Niche brand Heeley will launch Hippie Rose, a new rose and patchouli fragrance for women. Hippie Rose was inspired by the hippie movement — 'peace, love and better days'.
Additional notes include bergamot, green moss, incense, vetiver and musk.
Heeley Hippie Rose will be available in 100 ml Eau de Parfum. (via essenses.it, extrait.it)
OK, this may be a naive question, but why are rose and patch such a common combo???
They do go nicely together, but boy are we seeing a lot of them lately. I have a feeling many of these brands didn’t know other brands were working on one….it’s too many.
They complement each other quite nicely – like peanut butter and strawberry jam.
Time for more coffee..
They’re especially nice together if the rose is sweet and the patchouli ‘dark’ and earthy ala Dior Midnight Poison or L’Artisan Voleur de Roses.
BUT – basta already! Niche people, come up with new ideas!
Basta already is right.
It could be an interesting scent…but then again…yes, we smell too many perfumes, with the rose, path mingling. I kinda like the bottle..
The bottle is really nice.
I’m probably the only one who doesn’t like the bottle. It looks to me like it should contain nail polish remover.
People who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, right? I like a good rose-patch as much as the next person, but it seems like the industry may have forgotten the glut of this style released earlier this decade: all the JHAG’s Juliette has a Gun & Lady Vengeance, Stella & flankers, Voleur de Roses, Miller Harris Rose en Noir, Bryant Park, and all the other’s I’m forgetting… etc etc….
Thanks for the list! I was too lazy to think of them all. Will add Malle’s Portrait of a Lady too, plus the 2 Bear mentioned above.
More rose/patch frags I also happen to love are Divine L’Inspiratrice, of course my beloved L’Arte di Gucci and one of the Sisleys… I think Soir de Lune?
Given this is one of my absolute fave blends (I like if not love almost all the ones I’ve tried so far) I’ll definitely give this a try. Any idea on how much it will go for?
I don’t know, sorry!
…and Malle Une Rose, and Francis Kurkdjian’s Lumiere Noire pour Femme, which I’m loving myself in today.
There are no bees in my bonnet whatsoever about the incessant issuing of rose-patchouli perfumes – I love the combo and never get bored with more. I’m the same way with caramel, or wistful/melancholic new wave music. I relish every subtle iteration of the genre.
I can see how the dry violet crowd can start to feel frustrated by the over-serviced rose-patch sector, though.
…and Midnight Poison (which someone mentioned above), and also the two Louds by Tommy Hilfiger (the women’s accentuates the rose, the men’s the patchouli, and they’re both sort of boring), and I know there are others that I’m forgetting.
As soon as I started to read the description of this I thought, “Oh, rose and patchouli–THAT’S novel.” I am so, so over this trend.
i wish Heeley would apply their talents to a dry violet. But I’ll probably try this rose. I like their approach very much, but I haven’t found the one for me yet.
oh I agree about the dry violet
Me, too!
Hmmm, I’ll have to severely berate My Man at Barneys, who is the Heeley rep, for failing to tell me about this one. It will be interesting to see what they have done here, because the Heeleys are good at a certain subtlety without losing longevity.
The Barneys in SF only started stocking Oranges and Lemons a few weeks ago, and it’s been out a year already. I don’t see them coming up with another one anytime soon, but you never know. Maybe they’re having trouble selling these — I wish they would come up with a 50ml size at a better price.
Oh I know – Goran was irritated because they sent him samples of St Clements last year but only sent the perfume now. Hmm, maybe we’ll get samples, at least!
I only read the additional list and was excited (if confused as to where the rose comes from)–I would buy that. But rose + patchouli…. I yawned.
Its quite silly, but I’m attracted to ‘Rose’ as a sort of symbol, whether it be of holiness, chastity, pain, deflowering, purity, the loss of purity, etc etc…
Like millions of other women I have one on my ankle, a rosebud with thorns and a twisty, tangly stem – its my only tattoo.
But I have quite a strong personal impression of how rose should smell. So far, Sa Majeste Rose is the only soliflore that hits my own, idiosyncratic mark.
Just thought I’d swing by and add another patch-rose frag I recently discovered and am absolutely loving right now. Gres Cabaret is a wonderfully spicy, woody rose with an undercurrent of patch and incense that I can’t resist. A swapper sent me some and I liked it so much I had to go pick up a bottle off Ebay (for $20 shipped, nonetheless) and am proud to add it to the rose-patch area of my collection. I believe Kevin referred to it as Paestum Rose done in water colors, and I can’t think of a more apt description. Definitely underappreciated and an absolute bargain given the quality and “expensive” feel of the perfume.
I’m going to hunt for the Gres Cabaret — sounds just like my kind of scent. I’m getting my sense of smell back (slowly — and it appears to be selective). I’m currently layering Crabtree and Evelyn’s Evelyn Rose with S.M. Novella’s Patchouli — mmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Jonette
I very much wanted to like this more – love the smell of roses, it’s a great name and also like Heeley’s incense-rich ‘Cardinal’.
I found ‘Hippie Rose’ didn’t work for me – too subtle on my skin? I do tend towards oriental and floral notes. It’s not that I like wearing things that frighten the horses, but I found this didn’t last very long and was not multilayerd enough for my personal taste. After an hour, it was barely possible to detect,
As someone who has few pennies to spend on perfume, the bar is raised high – it has be sensational before I will buy and I’m afraid this didn’t make it to that category.