Dried Rose

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Rose after the dew has gone. Papery and tea-like, with dried fruit under it and the spice no longer hidden.

Scent Profile

Floral still leads, because it is a rose, but lower than any published fresh rose because the source's first sentence removes 'the bright dewy freshness of living petals'. Tobacco_hay is the character that replaces it and carries three separate descriptions: papery, tea-like, and 'old books'. Fruity is the dried-fruit undertone, and it has two independent sources rather than one - Premiere Peau attributes it to beta-damascenone, and Wikipedia gives that compound's aroma on its own as 'apple, rose, honey, tobacco, sweet', which names three of the facets in this file without knowing anything about dried petals. Warm_spice is stated twice and stated as an increase: the spicy quality is 'often masked by fresher notes in living roses' and 'becomes more prominent' here. Powdery is the dustiness. Honeyed comes from the damascenone description. Dry_woody is the 'faint woody-stemmy quality' plus the paper-and-old-book side of the same picture. Green sits, low because the source positively states the fresh volatiles are gone, not because nobody mentioned it.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~10h lasting

Family Floral, Amber · Musk · Leather, Fruity

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

Fresh rose petals dried. Premiere Peau's glossary gives the mechanism: drying strips the volatile top-note molecules, citronellol, geraniol and nerol, and concentrates the heavier ones, rose oxide, beta-damascenone and phenylethyl alcohol. The result is not a weaker rose but a differently weighted one. The same source says both routes exist commercially - dried petals solvent-extracted into an absolute, or the effect built by blending rose absolute with tea-like, spicy and papery modifiers - and does not say which is more common.

Usage in Perfumery

A heart-to-base rose for vintage and nostalgic effects. Premiere Peau lists its blending partners as oud, tobacco, dried fruits and powdery-musky bases. Those are formulation partners, not descriptions of the note, and none of them is scored here. Attested 21 times on Fragrantica and not at all on Parfumo, filed under Flowers. Reach for it where fresh rose would be too bright and too green: the difference between the two is large in this vocabulary, cosine 0.6531.