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Quick answers
What is Rose?
Damask and centifolia as jam, stem or lipstick — the flower that built Grasse and a century of icons.
EDP vs EDT — what changes?
Concentration is oil in alcohol, not a quality score. EDT (about 5–15%) shows more top; EDP (about 15–20%) shows more heart and base. Houses vary; this is not a lab assay.
How should I wear Rose?
One or two sprays on skin or cloth — sternum or hair, not a cloud in a lift. Let it turn an hour before you add more.
Which season fits?
Spring to autumn. Dry winter air turns rose stemmy; humidity turns it to jam.
Does skin chemistry change it?
Yes. Warm, moist skin amplifies sweet and spice; dry or cool skin can turn the same juice woody, soapy or short. Test on your skin, not only a blotter.
What about IFRA and oakmoss?
IFRA sets industry limits on some naturals and synthetics. A reformulation is usually a legal edit, not a betrayal. This atlas is not a safety sheet.
The market for Rose runs from body mist to otto extrait.
Chanel, Guerlain and niche counters share a family and disagree on dose.
Houses
- Guerlain — Nahéma, and rose inside Shalimar’s orbit.
- Yves Saint Laurent — Paris as 1980s rose fame.
- Frédéric Malle — Portrait of a Lady.
- Le Labo — Rose 31 as savory unisex.
- Diptyque — Eau Rose and garden roses.
- Amouage / Gulf houses — Taif and rose-oud extraits.
Price bands
- Rose water / attar tola — Non-alcohol rose economies.
- Designer rose EDP — PEA-forward, lipstick or fresh.
- Niche rose — Named terroir or Ropion-weight structures.
- True otto extrait — Rare; priced like the harvest.
Trends
- Fresh garden rose — Headspace, dewy, anti-jam.
- Rose-oud luxury — Post-2000s Gulf-global hybrid.
- Savory rose — Cumin, pepper, suede.
- IFRA-quiet chypres — Rose without old moss levels.
Stats
- Otto yield — Roughly 3–4 tonnes of flowers per kilo of oil, harvest-dependent.
- Two chemistries — Otto and absolute are not interchangeable in a formula.
- PEA ubiquity — Most “rose” on a blotter is phenylethyl alcohol plus ionones.
- Attar units — Tola pricing still structures Kannauj trade.
Price is not quality; it is harvest, IFRA and a story about Rose.
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