripeness. This suits me just fine since I just feel lighter and more energetic in the brisk falls here in Michigan. Summers are quite often really humid and by this time of the season, everyone’s about had enough.
I haven’t tried Tauer perfumes, but they all sound so vintage or exotic that I really should get around to doing so. Do they offer a sample program or sample pack of what they’ve released so far? This fragrance in particular sounds great for fall. I’m really into dusky, old fashioned, or outright dirty roses right now, so an old fashioned (I loved the 40’s feel you described) heady rose perfume would be perfect.
I like everything I’ve smelled from the Tauer line, but the only one that really suits me is Une Rose Chypree. I know you can get samples through Luckyscent, and maybe even through Tauer Perfumes, although it would be an international order.
yes, Tauer sells samples of all scents from their web site – 1.5 ml spray vials for around $4-5 each (I believe)
Perfect, thanks.
And the samples from Andy are nicer than LS and the shipping is very reasonable. Rose Chypree may be in a normal dab vial but he offers lots of samples in a larger spray vial.
Good to know, thank you.
I think this is a very well done fragrance. I really like it alot.
I agree!
Coincidentally, my SOTD is Une Rose Chypree…..and before I logged on I was thinking how much it suited today with the very brisk morning (I was even able to take my fat dog for a bike ride and it was cool enough that it didn’t kill her…although she’s still passed out and it’s been 2 hours) I did hear the crickets and a cicada last night! We perfumistas are more than just sniffers….we are listeners as well! I love fall and I love fall fragrances!! I’ve been sneaking spritzes of URC for the last 2 months in spite of the humidity (waving to Absolute, my fellow Michigander) but now that we’re getting close to Autumn….URC, SDV, Bois de Paradis, Soleil de Capri, 31 Rue Cambon, Champagne de Bois…..ahhhhhh now I just need a bottle of Frapin 1270 …..sigh….
This review just reminded me that you sent me a sample – now I want to run home right now and try it! Unfortunately, it’s still in the upper-90s here, so it sounds like it may have to wait until it cools off some. Of course, I could just turn the a/c down really low and spritz away – lol.
It’s funny reading the review though – here in Texas we long for the opposite and pray for autumn to come early!
Daisy the Enabler at work again!
heheheh I do my best!
It’s not like I don’t have obsessive tendencies to start with …. but Daisy definitely makes it easier to give in and indulge.
Speaking of which – check your email, Daisy; I had a semi-fruitful sample hunt the other day and you might be interested in some of them…. I might as well try to enable right back, right?
yeah? so….now you need to go look at Ajmal perfumes so we can go broke together! ok, going to check emails!
Argh … I’ve never even heard of that brand, you enabling temptress you! I’m already on pins and needles about that unsniffed Mon Precieux Nectar!
You know, though…while the scent is evocative of Indian summer/fall, I don’t find it unwearable in the heat. I wore it to my high school reunion in mid-July. Lightly dabbed, I think you could wear it just about any time of year. The citrus sort of balances it out to make a rich, but not really *heavy* scent. In my horribly inexpert opinion, of course.
I haven’t tried it in true heat, but I’ll take your word for it for sure, especially if it is dabbed.
Well, it would definitely be a dab as I don’t have a spray sample – so I’m going to try it when I get home. What’s the worst that can happen? It can’t be worse than my Halle experience, right?
I don’t think you’ll find this one a scrubber, at least.
LOL Cynthia you’d have to turn the a/c down to SUB-ZERO if you “spritz away” !!! …..when I first got a bottle…I put on 4 spritzes….my whole house smelled strongly of URC ….for the entire day! And I still smelled of it the next day and thru a shower. But the good news is that even 5ml is a good supply!
That is the good news. The bottle is only half an ounce (15 ml), but I have a feeling it would last a long time.
But dab away doesn’t have the same ring to it? Warning duly noted though – I will avoid traumatizing the CEO this evening.
You don’t want to “spritz away” with Rose Chypree – you’ll pass out.
You’re the one I have to thank for sending me the sample! So, thank you!
As much as I love summer, I love fall fragrances. Une Rose Chypree is so nice because it somehow straddles the two seasons, giving a little hint of each.
You are very welcome! I’m so glad that you are enjoying it…it truly is one of my favorite perfumes. And,btw, I think it wears more like a perfume than edp, but with exceptional lift and sillage. Which makes it easier to justify that pricey little bottle. Definitely one of those ‘worth every penny’ type purchases.
