From the moment Zalo hit my radar, I have really enjoyed watching the products they release. They have such a gorgeously feminine aesthetic and I find all of their toys to beautifully understated and lovely. Even though the Zalo Baby Heart wasn’t exactly the perfect toy for me (it is a very gentle vibrator), I absolutely loved it because of how it looked. Since then I have been hoping for the chance to review other toys in the Zalo product line-up, so when SheVibe emailed and announced they would be carrying Zalo’s toys I was super excited! Then when they gave me the opportunity to review something from Zalo, I was all in! I ended up asking for two toys, the Zalo Queen, which I will be reviewing later and the Zalo Rosalie Rabbit Vibrator.
Part of me is kicking myself for asking for the rabbit… I know I dislike rabbit vibrators more often than not… I don’t know what possessed me to ask for this one… especially given the spectacular line up of other non-rabbit toys Zalo carries. Sometimes my eyes take control and demand things it finds pleasing to look at even when my vagina and clit are screaming in unison “NO, DON’T DO IT!” If I was thinking clearly, I would have asked for the Zalo Marie, which looks to be essentially the same as the Rosalie… only without the clitoral arm and swoopy curve. But I wasn’t thinking… and now here we are… with a rabbit vibrator. But maybe it won’t be all that bad, after all I’ve been surprised by rabbit vibrators before… so maybe I’ll like this one too! Or maybe I won’t and I’ll just be grumpy at myself for voluntarily inflicting a rabbit vibe on myself for no reason whatsoever. WHO KNOWS?! I GUESS WE’LL SEE HOW IT GOES!
Regardless of how the Rosalie rabbit actually works, just holding the packaging makes me feel 100% more classy than I actually am. While gently stroking this beautiful box I really can imagine myself to be a doomed French royal who really doesn’t understand why they can’t all just eat cake (cake is delicious, we should all just be eating it… forget bread). Like, straight up… this box is probably the nicest thing in my house… the kind of thing I’ll put prominently in my living room so people can see what a classy bitch I really am. The Rosalie arrives in a beautiful powder blue box adorned with a beautiful floral spray and fancy gold scrolling… it is all very Versailles. The packaging is definitely something you are going to want to keep (heck, if the toy ever breaks… I’ll toss that but still keep this box), not only is it lovely to look at, it makes perfect permanent storage for the Rosalie and its accessories (and it sits inconspicuously on a shelf… well.. unless people are as smitten with this box as I am and demand to know what you keep in such a work of art… in which case you say its the shriveled heart of the last person who asked what you kept in your box and that should stop any further questions…). Lifting the lid to this box reveals the first layer to the Zalo Rosalie packaging, this layer contains the charging cable, the warranty card, handy storage bag (if you want to travel with your Zalo but don’t want to lug the entire box with you), and the instruction manual all packed neatly on the tray. Lifting this tray by its little ribbon handle will then reveal the Rosalie itself resting underneath and a luxurious foam nest.
Other than looking utterly lovely, there isn’t anything all to innovative about Rosalie’s shape. Pretty classic shaft with clitoral arm sort of set up. The head of the toy is much more bulbous than the rest of the toy and is angled with a bit of an upward sweep (hello g-spot). It has a total length of 7.9 inches with 4.33 inches of that being insertable length. Girth-wise the Rosalie is 1.2 inches at its widest insertable point. The handle of the toy is freakin’ gorgeous. It has cream colored enameled metal cap with some fancy-pantsy decorative scrolling made of 24 karat gold plating it and a long gold chain with a gold medallion (not sure that the chain and medallion are actual gold) at the end with the words “Zalo De Rosalie” written on it. IT’S SO FUCKING FANCY I CAN HARDLY HANDLE IT.
Figuring out how to charge the Rosalie took me an embarrassingly long time. As the seconds ticked by I could hear the little voice in my head nagging at me, telling me to “just look at the instruction manual!” But by the two minute mark, I was too deeply invested in figuring this situation out on my own… I would not go running to the manual… I am a strong, independent woman and I can figure out how to charge a sex toy without help damnit! After maybe about three to four minutes (I shit you not… it really did take me an EMBARRASSINGLY LONG TIME to sort this out) of continually turning this toy over and over around in my hands, I finally had an AH-HA moment and realized I could unscrew the long gold chain from the bottom of the toy… which then revealed the charge port. SEE, I told you I could do this on my own… Once I figured out WHERE to plug the cable in, the rest of the charging process was a breeze. Just take the included USB charging cable and plug the long pointy end into the bottom of the Rosalie and plug USB end into a computer or adapter and you are good to go. I had to charge my Zalo Rosalie right out of the box… which annoyed me, I like when a toy comes with a bit of charge so I can give it a quick test right away (because I have zero chill like that)… but the Rosalie was dead as a door-nail on arrival. This may have been because when it arrived from SheVibe the box sat outside in absolutely freezing temperatures for a good 12 hours and this may have zapped the batteries. I know when I sit in a negative 50 degrees with the windchill my batteries are completely zapped (or is that called hypothermia in people?). It took about an hour and change for my Rosalie to full charge (light flickers while charging and the light will remain constant when finished charging). Also, worth noting… the Rosalie does arrive travel locked (which I checked the manual for to make sure that wasn’t my issue rather than a dead battery), so if you also have a “dead” toy right out of the packaging but yours didn’t sit in temperatures colder than the arctic, its probably just travel locked. To unlock press and hold the up and down buttons simultaneously for 3 seconds until the light blinks on. Do this again until the light blinks off and your toy is back in travel lock position. You can also just plug the Rosalie in and this will unlock it as well (if you like to take the easy way out).
