Sorry for the confusion, they are gumpaste roses. I only WISH I could do buttercream roses.
Ya, i know what you mean 
I like the smooth one, would go well with a very smooth clean cake. But htey both look really good!
They are both beautiful, but I think I like the ruffled one a bit more. The color is fantastic!!!
The first one. If you look at a real rose the petals are not perfectly straight or smooth, there is always a little movement to them. So the slight ruffling makes them look more natural.
Something I learned along the way it making gumpaste roses that might help. You have seen gumpaste roses where the center is recessed, or you have seen them where the centers poke above the outer petals. On a real rose, even as it opens, all the petals are the same height. If you took a real rose that was opened and folded the petals back to the center they would be the same height. What makes the center appear taller is an optical illusion as the flower opens and the side petals curl down or under.
Thanks for the tips ShirleyW 
I was getting annoyed because every time I would make a rose (except for the first few times, in which I free-handed it with circle cutters and guess-work), the center was much much taller than the bottom. I think it was the Wilton gumpaste kit, because it creates much smaller roses than I want and I was trying to make them larger. With these I took the two larger petal cutters (and used them sparingly in the center), and an even larger circle cutter and was able to get pretty much the effect I wanted.
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