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
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
AllThematic 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
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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