Eau de Pamplemousse Rose

It is a female leaning unisex. Very refreshing! Perfect for summer like this entire line. I own this one and Mandarin Ambre and they are perfect for the highest heat. I also love Concentre d'Orange Verde but each Ellena is perfect. This is a pink grapefruit but without being too obvious with soft orange polishing the edges and fresh rose being a canvas. So so refreshing, like a citrus lemonade by the forest stream with your feet in the water. I feel it on for 8 hours, 5 of which with sillage.

Sweet, sour and bright. Perfect blind buy if you like citrics for sure, the only inconvinient is how fast it fades, but still worth it just to set the tone in a clear summer morning.

Ahh, the confusion that seems to surround Hermès Pamplemousse Rose! I just read a recent review in which the seemingly esteemed reviewer exhibited no knowledge that there are two versions of this fragrance. throughout the article she referred to the "Concentre" version as an eau de cologne rather than the accurate eau de toilette. IMO, the addition of vetiver to the concentrated EDT version makes them two entirely different fragrances. In the EDC, the rose shines through. You get grapefruit and rose. That's it. To my nose, the EDT is much greener and more masculine, and the rose is undetectable. I prefer the cologne. It lasts for several hours on me and it's a much softer scent. Spritz some on your clothes and it will last all day.

If there was a green rose that has a fleeting scent, this is it. As if the petals and leaves have changed their location; the rose is barely there. But interesting experience anyway.

Nice, fresh scent for summer!

Why are people complaining about its longevity? This is an eau de cologne. I personally buy fragrances for their scent, not for their performance. If I happen to like a scent and it lasts, that’s just a bonus.

I have never gotten into quibbles about longevity when reviewing fragrances. That said, this is the most fleeting EDT I've ever used. Perhaps I'm anosmic to it after the awesomely refreshing grapefruit opening dissipates. Please accept my apologies, Monsieur Ellena, I have liked every other Hermes fragrance of yours I have encountered. I will continue to love your Bvlgari Eau Parfumee au The Vert during the heat of summer.

Gingery grapefruit rose with subtle woody undercurrents This is the Elena grapefruit treatment, intricate, elaborate and complex. In fact, out of all 20+ Elena citruses i have sampled, Eau de Pamplemouse rose is by far the most vibrant and all encompassing. Elena steps beyond his usual musty bitter orange accords found in most of his masculines painting a much fresher and invigorating scenery: gingery spicy, rosy floral and woody green facets mixed with a storm of tart zesty citrus. What is particularly manifested on my skin are the rosy inflections, geraniol and citronellol, rose ketones etc. which i believe produce the illusion of 'pinkness'. Beyond the grapefruit-rose mega-accord, there is little there, some iso e super, maybe a hint of vetiver. Excellent overall, an essential for summer, and only contested by equally majestic but much greener and more substantial Guerlain Pamplelune. The Concentre version is a different beast entirely, closer related to Terre EDT.

good simple bright fresh scent with poor longevity. impossible to offend anybody with this

Grapefruit that slaps you awake, then whispers a soft rosy goodbye before disappearing into the ether. A fleeting summer fling in a bottle.

a blast of zesty citrus off top, then settles into a fresh rosy scent.

Not much i can say about this. It is a nice fragrance. Definitely has grapefruit as the top note lol. Very strong main note. If only it lasts longer than an hour. Nice citrus scent.

whats the point of buying a fragrance when you spray it before leaving and by the time you get out of the house it is gone lmao

So refreshing and beautiful. Elegant red rose under clean, fresh pamplemousse (grapefruit). There is no dimension along which this could be better. Even the lightness is a gift; it lasts, but subtle. Never overwhelming, summer and night and work and whenever you need to feel better.

i like to wear this as an additional layer to other fragrances, but it's also delicious on its own.

Opening grapefruit note is killer. Goes away too quickly though and unfortunately the opening is the magic. Not worth price point.

I love it, should have given it a 5/5 but its flaw is it doesn’t really last. Of course you can get the ‘Concentré de Pamplemousse Rose’ version but for this price you’d expect more performance even from an EDT. Now ‘Vetiver Pamplemousse’ is exquisite. Smells quite similar, maybe less or no roses but its performance is better. Also a tad less bitter.

