Garden Rose

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Garden rose is the whole rose bush, not the petal extract. It is a dewy pink rose read together with its leaves, stems and thorns. Floral leads. A bitter, sappy green runs under it. Sources describe it against the deeper honeyed rose absolutes, not alongside them.

Scent Profile

Floral leads and no source disputes it. It is set just under the published rose at 0.85 because reviewers name the same flower but keep saying it is lighter: 'freshly picked roses, still damp from morning dew', not a concentrated absolute. Green is the facet that earns this note its own row and two independent sources give it. Scentology names 'the green freshness of the leaves, the spiced woodiness of the stems'. Premiere Peau names 'the slightly bitter greenness of the living plant'. It is held below the published rose-leaves note at 0.82 because here the leaf is a support under the flower, not the subject. Fruity is Scentology's 'delicate fruitiness of the buds', called delicate, so it is scored low. Below: aquatic_ozonic is the dew, and it is the weakest value in this vector because 'dewy' maps to no facet cleanly and no source uses a word that points at aquatic_ozonic. Its spread to say so. Dry_woody and fresh_spice split the 'spiced woodiness of the stems'. Honeyed and powdery are both cut far below the published rose values, and this is the one absence a source states out loud rather than one inferred: 'This isn't a heavy, powdery, or overly sweet rose.'

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeHeart · ~5h lasting

Family Floral, Green & Aromatic

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

Origin

No supplier sells a material called Garden Rose absolute or CO2. Every source treats it as a compositional style, built by putting green leaf and stem materials next to a rose accord. Premiere Peau's trade glossary states the mechanism plainly: rose leaf materials turn 'a generic rose into a rose bush - complete with stems, leaves, thorns'. Diptyque Eau Rose is the reference example every reviewer reaches for, and it blends Centifolia and Damascena to portray 'a living rose bush rather than a heavy synthetic perfume'. So the referent is a plant in a garden, and the odour data behind it is reviewer language, not analysis.

Usage in Perfumery

Measured 2026-08-30: 2 Parfumo placements across 2 brands, and none on Fragrantica. Use it where a rose is wanted fresh, wet and leafy rather than rich. It sits with rose leaves, litchi, white musk and violet leaf. The published rose note at floral, honeyed is the material in a bottle. This one is the flower still attached to the plant, so pick between them by whether the brief wants sweetness or sap.