Le Labo Rose 31 Eau de Parfum 100ml

Le Labo Rose 31 — The Rose That Isn’t

Launched in 2006 and created by perfumer Daphné Bugey, Rose 31 by Le Labo is a bold, smoky, and deeply subversive Floral Woody Musk fragrance for women and men — and one of the most original and enduring rose fragrances ever created. The name promises a rose. The fragrance delivers something far more interesting: a rose stripped of its sweetness, its femininity, and its convention, and rebuilt around wood, smoke, spice, and skin. This is not a rose fragrance. This is a fragrance about what rose becomes when it is truly set free.

The fragrance opens with a striking, immediately distinctive accord of velvety rose and raw, animalic cumin — the most daring and most debated pairing in the composition, creating an opening of remarkable tension: floral and spiced, beautiful and unsettling, familiar and entirely unexpected. The heart deepens with a rich, smoky-woody core of rose — now darker, more complex, stripped of its sweetness by what surrounds it — earthy vetiver and dry cedar, creating a heart of extraordinary depth and quietly commanding, gender-defying presence. The dry-down is where Rose 31 reveals its most magnificent, most enduring character: soft musk, smoky guaiac wood — the resinous wood of the guaiacum tree, with its distinctive warm, smoky, slightly medicinal depth — precious agarwood (oud), sacred olibanum (frankincense), and ancient labdanum, creating a base of extraordinary darkness, resinous warmth, and longevity that transforms the rose into something altogether more primal, more powerful, and more unforgettable.

• Top Notes: Rose, Cumin
• Heart Notes: Rose, Vetiver, Cedar
• Base Notes: Musk, Guaiac Wood, Agarwood (Oud), Olibanum (Frankincense), Labdanum
• Perfumer: Daphné Bugey
• Fragrance Family: Floral Woody Musk
• Concentration: Eau de Parfum
• Size: 100ml
• Gender: Unisex
• Year: 2006