If you are disgusted by the various other gross perfume ingredients out there, here’s a pleasant one. Roses contain hundreds of fragrance molecules with various olfactory characters. They contain a combination of rose oxide, which is metallic, geranyl acetate which is fruity-floral, citronellol, which is also present in lemongrass and nerol, and is again present in neroli and lemongrass. Phenyl acetate, which lends chocolate accords its sweetness, is also used in rose accords. What does this mean? It means a rose perfume can be layered in hundreds of ways. Combine it with a citrus note like lemongrass and the citrus character of it blooms. Combine it with sweet, gourmand notes and its saccharine scent becomes more promine