Napoleon and Josephine

He conquered the world, she conquered him. They met before his meteoric rise and she was the widow of a slain royalist who had lost his head during the French Revolution. She was from Martinique and had two small children, and her teeth were so rotten they were described as looking like cloves! She was slightly older than he was and he was utterly smitten with her. "Do not wash until I return," Napoleon famously wrote to her during one of his campaigns. She had excellent taste in clothes and furnishings, her impeccable grace in dealing with others and boundless charm. Alas, she had an affair with a man named Hippolyte Charles and Napoleon heard about it and was forever after broken hearted and hurt. He did have her crowned the Empress of France though and only "put her aside {divorced her}" after it was indisputable that she could not give him an heir. Shepainted the walls of Malmaison (her house) with musk so that it always smelled lovely, and had one of the most famous rose gardens ever established. Napoleon's last word was supposed to have been,"Josephine!".

Strong Egyptian musks are crushed under a teeming cascade of roses. First the hybrids with their sharper but short lived perfume, they give way to the sweeter smaller but longer lasting "antique" roses like the centerfolias and polyanthas. A goodly dose of the Chinese rose, and a drop of sweetbriar. This is a complex fragrance for a roseate one and it uses all the wiles the rose can express.

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Odeur de rose, un peu vert. Je trouve que ça sent la vieille dame parfumée !

J'aimais bien en bouteille (rose et autre chose, peut-être l'églantier?), mais sur moi il ne tient pas du tout. A peu près 15 minutes en fait...

Rose "masculinisée" pa rle musc, j'aime bien...

Dans la bouteille il sent l'ail !
ça fait pas super envie...

Je l'ai quand même essayé sur la peau (je suis une aventurière... ) et ça sent plutôt bon la rose... pas d'ail à l'horizon ! Mais rose sans plus, je ne lui trouve pas trop d'intérêt.

Je l'avais eu en échantillon et j'ai aimé l'odeur mais il n'a pas tenu... mais j'ai quand même tenté la version bouteille et là il tient!!!
J'aime beaucoup (faut dire que je suis une grande fan de rose), une rose un peu acidulée avec un côté doux apporté par le musc.

je trouve qu'il ressemble énormément à "Silver roses" !

Je n'aime aucun des 2 mais ça doit être de bons parfums pour celles qui aiment la Rose dans tous ses états.

Sent très fort la rose, mais je sais qu'il ne m'ira pas. Je n'ai même pas envie de l'essayer.