Roja Parfums
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The bergamot and mandarin arrive pre-dissolved in spice, their brightness immediately honeyed by heliotrope and dusted with cinnamon. It's sweet from the first spray, but the cumin and ginger provide a savoury undertow that stops you from dismissing it as merely pretty.
The Grasse jasmine and May rose bloom into full indolic glory, whilst orange blossom and neroli add their waxy, petrol-tinged sweetness. The cocoa begins to surface, melding with tonka and vanilla to create something between skin cream and expensive confectionery, all viewed through a soft-focus iris haze.
What remains is powdery, warm, and close—sandalwood and ambergris wrapped in vanilla-tonka sweetness, with just enough labdanum and patchouli to keep things from going pure comfort scent. The florals recede into a murmur, leaving mostly that heliotrope-iris-musk combination that smells like the nape of someone's neck.
Ti Amo is Roja Dove's love letter rendered in amber-stained florals, where Grasse jasmine and May rose meet a narcotic heliotrope accord that borders on almond paste. This isn't the crisp, dewy orange blossom of summer whites—it's the flower crushed into honeyed cocoa butter, dusted with cinnamon and saffron until the entire composition glows like candlelit skin. The cumin and carrot seed add an intimate, almost body-warm salinity that makes the sweetness feel lived-in rather than confected, whilst the bergamot and mandarin provide just enough citric brightness to stop this from becoming cloying. What makes Ti Amo compelling is how Dove balances the spice rack—ginger, pink pepper, saffron, cinnamon—against the gourmand trinity of vanilla, tonka, and cocoa without tipping into pastry territory. The florals remain insistent throughout, particularly that powdery iris-heliotrope combination that gives everything a vintage lipstick quality. Labdanum and ambergris provide a resinous, almost leathery foundation that grounds all this opulence, preventing it from floating off into pure abstraction. This is for those who find most floral fragrances too polite, too garden-party, and want something with weight and unabashed sensuality. It's the fragrance equivalent of silk velvet—soft, yes, but with substance. Wear it when you want to fill a room without raising your voice, when you want people to lean closer rather than step back.
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