Memoriam
Alkemia Apothecary and Perfumery

This is a perfume oil from Alchemia Apothecary and Perfumery. Fragrance oils are inexpensive and short-lived for the most part, so I approach them as such.
It smells pretty much like the listed notes - a fragrance-oil rose damascene blended with smoke and ash. It also contains an infusion of Balm of Gilead. The site says it's a fragrance of love and loss, of remembrance.
The beginning is kind of a nice combination, somewhat in the reminiscent mode. The red rose is a high note and the ash and smoke low notes, so the focus is on the rose, which is lit on a somber, resigned, muted backdrop.
The rose is in the same manner as a Montale oud-rose, where the the rose is quite neon and high-noted.
With Memoriam, the deeper backdrop dissipates quicker than I would have thought, and the rose doesn't, so it becomes more vivid and stand-alone. I've never quite liked that rose treatment, and don't care for it here. But many do, so if you love the Montale roses, you may like this one. And my skin may have a part in amplifying the rose in the Montales and this one, tweaking them out of balance.
The rose is very long-lasting. As I mentioned, the other notes dissipate well before the rose, and you're left with the rose after an hour, so you need to like it or reapply more fragrance. I wasn't totally seduced by the first hour, the heart of the fragrance, so I didn't reapply - instead I scrubbed.