Crimean rose Krymskaa roza
Rose from the Crimean landscape.
Crimean Rose — Krymska Roza in Ukrainian — is a fragrance brand rooted in the rose cultivation traditions of the Crimean peninsula, where the temperate Black Sea climate and fertile soil have supported rose growing for generations. Perfumer Elena Kaboshina channels this specific botanical heritage into accessible compositions centered on authentic rose character, drawing on a regional knowledge of Rosa damascena that predates the mass industrial cultivation of rose absolute in Bulgaria and Turkey. The fragrances are honest and material-forward rather than architecturally ambitious, presenting rose as the central character without extensive compositional layering or synthetic amplification. At mass price points, Crimean Rose makes a genuine botanical argument to a broad domestic audience, functioning as a point of national fragrance pride. The brand's position within Ukrainian perfumery is complicated by the ongoing geopolitical situation regarding Crimea, but the olfactory and botanical tradition it draws upon represents a real and historically documented heritage of Eastern European rose culture.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