It really does feel as rich as extrait to me.
This sounds appealing. I am currently in search of a very dark, rich, deep spicy rose fragrance, non masculine and non vintage in nature. (I note Angela that you mention it leans neither towards the feminine nor masculine line) How intense is the cinnamon? I would prefer it not to be overly dominant.
This is a very dark spicy rose for sure. But , at least on me, the cinnamon oil is quite apparent. If you hate hate hate cinnamon this will not be for you. On the other hand your skin may not pull the cinnamon like mine does. It is certainly something worth sniffing–if only to have the experience. URC is like nothing I’ve smelled before. And I’m sure my comment is of little help, sorry…
I definitely smelled it, too, but not intrusively so at all.
I didn’t detect cinnamon in this at all. When I think Cinammon I think Red Hots ( the candy) which is how it smelled to me in SL Rousse.
I know what you mean. No Red Hots here.
I think it is a spicy scent, but I did not think it smelled of cinnamon.
For whatever it’s worth, I can’t detect any cinnamon at all, although as Robin pointed out the other day, it’s usually the notes you don’t like that leap out at you! I found URC to be a seamless blend, hard to pick apart into any individual notes.
It sounds like it really depends on the wearer, then. Thanks for letting us know how it works on you!
I’d say the cinnamon, while lending some heat, isn’t foody at all. You’re not going to think of Red Hots, for instance.
There are so many marvelous roses out there. Have fun finding the perfect one, and make sure to try this one, too!
That is precisely what I was concerned over..a ‘red hots’ type of in- your-face cinnamon! Knowing it’s not definitely places this on the top of my looking forward to smell list. Thanks
You’re welcome!
I do remember smelling this and thinking that I immediately needed a bottle of it. It really is pretty glorious. And you’re right, Angela, this does speak nicely of autumn. Somehow the changing colors of leaves suits this. Is it me or do chypres cry out as vintage no matter what, simply because you just don’t smell them around anymore in the mainstream? I’ve gotten “old lady” when wearing a chypre and it makes me mad!
I’ve heard “old lady” so many times that if I had a nickel….
I think it’s people who are very discerning smellers who say “old lady” about chypres or anything else. If they knew how ignorant it made them sound, they’d be ashamed. Instead, they’re proud of their pronouncements!
Better an old lady than a fruity-floral tween!
Couldn’t agree more! (Although sometimes a juicy fruity floral isn’t so bad…)
That’s true – I love Badgley Mischka. I was thinking of something more along the line of the Paris Hilton fruity florals – lol.
Oh yeah. Blecchh.
I completely agree – chypres, I think, do come across as “vintage-y” because mainstream popularity is practically nil. haha I hate the old lady comments too! I’m only 28 and I looooooooove wearing URC! I’ve had it for a little over a month and I’ve worn it sparingly in the northeastern heat and humidity, but this definitely makes me think of fall (and winter).
I also agree that it’s a seamless blend as someone else stated; I can’t detect the cinnamon at all on me, but you *know* that there are other scents lurking in the total package that make the entire package. It’s simply amazing. Andy Tauer is a freaking genius. I’m hording all of my samples from him…sigh. I told my husband that is all I want for Christmas this year – Tauer perfumes.
If the response to this post is any indication, Tauer should have a pretty good year!
Hey, I agree. He is a genius. I was wearing L’Air du Desert Marocain the other day and wondering, Why don’t I own a bottle of this?!?! This is AMAZING! (I’m doing that a lot lately….) An Andy Tauer Christmas would be great!
Well, maybe it IS time you owned a bottle! It sounds like it was made for you.
A lovely, romantic review :). I have really never heard a bad word about this fragrance, although I regret to say that I haven’t tried it myself. How would you compare it to Rose 31? I’ve got a tiny sample of Rose 31 that is almost run out, maybe one more day left. I might have to get a sample of Une Rose Chypree to replace it.
Super different from Rose 31. Une Rose Chypree has more fruit and spice and a lovely murkiness. I’d love to hear what you think of it.
I do love Une Rose Chyprée, but I think I need a bottle of Andy’s Incense rosé first. (All I need is for money to start raining down from the sky like manna, and my grand plans and hierarchical shopping lists will become reality!) URC makes me feel fabulously wealthy and elegant, but Incense Rosé is just too ridiculously sexy on me to merit second place.
ooh! money raining down from the sky….I’m so down with that plan. Just typing the words makes a list of perfumes pop into my head all pricey, all crying out for purchase.
