# The Body Shop — Cassis Rose

> Cassis Rose (2006) is a discontinued fruity-rose eau de toilette from The Body Shop, surviving now almost entirely in wearers memory and on the resale market. It was a cheap, cheerful, fruit-glazed ro

## Essence
Cassis Rose (2006) is a discontinued fruity-rose eau de toilette from The Body Shop, surviving now almost entirely in wearers memory and on the resale market. It was a cheap, cheerful, fruit-glazed rose  -  a fresh, crisp, berry-topped take on the flower rather than a serious or "grandmother's" rose  -  sold alongside a matching bath-and-body range (shower gel, body lotion, body mist, and a perfume oil). Coverage is genuinely thin and confined to wearers archives (published listings, MakeupAlley); there is no critic record, and this dossier is written short and source-honest as a result.
## Scent Profile
A red-fruit-and-rose construction: raspberry and blackcurrant (cassis) up top give a "crisp," slightly tart-sweet juiciness that wearers credited for keeping the scent from going stuffy or old-fashioned. The heart is a soft, pretty rose rounded with freesia and a powdery violet; the effect is "a pretty rose with a red fruit note in it," sweeter than average but not, for most, cloying. The base is light  -  musk with cedar and sandalwood  -  and is the source of the scent's chief weakness: it stays close and fades fast. Several rose-averse wearers specifically noted that Cassis Rose did not turn soapy or sour on them the way "true" roses do, which was part of its appeal. A minority found it the opposite  -  "artificially sweet" and "extremely chemical."
## Performance
The consistent, defining complaint is poor longevity. The published listings/MakeupAlley archive is full of variations on "not long lasting which is a shame," "short lived," and "definitely not long lasting." The matching perfume oil reportedly lasted somewhat longer than the EDT spray but "not by much." Projection was light. In practice it behaved like an inexpensive EDT meant for frequent reapplication, and several wearers found it most useful as a functional/linen-type scent because of the weak staying power.
## Wearing Context
An easy, pretty, everyday rose  -  office and casual daytime wear, warm-weather friendly, and approachable for people who normally avoid rose perfumes. It carried strong nostalgic and romantic associations for its devotees; multiple wearers describe it as a teenage signature or a scent tied to specific life memories. It reads young, feminine, and uncomplicated rather than formal or sophisticated.
## Comparisons & DNA
Within The Body Shop's own catalogue it sits in the rose family alongside the also-discontinued Moroccan Rose and the later Atlas Mountain Rose (2012) and the Tea Rose oil; wearers who loved Cassis Rose often cycled through these as replacements, generally finding none a perfect match. One reviewer reached, loosely, for Escada Sexy Graffiti as a comparison (citing a grapefruit-ish brightness), though this is idiosyncratic. There is no strong, repeated designer/niche comparison in the record  -  appropriate for a modest mass-market fruity rose. Because coverage is thin, comparison data should be treated as anecdotal.
## Reception
Fondly remembered, with the affection amplified by its discontinuation. The archive skews nostalgic-positive: "the best perfume I have ever had... sadly, it has been discontinued," "one of the most amazing rose scents ever," and repeated laments at not being able to repurchase it. The crisp fruit-over-rose effect and the bargain price are the most-praised features. Dissent is real but minority: a few found it too sweet, "sickeningly sweet" on first wear, or chemical/synthetic, and at least one had a sour, headache-inducing drydown. The near-universal point of agreement, lovers and critics alike, is the disappointing longevity. No major critic coverage exists; this is wearers memory only, and the gap is genuine.
## Versions & Reformulation
Beyond the EDT there was a matching perfume oil (a separate published listings) and a full body range; the oil was reported to last marginally longer than the spray. No reformulation history is documented  -  the line was simply discontinued. Treat any "version" distinctions as format differences (EDT vs. oil vs. body mist) rather than reformulations.
## Acquisition Notes
Discontinued and only available secondhand. Sealed bottles surface on eBay and Etsy, sometimes at steep "rare/discontinued" markups (asking prices observed well above original retail). Given the documented weak longevity and the age of any surviving stock (nearly two decades old, with attendant top-note degradation risk), this is a nostalgia purchase rather than a performance one. Third-party "type"/recreation oils exist but fall outside whitelisted sourcing and are not endorsed here. Buyer beware on price and freshness.
## Notable Facts & Lore
- The scent's cultural footprint is almost entirely sentimental: the archive is unusually rich in personal-memory reviews  -  first crushes, teenage signatures, even a wearer who brought the full Cassis Rose range (shower gel, lotion, body spray, and EDP) to hospital before a scheduled C-section. That emotional attachment, more than any olfactory innovation, is why the fragrance is still discussed twenty years on and why discontinued bottles still move on the resale market.