Le Labo

Rose 31

2006
Rose stripped of sweetness and rebuilt with cumin, cedar, and body heat — a deliberately unfeminine floral that redefined who rose is for.
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Sensory Profile

Sweetness Freshness Woodiness Intensity Longevity Complexity

Composition

Concentration Eau de Parfum
Style Niche
Notable Ingredients
centifolia rose cumin cedar gaiac wood cistus musk olibanum

Olfactory Structure

Family Floral
Evolution Moderate
Sillage 6/10

Character

Moods

bold sophisticated rebellious sensual

Season

Autumn Winter

Occasion

All

Thematic Territory

A rose that refuses to be pretty. Cumin's body heat and cedar's dryness strip the flower of its sweetness, leaving something closer to skin than garden.

Era & Context

Deconstructed

Part of the mid-2000s movement to reclaim rose from its feminine-coded, old-fashioned associations. Alongside fragrances like Malle's Portrait of a Lady, it proved rose could be worn by anyone without irony.

Spiritual Links

Serge Lutens La Fille de Berlin
7/10
Floral Abstraction Gender Subversion
Frederic Malle Portrait of a Lady
6/10
Floral Abstraction Compositional Parallel
Tom Ford Tuscan Leather
6/10
Leather Thread Gender Subversion
Serge Lutens Feminite du Bois
5/10
Gender Subversion Woody Foundation
Diptyque Orpheon
5/10
Mood Convergence Gender Subversion
Creed Aventus
5/10
Gender Subversion Compositional Parallel
Chanel Coco Mademoiselle
5/10
Floral Abstraction Gender Subversion
Tauer Perfumes Incense Rosé
5/10
Floral Abstraction Gender Subversion
Dior Oud Ispahan
4/10
Floral Abstraction Gender Subversion

Influences

Absorbed from

Frederic Malle Portrait of a Lady Both reimagine rose beyond femininity, but Rose 31 strips away opulence in favor of raw warmth

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