Harrods Rose ~ Bond 9

 

When I was just a young girl I went with my parents to England. We spent lots of time there visiting castles and palaces and strolling in the beautiful gardens that usually accompany such splendid digs. I loved London the best though, it was the late 60’s and everything was so hip and fashionable. Mini skirts and Mary Quant makeup were the look of the day and you couldn’t go anywhere near Piccadilly Circus without seeing a Mick Jagger lookalike poking his head around the corner with a very chic Gitanes dangling from his or her lips. We went to all of the museums and took high tea everyday at the most wonderful hotels and then there was Buckingham Palace. I loved trying to make the guards move or blink while they were on their watch. I tried everyday and never even got as much as a grin. That was such good fun!

 

We shopped and ate and did everything that a tourist could and should do in that utterly fabulous city and then came the day that my mother dressed me up in my little navy and white houndstooth coat with the matching navy hat. I knew instantly that this meant that we were going somewhere very special, a place where we were going to be “seen”. It was also interesting to me because we were leaving my father to his kippered herrings and toast while we were going off to have some sort of great adventure. Little did I know then that we were going to partake in the ultimate mother /daughter bonding moment. That was day that I first discovered Harrods.

 

Harrods of Knightsbridge, London is quite possibly the most famous and definitely the most luxurious department store in the world. There simply isn’t anything to rival it . They will still hand deliver for special occasions which is an absolute dream come true. There are food and wine halls, fine crystal, silverware and porcelain, beautiful clothes and fabulous jewelry and Harrods is a perfumistas dream come true with every scent imaginable for you to discover. The moment you walk into to Harrods you know that you are someplace special. The service is impeccable . We spent the whole day there just the two of us , shopping and laughing the whole time and we finished the day with a lovely high tea at The Georgian on the 4th floor.

 

Loving Harrods as I do it comes as absolutely no surprise to me that I have fallen in love with Bond No. 9’s newest fragrance, the absolutely luscious Harrods Rose. Billed as the “First Transatlantic rose blend” Harrods Rose is totally gorgeous and I’m wearing right now, I just can’t seem to resist it. This Bond No. 9 is a perfect understatement of luxury, yet it’s as bright and sparkling as a glass of Veuve Cliquot Rose and every bit as tasty. The impact of this perfume is instant for me and the luscious narcissus, sultry white rose and tuberose are delightful yet fairly quickly everything relaxes into the base of musky ambrette seed and cashmere wood turningHarrods Rose into a sensual dressing gown of a fragrance. I think that this is one of those perfumes that deserves to be enjoyed at least once with a sassy little bit of Aubade and nothing else.

 

Bond No. 9’s Harrods Rose is pure genius, a quiet bombshell of a fragrance and after all no one does the naughty weekend better than our friends the Brits so they deserve to be honored with such a fabulous perfume. Of course the flacon is gorgeous, the way that all of Bond No.9’s bottles are and the best part is that it’s only available at Harrods or any of the Bond No. 9 stores in New York which makes it more precious than pink diamonds to a girl like me. Harrods Rose is also available at Harrods.com and Bondno9.com, but I had so much fun walking into the store on Madison and asking for a spritz of it. Bond No. 9 stores are fun, colorful and so very modern, yet they have the feel of old world elegance accented with a sexy little bit of Moulin Rouge. A bottle of Harrods Rose is filled to the brim with color and gorgeousness, but also with the verve of New York. It’s the perfect blend of two worlds , one old and one new. I usually don’t kiss and tell but I don’t mind sharing this one , thats half of its fun. I just love it and if you like a beautiful rose perfume with a lot of class AND a wee bit of sass, then this will be the Bond No. 9 that’s been made especially for you!

 

Harrods Rose will be sold exclusively at Harrods London and at Bond No. 9’s four New York stores, online at www.harrods.com andwww.bondno9.com. 

 

This was originally published in The Perfume Magazine