Damask Rose

Lancôme

Miracle opens with a translucent freesia that feels almost aquatic in its freshness, like sunlight filtered through water.

Gucci

Rush opens with a lush, almost overripe peach that feels plush and unapologetically synthetic in the best late-nineties way.

Dior

Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet opens with a sheer, almost watercolor softness—peach and apricot bloom immediately, their flesh sweetness restrained and airy rather than syrupy.

Dior

Poison Girl opens with a bright citrus spark that quickly gives way to its true nature: a soft, enveloping cloud of almond and heliotrope.

Chanel

A spiced rose anchors this boldly masculine composition, cinnamon and damask petals forming an almost baroque intensity from the first spray.

Yves Saint Laurent

Parisienne opens with a tart blackberry that feels more jammy than fresh, a candied sweetness that quickly softens into the floral heart.

Mugler

Angel Nova opens with a jolt of bright raspberry that feels almost neon—sweet and acidic in equal measure, immediately recognizable as a Mugler creation but less gourmand than its predecessors.

Burberry

My Burberry opens with a bright citrus trio—lemon, grapefruit, bergamot—that quickly gives way to the heart of the composition: a soft, powdery gardenia flanked by peach and freesia.

Dior

The first spray is a burst of fruit cordial—pomegranate and raspberry tart enough to cut through the sweetness, pink pepper adding a fizzy bite.

Amouage

Epic Woman opens with a dry cinnamon that feels resinous rather than sweet, setting an austere, almost ceremonial tone.

Chloé

Roses de Chloé opens with a sharp herbaceous brightness—tarragon and citrus cutting through the air like chilled morning dew on petals.

Yves Rocher

So Elixir opens with a flash of pink pepper that feels more warm than sharp, quickly mellowed by bergamot's citrus glow.

Lancôme

The opening bursts with a lush pear accord backed by pink pepper's gentle prickle, creating an immediate sweet-spicy contrast that feels both modern and generous.

Dior

**Miss Dior Le Parfum** opens with a rush of orange blossom that feels almost narcotic—honeyed, indolic, dense with warmth.

Paco Rabanne

The opening is all polished sweetness—a crisp apple note that feels candied rather than fresh, immediately warmed by amber and vanilla undertones.

Dior

The 2017 Miss Dior Eau de Parfum opens with a bright citrus snap—blood orange and pink pepper creating an immediate, effervescent contrast.

Dior

**Miss Dior Rose N'Roses** opens with a bright bergamot sparkle that quickly gives way to its central promise: Damask rose in full bloom.

Dior

Ambre Nuit opens with a brief citrus flash before pink pepper and rose emerge, creating an aromatic tension that keeps the composition from settling into conventional amber territory.

Dior

The eau de toilette flanker strips away much of the original Poison Girl's gourmand weight, leaving something lighter but no less sweet.

Kayali Fragrances

The opening radiates tart raspberry and a flash of bergamot, bright enough to cut through the sweetness waiting underneath.

Issey Miyake

A Drop d'Issey opens with damask rose that feels filtered through water—translucent rather than heavy, closer to morning dew on petals than old velvet.

Amouage

Ubar opens with a bright citrus spray tempered by the green, almost metallic snap of violet leaf—an unusual choice that keeps the introduction from drifting into conventional cologne territory.

Yves Rocher

The opening of pink pepper and bergamot arrives with a gentle fizz, just shy of sharp, like sparkling rosé catching afternoon light.

Giorgio Armani

The first breath is all saffron—leathery, medicinal, almost metallic—cutting through the air before the rose appears.

Les Liquides Imaginaires

The opening is sleek and mildly sweet, pear rendered more as a gloss than fruit.

Lancôme

La Nuit Trésor Nude opens with a sunlit blur of peach and coconut that feels more like skin warmed by sand than tropical sweetness.

Gucci

A jasmine flanker that opens with a sharp flick of black pepper against bergamot, announcing itself before the flowers take over.

Gucci

Intense Oud opens with theatrical contrast — pear and raspberry providing sweet fruit-forward brightness against frankincense, which arrives early as a resinous haze.

Kayali Fragrances

Invite Only Amber 23 opens with a dessert tray: honey, hazelnut, and chocolate arriving simultaneously, gourmand and unapologetically sweet.

Dolce & Gabbana

L'Imperatrice Limited Edition takes the original's approachable fruity-floral DNA and introduces an unexpected element in the base: smoke.

