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Annick Goutal Rose Splendide ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 30 June 2010 76 Comments

Annick Goutal Rose Splendide

Annick Goutal will launch Rose Splendide, a new fragrance for women, in September. The perfume pays tribute to the brand's founder, Annick Goutal, and her love of roses.

Rose Splendide was developed by perfumer Isabelle Doyen. The notes include rose, pear and magnolia, and the scent is reportedly fresh and green.

Annick Goutal Rose Splendide will be 85€ for 100 ml. (via marieclaire.fr, osmoz.com, lexpress.fr)

Update: see a review of Annick Goutal Rose Splendide.

Filed Under: new fragrances
Tagged With: annick goutal, isabelle doyen

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  1. divinemama says:
    30 June 2010 at 10:00 am

    Robin, this sounds quite a bit like Petite Cherie, which many of us know has some issues with turning. I wonder if this will be replacing PC in the AG line up? At any rate, I will definitely be looking forward to sniffing it. I love roses, and fresh, green scents. Thanks for letting us know.

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    • Robin says:
      30 June 2010 at 10:15 am

      I seriously doubt it, I think PC is one of their biggest sellers.

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  2. Julia says:
    30 June 2010 at 10:03 am

    I need to sample more AG fragrances. I’ve only sniffed the paltry offerings at the dept. store and I haven’t found one that I really like. Maybe this one?

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    • Robin says:
      30 June 2010 at 10:16 am

      Maybe!

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    • miss kitty v. says:
      30 June 2010 at 6:11 pm

      Julia, I have some AG samples hoarded away somewhere. If I can find them, they’re yours.

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      • Julia says:
        1 July 2010 at 12:37 am

        Thanks, Miss Kitty!

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  3. Alyssa says:
    30 June 2010 at 10:13 am

    Huh. Wonder if they’re phasing out Rose Absolue.

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    • Robin says:
      30 June 2010 at 9:43 pm

      Don’t think so…there’s a PR picture on Osmoz that shows all 3 rose scents.

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      • Alyssa says:
        30 June 2010 at 10:20 pm

        Glad to hear it!

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  4. maggiecat says:
    30 June 2010 at 10:23 am

    This sounds lovely! And while not everything Goutal puts out is to my taste, all of her fragrances are well-thought out, and feature qualityy ingredients. I used to wear Petite Cherie and never had a problem with it turning, although it appears others did. I’ll look forward to trying this!

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    • Robin says:
      30 June 2010 at 9:44 pm

      Me too!

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  5. teri says:
    30 June 2010 at 10:33 am

    A new Goutal and the timing is perfect! I used the last little bit of my classic Eau de Hadrian (the new version isn’t at all good) and was feeling a little blue about the passing. But knowing there’s a new one to try perks me up. The Goutals and I seem to play very well together so I have high hopes.

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  6. Haunani says:
    30 June 2010 at 10:41 am

    The pear scares me!

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    • miss kitty v. says:
      30 June 2010 at 10:48 am

      It doesn’t seem right in there to me. Which is unfortunate, because a green rose (that doesn’t sound right– a green fragrance *with* rose?) sounds really good to me.

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    • boojum says:
      30 June 2010 at 10:55 am

      Not a pear fan either, though if that is the source of the “fresh” instead of ozonic notes, maybe it’s ok. I love so many of the AGs, but this one doesn’t really appeal to me.

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      • dominika says:
        30 June 2010 at 11:19 am

        I’m glad I’m not the only one afraid of pear … I have been ever since I spilled a Tresor tester all over my arm.

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    • Joe says:
      30 June 2010 at 12:09 pm

      Whereas pear and green are what lure me to this. Otherwise, I’m mostly over rose.

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      • AnnS says:
        30 June 2010 at 2:18 pm

        Joe, it sounds like you are dumping someone, lol. “Oh Rose, I am soo over you! It was good while it lasted. It’s not you, it’s me. No wait, it *IS* you. “

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        • ami says:
          30 June 2010 at 3:56 pm

          Anns :DDDDDDD

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        • Joe says:
          30 June 2010 at 3:56 pm

          I decided I’m Just Not That Into Rose.

