About this item
Few compositions define a fragrance family quite as completely as Rochas's Femme Rochas Perfume, plum, peach, cinnamon, apricot, Brazilian rosewood, bergamot and lemon giving the top a warm, stewed fruit richness that no modern release would attempt. Cloves, carnation, ylang ylang, rose, rosemary, iris and jasmine form a spiced floral core of real classical density. Oakmoss, leather, benzoin, amber, patchouli, musk and vanilla let it rest dark, mossy and animalic. The plum and oakmoss pairing is the foundation of the entire genre, and hearing it in its original form explains a great many fragrances that came afterward. Very little in the modern market smells anything like this. Femme Rochas Perfume is a fruity chypre Eau de Toilette, best suited to everyday wear with personality. That balance is exactly what makes Femme Rochas Perfume work.