Incense Rose is my other Andy Tauer FB….rose/pine versus rose/cinnamon…..it’s a cage match battle….but I LURVE URC.
Now if only I could stop thinking about those Ajmal perfumes……
Thank goodness I don’t know anything about Ajmal…
that makes the ‘Evil Me’ want to send you samples……
Daisy will do it, too. She’s already managed to ensnare me in the sultry web that is Ajmal Areeq. I already have a couple scents on the ‘Ajmal decant list.’ It’s a stunning line.
You’re killing me!
Quick, plug your ears and lash yourself to the mast, lest the sweet samples of Daisy the siren tempt you!
Someone should paint that image! A siren, a ship, perfume bottles flying through the air…
too late! she’s already sniffed the perfume wafting from the rocky perfume bottle strewn shores of Fragrance Debt Island.
Fragrance Debt Island? It sounds like we might need to start a new debtors’ colony for perfume addicts!
Best smelling island ever!
Incense Rose I love on other people, but it reads too cold on my skin. I wish I could smell it on you!
When you get that manna rain, be sure to give me a call.
oh, you won’t need a call….just listen for all the squealing (that’d be me) and then perfect silence (that’d be me online ordering perfume)
LOL! I can hear it now….or not hear it, as the case may be.
yeah, well…wait for the crying when I get my credit card statement…
oooooh I am in love with Incense Rose! that is next on my Tauer list…I tried the sample of Incense extreme but I get WAY too much cedar on my skin and drowns out all the other notes. Like whoa.
And I am all for that money like mana. Oh the perfumes that I could own…
Maybe we should skip the middleman and just have bottles of perfume rain from heaven! (ouch)
I’m all for precise location cloudbursts, myself. Hey, if they’re raining to order, who needs the bottle?
As long as we’re talking bottles of Mitsouko or No. 5 or Joy and not bottles of Circus Fantasy and Paris Hilton Siren, I’m in!
Getting caught in a cloudburst of Shania Twain could be awful, but a light mist of vintage No. 19 would be a dream!
You’re all terrible influences on a poor student-loan paying perfumista. Angela, wonderful review, I’m longing to smell this ASAP. I might have to seek out some samples, but I’ll make myself wait until the weather in NC cooperates…
With any luck, this perfume will be around for a while, so you can wait until your financially ready–and the weather cooperates!–to give it a try.
Katich—send me an email and I’ll get a sample to you. Daisyloo82 at gmail.com
This is one of my favorite scents.. I think of it as “the rose fragrance for those who dislike rose” — definitely somewhat dark in nature and also very long lasting — though at 15ml the bottle is for special occasions only!
Enjoy those special occasions!
Absolutely! My stepmother HATES rose scents with a passion but she thought this was very nice.
I love your image of the tapestry on a warm lawn…Rose is not even my favorite note but from your description, I am ready to try this. Ah, good sleeping weather–I can hardly wait!
Good sleeping weather is one of the big pleasures of life.
I can’t believe that I haven’t sampled this yet. Perhaps because I know that I will need to buy it immediately? And my credit card has sustained plenty of fragrant damage already this year?
Just the words “oriental rose chypre” were enough to make my nose twitch in anticipation. But pairing it with your description of the summer’s end pretty much did me in. A sweet, but sad mood always washes over me in late August and early September. I start breaking out a few orientals and fruity chypres to match my mood, although I save the heaviest of them, including the ambers and the super-spicefests, for true cold weather. Mitsouko and the Patous are definitely in play. Femme will be around soon. And it sounds like I need to try URC.
“Sweet but sad” is the perfect description for how this time of year feels to me, too. You’re so right in that it’s a good time for fruity chypres.
My perspective about what constitutes expensive has definitely been warped – after reading about how expensive the frag was, I trekked over to Luckyscent, saw the $75/15 ml price tag and thought “oh, that isn’t bad at all”.
I’m doomed, doomed, I tell you – I’ll just be joining Daisy on Fragrance Debtors’ Island, in the Bay of Perfumista.
LOL—yup, we’ll build our little shacks out of empty perfume bottles….good thing we have our sillage to keep us warm.
I’m floating my raft made of discarded perfume boxes toward the Bay right now….
welcome friend! maybe we’ll be like the Professor and make all our modern conveniences from empty perfume bottles and coconuts….hey, it always worked on Gilligan’s Island…
They had Lovey Howell’s and Ginger’s endless wardrobes to wear, too.
soooo….completely hypothetically speaking here….If I were to mention that I could host a split of Une Rose Chypree where anyone interested could get 5ml or 10ml for say, almost half the retail price…would anyone be interested?? Please don’t kick me off the blog for this comment Angela….
