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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.
An accord is a geometry. Rose is rose, jasmine, sandalwood, oud, vetiver, musk or amber stacked on purpose.
Naturals and molecules share the same pyramid; IFRA draws some of the lines.
Accords
- Attar rose — Deg-bhapka rose into sandalwood — Kannauj logic.
- Lipstick rose — Ionones + rose + violet, after Paris / Grojsman.
- Rose chypre — Rose + oakmoss + patchouli, Mitsouko’s cousin.
- Rose-oud — Damask over agarwood; Gulf and niche 2000s.
- Pepper Taif — Dry damask with pink pepper and tea.
Materials
- Rose otto — Steam-distilled Rosa damascena; pale, spicy, expensive.
- Rose absolute — Solvent; redder, jammy, cheaper per effect than otto.
- Rose de Mai — Rosa × centifolia, Grasse May harvest.
- Taif rose — High-altitude Hijaz damask; drier, tea-like.
- Phenylethyl alcohol — The workhorse “rose alcohol” in almost every rose accord.
- Geranium bourbon — Extends rose and adds mint-green.
Smell the materials before you trust a note list on a box of Rose.
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