          Actually, I still enjoy rose from time to time, and I want to find out how citrusy that new Rosissimo is, but I’m hardly on the lookout for new ones. Know that feeling?

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          • AnnS says:
            30 June 2010 at 4:21 pm

            No. LOL!! Hey, whenever you get sick of all your pretty roses, just send them on over to me! I am sure I can accomodate an equitable swap!!!! … But yes, I do know what you mean about being a little over something… I am near to verging on being over …. just barely … NOTHING YET! Ha ha. I was going to say vetiver, but then I realize that is impossible!

          • boojum says:
            30 June 2010 at 4:52 pm

            I sort of feel that way about any dominant note. Once I’ve found a few good solid representations, I don’t need anymore. After a certain point, they start to smell more alike than not. Iris was the first victim for me.

          • Joe says:
            30 June 2010 at 5:20 pm

            Yet iris I’m still collecting. I think rose is such a strong personality that doesn’t suit me as well as iris anyway. I also went through a moribund period with vetiver collecting too, but now I’m back on that as of recently for some reason. The nose, it is fickle.

          • boojum says:
            30 June 2010 at 5:27 pm

            I understand that, too. I think the reason it hasn’t happened to me with rose is that I don’t think of myself as “a rose person”, and so I haven’t tried too many roses.

          • miss kitty v. says:
            30 June 2010 at 6:09 pm

            So Joe, what you’re saying is you’re willing to have a one-night stand with rose, but still want to see other perfumes? As long as you’re honest with rose about you’re intentions, you have my support.

          • miss kitty v. says:
            30 June 2010 at 6:32 pm

            Your, not you’re. Some cog in my head slipped, apparently the one that held in the ability to spell and use words correctly.

          • miss kitty v. says:
            30 June 2010 at 6:32 pm

            OMG, I was right the first time, wasn’t I??? What is wrong with me??

          • Joe says:
            30 June 2010 at 6:58 pm

            Well there were a lot of you’res in that:
            “As long as you’re honest with rose about you’re intentions…”

            The second one should be “your.” There are times I’ve discovered I’ve accidentally “overcompensated” and typed “you’re” instead of your… which I still think is better than not knowing the “you’re” version exists!

          • miss kitty v. says:
            30 June 2010 at 11:04 pm

            Oh, it gets better– I saw the typo and tried to respond to correct it, but when I looked again I only saw the first your/you’re problem and thought I was wrong in correcting myself, but didn’t see the second your/you’re issue. Lost? So am I.

          • boojum says:
            1 July 2010 at 1:42 am

            No, I knew exactly what happened… bc I do the same sort of thing. 😀

  7. sarahbeth says:
    30 June 2010 at 10:55 am

    Another addition to my list of possible ‘best rose of all time’ fragrances! Sounds simple and uncomplicated, sometimes that is just the thing for a hot summer day (unfortunately so far here in Seattle ‘hot’ and ‘summer’ are not words used in the same sentence… I am feeling utterly deprived).

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  8. Sunnyfunny says:
    30 June 2010 at 10:57 am

    Roses always sound so promising on paper, but are so tricky on my skin. 🙁 And if it’s supposed to be green…. Ah well, I’d still try it. 😉

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  9. mals86 says:
    30 June 2010 at 11:26 am

    ROSE LUST… I HAZ IT.

    (Ahem, sorry. Too many lolcats on ma puter.)

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    • boojum says:
      30 June 2010 at 11:35 am

      I think I must be the only person on the face of the earth who just really, truly does not get the lolcats thing.

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      • ggperfume says:
        30 June 2010 at 11:55 am

        The cats are amusing, the stupid misspellings are not.

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        • boojum says:
          30 June 2010 at 1:16 pm

          Agreed.

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          • Kitty says:
            30 June 2010 at 3:34 pm

            I have to disagree – love the silly cats and the silly spellings! But that’s just my sense of humor (still child”like” not child”ish” as I tell my husband – a lot!!)

      • AnnS says:
        30 June 2010 at 12:00 pm

        Am I a total ding-dong? What is a lolcat?

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        • Sunnyfunny says:
          30 June 2010 at 12:06 pm

          It’s this website with random pictures of cats with captions underneath. Some are clever, some are not. http://lolcats.com/ …if curiosity gets the better of you!

