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Rose de Mai absolute (Grasse)
Say itRose duh MAY absolute
Soft, honey-sweet, powdery rose with green, spicy and faintly smoky depth.
- What it is
- Natural absolute from solvent-extracted cabbage-rose petals picked only in May.
- Where it comes from
- Grasse, France
- When you smell it
- Heart: the first hours.
- What perfumers do with it
- The reference rose of classical French perfumery; plush, honeyed rose for luxury florals.
- Worth knowing
- Grasse's May-rose harvest is tiny, and almost all of it is bought by Chanel and Dior.
- Known in
- N°5 (Chanel, 1921)
- Rules
- Limited. Counts toward citronellol, geraniol and methyl eugenol limits; EU-labeled
- Also called
- Rosa centifolia absolute from Grasse; May rose; IG Absolue Pays de Grasse
Named by the house, not on the label, in 6