Tiziana Terenzi

Ylang-ylang and bergamot open together — the ylang creamy and almost banana-floral, the bergamot keeping things bright and citrus-clean, with a fleeting green-grass note.

Juliette Has A Gun

Saffron, bergamot, and rose in the opening establish a rich spiced-floral character — the roses at two registers, saffron metallic and warm, papyrus adding a dry papery quality.

Bvlgari

Pomegranate and bergamot open with a sharp, slightly tart brightness, rose appearing alongside from the very first moment.

The Different Company

Sublime Balkiss opens with a dark-fruited bergamot accord — blackberry and black currant adding a tart, almost wine-like quality before the dual rose heart takes over.

Gucci

Bloom Ambrosia di Fiori is the original Gucci Bloom stripped of daylight and pushed toward evening.

Lancôme

La Vie est Belle en Rose opens with raspberry and pink pepper sharpened by bergamot — a bright, slightly spiced fruit accord that signals immediately this is a lighter, more day-wear proposition than the original.

Lancôme

La Nuit Trésor Musc Diamant opens with violet leaf and raspberry that reads as fresh and slightly cool — the violet leaf giving a clean, watery-green quality that sets this apart from the original La Nuit Trésor's denser opening.

Atelier Cologne

Café Tuberosa builds around a central tension: the heady, rich sweetness of tuberose set against the roasted bitterness of coffee.

Dior

A zesty opening of ginger and blood orange gives *Poison Girl Unexpected* a bright, effervescent start that feels uncharacteristic of the Poison lineage—more citrus-forward than sultry.

Chloé

L'Eau opens with a burst of pink grapefruit that feels like morning light on wet stone—sharp, clean, translucent.

Guerlain

The opening feels deceptively soft—neroli and a suggestion of peach bloom hover over sheer rose petals, more watercolor than oil paint.

Byredo

Rose Noir opens with a citrus-spice snap—grapefruit sharpened by cardamom—that quickly dissolves into something darker and more diffuse.

Dior

J'Adore Voile de Parfum strips the original down to its skeleton.

Lancôme

The opening is unexpectedly gentle—a soft praline that whispers rather than shouts, more sugared air than confection.

Yves Rocher

Mon Évidence opens with a flash of bergamot that quickly softens into something rounder and warmer.

Xerjoff

The first spray is citrus brightness—grapefruit and bergamot—but within minutes the weight arrives.

Lancôme

The original's gourmand signature intensifies here, opening with a darker sweetness—blackcurrant and pear that feel candied rather than fresh.

Issey Miyake

L'Eau d'Issey Pure opens with a sheer, almost transparent quality that lives up to its name.

Chopard

Love Chopard opens with a dusting of pink pepper and cinnamon over rose petals, the spice warm rather than sharp, like dried petals pressed between the pages of a book.

Paco Rabanne

Olympea Blossom is lighter and more floral than the original Olympea, but keeps the line's characteristic softness.

Byredo

Young Rose opens with a whisper rather than a shout—pale petals caught between the coolness of iris and the faint warmth of skin.

Perris Monte Carlo

The ylang-ylang here announces itself immediately—creamy, almost custard-thick, with none of the rubbery sharpness the flower can sometimes produce.

Lancôme

A gentler sister to La Nuit Trésor, this opens with raspberry that feels almost cream-softened rather than tart, dusted with the faintest prickle of pink pepper.

Lancôme

The rose here is heavier than in the original La Nuit Trésor, denser and more syrupy from the start.

Burberry

The opening is crisp and green, like rain-soaked linen drying on a spring morning—bergamot cuts through with a tart clarity before peony and freesia unfold in soft, airy waves.

Giorgio Armani

The opening bursts with the tart, almost wine-dark clarity of black currant—bright but not sharp, carrying just enough sweetness to promise warmth ahead.

Lancôme

The opening is a bright collision: tart raspberry meets the warm bite of ginger, both spiraling around a plush damask rose that refuses to sit quietly.

Penhaligon'S

Cairo opens with a rush of warm saffron and rose, steeped in frankincense smoke that immediately conjures incense-filled souks and shuttered alcoves.

Lancôme

La Nuit Trésor L'Eau de Toilette opens with a rush of summer berries—raspberry and blackcurrant dominate, softened slightly by bergamot's citrus brightness.

Diptyque

The opening is almost medicinal in its clarity—a cool, dew-soaked rose paired with lychee that lends translucence rather than sweetness.

Chloé

The damascena rose that opens this fragrance is full and velvety, almost jammy in its richness, without veering into syrupy sweetness.

