Rose Trombone

Rose Trombone is set in a Harlem jazz club, where glances lock during a heated trombone solo. At its center is what the house calls an insolent rose, a scent described as sensual, clean and aldehydic.

The main notes are rose, clean notes, pear, vanilla, sandalwood, white musk and rum. Clean notes and an aldehydic sparkle keep the rose crisp, while pear lends a juicy, lighter sweetness to its edges.

Vanilla and rum give that sweetness warmth and a faintly boozy depth, and sandalwood and white musk smooth everything toward the skin. Holding freshness and sensuality in a single chord is what gives this rose its brassy swagger.

The perfume was composed by Anne-Sophie Behaghel, with music by Nicolas Benedetti, a composer who also plays jazz trombone in a New Orleans brass band. The instrument at the heart of the story is one Benedetti plays himself.