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          • Dzingnut says:
            30 June 2010 at 1:04 pm

            The best place for LOLcats is Icanhascheezeburger … next to NST, it’s my favorite website. Some are dumb, but others are hysterical, especially if you like cats. Or walruses.

          • AnnS says:
            30 June 2010 at 2:18 pm

            I think I am glad I didn’t know, lol.

          • Tama says:
            1 July 2010 at 1:24 am

            I’m more about cuteoverload.com – sometimes the lolcats get to me with the spelling. But there are some good ones.

        • FragrantWitch says:
          30 June 2010 at 1:56 pm

          I had no idea either. Incorrect spelling annoys me wherever it is-my inner spelling bee nerd I think!

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          • aimiliona says:
            30 June 2010 at 2:37 pm

            Cats should be able to spell. They read all the time, to judge from the way they sit on newspapers.

            Now, the Chik-Fil-A cows have an excuse if they can’t do better than “Eat mor chikn.” They were brought up in a barn.

        • nozknoz says:
          30 June 2010 at 6:52 pm

          I’M glad you asked, AnnS, since I generally depend on the perfume community for my cultural updates 🙂

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      • miss kitty v. says:
        30 June 2010 at 1:02 pm

        Oh, I freakin’ LOVE them! I even like the cat-speak misspellings. Maybe you have to be a Crazy Cat Lady to really enjoy the Lolcats.

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        • boojum says:
          30 June 2010 at 1:16 pm

          I suppose it’s my English major persona, paired with my inner grumpy old man. The cats are cute, I just usually find the text stupid rather than funny. I just don’t get it.

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          • Dzingnut says:
            30 June 2010 at 1:24 pm

            I work with clinicians, and alot of them don’t spell much better than lolcats. Dr. Tinycat is one of my favorites (photo of a tiny kitten wearing an equally tiny little scrub top. Caption: “DOCTOR TINYCAT TO THE OR – STAT!”). Gotta love it.

        • Dzingnut says:
          30 June 2010 at 1:29 pm

          Ah, Miz Kitteh Vee, is nice 2 twro grammah an spelin out teh windoh. I made the homepage twice last week, and it was the best week EVUR. Then my new bottle of “Like This” arrived, and it was teh bestist week EVUR!

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    • mals86 says:
      30 June 2010 at 8:04 pm

      Look what I started, and then went away and missed all the fun. Dang.

      As a former spelling champ (all-state AA champ two years running!) I am annoyed by misspellings in real life, but the lolcats usually amuse me. (I had just been reading my daily feed from http://icanhascheezburger.com before flipping over here. Sometimes they’re stupid, sometimes I’m on the floor… why didn’t that link work??)

      Gosh, I’m tired.

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    • Joe says:
      30 June 2010 at 11:41 pm

      For some reason I find lolcats hilarious too. For those who don’t like them, this will make you roll your eyes, but there’s actually a wiki project where the whole bible is translated into lolcat. I haven’t delved into it (it’s a bit much for me), but the first passages of Genesis have some hilarious lines:
      http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Genesis_1

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  10. OperaFan says:
    30 June 2010 at 11:38 am

    A new AG rose? I’m drooling uncontrollably here….

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  11. JolieFleurs says:
    30 June 2010 at 11:45 am

    The pear scares me a bit, too, but I’ll bet trying this for certain, hopefully when I get my next FB of Rose Absolue, which is one o fmy favorites.

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  12. Jill says:
    30 June 2010 at 12:03 pm

    Definitely want to try this. The AG line is one of my favorites … now that it’s summer, I’m wearing Mandragore and Hadrien a lot again.

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    • boojum says:
      30 June 2010 at 12:43 pm

      I’m wearing Mandragore today…perfect for our perfect summer weather (low 80s, sun, low humidity).

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  13. AnnS says:
    30 June 2010 at 12:03 pm

    Now this is news to me!!!!! I love AG… and I love roses!