I don’t have the power to kick you off, even if I wanted to! We should communicate off line. Don’t you already have a bottle?
Daisy, consider me VERY interested!
This fragrance sounds so wonderful. I didn’t want another Rose scent on my wish list, but gosh darn it, there it is.
That’s my problem too…here I am, a non-rose lover, and yet I keep falling head over heels for roses!
There are legions of us non-rose-loving rose lovers.
There are so, so many different fragrances featuring rose, and they can be so different from each other, that it’s hard to stick to just a few.
This is a gorgeous scent, for sure. I like it very, very, very much – and if it were cheaper, I’d be spritzing with abandon. As it is, I’m plannint to stretch my sample as far as it will go, and then maybe snag another sample.
I love the richness of URC. And “a freshly manufactured vintage perfume” seems exactly the right description, Angela. It does seem to have the weight and presence of something like Arpege or Mitsouko, and I think it would be ab fab on a guy. I love the juicy citrus opening, followed by that deep, spicy-dusty rose and the miraculously unbitter mossy/ambery base.
There is something surprisingly chewy and edible about URC too, although I would NOT call it foody or gourmand. Sadly, I cannot be more specific about what note it is that strikes me that way, but it makes me think of a dessert I had in a patisserie in Vienna. (I think I had chocolate desserts 3 of the 4 days we were in Vienna, and the non-chocolate one is the one I think of in connection with URC!)
No…. no discussion of splits…. I’m trying to be good… (Now must go back to painting Kid No. 2’s room… no more perfume stuff today…)
I wonder if it’s the clementine, with a touch of vanilla, that reminds you of patisserie? (Gosh, now I’m getting hungry, no big surprise.)
It *does* actually taste good, doesn’t it? Not that I’m in the habit of tasting perfumes, mind you, but once in awhile some will get on your fingers, and if you’re a nail-biter, well…
I really wanted to like this, but, sadly, this is truly horrific on me. I tried it twice & had to scrub it off both times. I don’t get any rose but rather sickening cough syrup & something that is completely naseating. I think it has something to do with the base because I reacted the same way to his lavender one (the fact that I don’t like lavender didn’t help). I feel bad, too, because Andy seems like the nicest guy. I do like Vetiver Dance, but I’m hesitant to try anything else in the line since I had such bad luck with the other two.
If nothing else, you should try the Big Gun, l’Air du Desert Marocain. The Reverie au Jardin is one of my faves but, yeah, if you don’t like lavender, you won’t like it.
I really should–maybe I’ll be surprised!
Tama is right – try L’Air and also Le Maroc pour Elle before you give up on this line – and Lonestar Memories if you want to avoid anything herbal at all!
I totally agree–I love Le Maroc and also love Reveries. Those two along with URC, are my favorites–at least on me.
Oh no! It sounds like it completely did not work for you.
Nope–but I’m glad so many people are enjoying it!
I agree with the commenter above–if L’Air doesn’t agree with you, try Lonestar Memories. It’s pretty darn sexy.
You’re not alone. Une Rose Chypree smells absolutely awful on my skin. I don’t know what it is I so vehemently despise (is it the patchouli? but I don’t mind it in other scents), but whatever it is comes off harsh and chemical-smelling on my skin, and not unlike another fragrance I abhor, SL Chypree Rouge. I wish this worked on me the way it works on so many others (I could use a little cinnamon in my life!), but alas, it’s not meant to be.
L’Air du Desert Marocain, on the other hand, is downright divine.
Well, then, with L’Air smelling so good, who needs Une Rose Chypree? I wonder if Tauer’s Eau Epicee would be a good way for you to get your rose kick.
I mean “spice.” Spice kick.
I like the way your mind works, Angela! Excellent point. You’ve inspired me to pull out my sample vial of L’Air du Desert Marocain and enjoy the final drop within. It may just be time to spring for a full bottle!
And thanks for the Tauer recommendation. On my “to sample” list it goes.
Oh, I love this one – a friend beat me to ordering a sample and I just SWOONED when I tried it, msut get my own – Andy has outdone himself again, it’s on par with L’Air du Desert Marocain, and coming from me that’s big!
It is so much better on me than L’Air is, but I love L’Air on others. It’s a good one!