This little guy was my very first fragrance lol. I vividly remember it was 2012-2013 and I never in my life used fragrances and had no idea where to even begin. At the time I was really into indie subcultures and browsed 4chan's /fa/ board where I would always notice a recurring thread about fragrances. I owe my entire fragrance hobby to that random OP that randomly had a chart of his recent hauls and he praised this green bottle to high heavens. Through pure destiny, Sephora had that same green bottle on display, and after testing it, I was in love. The magic of fragrances is how much of an effective time machine they are, and one whiff of Pamplemousse Rose, I'm immediately transported to the indie/college campus life of 2012-2014 and all the tender nostalgia that accompanies it. Only complaint that everyone rightfully mentions: This thing is SO SO SO SO SO short. I'm not kidding, I think it lasts 30 minutes and that's being generous. A byproduct of that is you'll be spraying it numerous times, and by the end of the year, the bottle is almost empty. The scent is so incredible and nostalgically idiosyncratic, I'm willing to tolerate that enormous flaw.

pamplemousse tinted truely unisex too weak

This one might just be my favourite from Hermès' basic set. The citrus is so photorealistic and fresh that only Terre d'Hermès Eau Très Fraîche and Eau Givrée can outperform. I'm really fond of citrus scents from this brand. Longevity is not good, but again, what do you expect? It's citrus!

I think this is really unisex, perhaps slightly leaning male. I love the grapefruit note. So zesty and refreshing. I get no orange and rose. It dries down to grassy herbal green. I would have preferred the grapefruit note to last beyond a few minutes and then some soft rose and orange. I don’t like the dry down, but it does not project much, so it’s not a big problem. But the opening pamplemousse is so realistic, juicy.

I like this perfume so much. The rose in it is so fresh! I didn't buy it because of longevity. 3/5 V

I wish this scent would last longer on my skin, but on the other hand, I don’t mind adding more and more-because the opening is so wonderful! I think colognes are designed for regular refeshement during the day :)

I love this scent. It is a beautiful and ephemeral composition. It's too bad that like many other citrus dominant fragrances that it only lasts about an hour.

This was the scent of my early youth - that is, it was poetic, delicious, but as ephemeral as a champagne-fueled evening in Paris. A scent that beckons to soft, sweaty skin sticky with gin and juice - as decadent as it is delicate.

Not much rose. Faints really quickly. As with all citrusy eaux

Eau de Pamplemousse Rose is another simple yet effective cologne from Hermès, this time featuring grapefruit as its focal note. Grapefruit is one of my favourite citrus notes, perhaps second only to photorealistic, sunny orange. It is also the most difficult citrus note to get right in perfumery. Grapefruit dominates the opening, juicy, radiant and realistic. It is quite light and delicate however; the grapefruit note in Zara x Jo Malone Vetiver Pamplemousse for example, is richer, despite its fleeting performance. Some orange complements the grapefruit here nicely, emerging after a little while. It becomes rosy as it develops, in a similar way to Eau de Rhubarbe Ecarlate, another of Hermès' « Eaux ». The rose is very light and dewy. It fades fairly quickly. Sillage is intimate and longevity weak. EdPR is typical of Jean-Claude Ellena's trademark light touch - it is a fleeting, barely-there citrus cologne. Perfectly unisex, this is made for hot weather. Nice, but the performance is lacking for the price. For this reason, I would go for Vetiver Pamplemousse instead. 3/5.

I've worn this a few times on skin, I don't smell the rose but the grapefruit/pamplemousse opening is wonderful. To my nose the middle and base are vetiver done Very Well. I am disappointed that I don't smell more rose in the fragrance but I still think this is a great fragrance.

I have not smelled/experienced it on my own skin but still know I want it just based on testing strip and smelling it on my aunt. I’m biased because I ADORE grapefruit! And rose too…and I love fresh/spicy fragrances. Thats pretty much what this cologne is. Grapefruit and rose. I see some people are complaining about longevity but I think the strength is that of a typical edt. On her clothes it lasts a while! She sprays it on her scarf and smells like a delicious fresh citrusy rose garden! Divine. The roses smell so realistic. Even smells good on her during the fall months. I’m betting that a grapefruit & rose fan would love this. It will not project across the room but that to me is okay.

From what I can remember this was simple yet brilliant, I was happy with this especially as a layering scent, to me this is a high end rose-sparkling water or beverage, (which doesn't smell candied or sweetened or chemically, this is just a high end sparkling rose drink) defintley a yellow or pink rose (not a predominantly masculine or predominantly feminine scent), but to me it kind of does lean ever so slighlty more masculine since the rose is just a rose not dark, not pretty and very light and pillowy just a hot weather summer yellow or pink rose that has just come into bloom, in the beginning I mentioned "rose pop, or sparkiling water" or whatever you want to call it, here I was focusing on the rose element but there definitely is a very slight sparkling factor that contributes to this, this is accompanied with a sharp, ever, ever so slighlty bitter Grapefruit and Orange to tie the Grapfruit and the Rose together, the scent as a whole is to me a very nice smelling fragrance slightly linear but it's perfect for layering, will it last long? Yes, but Will you be able to smell strongly or at all after many hours - No. It is more of a skin scent, so it does wear light, but once again its perfect for layering and when I did decide to layer it, I wore it with Terre D'Hermes Eau Intense Vetiver, and this gave it more bod a different element, and amplified it that much more.