Rose Of No Man's Land by Byredo Eau de Parfum Spray 50ml

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It’s a warm sunny day, I’m on my grandma’s street, where it rained last night and the soil in the rose flowerbeds is still slightly wet, but it’s now hot and the street is becoming quite dry and dusty. I’m running on this dusty, rural sidewalk barefoot. Raspberry bushes by a still slightly dump wooden fence… and I can smell these roses, and the wet soil, and the dust, and the raspberry bushes in the air. This was the opening. The rose reminds me of the rose in Lancôme’s fragrances: the slightly sweet Turkish Delight jam rose. I feel like this is like the darker, mysterious, older sister of Midnight Rose from Lancome with the raspberry sweet rose. PS- I was never quite sure what papyrus smelled like until I smelled both Rose Of No Man's Land and Le Labo's Santal 33 - they both feature the note quite prominently. To my nose it's a warm, sweet, dry woody note. This is the best rose fragrance I have experienced . It a fresh clean yet spicy/woody rose. If you are a fan of vetiver then this is for you. It has that same depth of spicy woodiness but is clean green and fresh.

I'm late to the party on Rose of No Man's Land, but I'll review it just the same. I first smelled it when it was launched and have recently tried it again to refresh my memory. Juicy, wet, fruity rose in the opening thanks to the raspberry note. Dries out in the dry down and becomes a delicate, sharp, papery rose which still retains a subtle damp sweetness. The dryness is done in a timeless way rather than a strictly old fashioned way and the play of wet and dry is nicely done and very intriguing. The papyrus and pink pepper notes work together in a way which emulates the tangy scent of old paper. This is a fruity rose meets a used bookstore. Rose of No Man's Land would be good for someone who works in an office or lives with people who are sensitive to perfume, or even for a younger woman or girl who wants to start exploring scent.What I admire about this fragrance is the story that lies beneath it. Unlike many other Byredo creations, that are devoted either to collective emotions (Mixed Emotions, De Los Santos, etc.) or sweet impressions from personal experience (Bal d'Afrique, Biblioteque and many others), Rose of No Man's Land throws us to the battlefields of the World War I. The horrendous landscape of craters, mud, blood, mangled tanks and corpses is what they call "no man's land". The "rose" would be a nurse carrying a wounded soldier away or at least holding him through his last hours. I imagine this would be wearable even for those who aren't typically a fan of green scents. (Looking at you, Sa Majeste La Rose) The rose notes in the fragrance are expressive, but gently concealed by the rapsberry and papyrus. When I first heard the smell I could vividly imagine nurses calming down the injured and relieving pain with a light touch and strong medication. It's good they chose a Turkish Rose instead of a Damascus Rose, since the latter is, to my mind, way too earthy and easy to make an atrociously dark story. It is a very special rose fragrance, one that feels oddly nostalgic without making you smell like your own grandmother. More like, what you imagine your grandmother may have smelt in her mid-twenties. Intriguingly youthful and elegant - truly an old soul in a young body.

Will work for every season. I think in hot hot heat the rose will radiate off the skin but few sprays to avoid choking. I think this is great for females of any age. 80% feminine (but who care wear it if you love it) I have been searching for a rose fragrance that doesn't overwhelm me isn't too jammy and is sophisticated but not confined to evening wear. Well, here it is.I get the image of a respected art historian in the first half of the 20th century who moonlights as a courtesan in her charming apartment decorated in a sensually eclectic manner with orientalist urns, luxurious silks, miniature reproductions of Rodin’s The Kiss and Eternal Idol, and (of course) a vase of day old pink roses beside a yellowed 19th century printing of a 17th century erotic text opened to display a scandalous illustration In the end, both my best friend and I agreed that this was not a pleasant scent.. and was especially not worth its hefty price tag. I decided to return it. I love this perfume, it’s beautiful and it’s like a soft bubble of old memories (without smelling old at all!). It’s not my favourite from Byredo, but it’s certainly one of the top ones for me.

RoNML wears like an eau de cologne or eau de toilette—it's fresh, delicate and soft and it has minor projection and medium/weak tenacity. The main note is Turkish rose, and that's really all there is here. Maybe some supportive musks and some delicate floralisers like phenyl ethyl formate or phenyl ethyl alcohol. The Rose of No Man's Land" (or in French "La rose sous les boulets") is a song written as a tribute to the Red Cross nurses at the front lines of the First World War.

I'd like to offer my subjective take on this masterpiece as the notes have been discussed and stated many times before.