Angela, I’m so glad you reviewed this – I have been singing its praises since December – lol. I said a very similar thing, too, vintage but not, and that I felt like a rich woman at ease on a Harley. I love the stuff. When I start working again, Andy is going to be getting a healthy chunk of my money.
Since December! Wow, you got to smell it early, lucky girl!
Yeah, I was a greedy and very lucky double winner in his Advent giveaway – free bottles of l’Air and Maroc and samples of Une Rose. Plus, sweetie that he is, he remembered my comment about my mom and I both liking vetiver, so he included two samples of Vetiver Dance! If I ever meet him he is getting the biggest, bear-est hug of life.
Lucky you, and how generous he is!
He is extremely generous and somehow finds the time to write personally, in e-mail and hand-written notes.
So old-fashioned, in the nicest and most welcome way.
I wish I could have tried this when Luckyscents was giving away samples free, to bad my bank just got incorporated into another bank and my debit card didn’t work I will be trying this at Aedes in December
Ugh, that *was* unfortunate timing. That’s how I got my sample… couldn’t believe such a gorgeous thing was FREE!
Oh, too bad! I hope your future timing works out better.
I have not had luck with Rose scents – but the cinnamon spice in this may make all the difference in this one. Will have to try it soon.
I think for many people sampling this, their first thought wouldn’t be “rose”, except for the fragrance’s name.
Do rose scents turn to wine/vinegar on your skin? Most rose does that to me…I want to love rose perfumes …most are bad news. Une Rose Chypree is one of the handful of exceptions for me, it really isn’t about rose as much as spice and it is divine!
I’m trying to pay more attention now, but I think the trick for me might be to avoid anything that says “Bulgarian rose”. It seems those go “fermented rose” on me…but it’s too soon to say if it’s coincidental or if I’m onto something.
This sounds absloutely divine. I love cinnamon and dark florals, so I will need to smell this in person. All the comments about the weather are making me sad as I live in Austin, TX, where the temperature hasn’t been below 100 for more than a month (with maybe one day at 99) and there is no relief in sight. I guess summer is in the eye of the beholder and too much of a good thing can be too much! I long for cooler days and nights.
Well, hop on a plane and come up here. We have cool, cool nights and mornings now, but still afternoons in the 80s. You can roll out a sleeping bag in my living room.
Angela, at least you aren’t camping out in the basement to escape the heat anymore! Summer is humid here in Michigan…but I love the fall…now if we could just settle into a nice holding pattern until mid December….I know, wishful thinking.
That’s true. If only this gorgeous weather would hang on. But I guess it wouldn’t be so perfect if we didn’t have winters to live through, too.
I’m happy if it lasts well into October, as it does some years. Not so hopeful this year though…we’re getting fall-like weather now already, and that’s a bad sign.
Same here.
This really sounds amazing but I’ve been burned twice by Tauer; I got one of those 100 samples of VD (worst initials I can think of, by the way) and it smelled like a Jolly Rancher getting down in the spice cabinet on me. And L’Air did about as well for me. But still, a 1940’s vibe? =o
I’ll have to get a sample but I’m really trying to cut back or sampling; my income is not the highest at this point.
Vetiver Dance didn’t play well on my skin, either, and as much as I love L’Air on other people, it overwhelmed me. But Une Rose Chypree was a winner. I completely understand about being broke these days (believe you me on that one), but it will be around for a while. When you’re ready, it will be there for you. Or someone will swap a sample with you.
Oh, dear, I really need a bottle of this now…
I hear you. Maybe Santa will bring one. Have you been naughty or nice? I’ll start working on nice right away.
So true, Angela…I live in Connecticut and we’ve had gray, gray and rainy days up until the end of July–and still more scattered across this month. I love every season and particularily enjoy wearing “overripe” scents from the hazy, heavy end of August into the fall; I love to have an olfactive distinction for the first REAL day of a changing season–the first day a rich scent goes from smelling like desert sunshine or an in-full-bloom, wilting rose to a “smoky-crunchy”, briskness on my skin. But this year, I’m particularily wistful. Where’d it go–Summer, I mean? It’s as if it never came at all–just a handful of beaming days and bug-buzzing nights. Time marches on…
So beautifully expressed! I know just how you feel. I have trouble being zen about it, appreciating the almost painfully gorgeous days, when I know that they signal so many months of cold weather.
i Angela. I’ve been waiting for a review of this from NST!! I was wearing my sample yesterday, and quite enjoyed it – the first try of it wasn’t too exciting for me. But yesterday, I really started to warm up to it. I noticed that the Rose dries down and resembles the rose in his Incense Rose somewhat. Did anyone else find that?
