Wine & Dead Roses 2023

[luna65]

 

Scent ~ Red wine and dusty old dead roses on a base of powdery woods and resins.

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MAGICKAL MEANINGS OF INGREDIENTS:
ROSE OTTO ~ Self confidence, strong aphrodisiac properties, attracts affection & love, fertility, divination/clairvoyance.
RED WINE ~ FERMENTED ALCOHOLS: WINE, BEER, HARD LIQUOR, ETC ~ Intoxicant, used as an offering or appeasement for Gods, used in love spells, and celebratory spells.
MUSCADINE GRAPE ~ Fertility, increases mental prowess, money attracting.
SANDALWOOD ~ Love, exotic, sensual atmospheric; aphrodisiac. Healing, spirituality, exorcism.
MYRRH ~ Stimulating, soothing. Powerful guard against evil.
ORANGE & BLOSSOMS ~ Strong ‘magnet’ to attract men; eternal love, marriage, fruitfulness, thoughtfulness, happiness, tribute.
OUD (Agarwood) ~ Love, aphrodisia, spirituality, health.
PATCHOULI ~ Soothes and uplifts; sensual, sexually stimulating, lust, fertility, money. Meditative and transforming.

[Mila]

So the rose here is different from, for example, Sugared Roses as it is not green at all (Sugared roses smells 30% green to me, as in it’s noticeably green).

It is dark and relatively sweet to me, giving me similar to Blud vibes

[asterism]

oh YUM this is a really delicious holiday wreath or something. It reminds me a bit of time travel 1400 with its christmasy resinous fruity body, though the rose in 1400 was much more forward with a different character. the wet stage throws BIG grape while smelling very resinous close to the skin, it's so interesting how that works. it dries down into a fresh, bright, lightly sweet breath of winter air and makes me wish I could curl up by the fireplace, I'm really into it.

[SmokingViolet]

I wore this on two separate occasions so far and I absolutely love this. 

 

When I first apply it's a sweet grape candy-like rose scent. As it dries down it becomes a very deep incense-like rose with a hint of sweetness. Then later on, it morphs back to the candy rose scent again. The scent also has staying power, at least on my skin, I didn't have to reapply. The throw is nice, not overpowering and work friendly. 

[RosesArePink]

On 1/9/2024 at 10:32 PM, SmokingViolet said:

very deep incense-like rose with a hint of sweetness.

 

Yeah, that’s a good description for it. It’s too heavy on the Patchouli for me though as I really amp it and it overwhelms everything else. Which is too bad because everything else is really nice.

[SmokingViolet]

On 1/13/2024 at 4:19 PM, RosesArePink said:

 

Yeah, that’s a good description for it. It’s too heavy on the Patchouli for me though as I really amp it and it overwhelms everything else. Which is too bad because everything else is really nice.

 

Aww, Maybe the patchouli will mellow out in time for you. 

[RosesArePink]

21 hours ago, SmokingViolet said:

Aww, Maybe the patchouli will mellow out in time for you. 

 

Maybe! I’ll set it aside and let it age a bit before trying again.

[luna65]

I quite like this, far more than any other version, I think.  The red wine and grape notes are at the center and everything else entwines softly around it in the beginning.  The resins deepen throughout the drydown but I don't feel like they're overpowering the other notes.  I suppose the most interesting part for me is that I really didn't get much of the rose on my skin but I really liked what I was smelling in the vial.   Otherwise I think it's is a great take on this kind of floral-fruit-resin kind of blending.