Elisabethan Rose

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet". To quote the immortal words of Shakespeare, this elegant fragrance evokes deep feelings of true romance and all affairs of the heart. Wearing Elizabethan Rose transports you to an English garden in the month of May, the heady scent of old roses filling the air. I am once again a child, my Mother holding me up in her arms so I can take in the aroma of her favourite flower, a young lady in the grips of first love, memories coming back to me as I pick up the beautiful bottle to once again immerse myself in this most adored perfume @alice.fraser

I love the smell of roses. My ideal perfume is where I smell like I've walked through a rose garden. This scent is as close as I've ever gotten to that. I researched multiple rose perfumes for over a month to find a perfume. After many reviews read on multiple brands, I found Penhaligons, I was sad to know they're no where near my area (Pittsburgh) to be able to sample sniff all their lovely looking scents, so I blindly bought this perfume. When it arrived today I sprayed it on a piece of paper and gave it a wiff....I fell in love. After I had a shower I put it on, and I'm overly pleased. It's beautiful. Some may say it doesn't last long, I think this is a kind of scent that you personally won't notice all the time as you wear it. Except you'll make a movement and you'll get a wiff of lovely roses, so you'll definitely be noticed as you walk by someone, it's not over powering it's just gentle and alluring. I'll definitely be testing other scents from Penhaligons but I have a feeling this will end up my signature scent.