Maison Crivelli Rose Saltifolia by Olya Bar©
Roses can be many things, sweet, spicy, woody, but they are rarely paired with a hefty pinch of salt. Maison Crivelli creates some of the most unusual yet wearable compositions, and Rose Saltifolia is precisely that.
Based on the memory of a stroll on the seaside, among fields of freshly bloomed roses blown by the sea winds, it vibrates with intensity and emotion, a feeling of lazy afternoons spent by the sea someplace where time stands still.
Photo of Olya Bar in Antibes
For me, Maison Crivelli Rose Saltifolia brings memories of my first trip to Antibes. The salty air hits you as soon as you exit the airport in Nice. The short drive to Antibes happens to be right along the sea, and it’s one of the best drives with the most incredible view. Radically different from the busy tourist city vibe of Nice, a city with loud restaurants and nightclubs buzzing with tourists, Antibes, on the other hand, is the most beautiful hideaway from all that, with an authentic flavor of French hospitality, cozy cafes, and romantic villas.
If you ever find yourself in Antibes, I urge you to stay at the Villa Les Roses. An Art Deco style, contemporary Provencal villa, located 40 meters from the sandy beach, Plage de la Salis in the Cap de Antibes. It’s one of the most incredible hidden gems. It doesn’t get its name Villa Les Roses for no reason. The scent of roses mingling with the salty sea is intoxicating and impossible to forget. It follows you anywhere you turn. From the morning cup of coffee, I would slowly sip by the pool, hidden by the delicate shade of the rose bushes, to the afternoon swim in the sea, the scent of roses seeping into your skin.
Roses in Antibes by Olya Bar 2017
The opening notes greet you with a blast of juicy blood orange and a pinch of fragrant peppercorn. As your taste buds adjust to the saltiness woven through the whole body of the fragrance, you are hit with the most beautiful rose, as if someone slapped you with an entire bouquet of centifolias, petals flying everywhere and the thick rose oil dripping down the stems. Then comes the briny seaweed, making this whole composition almost savory.
On a blazing hot July afternoon, Maison Crivelli Rose Saltifolia feels like walking into the untamable sea and feeling nothing but joy. The moment when nothing matters except the feeling of the salty waves against your skin, a sweet scent of careless vacation, and nowhere to be. There is a sweet lemon-like facet to the rose. A rugged rose bush that grows as it pleases. It makes you want to put your hair down and let it all go; this is the ideal olfactive portrait of beachy waves, sun-kissed skin, and a bottle of ice-cold bubbly rose waiting for you in the shade of a beach café.
Café by the beach by Olya Bar Antibes 2017
Vacation is part of the collective French consciousness, and we Americans, obsessed with careers, deadlines, and the promise of the next promotion, have a lot to learn about slowing down and living in the moment. After all, life is too short, and it won’t be the scent of the new office that brings sweet memories in old age, but the intoxicating scent of the wild rose bush along the coast just might.
Notes: blood orange essential oil, pink peppercorn essential oil, rose Centifolia absolute, seaweed absolute, cashmeran.
The bottle of Rose Saltifolia was kindly gifted to me, opinions are always my own. I am a digital strategist for Europerfumes.
–Olya Bar, Senior Contributor
The perfumer is Stephanie Bakouche and the Maison Crivelli Saltifolia was composed in 2018
Maison Crivelli Rose Saltifolia by Olya Bar©
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