Rose des Vents is the rose of Louis Vuitton’s first fragrance collection, launched in September 2016 and signed by Jacques Cavallier Belletrud. The house sets it in a Grasse rose field tossed by the wind, made stately by iris and chilled by pepper, before the softness of a velvety fruit. Its French description has since replaced cedar with osmanthus.
Louis Vuitton does not break its notes down by tier. Its description starts from a Grasse rose field tossed by the wind: the flower turns stately, takes on icy accents on contact with pepper, and gradually gains the softness of a velvety fruit.
The 2016 rose
At launch, the house declared a trio of roses, centifolia rose absolute, Turkish rose essence and Bulgarian rose essence, with Italian iris and Virginia cedar. The Fashion Plate specifies that the centifolia absolute is obtained through a CO2 extraction developed for Louis Vuitton.
Today’s description
In France, the house now keeps only Grasse centifolia rose, iris and osmanthus, and it is now osmanthus, no longer cedar, that makes the rose stately. In the United States, its text keeps cedar, around the same three key notes.
What stays out
The house declares neither the peach, blackcurrant, green notes nor violet leaf sometimes attributed to the fragrance; only its velvety fruit skin evokes a fruit.
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