The Art Collection

NüWa Roja Parfums 2015

Version from 2015

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8.4 / 10 307 Ratings

A popular perfume by Roja Parfums for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is floral-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Spicy

Sweet

Creamy

Powdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Grapefruit

Heart Notes

May rose

Grasse jasmine

Orange blossom

Base Notes

Sandalwood Vanilla

Vanilla

Benzoin

Cumin

Peru balsam Clove

Clove

Pepper

Perfumer

Roja Dove

Ratings

Scent

8.4307 Ratings

Longevity

8.4280 Ratings

Sillage

7.7282 Ratings

Bottle

9.1281 Ratings

Value for money

4.7136 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 03/29/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the "The Art Collection" collection.

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/07/2021

6
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Cheech93
7 Reviews

Cheech93

2

Spicy Rose Garden

The weather is changing; the sun is out longer; it is getting warmer and the flowers are blooming—Spring has finally arrived! This is the effect NuWa has on me, and it is absolutely beautiful. The opening sparkles, like many Rojas do, but this one feels a little different—it's more fragrant and actually smells like a vibrant and ultra-fresh rose garden with other flowers here and there.

In the opening, you're blasted with a load of photo-realistic florals with a tinge of greenness and sweetness which last throughout the wearing experience. In the mid, the florals remain, but a nice spiciness emerges—giving NuWa a spicy/oriental edge. In the base, the vanilla and sandalwood shine and lend a rich creaminess while remaining a tad spicy; the florals and freshness move into the background; by this point, NuWa has become a full-on floriental. She is gorgeous throughout the entire wearing experience.

Longevity is good and occasions lean more formal; NuWa can be worn casually, however, as she has a freshness to her because of the florals; you'll just smell elegant. Seasons, spring days and summer nights, or anytime you need a pick me up. Unisex leans, leans more feminine IMO. Performance is excellent and projection is decent. The only downside is the big price tag, but that's Roja I guess. The bottle also looks amazing on display.
I don't hear this one talked about in Fragcom much, but I think that's a good thing—it's our little secret!

06/27/2024

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 9
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Ninamariah
235 Reviews

Ninamariah

1

Sumptuous creamy Rose, one of my favourite from Roja

Female leaning but amazing on confident men

Well, I try my best to make a post which this beauty deserves. I will write this review in two parts and in the first one I concentrate in facts of this beautiful creation and in the second one I will write my own musing and actual review.

I wish as well that she would get more love and attention in the fragrance community since this seems to be not so popular or at least it doesn’t come across so often. This perfume is reformulated and I haven’t tried the old one so this is just based on the new formulation. Before Nüva was only available in 100ml bottles and I somehow understand a certain caution to invest in that since it may be is too much for many but now it has been available in 50ml as well so it’s more reachable. ️

As I love the stories behind the scents and the names of the perfumes I want to attach Roja’s musing here:

“Inspired by the legend of NüWa, the gentle and kindly Chinese goddess who is said to have created humanity; and according to the myth taught her people to be creative and wise, introduced beauty through music, song and dance, and filled all flowers with fragrance. A tender liquid narrative to seduce the soul, a gentle harmony of Rose, Jasmin and Orange Blossom create a floral song that graces a pillowy bed of Sandalwood, Benzoin and Vanilla.” - ROJA DOVE.

Top Notes:
Bergamot, Grapefruit

Heart Notes:
Rose de Mai *, Orange Blossom *, Jasmin de Grasse *

Base Notes:
Clove, Cumin, Pepper, Sandalwood *, Benzoin *, Vanilla *, Peru Balsam

* The main notes

Suitable year around

REVIEW

Simplified Nüva is all about the divine regal Rose de Mai lying in the indulgent velvety bed of Vanilla, Benzoin and Sandalwood. It’s not so simple anyway so let’s take a closer look into this more complex mesmerizing, captivating and sensual juice which supposed to be more known in the community of perfume lovers.

Nüva opens up with the bright and fresh splash of Bergamot and Grapefruit twisted with the spicy notes from the base. Clove, Cumin and Pepper is quite prominant in the beginning and contrary to what you might expect since these are the basenotes the strongest whiff fades away quickly. The purpose of these notes afterwards is to balance sweetness and softness together with Peru Balsam, so that the whole blend does not become too sweet or too vanilla-like at any point because that’s not the point in this beautiful composition.

Vanilla here is definitely not gourmandy overly sweet one, it’s rather even earthy and breathing sophisticated and polished Vanilla with warmth of Benzoin to which Sandalwood brings a slightly creamy soft touch.

