Rose Jam

Note Profile

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About

Rose jam is a cooked, sugar-heavy rose rather than a fresh petal. It is compared to Turkish delight and to 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

Rose Jam smells unmistakably of rose, but the cooked kind, plush and heavy like Turkish delight rather than a fresh petal. A strong sweet, vanilla body sits under it, from sugar syrup and vanilla both. Close behind comes a cooked red fruit quality, almost like strawberry jam, and a honeyed stickiness, the kind that leaves your fingers syrupy. A light lemon top and a faint green sharpness show through underneath.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeHeart · ~7h lasting

Family Floral, Sweet & Gourmand, Fruity

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Origin

Not a distilled or extracted material. It is an accord built to smell like rose petal preserve. In the one fragrance described, 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. It is a cooked, intense rose, so it works as a centre rather than as a lift.