The Rose - THE GALLEON
Olfactory pyramid:
Top notes: Bergamot, Violet Leaf
Heart notes:Rose, Ylang Ylang, Water Peach, Lily
Background notes:Cedar, Patchouli, Vanilla, Musks
The Rose
1950, Henri Matisse won first prize at the Venice Biennale. Courrèges is hired by Cristobal Balenciaga. Pierre Cardin sets up his Fashion House. This is the invention of the “bra-girdle” combination. Les Trois Suisses publishes a first lingerie catalog. Lycra makes its appearance. “Mother’s Day” is established.
Le Galion creates La Rose, this soliflore in homage to all women. Rose from Cyprus or the Orient, Rose from Isfahan, each year Paul Vacher will smell more than 70 rose essences to choose one to enter the composition of the perfume, today delicately reinterpreted from the original formula.
The Rose is a false soliflore because the rose, the main theme of the perfume, is enriched with sensual floral notes and refreshed with fruity aquatic notes. Patchouli, with its chypre note, leaves a bewitching trail