Matiere Premiere Radical Rose Extrait

Radical Rose Extrait by Matière Première The Rose, Reimagined

Launched in 2024, Radical Rose Extrait is a bold, dark, and deeply original creation from the celebrated French niche house of Matière Première, composed by the acclaimed nose of Aurélien Guichard. An Oriental Floral unisex fragrance in the highest concentration — Extrait Radical Rose is precisely what its name promises: a rose fragrance that refuses to be conventional. This is not the soft, powdery rose of classic feminines. This is rose stripped back to its most essential, most powerful, and most radical form dark, spiced, resinous, and deeply, unapologetically beautiful.

The Scent

May Rose the centifolia rose of Grasse, the most celebrated and most expensive rose in perfumery is the undisputed star of the composition, rendered here in its most concentrated and most vivid form. In the Extrait concentration, the rose is not softened or sweetened; it is amplified, given depth and darkness by the materials that surround it.

Saffron adds a golden, slightly leathery warmth that gives the rose an immediate richness and complexity, while Pepper threads a sharp, slightly smoky spice through the composition that keeps the rose feeling alive and energised. Spanish Labdanum one of the finest and most characterful labdanums in the world, harvested from the cistus shrubs of the Iberian Peninsula adds its signature dark, amber-warm, slightly animalic depth that is the true soul of the Oriental character of this fragrance.

Immortelle the everlasting flower of the Mediterranean, with its distinctive warm, honey-curry, slightly straw-like character is the most unusual and inspired note in the composition, adding a depth and strangeness that makes Radical Rose genuinely unlike any other rose fragrance. Patchouli grounds the entire composition with its dark, earthy permanence, ensuring that the rose and spice linger on the skin with exceptional longevity.

Key Notes

• The Rose: May Rose
• The Darkness: Saffron, Pepper, Spanish Labdanum and Patchouli
• The Masterstroke: Immortelle

Radical Rose is Aurélien Guichard at his most fearless a fragrance that takes one of perfumery’s most beloved ingredients and surrounds it with darkness, spice and resin until it becomes something entirely new. A collector’s piece for those who demand the extraordinary from their rose.

Fragrance Details

• House: Matière Première
• Perfumer: Aurélien Guichard
• Family: Oriental Floral
• Gender: Unisex
• Concentration: Extrait
• Year: 2024