Arabica coffee
Terpenes
Bulgarian rose absolute
Coffee blossom
Hemp
Vietnamese oud
Cardamom
Kashmiri musk
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A journey through multiple notes & all their facets
Rozā Arabica is a genuine roller coaster of a fragrance. The opening had me quite worried at first. Upon first spray, you are blasted with a very familiar smell that (at least to me) is similar to that of Javanese Coffee by the house of Ucca. That dark, musty, almost smoky roasted coffee bean, bordering on burnt. But of course, perfumes like to change and this thing ended up doing stuff I never would have anticipated and it very quickly began to distinguish itself from Javanese Coffee
The Bulgarian rose slowly rises to the surface about 1-2 minutes later and man. As someone who was previously yet to get their nose on natural rose perfumery, I can immediately tell the difference between a good quality Bulgarian rose vs the niche, synthetic, screechy interpretation of rose I’ve been familiar with through stuff like MFK’s Oud Satin Mood.
The one in Rozā Arabica is so light, airy, elegant, almost soapy. It’s the perfect contrast to the almost oppressive and dark coffee.
For a moment, I was asking myself if that was it. But when I least expected, it took another turn and I was beginning to realise I had gotten my hands on something special.
Hemp kicks in around the 5th-10th minute and suddenly, this sweet, burnt rose coffee you can almost lick clean off your skin from sheer temptation now has a greenish, herbal, dank touch that really gives it character and separates this from just any coffee and rose-centric fragrance.
It’s at this point I wanna just stop to say that this perfume is one of the most amazing shapeshifters I’ve ever smelled. I remember I used to say that about other perfumes I’ve owned such as Aromas de Salazar’s Heavenly Tobacco, and even better, my sample of Jinkoh Store’s Sunset in Assam. It’s on the latter’s level of complexity, depth and chemistry with skin. Which is saying something as my skin tends to either eat up whole fragrances or make them super linear.
About 20-25 minutes in, coffee blossom adds a whole different floral note to the initial rose you get. With the hemp, rose and coffee blossom all overtaking that coffee oud backdrop, this fragrance enters somewhat of a “clean” phase after the initial dark, hefty blast and it’s an entirely different animal now to where it began, and it becomes incomparable to the Ucca perfume I mentioned despite the coffee notes being very similar. Further proof, in case anyone needed to be reminded that perfumes NEED to settle on skin and evolve before you can make any snap judgement.
After an hour has elapsed, that’s when the Kashmiri musk finally reveals itself. Real musk is already becoming a favourite note of mine in fragrance. That stuff is nothing like the catty, urine-esque musk in something synthetic and mainstream like Musc Ravageur, and it’s also nothing like the clean, barely existent BS in something like Kouros. I get so many facets all from one single note. There was this almost leathery, subtly smoky touch among the “sweaty but not gross” note, and it added such a comforting and relaxing atmosphere. This helped wind the perfume back around to a warmer and thicker tone after that brief clean-green floral period. Came full circle but didn’t feel the same either.
I’m baffled at how well this thing reacts with my skin, how beautifully blended and well-rounded it is, how every note is present, how much it transformed. I woke up the next morning and found that it transformed into something reminiscent of sticky honeyed dates after a whole night, everything seemingly mixed together and still going strong.
Absolute masterpiece
It goes so far and beyond a rose perfume imo. It’s not trying too hard and that’s exactly why it incidentally is so many things at once, and it’s perfumes like this that I feel most captivated by compared to something trying to “replicate” a familiar smell we might already know of from our day to day life.
The Bulgarian rose slowly rises to the surface about 1-2 minutes later and man. As someone who was previously yet to get their nose on natural rose perfumery, I can immediately tell the difference between a good quality Bulgarian rose vs the niche, synthetic, screechy interpretation of rose I’ve been familiar with through stuff like MFK’s Oud Satin Mood.
The one in Rozā Arabica is so light, airy, elegant, almost soapy. It’s the perfect contrast to the almost oppressive and dark coffee.
For a moment, I was asking myself if that was it. But when I least expected, it took another turn and I was beginning to realise I had gotten my hands on something special.
Hemp kicks in around the 5th-10th minute and suddenly, this sweet, burnt rose coffee you can almost lick clean off your skin from sheer temptation now has a greenish, herbal, dank touch that really gives it character and separates this from just any coffee and rose-centric fragrance.
It’s at this point I wanna just stop to say that this perfume is one of the most amazing shapeshifters I’ve ever smelled. I remember I used to say that about other perfumes I’ve owned such as Aromas de Salazar’s Heavenly Tobacco, and even better, my sample of Jinkoh Store’s Sunset in Assam. It’s on the latter’s level of complexity, depth and chemistry with skin. Which is saying something as my skin tends to either eat up whole fragrances or make them super linear.
About 20-25 minutes in, coffee blossom adds a whole different floral note to the initial rose you get. With the hemp, rose and coffee blossom all overtaking that coffee oud backdrop, this fragrance enters somewhat of a “clean” phase after the initial dark, hefty blast and it’s an entirely different animal now to where it began, and it becomes incomparable to the Ucca perfume I mentioned despite the coffee notes being very similar. Further proof, in case anyone needed to be reminded that perfumes NEED to settle on skin and evolve before you can make any snap judgement.
After an hour has elapsed, that’s when the Kashmiri musk finally reveals itself. Real musk is already becoming a favourite note of mine in fragrance. That stuff is nothing like the catty, urine-esque musk in something synthetic and mainstream like Musc Ravageur, and it’s also nothing like the clean, barely existent BS in something like Kouros. I get so many facets all from one single note. There was this almost leathery, subtly smoky touch among the “sweaty but not gross” note, and it added such a comforting and relaxing atmosphere. This helped wind the perfume back around to a warmer and thicker tone after that brief clean-green floral period. Came full circle but didn’t feel the same either.
I’m baffled at how well this thing reacts with my skin, how beautifully blended and well-rounded it is, how every note is present, how much it transformed. I woke up the next morning and found that it transformed into something reminiscent of sticky honeyed dates after a whole night, everything seemingly mixed together and still going strong.
Absolute masterpiece
It goes so far and beyond a rose perfume imo. It’s not trying too hard and that’s exactly why it incidentally is so many things at once, and it’s perfumes like this that I feel most captivated by compared to something trying to “replicate” a familiar smell we might already know of from our day to day life.
Updated on 10/14/2025
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