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Sa majesté la rose Serge Lutens 2000

7.3 / 10 251 Ratings

A perfume by Serge Lutens for women and men, released in 2000. The scent is floral-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Spicy

Green

Woody

Sweet

Fragrance Notes

Rose absolute Clove

Clove

Musk

Gaiac wood

White honey

Perfumers

Christopher Sheldrake, Serge Lutens

Ratings

Scent

7.3251 Ratings

Longevity

7.7178 Ratings

Sillage

7.0154 Ratings

Bottle

7.7159 Ratings

Value for money

6.621 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 08/07/2025.

Interesting Facts

The scent was additionally released in a bottle collection with card game design. The scent was attached to the design of the suit Hearts.

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Reviews

23 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/25/2012

2Scent

Coutureguru
237 Reviews

Coutureguru

Helpful Review 8

Death of a Rose

I've come to the conclusion that Lutens and I will never really eat at the same table, so to speak. I can't put my finger on it ( as much as I'd like to wear these frags!) they all, to a one turn horribly on me.
Je suis triste.
Sa Majeste la Rose starts off bright and sunny, but ten minutes in she is already wilting and by half an hour she is dead. Then she has the audacity to actually hang around and rot!!
Now, one has to wonder about the progression of this frag in the mind of the creator. I am still trying to decide if Christopher Sheldrake is a genius nose or a mad chemist ... either way, he definitely posesses a macabre sense of humor.
Leave me with my Tea Rose thanks ... it's way better and much easier on the wallet. I think I'll stop with the Lutens' ... c'est la vie!!

11/17/2013

6Scent

Drseid
828 Reviews

Drseid

Helpful Review 5

If Only They Could Have Tweaked The Middle...

Sa Majeste La Rose opens with a beautiful realistic pure "feminine" rose resembling the roses you would smell entering a florist. As the composition transitions to the early heart the pure rose starts to mingle with a sharp green soapy undertone that grows in strength through the remaining heart phase with the rose remaining as co-star. During the late dry-down the rose dulls somewhat as the soapy green undertone finally recedes, revealing traces of vague supporting wood in the base. Projection is very good to excellent with outstanding longevity of well over 12 hours on skin.

Sa Majeste La Rose is a composition that on paper has all the ingredients necessary for an outstanding rose soliflore and when first applied on skin one smells just that. The rose is so natural and airy at the open that it is hard not to be impressed early. If things continued as they began this would be a major rave, but alas, the composition gets a bit muddled during the heart phase as a difficult to place green soapy accord gets in the way of the gorgeous early untarnished rose presentation. The sharp green soapy concoction really feels out of place and is quite distracting, only allowing the composition to recover during the late dry-down as the soap recedes and a natural supporting woody undertone primarily takes its place, melding much better with the rose. The bottom line is the $130 per 50ml bottle Sa Majeste La Rose opens extremely strong, but falters in the middle before making a late recovery, earning a "good" 3 star out of 5 rating and a mild recommendation. That said, with so many excellent rose compositions on the market including Serge Lutens' own La Fille de Berlin, Sa Majeste La Rose may get swallowed up by the competition.

07/29/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

Helpful Review 1

Heart-renderingly naturalistic rose

Confession: I don't actually like soliflores. I mean, I don't like to wear them. I like sniffing them from a sample and I consider them useful to have around as a reference, but wearing them simply wears me down. Soliflores say one thing, and one thing only. I admire the single-mindedness of their message, but as the day goes on, it grates. Flowers must be part of a more complex composition for me to wear them.

I will say this, though, and my apologies if this sounds like a contradiction - there is nothing like a good soliflore to move me to tears. The smell of a Bourbon rose, a tuberose bloom, or newly opened jasmine flowers are so astoundingly beautiful in nature that any successful attempt at recreating their smell in perfume has a similar effect on my senses and emotions.

Sa Majeste La Rose by Serge Lutens is one such perfume. It harnesses the blowsy scent of dripping wet, yellow and pink tea roses in a bottle. The smell is somehow 'fat' without being overly rich or exotic. This is definitely not the rich, red rose of Persia and Turkey but the waxy, nostalgic domestic roses growing in damp gardens all over Ireland. Ever stick your nose into one of those overblown, loose roses after a shower? Sa Majeste replicates that smell with precision. I love its superb literalism for all of five minutes, and after that it is torture. Roses like these have a greenish, cat-pee acidity to them even in nature, and here in Sa Majeste it is a pitch that rises higher and higher as the day wears on.

10/07/2015

8Scent

ScentFan
336 Reviews

ScentFan

2

Gorgeous Damascenes

This arrived today. Here's an edit of the review from my Lutens sniff fest: Can’t remember if I’ve tried this before. I’m a bit hesitant because of the clove which, if too strong, will ruin things for me. Here goes. Oh! Beautiful! A glorious opening. It’s a gorgeous Damasc rose. Not the Turkish one, I don’t think, which is on the green side. Well, maybe it is a Turkish Damascene rather than the Bulgarian. Checking. The website says he used both, as well as a Moroccan. This liquid fabulosity is halfway between Perfumery Workshop’s incomparable Tea Rose and Frederik Malle’s equally unsurpassed and quite green Une Rose. Both are realistic roses and so is this. Lutens is a master of this underlying musk-honey-wood accord which rises in the drydown. He often includes beeswax but here uses clove to add just the right slight sharpness to mimic a real rose's thorns. An appealing greenness lingers from the Turkish Damascene. I must have missed it in my Rose Sniff Fest. Nope, it was there. It didn’t make the finals because it vanished on my skin in comparison to Rose de Nuit. Hah! Faulty reasoning. Magical scents like this are hard to come by. I think I no longer care if they have to be reapplied, though this time the scent does hang on. This is a fresher, brighter rose than Rose de Nuit. It’s for the daytime, not the night.

01/06/2020

CuirCuir
35 Reviews

CuirCuir

1

Well-done tea rose

Sa Majeste La Rose is one of three rose scents by Lutens (next to Rose de Nuit and La Fille de Berlin). This one is the most straight-up rose, with a slight touch of sweet honey. Her Majesty the Rose smells natural, feminine, not complex, not too sweet, quite easy to wear.

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Statements

39 short views on the fragrance

Lbjohnson

1 year ago

7.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

2

Dewy, honeyed rose with just a touch of darkness.

BrianBuchanan

5 years ago

2

A red spicy rose with leaf, thorn and stem.
It blazes like a beacon,
and then, the morning after,
the petals are dry and fading.

JLostein

3 months ago

1

This is THE richest, most beautiful rose I've ever smelled, I audibly gasped when I first tried it.

Erswan

1 year ago

1

Shampoo garden rose.

Mikadomann

5 years ago

8Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

22

10

Coffee and cake. Powerful décolletés breathe. Roses on a honey-polished table. "For you, Anneliese!"
The son: "The ladies!" Rose on the lapel.

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Clarissa

5 years ago

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

15

5

Fully bloomed, velvety dark red rose, very mature and sensual, surrounded by spicy cloves and drizzled with honey invites you to dance, very beautiful.

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