Description
“Gulaab natural perfume is the scent I remember from when my friend Jo, (who worked as a gardener at the rose farm on Mount Nebo) used to drop in to the cottage where we lived with kilograms of roses that were unsuitable for the florist as they’d been wind-bruised or were simply the wrong size. I’d string them up in long garlands and dry them whole, or I’d pick all the petals off dozens of blooms and dry them until crisp in the oven for crumbling into hand made soap. Our house was so often filled with the fragrance of hundreds of roses and it was sheer heaven. Gulaab is a highly fragrant combination of spectacular Indian Rose damascena and Rose de Mai, rested on a chypre base of beautiful Sumatran patchouli, oakmoss, labdanum and bergamot. It is a fresh, lively, natural rose fragrance that will fill your world with garlands and baskets of fresh roses to help you celebrate the wonder of nature.” – a note from the brand.
Gulaab was launched in 2018. The nose behind this fragrance is Teone Reinthal.
naday – :
Gulaab is evocative of an opulent slumber amongst a thousand voluptuous velvety roses in a pre-Raphaelite painting. Roses are here vignetted in a setting for an untold story. Another time. Another place. What is partly revealed and obscured in the edges is left for the wearer to imagine or to ignore. The glorious opening begs to be re-lived. But the drydown is a cosy and beautiful aura of rose layered over patchouli. Over the hours Gulaab quietly imbues the room. In love.