Rosa Alba
Annette Neuffer

Rosa Alba is based around a rare, white Bulgarian rose varietal named, well, Rosa Alba (rose of the dawn). It has simple but powerful beauty of a freshly picked rose from a wet garden, with its alluring mixture of lemon zest, geranium leaf, and finally, a trembling, jellied, pink rosewater loukhoum nuance tucked deep into the tightest folds near the heart. A resinous, powdery (slightly sour) sandalwood is the only other element here, lending the fragrance the feel of a traditional Indian attar. This is the immense, timeless beauty of a flower stuffed inside the flimsiest of shells. And though arguably a direct copy of nature, you’d have to be a marble statue not to be moved by a smell like this.