Lakmé Roja Parfums 2019 Parfum

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8.2 / 10 89 Ratings

A popular perfume by Roja Parfums for women and men, released in 2019. The scent is floral-creamy. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Floral

Creamy

Woody

Powdery

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Aldehydes

Citrus notes

Heart Notes

Lily of the valley Peach

Peach

Magnolia

Rose

Base Notes

Frankincense Benzoin

Benzoin

Cashmere wood Cypriol

Cypriol

Musk

Sandalwood Vanilla

Vanilla

Ambergris

Iris

Labdanum

Pink pepper Oud

Oud

Perfumer

Roja Dove

Ratings

Scent

8.289 Ratings

Longevity

8.083 Ratings

Sillage

7.483 Ratings

Bottle

9.090 Ratings

Value for money

5.141 Ratings

Submitted by Santal, last update on 06/01/2025.

Interesting Facts

The scent is exclusively available at Harrods.

Variant of the fragrance concentration

This is a variant of the perfume Lakmé (Eau de Parfum) by Roja Parfums, which differs in concentration.

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/02/2025

7
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Majid114
101 Reviews

Majid114

2

LAKMÉ

Lakmé was created for The Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman in exclusive limited edition by Harrods.
For this opulent creation, Rose and Iris, inspired by the famous 'Flower Duet', weave a delicate harmony. The bright and radiant character of the Lily of the Valley joins the performance.
A fragrant opera!

Lakmé opens with a brief sparkling citrus freshness and a shimmering nuance. It quickly moves on to the fruity floral center dominated by the stars of the composition: a beautiful earthy buttery iris intertwined with deliciously differentiated dewy fresh roses [What a Quality]! Leading this main duet are the main supporting actors: a white lily with a very striking peach, tender and velvety.

Towards the apotheosis, it begins to acquire a light balsamic facet, incensed, woody at the base and powdery on drying: provided by a touch of incense and a hint of 'oud mixed with the creaminess of sandalwood, resins and noble woods, bringing more depth to the fragrance. Added to vanilla and benzoin, they make the ambery accord embraced by musk and ambergris that with the waxy iris make a slight musky/powdery suggestion.

Delicate Complex Delicious Perfume; Rich and Smooth Sweet, Fruity and Warm; A fresh amber woody floriental for those who mainly appreciate roses and irises against the backdrop of amber, balsamic, incense, woody, musky facets.
Very versatile fragrance for cold/heat, day/night; very good performance. Shareable perfume leaning in my view 60/40 for the feminine but men can wear it quietly. A beautiful work of art by Roja Dove.
Exceptional Quality!

06/27/2024

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Ninamariah
246 Reviews

Ninamariah

1

One of the most beautiful Rose scents I know and own

“The worlds of fragrance and opera were brought together for three nights in March 2019 when The Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, asked Roja Dove to capture the essence of their new world premiere production of Lakmé.”

This is maybe my most delicate, subtle and ethereal scent which I own. It’s fragile and innocent. It’s sensitive and elegant. So amazingly beautiful!

Lakmé is a bouquet of fresh, soft and warm roses. It shines in all kind of weather but I love it most when it’s warm enough.

Lakmé is the pure quiet luxury.

It opens up with sparkling aldehydes and indulgent Rose de Mai and Taif Rose shines from the beginning until the end. The concoction remains quite simple yet enchanting and fresh. Woody and powdery base of Sandalwood and Orris with Musk creates a soft bed for the roses.

Is it redundant if you have Turandot? Absolutely not!

Turandot is more complex potent bouquet of many other flowers together with roses and Lakmé is more a rose scent.
Turandot is Chypre and Lakmé is powdery, velvety floral scent.
Despite those stories behind , Turandot is a scent for the queen and Lakmé is a scent for the princess.

This may feel first very weak but it's not. The bubble which is around you is absolutely attractive and charming. Men - don't be scared to wear this one!

Top Notes:  Aldehydes*, Citrus Notes  

Heart Notes:  Lily of the Valley, Rose de Mai*, Rose Taif, Magnolia, Peach  

Base Notes:  Pink Pepper, Cypriol, Casmir Wood, Sandalwood*, Aoud, Benzoin, Vanilla, Orris*, Frankincense*, Labdanum, Ambergris, Musk

*being the main notes

I will edit this review soon since this was first written on IG where the space is very limited.

