perfume: homemade rose attempt #1

So I've been trying to figure out rose perfumes, which generally smell nice in the bottle and morph immediately into cheap soap smell on my skin. I had passing success with Andy Tauer's Une Rose Chypree and Incense Rose, but it was pretty clear that my nose was fighting the urge to read everything as SOAP SOAP SOAPY SOAP again.

But today I deposited my tax return check and consequently was in Whole Foods buying a foam roller, because that's how I - roll, sorry, it was right there. Anyway, the yoga/massage stuff is right by the essential oils and on a whim I globbed some frankincense and then some rose otto from the testers onto my wrist.

Reader, I smell amazing. I suspect that frankincense would make me like anything, but this generic Auracacia dilute rose otto smells, on my skin, plant-y and foggy and rich, with that hint of mintiness or grape-ness that really redolent fresh roses have. It's not the rosa multiflora I grew up with and still love above all other rose smells - there's not that spicy cinnamon note, but I suspect the frankincense is filling in the gaps there. And I've had it on for an hour and a half, and it hasn't gone to soap yet.