Issey Miyake

A Drop d'Issey Eau de Parfum Fraîche opens with a watery luminosity that feels almost tactile, like moisture condensing on cool glass.

Maison Francis Kurkdjian

L'Eau à la Rose opens with a burst of clean, aqueous pear that feels more like dew on petals than actual fruit.

Dior

J'Adore Lumière opens with a sunny burst of blood orange and lemon that feels less like citrus sparkle and more like honeyed citrus skin warmed in afternoon light.

Liz Claiborne

Curve opens with a rush of fruit that feels unmistakably mid-nineties—peach and blackberry sweetness tempered by citrus brightness, ylang-ylang adding a creamy, slightly narcotic edge.

Perris Monte Carlo

Rose de Taïf opens with a flash of lemon brightness tempered by nutmeg's warm spice, a prelude that quickly gives way to the perfume's true focus.

Lubin

Black Jade opens with a crisp contradiction: green galbanum cutting through warm cardamom, the bergamot briefly lightening what quickly becomes a deeper story.

Lush

The opening is unapologetically sweet—plush damask rose dipped in something sticky and warm, like petals crushed into syrup.

Ladanika

The opening is immediately earthy and floral at once—orange blossom lifted and roughened by patchouli, creating an effect that's neither clean nor conventionally pretty.

Guy Laroche

The opening arrives with an unexpected sweetness—overripe plum and pineapple that lean candied rather than fresh, tempered by bergamot's bitter edge.

Jul et Mad Paris

**nea** opens with a tart brightness—pomegranate juice stained with cracked black pepper—that quickly gives way to something rounder and more enveloping.

Etro

Rajasthan opens with a gentle jolt of pink pepper and citrus, bright enough to suggest morning light but never sharp.

Givenchy

The first impression is powdery and clean, iris root lending a lipstick-like texture that feels almost tactile on the skin.

Hermès

Calèche Soie de Parfum opens with a citrus brightness that feels scrubbed clean—neroli and bergamot without sweetness or heft, more like linen than fruit.

Narciso Rodriguez

For Her Musc Nude opens with a whisper of pink pepper that barely stings, more exhale than bite, folded into jasmine that feels more like steam than petals.

Alexandre.J

The opening is a soft collision of peach skin and grapefruit pith—neither tart nor candied, but somewhere in between, like sunlight through gauze.

Ted Lapidus

Fantasme opens with a ripe, almost candied fruitiness—pineapple and peach softened by violet's powdery edge.

Viktor & Rolf

Flowerbomb Bloom opens with a bright burst of pomegranate, sweet and juicy without tipping into syrup.

Tocca

Maya opens with violet leaf and black currant — a pairing that combines the green, slightly metallic quality of the leaf with the sharp tartness of the berry.

Yves Saint Laurent

Pink pepper and galbanum open with a sharp, green-edged bite — the kind of freshness that feels slightly medicinal before it settles.

Dsquared2

Ginger, pink pepper, and lemon open Want Pink Ginger with immediate warmth — the ginger is present enough to register as spice rather than freshness, the pepper adds heat, and the lemon keeps the opening from becoming too dense.

The Different Company

Two peppers — black and pink — open with a dry, crackling heat that feels almost arid before the rose arrives.

Natura

Una opens with an upbeat energy: pink pepper delivers the first impression — lively and a little sharp — while peach softens it immediately into a warm, slightly fuzzy sweetness.

Clean

A citrus burst of lime and bergamot opens with surprising sharpness before settling into something softer and more approachable.

Elie Saab

Rose is both the medium and the message.

Thameen

Peregrina opens with a white floral salvo — gardenia, jasmine, lily of the valley, and Damask rose converging in a freshly cut arrangement that reads lush rather than delicate.

Lancôme

Frankincense dominates the opening — smoky, resinous, cut by bergamot for brightness and softened by red fruits' berry sweetness.

Attar Collection

Black currant and violet open with a dark, tart fruitiness — the violet adding its characteristic powdery-leaf quality alongside the currant's deep purple tartness.

Tous

loveme opens with lychee's translucent sweetness alongside pink pepper's crisp prickle, a pairing that reads as fresh and modern.

Sarah Jessica Parker

SJP NYC opens with osmanthus — the Chinese apricot flower, simultaneously fruity, floral, and slightly leathery — a single note that stages everything that follows.

Frapin

Anne-Sophie Behaghel composed Nevermore as an olfactory response to Poe's The Raven — and the parallels are precise.