07/27/2020

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

LadyLuxifer
12 Reviews

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LadyLuxifer

Top Review 41

Flower duet

Pierre Loti (actually Julien Viaud) was a French naval officer and writer. His novel Rarahu, later renamed Le Mariage de Loti (1880), founded a literary exoticism and impressionism of the South Seas, especially about Tahiti. The bestseller is still considered a classic of French exoticism and served as the basis for the libretti of the operas Lakmé by Léo Delibes and L'île du rêve by Reynaldo Hahn.

Opera "Lakmé" takes the audience to an Indian town during the colonial period. The plot is set in the 19th century, when India was a British colony. Lakmé lives as a Hindu priestess in a temple, hidden behind trees and dense foliage. It is in this sacred grove that the British officer Gérald and Lakmé meet and fall in love by chance. But the Hindu religion forbids such a love relationship. Lakme's father Nilakantha watches over this. Since Gérald has desecrated the sacred grove, Nilakantha wants to take revenge. He hurts Gerald with a knife Lakme finds him and heals him in a secret place They want to stay together forever, but Gérald hesitates to take the vow because he does not want to part with his army for good. Lakmé sees the impossibility of their relationship and takes his own life through the poisonous datura. From the beginning it was an unequal relationship that had to end tragically.

On 28.03.2019 the Muscat Opera House in Oman presented Léo Delibe's opera "Lakmé" in its first own production. Roger Dove was commissioned as the production's perfumer. His assignment: to create a perfume for the opera Lakmé, which would then be sprayed in the auditorium at certain points during the performance. However, he was not engaged by the opera director, but by a member of the sultan's family.

Just one thing in advance: I won't take part in the discussions whether Roger Dove is only the creative director or/and actually the perfumer of the company. Not for two reasons: the first reason is obvious, only Roger Dove himself knows who composed the masterpieces of ROJA Parfums. The second reason is rather mundane: what I can't prove or disprove, I don't deal with. I am grateful that this fragrance exists, and that's what counts for me!

The fragrance Lakmé stands for the opulence and fertility of nature, without any obtrusiveness. I was so infinitely happy that the aldehydes are almost imperceptible in the composition. The fragrance is as delicate and yet as shocking as the voices in the "Duo des fleurs / Sous le dôme épais" from the performance. For all those who reject ROJA perfumes in advance because of various prejudices, I recommend you to spray Lakmé on yourself, close your eyes and listen to what the voices of soprano and mezzo-soprano, together with the fragrance, are able to move in you. That is all that matters.

Life is not calculated and calculated, it is lived with all senses. Cheap, cheap, expensive, underground vs. luxury...all that doesn't matter anymore at this moment.

From the first moment on, the fragrance lays itself on the skin like a mist. I do not share the opinion that the perfume is body-hugging. Nor loud. If there is a perfect sillage, it is Lakmé. Every move you make is enriched with the siren voices of the perfume I see Catherine Deneuve seducing Susan Sarandon in The Hunger. Yes, I admit it, I am hopelessly addicted to Lakmé

I rarely share the short ratings regarding fragrances. Here too I must correct, as the fragrance is by no means only flowery-powdery. Lakmé is complex powdery-woody from the start. Sandalwood plays a big role in this wonderful creation. It is the flame that longs to be recognized. This fragrance carries within it the certainty of the beautiful Lakmé that Gérald will not return her love, that he will not stay with her.

It should not be forgotten that Roger Dove has a very special relationship with the lilies of the valley: ROJA and the lily of the valley. In Lakmé, the perfumer combines the fairy-like bell-like voices of lily of the valley with mildly earthy yet delicately floral iris root. Everything becomes cooler, infused with elegance and gentleness and infatuated with mysticism. Wonderful! I see Lakmé as one of the most beautiful creations from the British (now) traditional house. This fragrance will never leave my collection.

I have now finished listening to Lakmé and have connected every second with the development of the fragrance. So many fragrances from ROJA Pafums reside high on "The best of - Scala". Why not Lakmé?