Matière Première Radical Rose 100ml

Aurélien Guichard is, by his own account, the only perfumer in the world growing his own raw materials. In 2016 he replanted his family's organic fields near Grasse with 12,000 Rosa centifolia. Radical Rose is built on them.

The brief was an overdose and it is meant literally. Matière Première describes it as the highest concentration of centifolia absolute. A rose at that strength has nowhere to hide. So the house gave it company that pulls in two directions. Saffron and Jamaican pimento berry draw out the spice already in the petal. Indonesian patchouli and labdanum from Andalusia take it down into wood.

The house calls the result genderless. It is the right word. Nothing in it is sweet and nothing in it is powdered.

In May the roses are picked every morning, the way the family and the region have always done it.

Spec

• Eau de parfum, 100ml
• Rose centifolia absolute, grown organically by the house near Grasse, France
• Saffron and pimento berry, Jamaica
• Patchouli, Indonesia
• Labdanum, Andalusia
• Perfumer: Aurélien Guichard
• 85 to 92% naturally derived ingredients