    I am wondering if this is a more sheer style of the Ce Soir ou Jamais which is mouthwatering pear and drop dead rose, but it does have some other accords and a wee bit of skank in the base. I love it, but is a bit rich for most daily wear. The Rose Absolue is just gorgeous plain roses….. really a soliflore. I love the rose in Heure Exquise, which is one of my HGs…. Petite Cherie gets a bit soapy for me after a while though I like the opening….

    I can’t wait to test this one!!!! Another rose from AG! Woo Hoo!!

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  14. devilbunnies says:
    30 June 2010 at 12:20 pm

    Rose! I will be checking this out. I would love a green rose fragrance. I’m also wondering how the pear fits into this but I will try it as soon as I can find it. Also, I like the pink bow.

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    • boojum says:
      30 June 2010 at 12:43 pm

      It really is a nice pink… and I’m not a pink kind of girl.

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      • miss kitty v. says:
        30 June 2010 at 1:03 pm

        I was thinking the same thing. I was going to comment on what a cute bottle it was, until it dawned on me that it’s the same AG bottle it always is. So it must be the bow.

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        • OperaFan says:
          30 June 2010 at 1:24 pm

          So I guess that this holds true what they say about accessorizing to build multiple outfits out of one?

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        • AnnS says:
          30 June 2010 at 2:20 pm

          I think with most of the AG, you can untie the bow. Pretend it is not there! I am not a pink bow girl either.

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          • miss kitty v. says:
            30 June 2010 at 6:10 pm

            And for that matter, we could all just put any old bow on any perfume bottle we wanted to! I’ll just put a pretty pink bow on my Hadrien and call it a day.

      • 50_Roses says:
        30 June 2010 at 7:57 pm

        I would rather see a pink bow on a perfume bottle than pink perfume. It seems as if every feminine these days has to be pink.

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        • miss kitty v. says:
          30 June 2010 at 11:05 pm

          I don’t have anything against the color pink, but I have to agree with you about that one.

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  15. Dzingnut says:
    30 June 2010 at 1:31 pm

    My bottle of AG Chevrefeuille has a cute yellow bow, and it makes the bottle …

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  16. Perfume Sniffer says:
    30 June 2010 at 1:33 pm

    Another rose?

    I’m the biggest Annick Goutal fangirl and this does NOT excite me.

    They already have Rose Splendide and Ce Soir ou Jamais. Perhaps they’re phasing one of these out?

    I dunno, too many roses out there. The new Coup de Foudre bored me, too.

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    • JolieFleurs says:
      30 June 2010 at 5:03 pm

      Too many roses?? Heresy! 🙂

      Agree that the Delrae was a disappointment, though…..all the more so because my hopes were so high.Love the house, and darn near bought a bottle sniffed. I didn’t get much rose at all, mostly just a whole lot of sour.

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    • mals86 says:
      30 June 2010 at 8:06 pm

      I think CdF could have used some more oomph, certainly.

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    • OperaFan says:
      30 June 2010 at 10:20 pm

      Now that you’ve mentioned CdF… I was quite disappointed by it as well, especially after Mythique which was a masterpiece, IMHO.

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    • Joe says:
      30 June 2010 at 11:48 pm

      I have a confession to make: after saying above that I’m over rose, I tried Coup de Foudre today and I actually like it quite a bit. It must be all the citrus in it; quite zesty.

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      • Tama says:
        1 July 2010 at 1:35 am

        I liked it too – I thought it quite well-done, although a bit too “rose”-y for me.

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      • ggperfume says:
        1 July 2010 at 2:39 pm

        It struck me that way, too. It might be the first rose scent I actually buy!

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  17. ajuarez says:
    30 June 2010 at 4:39 pm

    I love rose, the pear scares me a bit though.,, and fresh sounds ..ok . I think I’ll have to try and see. I wonder if it has lasting power.

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  18. L says:
    30 June 2010 at 8:17 pm

    Love AG! Love roses! I’m so excited! Yipeee! Can’t wait to try it.

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  19. Abyss says:
    30 July 2010 at 12:59 pm

    This is now available on from the Liberty website btw.

    I’m not a huge fan or straight rose fragrances normally, but rose and magnolia sounds ever so pretty so might give this one a go.

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    • Robin says:
      31 July 2010 at 12:11 pm

      Thanks so much, I put that in a shopping post today!

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