Rosé All Daé
Gallagher Fragrances (2018)

This is a fun one. It's not just another rose, it's a party of fruity, boozy, sparkly, happy notes all swirling together in glee. I'm swept by the name, I admit: I'd like some Rosé All Daé some daé, too!

US artisan perfumer Daniel Gallagher's journey into making his own apparently started when his wife commented on one of the designer fragrances he was wearing, saying that one of her co-workers wore the same scent. This led him via the usual niche detour to search for something different, resulting in eventually realizing his own visions.
Rosé All Daé is inspired by ‘an exceptionally aromatic Cinsault rosé originating from the Texas High Plains' and is an unusual and, for this wearer, richly satisfying take on the boozy theme. It avoids all the rum/cognac clichés and goes instead for a kind of rich fruity ferment reminiscent of the trail emanating from the cork of a just-opened bottle of a fine wine. My quibble with this one is that no rosé I've ever tried smells remotely like this – the olfactory territory is more like a fine, aged dessert wine, essentially honeyed but with pleasing acidity to enliven the experience.
Gallagher recommends Rosé All Daé as a cool weather fragrance, I suppose because it is so unapologetically sweet. If that is a hurdle for you, I suggest you jump it and try Rosé All Daé anyway because it has so much to recommend it. The main thing that fascinated me it is a sense of all its olfactory sensations being continually on the turn – apple and other fruity notes, both drying in the sun and turning into alcohol, a deep rose and honey combo morphing into a Sélection de Grains Nobles wine, the suggestion of spice being conjured out of the interplay of the notes rather than any obvious dusting, a kaleidoscope of impressions suffused with ambery evening light continually changing in a pleasing interplay. Its closest relative seems to be Tauer's Une Rose Vermeille – not that the two smell alike apart from a passing fruit and rose association, but because of the sheer skill with which the rich sweetness is handled and the successful union of the playful and the serious in both.