10 perfumes in similar style to Rose & Cuir by Frederic Malle

David Maruitte

“Nerosa is a perfume realized with David Maruitte in 2011, but at that time we believed that Laboratorio Olfattivo was not yet ready to launch a fragrance like this. Today instead, Nerosa can perfectly enter in our Black Collection, thanks to the depth, wealth and strength of its formula. A fragrance whose energy is noticeable and whose enveloping sillage is strong.”

Roberto Drago

'A rose is a rose is not a rose'

All is not always as it first appears.

Character: Haunting, powerful, seductive.

Inspiration: A 16th Century epic allegorical poem; a sorceress; a mythic forest.

Sileno or Silenus in Greek  (or faun in Roman) mythology would be a creature of the wild forest – part man part beast. Silenus would accompany and entertain Dionysus in his god’s routines and parties.

The perfume is a sensual but fresh ylang-ylang with a generous crisp spices layer. 

It is the odor of crude oil which is the black gold of Kazakhstan. It is the odor of the wild grasslands of Western Kazakhstan, the salty breeze of the Caspian Sea, petroleum, and ... money. The aromas of salt marsh, dunes, peat, and arid soil of the semi-desert with its sparse vegetation contrast the anthropogenic odors of crude oil processing. 

Perfumer - Lucas Sieuzac
Year – 2019

This formulation by Paul Kiler has been discountinued.

A new Rhinocerous formula by Prin Lomros is available now (as 'Rhinocerous 2020 version II').

Under the searing gaze of an unrelenting sun, the ornery Rhinoceros surveys his dusty territory. A tough, battered hide is his armor against the erosive onslaught of sand, whipped into a frenzy by a hot, merciless wind, as he stands strong, defending his domain.

On first spray, Rhinoceros charges forward with a heady note of sweet rum. Like a wild drunken beast, it cavorts until it comes to settle into a slow, rhythmic yet relentless beat - the rugged, raw aroma of leather. Frolicking around the edges is a rich blend of smooth tobacco, smoky vetiver, dried herbs, strong pine and bitter agar. Rhinoceros is a complex, intimidating and masculine scent that makes a bold, unapologetic statement. Go forth and explore your world. Don’t ask permission.

Perfumer: Paul Kiler

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The Sniff on Zoologist's Rhinocerous:

"...the scent of a refined and well travelled gent, what we imagine Phileas Fogg would smell like..."

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‘O absent presence, Stella is not here’

The fifth and final instalment of the Revenants collection draws inspiration from the Elizabethan poet Sir Philip Sidney. In his Sonnet sequence ‘Astrophel and Stella’ Sidney develops and captures the essence of a haunting… the presence of one that is always felt but never seen.

‘Now I, wit-beaten long by hardest fate,

So dull am, that I cannot look into

The ground of this fierce love and lovely hate,

Then some good body tell me how I do,

Whose presence absence, absent presence is;

Blesst in my curse, and cursed in my bliss.’

A TRIBUTE TO ELEGANCE AS AN ART OF LIVING & THE ORIGINS OF PERFUMERY.

"I made this crazy promise to look after you and to make sure that you experience moments of sharing, emotion and creation. You are now at the heart of our quest for aesthetics and uncompromised approach. A place to live, to experience but also a place of culture, you have had the privileged to witness the rise of Grasse perfumery since 1886. You are between past, present and future.

Your eponymous fragrance, Villa Primerose, contrasts power with softness and homage with modernity. It has the elegance of the magnificent gesture of a leather glove being slipped on.

This fragrance, like the elegant women you received and ushered in for over a century, enveloping them in the charm of convention and savoir vivre, celebrates the art of living that is now reborn within your walls.»

Curated between two collections; 'Come Hell or High Water' and 'Revenants', the new boxes stack neatly amongst your entire BeauFort London collection, or might just be the start...

An opportunity to explore Beaufort's method, madness, and give an appreciation for what can happen when we step outside the conventional. 

Featuring 5 x 2ml:

Iron Duke

Terror & Magnificence

Absent Presence

Rake and Ruin

Acrasia

All made in Great Britain.

For a Kazakhstani, the smell that embodies happiness and freedom is the scent of a boundless steppe. It is the wind that smells like wormwood, rough and sweet herbs. Stones heated by the sun and soil cracked by the heat. Subtle smell of leather horse harness. Sundried clumps of saxaul. Give yourself away to the wind and soar above the steppe that goes beyond the horizon. Great and blissful.

Perfumer – Sarah McCartney
Year – 2019

Perfumer: Marie Salamagne

A fresh start… of the day, season, or in life (a reference to innocent and sweet childhood).

Riviera Sunrise is a sunny delicious citrus blend featuring lemons, sweet oranges and mandarins floating above the freshness of basil, fig and cedar.