jblaney
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Newbie - Thanks for your input. I'm looking for something like real rose.
Best Smelling FO - Rose
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If you liked Victorian rose, I recommend you at least check out English Rose for BB and CG's Rose Petals. In fact, I have both on hand and would be happy to send one or both to you in some format. PM if you're interested.
jblaney
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TRBeck - I sent you a pm.
I'm about to try Imogen Rose from FragranceBuddy in a small batch today. It's a Lush dupe but I've never tried the original so can't really compare. It smells really nice OOB so I'll keep you guys posted on how it turns out.
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I'm not a rose person, but I keep hearing about a FO called rose jam. Anybody here familiar with it? It's a dupe, but I don't know of whom. I do like blending rose however.
I've tried the Rose Jam (also a Lush dupe) from FragranceBuddy. To me it smells more sweet & jammy than rosey. The Imogen Rose smells more like a fresh cut flower OOB.
Don't know if I finally stumbled across the slowest tracing recipe ever or if it was the FO but I stick blended the snot outta that Imogen Rose batch! I used a lard/tallow recipe and full water because I was worried it might move fast (I had no reviews to go by). Got worried I was mixing too much air into the batter with the stick blender so stopped and just let it sit another 5 mins before pouring. There was plenty of time to swirl and it barely got to the thickness of cake batter.
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That happened to me with a tallow 36%, lard 36%, 15 co, castor 5 and the rest olive oil. Brought it to trace, colored part of it and poured in the mold and waited for it to firm up before pouring another layer. One entire hour later...it had barely changed at all and was definitely not firm enough to support a gentle layering of another color so I ended up doing a drop swirl because I was tired of waiting for it!
This recipe was unscented though.
This recipe was unscented though.
I can also recommend NG fresh cut roses. I'm not a floral person in general ... I like spice and woodsy scents better. But friends and family have asked for a floral so I tried this.
OOB it's ... okay. In fresh soap, I thought it had an odd tang that I didn't like. In cured soap, however, it's lovely. Even DH likes it and happily showers with it.
It's a clear crisp rosy floral and is not horribly strong or sickly perfume sweet. I use it near the upper end of the recommended usage % and the scent sticks well for me.
OOB it's ... okay. In fresh soap, I thought it had an odd tang that I didn't like. In cured soap, however, it's lovely. Even DH likes it and happily showers with it.
It's a clear crisp rosy floral and is not horribly strong or sickly perfume sweet. I use it near the upper end of the recommended usage % and the scent sticks well for me.
jblaney
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Dee Anna - Thank you for your input on NG's Fresh Cut Roses. I just soaped a sample I received and I'm anxiously waiting to see how it smells upon full cure. I thought it was pretty and very subtle OOB and became stronger once soaped, which surprised me. It's only been a few days, but I'm hopefull it will be what I've been looking for.
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Everybody's different, but I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. This FO is one I'm positive about reordering -- I really do like it.
DorietteFarm I was wondering how the Imogen Rose was holding up? Also from Fragrance Buddy the Gypsy Rose is so amazing, it is a true tea rose scent, and holds forever, although it moves pretty quick, I usually just do two colors with it.
My batch with Imogen Rose has been curing about 2 weeks and the rose seems to have faded quite a bit. I only used .75oz PPO so might need to increase it next time. Right now my sniffer is smelling more of the green notes than the floral notes but that could change when I test it in a couple more weeks.
I purchased the WSP Rose Garden but now I have a question for you about it. I want to use it in a recipe to make a spin swirl where the batter needs to remain liquid for about 10-15 minutes. Do you find that it accelerates trace at all? Any suggestions if I use this?
Julie, have you joined the Soap Scent Review board yet? There is a ton of useful information on there about acceleration/discoloration/ricing/scent holding there. It is a little bit of a pain b/c you need a paid internet account, but you might already have one. Eg, I use gmail for all my email stuff, but my cable (Time Warner) account, for which I pay, provides an email account, which is what I used to sign up for SSRB. If you do CP and use FOs it is really, really helpful.
Sometimes I feel like people will think I am a paid schill for that board, I am not, it has just been so useful in knowing what to buy and has definitely saved me money on FOs which sounded good but I know will be problematic in CP from there.
Don't read my posts there, though, I did most of them while doing MP, they are pretty dumb and *not* useful.
Sometimes I feel like people will think I am a paid schill for that board, I am not, it has just been so useful in knowing what to buy and has definitely saved me money on FOs which sounded good but I know will be problematic in CP from there.
Don't read my posts there, though, I did most of them while doing MP, they are pretty dumb and *not* useful.
I'm such a bonehead....I thought this was a PAID forum, so I avoided it. Glad to hear it's free! I just sent the e-mail off - thanks!!!!
You are not a bonehead, silly. I think - although am not sure - that the board is a one-woman show, run by one owner/moderator and she established the "paid internet account" thing because it provides a filter against spam. Which, having seen the crap spam which briefly shows up here - before being removed by the lovely hard working moderators - makes more sense to me now.
