Earlier this year, French niche line Parfums de Nicolaï launched Rose Royale, a soliflore rose fragrance inspired by the gardens of Paris’s Palais-Royal. Perfumer Patricia de Nicolaï, who developed it with her son Axel de Nicolaï, describes it as a “delicate” scent, a “natural and fresh rose with a hint of fruity notes.”
Rose Royale’s notes include black currant bud, passion fruit, bergamot, rose, coriander, ambrette seed, immortelle, sandalwood, guaiac wood and musk. Sounds like a lot going on for a solifore, right? — but on my skin it made sense…