What it is: An eau de parfum by perfumer Nathalie Lorson that pays homage to Lancôme's founder, Armand Petitjean.Fragrance story: The Maison Lancôme fragrance collection so exquisitely touches upon and carries on Petitijean's dream and the essence of the House itself. This new high perfumery experience takes a creative stance—the very French art of blending. Each fragrance is crafted in the same manner that one composes wine of the most superior grade (Grand cru) with a combination of varieties, origins and extractions that are specially selected according to precise criteria. With Parfait de Rôses, Nathalie Lorson has masterminded a stunning assemblage of two extractions of rose centifolia. The rose centifolia distillate gives the fragrance a natural, fruity floral freshness that evokes the scent of rose fields that waft in the air around Grasse. As for the rose in infusion, it reveals sweet, hazy, well-rounded notes, playing with the inflections of the distillate. This pairing is accentuated by wisps of heady incense and brightened up deliciously by essence of pink pepper. Invigorating, voluptuous, sensual. The liqueur of rose signature completes this delicate accord with a dusky veil woven with ciste labdanum, vanillla absolute and tolu balsam. Heady and sensual, this fruity floriental wraps you in a gourmand veil of irresistible sweetness.- 3.4 oz.