I sprayed this before bedtime and after 8 hours still going strong, even after I took my wudhu and wet my hands, the scent is still there. Starts off with the sweet and tender taif rose, in the opening it reminds me a little of Si EDT but then it changes. OSM is smokier than L'Extase Rose Absolue, but L'ERA is a syrupy, candy sweet rose jam with lightness to it but it's also warm and alluring.

i get the jammy rose vibe, but its rather bitter than sweet jammy rose (compared to montale instense cafe for example). Es una fragancia, en mi opinin, para todo tipo de edades, es una fragancia que rejuvenece, es dulce pero no empalagosa y tiene un toque ctrico que no aburre, es la colonia que hueles a lo lejos y necesitas preguntar de quin es, dura mucho para ser una colonia y no aburre para nada, sin duda se viene a mi coleccin de perfumes Y si hablamos de la presentacin.

I do like rose, but it is such a common smell here where I live, that it would be really banal wearing a predominantly rose fragrance. It is perfect, although it reminds me a lot of OSM by Kurkdjian - Rose Absolue is much more dark and deep.

L'Extase Rose Absolue comes out at the beginning of 2017 as a new Nina Ricci fragrance from the L'Extase line. You know a perfume is good when you're getting compliments from other who are wearing their COVID masks. The base notes add a real sweetness to the fragrance, and consist of Amber, Caramel, Musk, Patchouli, Siam Benzoin, Vanilla and Virginia Cedar. The notes are blended expertly, and although on paper they might read to some as leaning masculine (woods, pepper, musk, patchouli) L'Extase Rose Absolue evokes a night out in a stylish black dress.

I'm seeing other reviews that mention smoky or spicy notes and that is just not the case at all for me (maybe a little smokey) it's also NOT only sweet either! Even though this starts out loud and leaves a noticeable candied rose skinscent over night, it has a fresh, dewy overlay that keeps it from feeling heavy and oppressive.

Both versions of L'Extase share a 1970's lipsticky quality (coming, I think, from the benzoin) that reminds me of the beautiful but colder candied violets note of Guerlain L'Apres L'Ondee, but Rose Absolue is definitely a "warm" rather than "cold" scent.

I considered selling this, as family who sniffed it thought it was too much, but I just can't part with it. It’s also very versatile and could be worn by all women in all scenarios because it draws on the unanimous feminine sweetness in a familiar and universal depiction. it's a very well blended combo of peppery rose,patchouli,dark woody notes,musk and something fruity rounded by benzoin and vanilla.

It lasts long on the skin and I can still smell it on a sweater that I folded up over two months ago. Within half an hour though it settles into a more rose-vanilla-benzoin-musk and those peppery notes fade away. It's nice to know I have an alternative, but I'm not looking forward to spending that amount of cash for it when the time comes. First on - delicious plum liquer quickly followed by a rose lipsticky kind of scent which gets uplifted by musc during the day, never staying quite the same. initially, I got too much pepper, which made it smell a little pungent since I’m not a lover of pepper.

The dry down is a little more bearable but just smells like straight up patchouli – one of my least favorite notes. I didn't have time to scrub it off as I had an appointment, I am glad I didn't because the dry down smelled heavenly, complex rose, deep rose and almost an oud smell even though oud is not in the DNA of this perfume. I received it in a great swap with a lovely Fragrantician, and I've always wanted to try it, so I'm not disappointed.