Prompted by Nose Prose (https://noseprose.com/) and her fantastic blog post detailing her trip to the rose garden in Portland, I ventured out to Brisbane’s New Farm Park and its famed rose garden last weekend. The gardens have been around for over a century, opening in 1914. In its heyday in the 1940s, it was home to over 20,000 roses. Nowadays, that number sits at a much reduced 7,000. Still, a trip to New Farm makes for a fantastic outing for the rose garden and all the other park’s sights, sounds, and scents. Here are a few photos I took of the roses.
Which scent did I wear to the rose garden? I chose Frederic Malle’s abstract impression of a rose, Rose & Cuir. Still in a rosy mood in the evening, I sprayed Elie Saab’s Essence No. 1 Rose. It was mild, and there was a bit of cloud cover around, so both scents worked well. These perfumes may become cloying on hot days, particularly the vanilla rose combo of the Elie Saab.
