Rose Jam

Note Profile

Prepared

About

Rose jam is a cooked, sugar-heavy rose rather than a fresh petal. Reviewers reach for Turkish delight and for sticky syrup. A lemon top and a vanilla base are named alongside the rose. Evidence is weak and narrow. Everything found traces back to one commercial product, Lush's Gorilla Perfume 'Rose Jam', and to a copy-cat oil sold as a 'type' of it.

Scent Profile

Floral leads and it is unambiguously rose, but the cooked kind: reviewers call it a 'big fat rose', 'plush, pillowy', and compare it to Turkish delight rather than to a garden. A strong sweet vanillic body sits under it, from the sugar syrup and from a vanilla one reviewer names directly as what gives it 'a gourmand vibe'. Fruity is next and is close behind the sweetness, because the jam treatment reads as cooked red fruit: one reviewer of the actual perfume reports 'something like Strawberry peaking through', and the dupe oil is sold on strawberry jam and apple. A honeyed stickiness carries the syrup, matching 'your fingers are sticky from having just eaten something sweet and syrupy'. Below the naming line sit a lemon citrus top that two reviewers pick out, a light powderiness borrowed from the Turkish delight comparison, and a thin green sharpness from the geranium that one reviewer calls '*sharp*'.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeHeart · ~7h lasting

Family Floral, Sweet & Gourmand, Fruity

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

Origin

Not a distilled or extracted material. It is an accord built to smell like rose petal preserve, the confection sold as gulkand or as rose loukoum. In the one fragrance the sources describe, the named parts are rose, rose absolute, geranium, lemon and vanilla. A retail 'Rose Jam Type' oil is instead built from strawberry jam, apple, peony and vanilla bean, which shows the accord is assembled rather than sourced.

Usage in Perfumery

A gourmand treatment of rose. It sits where a fresh rose would sit but adds cooked sugar under it, so it pairs with vanilla, with red fruit and with tea. Reviewers call it intense and not fresh at all, so it works as a centre rather than as a lift.