Delicacy Grasse Roots Perfumery

I apologize for the Latin nonsense... I never took Latin :-D

I don't usually like explicitly floral scents (when wearing perfume), except for lavender, and I seem to be getting a bit more lenient with age, allowing floral notes to take a back seat. But the rose geranium holds a very special emotional place for me. And there are two reasons for that:
My great-grandmother and her apartment always smelled of the incense geraniums she had everywhere. When she passed away quite suddenly in the early 90s, she bequeathed me not only her two perfumes (Opium and Shalimar) but also various plants of hers. These silvery-green leafed plants, dotted with small pale pink flowers (which, by the way, do actually help against mosquitoes), now grow almost everywhere in our home - on the balcony (they smell heavenly when the sun shines on them or when you touch the leaves), in the garden, in front of the house, on the garage wall... Almost as if Grandma Mariechen were still here.
My second intense encounter with the rose geranium was several years later when I spent a long time in the hospital and rehab after a serious accident. A now-deceased friend (car accident) gifted me a fragrance oil, in which rose geranium was a main ingredient. The scent of this oil accompanied me through a very difficult phase, from being unable to move to learning to walk to graduating from high school.

As a result, scents that contain a certain geranium note always touch me deeply - even if I rarely find them wearable in my everyday life, I always feel drawn to them.

Delicacy has exactly this geranium note - floral and yet green, almost citrusy undertones, despite the typical sweetness, with a hint of incense. For me, all the other notes fade into the background. After reading the pyramid, I could, with some concentration, detect patchouli as well as woody and mossy notes that ground and bind the scent overall. The sandalwood is also present - a soft, sweet-creamy base, almost like a body lotion, which softens the sometimes slightly piercing rose geranium, making it smoother and more supple. But in my perception, this is a geranium scent...

Realistically speaking, the scent is quite one-dimensional and indeed very close to the fragrance lamp oil of an esoteric distributor. That is not inherently bad, but it's also not something I would want to wear as a perfume at work or as a going-out scent. The longevity and sillage of this oil-based fragrance are rather lackluster. So, it's actually nothing special... and yet I like it.