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Prince's Rose - A fragrance is always unique. |
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The
Little Prince's Rose - A fragrance is always unique.
Mentioning the rose is enough for images and memories to rise
to mind, as a scent would. One of the rose's stunning paradoxes,
one of its many interpretation is to, on one hand, represent
eternal youth, and on the other, eternal womanliness. That
is how the only feminine character in the book of the Little
Prince appears. For young and grown ups girls, the Little
Prince's Rose scent praises both the charms of childhood and
the grace of femininity. |
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"If
someone loves a one-in-a-million-amongst-stars flower, it is enough
for them to be happy when watching them…"
The Little Prince
Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry |
The Little Prince's
Rose scent was conceived in Grasse, the historical
city of perfumes, renowned in France and across the world
as one of traditional perfumery's cradle.
For its composition, the perfumer, or "nose" (that
is how the person composing perfumes is called!) can get
inspired by scents issued from three categories:
• Natural raw materials of vegetable origins.
• Natural raw materials of animal origins.
• The thousand scents from synthetic products. |
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To find the perfume
The Little Prince's Rose
info@lepetitprince.com
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Components of the Little Prince's
Rose perfume.
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For
its Freshness: |
Oil of Tangerine's peel.
Orange
Bigarade
Grapefruit
And a delicate touch of sourness extract from
the little seed from the tangerine tree. |
For
its floral feel
Slightly spiced |
Extract
of essence of rose of Damas, the "Aboslue"
Touches of tea
Seeds of carrots and celery |
For
its spicy feel: |
Red Cedar from Atlas
Moss
A touch of amber |
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In
the case of the Little Prince's Rose
perfume, it has entirely been created from vegetable raw
materials.
The Damas Rose Essence holds an important
place in its composition. Did you know that a "picker"
collects about 2500 flowers an hour,
worth about 7kilos?
It takes about 600 kilos of roses to create one
kilo of Absolue. |
"It
carefully picked its colors. Slowly dressed itself
up. One by one, the Rose adjusted its petals."
The Little
Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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For
the vegetable raw materials,
various materials according to various parts of
the plants are extracted:
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Resin-gum
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myrrh, incense |
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Flowers |
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Rose, jasmine, Orange-tree |
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Fruits |
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Lemon, bergamot orange |
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Leaves |
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patchouli, sage, violet |
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Bark |
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cinnamon, birch |
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Seeds |
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coriander |
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Moss |
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oak |
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Roots |
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iris, vetiver |
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Bough |
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ciste |
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Wood |
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cedar, sandalwood |
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Animal raw materials
often used to be part of the composition of up market
perfumes. Today, they are often replaced by synthetic
products.
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The civet
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Secretion
of one of the civet's glands, Black spotted
yellowish-grey furry carnivorous mammal living
mostly in Ethiopia. |
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Grey amber |
Pathological secretion
of the sperm whale. |
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The tonkin musk |
content of Himalayas male
goat's glands in between back |
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The castoreum |
extract from beaver's
glands in between back legs. |
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At the end of the XIXth
century, the invention of synthetic organic broke grounds
in the world of perfumery component, enriching perfumers'
palettes with a new collection of scents.
It both allows the preparation of equivalent scents to the
natural scents from various components, and to create new
naturally unexisting scents. That is how musk and amber
are replaced with artificial components, which is also favorable
to animal protection. |
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How to
name odorous plants?
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• Latin name
It is the scientific designation of the plant from which
comes the odorous substance. The name comes from a gender's
name followed by the species' qualifier. The tradition
suggests this binomial (always written in italic) to be
followed by the abbreviation of the botanist's name who
created it. That is how Rosemary would be named: Rosmarinus
Officinalis L, his describer being Linné. This
national code helps avoiding confusions engendered by
the appellations' multiplicity.
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• English Name
Most usual english designation of the plant.
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• Family name.
In french, recognizable to the ending "acées"
(Lamiacées, Burséracées, Rosacées…),
it designates the family that gathers genders close to
the one the plant belongs to. Families presenting affinities
form the "Orders". There are about 300 families
of aromatic plants.
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| ROSA DAMASCENA Mill. |
Rose of Damas |
Rosacées |
| CITRUS RETICULATA Blanco |
Tangerine tree |
Rutacées |
| CITRUS AURANTIUM L. |
bigaradier orange-tree |
Rutacées |
| CITRUS PARADISII Macf. |
Grapefruit tree |
Rutacées |
| DAUCUS CAROTA L. sativa |
Cultivated carrot |
Apiacées |
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"The ancients watched the perfumes not only as a
tribute owed to the gods, but also as a sign of their
presence."
Reasoned dictionary of Science, arts and crafts
By Diderot and Alembert (1751-1772)
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Products for the Little Prince's Rose have been tested at every
level of fabrication and guarantee perfect innocuousness.
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