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Aedes de Venustas Amnesia Rose ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 28 January 2023 6 Comments

Niche perfume boutique Aedes de Venustas has launched Amnesia Rose,* a new fragrance. 

A sparkling and saturated spicy floral that pierces at a voluminous roundness that is evident on skin. It is a liquid that smells as though it’s been drenched with saffron and patchouli-edged petals, in a palette that veers out of fresh rose territory into a vintage, like blowing dust off a fine red wine.

Its first inhalation captures a moment just after twilight on a languid late fall evening, when the swing of a door brings a waft from a bouquet that breaks up stagnant air. This rose is not a deep red or a pale pink but a pastel purple so pale it is almost gray. Its petal edges are just beginning to curl, tilting open, with a fullness that mimics the shape of a bulbous tea cup, filled with rich spice and hunks of rare wood.

[...] Perfumer Luca Maffei spent years capturing the essence of the perfumery in a bottle, lending peppery and mysterious tones over time, and being sure to create something that worked on anyone’s skin. “This is an intense rose, whose personality never fades away and mostly, never goes unnoticed,” says Maffei. To create a sustained bloom with wooded spice, he contrasted Moroccan rose absolute and Bulgarian rose essence with cypriol oil, saffron and the succulent shrub bushman’s candle. A fizzy pink pepper can be smelled right away; but the initial sparkle of AMNESIA ROSE is soon replaced by a satin density that carries through to meet a dry, earthy cushion of labdanum, patchouli, and oud. 

Additional notes include incense, benzoin and clearwood.

Aedes de Venustas Amnesia Rose is available in in 100 ml Eau de Parfum, $245.

(via aedes)

*You can read more about Amnesia Roses, a mauve / lavender hybrid introduced in 2006, here or here.

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  1. Lovestosmellgood says:
    28 January 2023 at 11:22 am

    wow

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    • Robin says:
      28 January 2023 at 1:07 pm

      It does sound really tempting. And those roses are gorgeous.

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  2. hajusuuri says:
    28 January 2023 at 12:32 pm

    I need at least a travel spray!

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    • Robin says:
      28 January 2023 at 1:08 pm

      Can’t remember but did not think they were doing travel sprays since they repackaged? Wish they would, I won’t buy decants anymore.

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  3. Gaynor says:
    28 January 2023 at 3:24 pm

    Another one on the list to try!

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  4. CobraRose says:
    28 January 2023 at 8:52 pm

    “Pierces at”?! Oh well, I can never resist a rose.

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