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Rose Fragrances for Women — Queen of Flowers

Rose is the undisputed queen of perfumery — present in the history of fragrances since Antiquity, it remains the most used, most loved and most complex floral material to reproduce faithfully. Natural rose, whether Grasse rose, Turkish Damascene rose from Bulgaria or rose from the Middle East, is one of the most costly natural raw materials in the world — several tonnes of petals for a few millilitres of absolute. Rose syntheses — geraniol, citronellol, phenylethanol — allow perfumers to create varied rose accords at accessible prices, but the great rose fragrances always use a proportion of natural rose to capture that ineffable something that syntheses cannot always equal. Chanel No.5 is fundamentally a rose and jasmine fragrance. Miss Dior Chérie is a modern, fresh interpretation of peony rose.