Ombre Rose L'Original
Jean-Charles Brosseau (1981)

Ombre Rose is the ultimate boudoir scent, a peach-inflected enticing whisper, the softest, most velvety white petals. Opening with aldehydes muted with stone fruit lactones and a gorgeous rosewood, then it unravels to present a pale rose with a ylang ylang fondant.

This is not the kind of powder that could choke—it is a sheer and light iris and tonka, yet the musk is vibrational, perfect for snuggle times, nuzzle times, anything in bed, really. My vintage Alfin version of the EDT has been added to my selection of fragrant nightcaps. Sweet dreams!

It's my fragrance of choice to wear at work when I want to appear harmless and friendly (I´m quite intimitading). Its powdery scent is very soothing.
Its duration and sillage are average but its aroma is very pleasant.
Good option to use for bedtime.

Shares a lot with both Chanel No19 and Nina Ricci's Signoricci (Original). Of the two it's most simlar to Chanel, but differs from No19 in it's sweetness level. There's the ever present civet giving some astringency, but alongside that there's also either tonka or vanilla breaking through. This makes it overall more comforting and soft rather than bitter. Early on it tilts more bitter and floral, a few hours in it's still floral but tilts more vanillic and powdery.

Ombre Rose feels innocent with its soft peachy floral
but there's a dark secret in its heart; a smooth, aldehydic, and venomous green muguet.

Like a fluffy pink bunny - hypnotised by a snake - it's hard to get free, this dusky rose keeps drawing you in...

I have always loved this perfume. It starts as a powdery, floral woody thing. The notes that stand out for me are heliotrope, iris, musk, cedar, orris root, rose, and vanilla. Feminine, to the extreme. As the middle settles in, this begins to smell like lipstick. The base? More lipstick. I adore that, about Ombre Rose. Lasts for an eternity on my flesh.

And, since, I've grown more experienced and schooled of the "ways" of fragrance -- I smell a plastic thing going on. No worries! It is part of its charm.

Ombre Rose my "summer of 1986" perfume. I haven't smelled Ombre Rose for years; I don't know if the current version has been reformulted; the 1980s version was a lovely, sweet, powdery, vanilla-floral summery perfume, almost identical to Houbigant's Lutece (if I tried one on each wrist, Lutece was a little lighter, and had an only-just noticeable citrus note).

In most fragrances, pure perfume suits my skin best, but with Ombre Rose the original Eau De Cologne worked best on me: the pure perfume reacted very oddly, and the fragrance was completely taken over by aldehydic notes - I may as well have been wearing Chanel No 5.

There was a beautiful range of bath and body products too (looking online, it seems that many of these are still available, but in completely different packaging, so I'm not sure if the products themselves are still the same).

I remember Ombre Bleu and Ombre D'Or followed Ombre Rose (I think there have been yet more "Ombres" since); I have yet to try Ombre Bleu, but Ombre D'Or was a disappointingly nondescript white floral - but that's another review entirely.

I really must try Ombre Rose again, even if only for old times sake; I'm hoping it hasn't been reformulated from the version I remember.