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Rose Naturelle Intense
Chloé Rose Naturelle Intense Eau de Parfum Refillable is a single flower treated seriously, sold in a bottle the house intends you to keep and fill again rather than replace.
Rose is the subject and very nearly the whole of it. The treatment is the living flower rather than the preserve: green at the stem, soft and slightly dewy at the petal, with none of the jammy sweetness rose often picks up in modern perfumery. Neroli and bergamot sit above it for the first few minutes, the neroli clean and faintly bitter, a white flower with the sugar taken out of it, the bergamot sharp and quick to burn off. Both exist to clear a path. Underneath, sandalwood and cedarwood hold the flower in place, sandalwood creamy and faintly milky, cedarwood drier and more splintery, and between them the rose stays anchored instead of drifting off the skin.
Alexis Dadier composed it. The word intense here refers to the density of the rose rather than to volume, so do not expect something that fills a room. As an eau de parfum it carries enough oil for a full working day while sitting fairly close in after the first hour, and five materials is a tight list for a scent of this weight. That makes it easy to wear in company, at a desk, through a long day where anything heavier becomes tiring. It reads as feminine and suits spring and early autumn particularly well. The refillable format is worth weighing on its own terms: if you wear one rose and wear it often, buying the scent again without buying the bottle again is simply the sensible route, and the glass is built to survive the repetition.
Chloé dates its own story to 1952, when Gaby Aghion designed her first collection, and the house opened its first Paris boutique twenty years later in 1972. Ready to wear, bags and perfume have been its three strands since the first fragrance appeared in April 1975. The scents are produced under licence, with Coty listing Chloé among the luxury brands it holds.
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