Filed under: Scents and Sensibility | Tags: edith wharton, lancome, mille et une roses, perfume, rose
I love the smell of roses (also, chocolate chip cookies, sunshine, and The Beatles. I AM SO ORIGINAL.) Rose is one of my favourite notes in a perfume, so you’d think that a perfume called Mille et Une Roses would be my favourite perfume times 1001.
Lancome’s 1999 scent is a lovely musky rose perfume that somehow also manages to be extremely light. There’s something strangely insecure about it – it’s not the majestic scent you’d expect from something with strong rose and musk notes. It’s very sweet and a tiny bit sad (it also fades very quickly) – last time time I talked about Annick Goutal’s Grand Amour, and how it’s what Lily Bart would wear if The House of Mirth weren’t a tragedy. I was all ready to say that Mille et Une Roses might be what Lily Bart actually wears, but I think I’m wrong. I think she’s a little more sophisticated than this.
Mille et Une Roses is for another Wharton gal, though – The Age of Innocence‘s May Wellend.
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