Style Edit: The new Henry Jacques collection crowns its Rose de Mai project
The art-in-a-bottle Collection de l’Atelier 2025 distils the house’s signature flower into 3 Les Essences created for collectors
The new releases comprise a limited edition of just 500 Boîtes à Parfums, each holding three fragrances – Rose Azafira, Rose Très Rose 2025 and Rose Alambrah – composed around the 2025 Rose de Mai absolute, which is described as rounder and less powdery than previous harvests, with chestnut honey, cinnamon and saffron notes adding warmth and depth. The idea is to show how a single ingredient can move through different “frames”, like a subject in a triptych of paintings.
All three scents are presented in Les Essences, Henry Jacques’ signature format: highly concentrated perfume in the line’s most generous 30ml size. The idea is to bring focus to richness and longevity: Les Essences sit at the heart of the Henry Jacques world, regarded as the purest expression of a formula before it later appears in other formats.
Rose Azafira pairs the Rose de Mai absolute with saffron, bringing together floral, fruity and lightly spicy notes, with Damascena rose, a touch of patchouli and pepper, and accents of sandalwood and amber.
Rose Très Rose 2025 leans into the idea of “a rose for rose lovers”: Rose de Mai, Damascena rose and jasmine layered with violet leaves, iris, patchouli and benzoin, plus the leathery nuance of chestnut, honey and Cuvée Dehen el Oudh – Henry Jacques’ rare haute parfumerie creation built around the most traditional form of agarwood.
Meanwhile, Rose Alambrah is the most complex of the trio, opening with neroli and mandarin before unfolding into bergamot, Turkish rose, labdanum, cinnamon leaf, vetiver, sandalwood, vanilla and benzoin – a composition that possesses a “reassuring depth”, its makers say, “like the cool shade of a gallery or the blue of the sea under a zenith sun”.
