“Unleash the rose” is Diptyque’s latest collection, created in collaboration with LA floral artist Maurice Harris (of Bloom & Plume). The new Eau Rose Eau de Parfum (shown below the jump) features notes of litchi, artichoke and camomile, and the collection includes limited edition packaging for Eau Rose Eau de Toilette and Eau Rose Eau de Parfum, plus 4 candles: Roses, Litchi, Artichaut, and Camomille ($76 each for 190g)…
As I read the press release for Les Parfums de Rosine’s Bulle de Rose — “rose bubble — I realized that very few perfumes have been inspired by bubbles, which is surprising, now that I think about it. Bubbles and fragrance can be described in similar terms: both are fragile, transparent, and ephemeral, shaped by a delicate dynamic between between liquid and vapor, temperature and pressure. Yet, apart from a few scents purporting to evoke bubble bath, there seem to be very few parallels between perfume and the airborne orbs of bubbles.
Now, however, we have Bulle de Rose, created for Les Parfums de Rosine by perfumer Serge de Oliveira…
How has your summer been going? Mine has been feeling very transitional, very limbo-like. Covid numbers have been going down in my city; or, wait, have they? I’ve been notified that I’ll be returning to the office on a “hydrid” schedule after Labor Day. I’m enthusiastic about socializing more now that I’m vaccinated, but I’m also out of practice at dealing with people face-to-face. And I want to go perfume-shopping, but many stores are still encouraging mask-wearing and/or keeping testers and blotters out of reach, so it’s not actually a fun activity yet.
Long story short: I’m in the mood to fall back on the familiar, which for me means rose fragrances; and I’m still relying on fragrance samples that I receive from friends or in the mail. Here are a few that are new to me and made me feel like I was in my comfort zone.
Les Parfums de Rosine Rose Griotte is a rose perfume for a certain type of summer day…
Just a week or two ago, I was saddened to learn of the death of Marie-Hélène Rogeon. As the founder of the present-day Les Parfums de Rosine, Rogeon revived the name of fashion designer Paul Poiret’s original fragrance house in 1991 and dedicated it to rose-inspired perfumes. Les Parfums de Rosine has been one of my favorite niche scent brands since I first encountered it at Barneys (circa 2005?) and I’m still grateful to Mme Rogeon every time I pick up one of my well-loved bottles.
In light of this news, it seems like an appropriate moment to review Rose Par Essence and Rose Absolument, two new-ish fragrances from Les Parfums de Rosine…
The harvest begins at dawn, and it takes about six hours -- before the sunshine damages the shocking pink petals -- to fill the big bags that the women carry on their heads to the weighing station.
Izza Ait Ammi Mouh, a Berber woman of "about 40" -- she doesn't know her exact age and can't spell her name -- doesn't complain.
The work allows her to feed her family of five, picking 20 kilos (45 pounds) to take home just under $7 a day during the short April-May season.
— Read more in Hard but sweet-smelling slog in Morocco's Valley of the Roses at AFP via Yahoo News.