Oudroza Alba

Perfume Oil — 100% concentration

TOP: Moss, Pine Needles, White Frankincense, Mint, Muguet, White Pomelo, White Ginger Lily

HEART: White Tea, White Apricot, White Rose Otto Bulgaria, Rose Damascena Abs Turkey, Mimosa Abs India, Linden Honey, Styrax

BASE: Amber, Liquidambar, Oud Hainan, Oud Tarakan, Oud Lao Fermented, Amyris, Beeswax Abs

Floral notes lie hidden within layers of petals; woody aromas gather in the resin-rich heartwood.

Oudroza Alba, an ode to oud and white rose, is crafted with natural aromatic ingredients extracted from fresh flowers and resinous wood.

01 | White Rose, Distilled into Drops

The roses most commonly used in perfumery are Damask rose and Rosa centifolia. Oudroza Alba uses the rarer Bulgarian white rose, whose fresh flowers yield roughly half as much essential oil as Damask roses.

White Rose Otto is the essential oil obtained by distilling white roses. The petals are immersed in water and heated, allowing steam to rise with their aromatic compounds. Once cooled and condensed, the resulting fragrant liquid yields a tiny amount of essential oil, which is carefully separated from the water.

The distilled floral scent is soft and fresh, with a delicate, slightly tart fruitiness. This character forms the foundation of the perfumer’s white rose accord.

02 | Oud, Born of Resin

The scent of oud can be recreated using materials such as cypriol, patchouli, and labdanum. Oudroza Alba, however, uses three natural ouds—from Hainan, Tarakan, and Laos—inviting connoisseurs to explore oud’s own intricate layers: cool, sweet woods; quiet shades of green leaves and moss; and gradually unfolding smoky and medicinal nuances.

Choosing natural oud oil means waiting for the tree to develop resin. Following damage to the tree, resin accumulates over many years within certain areas of the wood, forming agarwood. Only these resin-rich sections can be used for extraction, yielding natural oud oil through distillation.

Distillation slowly releases the aromatic resin held deep within the wood. Steam passes through the timber, carrying its scent upwards before being condensed and separated to collect the oil. The long wait for resin to form finally becomes a single drop you can smell.

When creating Oudroza Alba, perfumer Lorenzo drew inspiration from “configural olfaction”—the way individual materials come together to form a unified scent. Working with contrasts of light and shade, he used oud’s darker tones to bring out the gentle warmth of white rose.

With Bulgarian White Rose Otto as his starting point, he developed a dedicated white rose accord. Subtle shadows and tonal variations recalled the soft lustre of a glazed surface, giving the white a sense of depth. Several ouds provided a contrasting darkness through woody, leafy, and smoky nuances.

This sense of depth also called for lightness and movement. The perfumer created a “sheer veil of cool air” accord, introducing freshness and airiness into a structure of lily of the valley, jasmine, and ginger lily. Like a cool, silken gauze draped over flowers and wood, it lends the rose the hazy beauty of a blossom glimpsed through mist.

On the skin, the rose feels soft, warm, and full, beneath a sheer veil of coolness. Underneath, the woods are rustic, cool, and subtly sweet, revealing leafy, smoky, and medicinal facets—like a white rose gently swaying in the cool air.