Stella
Stella McCartney (2003)

Rose with a lot of cheap fruit on top. It's that mix of fake strawberry and fake peach that signals a smellalike fruity floral. Fortunately, given time, a rather nice rose absolute smell comes pushed through all that fruit, at which point Stella gets quite nice.

If you haven't guessed by now, I really don't like fruity rose perfumes, so Stella definitely isn't for me. It's a shame - if they'd just let that nice rose do its thing, this could have been great. Oh well....

I love the rose notes, they aren’t cloying or reminiscent of old fashioned rose water. I think of it as heavy metal rose.

Stella is always the right choice when I don't have an idea of what fragrance to wear. It's perfect for the office, daytime/evening, any season, and is unlikely to offend anyone. It's pleasant and comfortable. I wish the formulation hadn't changed though....the older version was so much better!

The opening of this is an easy-to-like designer rose and peony perfume. After a couple hours, some of the floral goodness can still be smelled up close, but the projecting elements of the perfume are less interesting and enjoyable than the opening, even cloying.

This is a rose perfume. Sorry, but I don't like it. The bottle is classy though.

Nice , but not quite ...me . Passed my bargain find to my mom ,who loves rose scents. I'm pretty sure it's the "woody ambers" that are not quite syncing up with me. It gives a bit too much " heaviness " to the scent and ( perhaps this is unfair -but hey I have a lot of scents that have to compete for skin time) I had a sinus headache verging on a migraine while wearing Stella edp . Not quite a pleasant association. Another find , vintage Colors de Bennetton actually seemed to take my headache DOWN a few notches when I wore it the next day.
I think this is pleasant enough to be around but I don't really want to wear it and have it wafting up all day. Stella resembles other peony rose type scents like Ellen Tracy but with more clean musk and amber-"woods"added.