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February 20, 2008

Stella

by Stella McCartney, 2003


The starry packaging says disco, the scent says... rose? Is that actual, old-fashioned Bulgarian rose? Yep! And not a bit old-fashioned smelling, either. This is not your grandmother's rose perfume. There's woods and tea, a bit of white flowers too. Ok ok, the notes do in fact say "old-fashioned", but I swear they're formulated in a way that doesn't add up to Grandma... but does it add up to your-name-in-lights DISCO? Nope.

I mean, come on... it's still rose perfume! And boy is it! Rose & white flowers in the beginning, rose & tea & ambery stuff in the middle, rose & white cedar at the end. It finishes evocatively as a rose sachet in your mom's (or Stella's mom's) cedar lingerie drawer, an almost universal scent from every girl's childhood. Comfort & class, but definitely not disco.

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