SAGE’S ROSE EAU DE PARFUM 50ML

What’s worse than spending $250 on a bottle of perfume? Knowing that you could have bought two small bags of groceries from Woolies for that price but instead invested it on a bottle of perfume that no one even notices you’re wearing. You could have sat at home in your PJs deep-throating 4.25 packets of caramel Tim Tams, but instead, you’re wandering around in the freezing cold Tasmanian winter smelling like absolutely nothing special.

Anyway, I finally stopped throwing my money away on glorified scented water. I decided to try Sage’s Rose by Tsu Lange Yor, and it’s the first time in years a stranger has actually stopped me to ask what I’m wearing. Not just once, but repeatedly. I’d never get stopped on the street for my singing abilities (unless someone was begging me to stop), but I feel like Troye and I must be pretty equal now when it comes to public attention :D

I’d love to tell you a bit about the actual scent—I suppose that’s what a review is meant to do—but I can’t. I’m not a "perfumista," so I can’t tell you about the olfactory pyramid (thanks, Google). All I can say is that it smells amazing when you first spray it on, and even better an hour later. Oh, and it lasts like no other perfume I’ve come across. I can still smell myself at the end of the day, and while that would usually indicate something very negative, in this case, it’s an extremely good thing.

The fact that it’s made by an Australian family owned company was enough to get me to give it a chance. The…