Chopard

Felicia Roses takes its name from a Mediterranean rose variety, and the construction centers that heritage faithfully.

Costume National

So Nude is Costume National's 2012 white floral oriental, and the name is more accurate as a description than a provocation — the composition has a genuine undress-the-flower quality, stripping white florals to their most essential character.

L'Erbolario

Bergamot and lemon open with a clean citric brightness before violet leaf steps forward — green and faintly sappy, slightly aquatic in a botanical rather than synthetic way.

The Body Shop

Fijian Water Lotus is rose rendered in watercolor rather than oil—the Damask Rose at its heart is soft, slightly dewy, with the aquatic suggestion of its name carried more by mood than any sharp watery edge.

Terry de Gunzburg

O Boticário

The first moments are a sweet fruit rush—pear, raspberry, peach, plum, and apricot stacked close together, each amplifying the others into something unabashedly ripe.

Kenzo

The richest interpretation of the Flower by Kenzo franchise takes saffron as its opening — a spice that adds a honeyed, slightly indolic edge to what usually begins as a bright floral.

Bvlgari

Splendida Rose Rose opens with blackberry and mandarin—a fruit pairing that reads less juicy than tart, the mandarin's citrus brightness tempering the berry's sweetness.

Lancôme

Peut-Être arrives as a question more than a statement — its four-ingredient formula stripped of everything but essential character.

Guerlain

Aqua Allegoria Forte Rosa Rossa announces itself with a blush-toned accord of almond, pink pepper, and peach — fleshy and faintly sweet, establishing a warm preamble before the rose arrives.

Bogue

Lavender and petitgrain open with a clean herbal-citrus snap, grapefruit adding a bitter pink edge.

Attar Collection

Magnolia, peony, and damask rose open with a creamy floral bouquet that reads pink and slightly fruity, the rose taking lead while magnolia adds lemony lift and peony a watery freshness.

Floral Street

Opens with a curl of incense smoke over pink pepper — dry, cool, and slightly resinous, the pepper crackling against the smoldering edge of the olibanum.

Goutal

A soliflore that takes rose at its word.

L'Erbolario

Legni Fruttati — fruity woods — opens with an unusually generous top note collection: pear, magnolia, orange blossom, damask rose, and hawthorn layer a fruity-white floral brightness that's lush without being cloying.

Vera Wang

The opening is pure rose—bold, dewy, and almost photographic in its fidelity to petals just unfolding.

Yves Rocher

Quelques Notes d'Amour is built around a single narrative: a Damask rose warmed by blackcurrant and softened into skin.

Amouage

Opus XII opens with frankincense, elemi, and a black-ink accord most prominent in the first minutes — a slightly cold, astringent quality before the smoke and resin begin to warm.

Chopard

A short, almost devotional sketch of three ingredients held in close balance.

Kayali Fragrances

Pink pepper, black currant, and bergamot open in a peppery-fruity rush, the cassis reading slightly sour and the pink pepper sharp on top of the citrus.

Pana Dora

A dense, smoky opening: tobacco, dry thyme, and damask rose collide so the rose reads like petals scattered over an ashtray rather than a perfumery bouquet.

Lorenzo Pazzaglia

A boozy, nutty opening of almond and rum laced with black pepper and bergamot sets the cherry-ink intent immediately, more cocktail-bar than fruit basket.

Lancôme

La Nuit Trésor Fleur de Nuit opens on damask rose — full and immediately present, not the pale gesture of many nighttime flankers.

Ormonde Jayne

Damask begins on a cold, juicy note — pear and black currant given a sharpness that keeps them from reading dessert.

Dior

Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet Roller Pearl opens with a clean burst of Sicilian mandarin and bergamot — light and almost effervescent, the kind of citrus that vanishes quickly and makes way for what follows.

Memo Paris

Pink pepper and black currant open in a tart, slightly catty cluster: the pepper buzzy and faintly rosy, the black currant green-acidic with a hint of fruit.

The Spirit of Dubai

The opening is dense and busy — pineapple and strawberry fruit collide with cinnamon, cumin, cardamom, and pink pepper, while bergamot and black currant pull the citrus and berry edges into focus.

Kayali

Cinnamon and chocolate sit on top, dense and slightly bitter, with damask rose pushing through the spice rather than softening it.

Lancôme

Ôud Ambroisie opens with a dense, simultaneous hit of honey and oud — sweet but never syrupy, smoky but not medicinal.