I found operating the Zalo Rosalie to be slightly confusing at first. What I would expect to be the up button was actually the down button and vice versa. But it actually does make more sense this way… the buttons are orientated as if you are operating the controls while the toy is inserted (which is probably how you are using it) so now the up button is the button closest to the handle (up and away from you) while the down button is the button closest to your body. This sounds like utter nonsense, I know… but just know that when I first held the Rosalie to mess with the buttons it was while holding it upright in my hands in front of my face, and when held this way… the buttons where not where I thought they would be. Don’t worry… it’ll make more sense when you actually have the toy in your hands, its not complicated. The other thing that confused me at first about the Rosalie was “standby mode.” So, to turn the toy on you have to click the “mode” button (the middle button) once… and this puts it in stand by, you’ll have to price this button against to activate the vibrations. Continuing to press this middle button will cycle you through a sequence of eight patterns all of which can have their intensity levels adjusted by using the up and down arrows. I really love this about the Rosalie… I hate patterns… but mostly I hate patterns because they are often times too weak and completely non-adjustable. But I definitely hate patterns much less when I can crank up the intensity of them to something closer to my liking! The vibrations themselves aren’t too bad, I’d say they are moderately strong vibrations… not as powerful as my corded behemoths (Doxy, Magic Wand, I’m looking at you…) but for a small, cordless rechargeable vibrator it’s no slouch! When I hold just the head of the toy against my clit, I was able to reach an orgasm without too much fussing and fighting with it. There is a small amount of rumble to the toy, although it was nothing real deep and penetrating (and I can feel an underlying buzz to it), but it was perfectly enjoyable!
There is also an app you can download called Zalo Remote that turns your smartphone into a bluetooth remote control. This app also gives you access to more patterns, a music mode (which I couldn’t get to work because I don’t have any music downloaded to iTunes since all I listen to is Spotify), and probably the most interesting feature, Tease Mode. Tease Mode brings up this square on the screen and when you tap the square the toy vibrates… if you run your finger from bottom to top it starts at the lowest intensity and ramps up to the highest… so you can kind of rub your phone to created new patterns on the fly. The app isn’t all that amazing… so if you aren’t someone who likes to pair their phones with their sex toys… don’t worry, you aren’t missing out on much.
Usually, when it comes to these clitoral arms they are either the wrong size/shape or they are very rigid and impossible to move into position. The Zalo Rosalie has a very flexible arm which did mean I could position the arm right on top of my clit and it did work pretty well. I wasn’t really wowed by it though… but honestly, that was to be expected… I’m not a rabbit vibe person, I really never have been (and probably never will be…). But, the fact that the arm made contact with my clit is huge… that doesn’t always happen with rabbit vibrators… so I’m kind of stoked about that! The vibrations through the clit arm were doing almost nothing for me though, while I could feel the vibrations coming through the shaft loud and clear when inserted, the clit vibes got lost. For a rabbit vibe to work for me, I need the whole thing to be POWERFUL, because having a strong shaft vibration but weak clit (or vice versa) kind of just causes me… confusion… like… my body isn’t really sure where it wants to focus its attention and neither end up feeling all to great. I know that sounds weird… but it seems to be how my body works. I can’t handle a whole lot of competing stimuli… so I need both the internal and external vibrations to be somewhat equal in strength and if I am going to orgasm from it…I need it to be strong (unless I have the ability to really thrust the internal part… than the strength of the external part matters a bit less… confusing, I know). But as far as rabbit vibes go, I don’t actually hate this one… I have definitely used much worse! I actually really like the shaft portion of the toy and I kind of wish I could just lob off that external arm and just enjoy the shaft! I love the curve, hits me in the g-spot just right. The girth also feels about right, it isn’t alarmingly big (although… sometimes I really like that in a toy) but it isn’t so small that I don’t notice its there… it feels nice, it feels just filling enough.
Overall, I am rather pleased with the Zalo Rosalie Rabbit… as far as rabbit vibrators go, this wasn’t the worst thing I’ve experienced. While it didn’t unseat the Greedy Girl or the Nova in the “my favorite rabbit” rankings… it currently sits at a comfortable number three… and that’s not shabby, considering I’m pretty harsh on most rabbit style toys! I love the aesthetics of the Zalo and think that the Rosalie would make an excellent gift (for your self or someone else) and makes the whole toy seem pretty and creates a more luxurious experience (I feel like the fucking Queen of fucking France when I pop this in my puss). The vibrator itself isn’t bad, the shaft gets the job done for me… I just wish I could feel the vibrations through the external arm a little clearer. Typically I like a high powered clit vibrations and don’t really orgasm with anything that isn’t basically a jet engine, however internally, my vagina is much more forgiving and can work with almost any level of vibration its given (so long as the shape of the toy is working for me)… so I still orgasmed with this toy and I still enjoyed it… and I think I would have been better off getting a toy without the external arm… but I’m also not mad that I gave it a try. If you are a person who enjoys rabbit vibes, I think I can recommend the Zalo Rosalie Rabbit as being a good candidate!
Are you convinced that you too need the fanciest fucking vibrator you’ve ever seen in your life? You can find the Zalo Rosalie Rabbit Vibrator (and the rest of the Versailles series) at SheVibe!
The Zalo Rosalie Rabbit Vibrator was provided to me free of charge by SheVibe in exchange for my honest review.