There are three bewitching flowers in the harmony and each of those has the role. Like I said in the beginning "Nüva is all about the divine regal Rose de Mai” and that’s because characteristics of Rose de Mai is mellow, deep and very persistent smell which last from the beginning until the last end of this show. Orange Blossom’s fresh and sweet nuances together with Jasmine de Grasse’s subtle and charming powdery touch mingle to that rare Rose which blooms for only three weeks a year.

This is very comforting, soft and fluffy scent. It’s very cozy but in the same time so classy, luxurious and sophisticated yet powerful. It makes a huge scent bubble around you.

I LOVE this scent so much! ️

07/16/2023

2
Pricing 8
Bottle 6
Sillage 8
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Savana88
10 Reviews

Savana88

1

Good but at what price ?!

Top notes:
Bergamot, grapefruit
Heart notes:
Rose de Mai, Orange Blossom, Jasmin de Grasse
Base notes:
Clove, cumin, pepper, sandalwood, benzoin, vanilla, balsam of Peru

Well blended scent , fresh floral sweet , throughout the duration which is very good La Rosa prevails like most of the high fragrances of the brand .
More suitable for a female audience but cost too exaggerated for what it offers.

07/09/2021

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Taurus
370 Reviews

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Taurus

Top Review 33

Divine fragrance with heavenly evolution

Nüwa is a Chinese goddess? And even the creator of the human race? OK - learned something again. What you also get with this perfume is the realization of how a cleanly made fragrance can develop masterfully.

After the first spray, I assumed that Nüwa would move like any other rose fragrance relatively linear. Hold quite rich after rose, with all sorts of sweetish embellishment around it, but nothing more.
A few moments later, I had the increased impression, Nüwa goes steeply in the direction of Gold Man by Amouage. That means slightly metallic-cool sharpness of bergamot with the soaked complexity of floral notes, especially the May rose (in Gold Man the hedge rose), just without incense.

A little later, the rose blooms all the more intensely again, and one might think that Nüwa, as initially thought, would meet its end on this theme. Beautiful beautiful, but there one wonders why the perfume clears so many points in the evaluation, although one sets such high standards and critically scrutinizes its creations just at Roja Dove.

The answer comes with great strides, if you are still a little patient and the drydown time to the glamorous appearance. What is then revealed is a lesson on the subject of development and twist, because Nüwa turns into a fabulous orange blossom dream with balsamic-vanilla resting pillows. It comes across as absolutely harmonious and heavenly.

And it's all absolutely pure, high quality and without any kind of interference or resistance. Yes - the stuff is expensive, but for that the wearer as well as his environment has a lot of it. No - it will not end up on my wish list as a result. And despite seemingly lacking innovation of the respective facets, he shows at a very high level, which is quite natural schnuppernd feasible.

01/06/2019

10
Sillage 10
Longevity 7
Scent

Duftsucht
105 Reviews

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Duftsucht

Top Review 23

Too much of a good thing?

Today it's supposed to rain red roses, Master Roja probably thought, as he, sitting in a baroque armchair decorated with real gold, meditated on his next perfume prank.
But rose scents are like sand on the sea! "A unique selling point must come, possibly even an emotional selling proposition..." Then Master Roja ponders further and reviews his previous works in his mind's eye. "I haven't used cumin in an exciting amount for a long time, but that sometimes creates such a dirty, fruity, lusty undertone. I like to stain the innocent rose with it... yeah, that could work... and then maybe carnation?... which was already considered an aphrodisiac in the Middle Ages... and then some resins and the secret Roja wood-spice mixture sprinkled over it, that should actually fit."
Thought, done, the Master took action and created Nüwa.

And now I have a sample of the precious elixir in my hands and full of joyful expectation it is sprayed on my wrist. Holla the forest fairy! What the hell is that? Certainly not a subtle rose fragrance - rather an admirer who stands in front of the front door with a bouquet of 1000 stunningly fragrant roses than nobody opens his door with his own key and catches his beloved in bed in the bedroom with the pretty boy from the exotic spice stall at the weekly market in flagrante.
Full of just indignation, the deceived man beats the two of them with his rose bush in bed, the scent of the roses mixes with the animal smell of warm sweat and other body juices and the exotic spices hanging in the young lover's work clothes, including pepper and cumin, do not unattractively complement the scent of flowers. Maybe there is also a wooden plate on the nightstand with remains of grapefruit and oranges with which the two lovebirds fed each other teasingly little pieces? Possible that even a little blood flowed through the spined rose weapon and contributed a metallic touch...

I can absolutely understand that there are perfume enthusiasts for whom this fragrance must be the fulfilment of their rose dreams.
Rose is always a difficult fragrance experience for me and so Nüwa is the first Roja that I test, that really makes me unwilling - and that I have to wash off, that's how overwhelmed I am by this rose spice attack.

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