Rose de Mai
Perris Monte Carlo · Eau de Parfum (EDP) · 2019
≈ $140 · 50ml · approx. retail
Rose de Mai is Jean-Claude Ellena's spare take on Grasse's May rose for the Les Parfums de Grasse line, built with rose geranium and honeyed immortelle over a clean musk base. It is a companion piece to Jasmin de Pays within the same collection.
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Jean-Claude Ellena is a celebrated French perfumer and author, Grasse-born and Givaudan-trained, who served as Hermès's exclusive in-house perfumer from 2004 to 2016. Famed for his minimalist, transparent, watercolour-like style, he created Hermès's Terre d'Hermès and the Jardins collection and has also composed for Bvlgari, Cartier and Frédéric Malle.
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