The ‘H’ in ‘Hi Angela’ mysteriously disappeared from that posting……..!!!
I haven’t tested them side by side, but I’ll have to do that!
Rose? Cinnamon? Bergamot? I don’t get any of this from Une Rose Chypree. It starts on my skin with a shrill chemical note…and it just stays that way. I’ve read so much in the blogs from people who love the Tauer fragrances, and I really wanted to love them too, but none of the samples I’ve tried do anything for me. Sigh.
It sounds like it just doesn’t work on you! Fortunately (or not fortunately for my wallet) there are so many other fragrances out there to try. At least you can cross this one off the list.
Am I the only one who doesn’t smell rose at all? Of course, for me this is a good thing since I don’t care for classic rose scents – although it seems as if I have quite a few rose scents for someone who supposedly doesn’t like them.
It smelled very “chyrpe” to me (a good thing!) – it definitely reminded me of some other classic scent, but I can’t remember what that would be for the life of me. I really enjoyed it though and will give it another test to see if I “need” to own a bottle. It sounds like I definitely need to check out Lonestar Memories as well – my bank account may not survive this hobby – lol.
I definitely smell rose, but not a big, classic, girly rose like, say, in YSL Paris. And the rose definitely doesn’t stand alone here. I’d be willing to bet lots of people wouldn’t realize they were smelling rose at all unless they say the label.
Angela, this has encouraged me to order a sample. Tauer’s line doesn’t suit me either, so if you like this one maybe it’s good for me, too.
It stands apart from his other offerings, I think. As I’ve said, I enjoy smelling the others I’ve tried, but they never were quite me. I felt like I failed personality-wise somehow. But this one is lovely on me.
my favorite is still L’air d’Morrocain
I think that’s still the favorite of lots of people–so you’re not alone!
Such a lovely post, Angela. Tauer’s stuff is always impressive even if it doesn’t always suit. I think part of me just likes to see a genuinely nice person do well at something they enjoy. Not to mention something that brings such joy to others.
Your post reminded me of one of my favorite poems by Mary Oliver. It seemed to fit the idea of roses and of time passing.
When the Roses Speak, I Pay Attention
“As long as we are able to
be extravagant we will be
hugely and damply
extravagant. Then we will drop
foil by foil to the ground. This
is our unalterable task and we do it
joyfully.”
And they went on. “Listen,
the heart-shackles are not, as you think,
death, illness, pain,
unrequited hope, not loneliness,
but
lassitude, rue, vainglory, fear, anxiety,
selfishness.”
Their fragrance all the while rising
from their blind bodies, making me
spin with joy.
Marvelous! I love that poem, thank you so much for copying it here! And I love the moral behind the poem, too. I’m getting out my book of Mary Oliver poems right now (hoping that it’s in there) so that I can read it again soon.
What a wonderful poem! It’s getting taped to my computer today.
Thanks for the great review Angela!
I ordered a sample of this one and I love the dry but full scent of it. NYC is now in the transition from fall to winter so it’s a bit chilly – I think Une Rose Chypre fits the weather quite nicely.
I’m thinking I’m going to have to allow myself to have this one. But I can’t afford to love any more perfume this year. T-T
The good news is at least this one isn’t as expensive as so many of the niche scents out there. Enjoy it!
I just tried a sample of URC, and unfortunately, I am one of those who just can’t do it. I get rose with a really strong, overpowering violet note that seems kind of like strong violet candy, and it doesn’t go away for over an hour. I remember getting a similar note in Lolita Lempicka edt, and I find it very unpleasant. The cinnamon comes in after about 5 minutes or so, but I only get a touch of it. Ah well, they can’t all be winners, I guess, and now at least I’ve tried it. There are always more to try.
That’s how I feel about fragrance that don’t work for me, too. At least I know what they smell like, and now I can move on to new samples. There’s always something new to try!
I was on Andy Tauer’s website recently, thinking about what other goodies I want to try, and as I was reading through the descriptions, I started to wonder if maybe the sample I got from Luckyscent was mislabeled. I’m wondering if I actually got Une Rose Vermeille labelled as Une Rose Chypree. The description I read of URV certainly fit, since it mentioned violet and raspberry, which is pretty much all I smell in my sample. I might have to give URC another chance to see if my suspicion is correct.
Oh, now that’s interesting! I hope you get it figured out. Perfume sleuth.