Burning Roses Alkemia Perfumes

Unisex
Eau de Parfum
Year: 2010

At a glance

Is Burning Roses Alkemia Perfumes worth trying?

Burning Roses by Alkemia Perfumes is a fragrance for women and men.

Best match
Evening, Special Occasion wear in Fall, Winter
Performance feel
Moderate longevity with Moderate sillage
Signature profile
amber, smoky, rose with Incense, Red Rose, Labdanum

The first impression

Burning Roses by Alkemia Perfumes is a fragrance for women and men. Burning Roses was launched in 2010. The nose behind this fragrance is Sharra Lamoureaux.

What shapes the scent

amber 100%
smoky 85%
rose 70%
balsamic 60%
warm spicy 50%

The perfumer behind it

Sharra Lamoureaux

Sharra Lamoureaux

Sharra Lamoureaux is a perfumer whose work appears under Alkemia Perfumes, with a portfolio that includes evocative names like 1891, A Darkness Burning, and Absinthe And Laudanum In The Afternoon. Their fragrances often explore historical, literary, and darkly romantic themes. Lamoureaux's style is known for its narrative depth and use of unusual, atmospheric accords.

Notes pyramid

All Notes

Complete scent profile

Incense Incense
Red Rose Red Rose
Labdanum Labdanum

The mood it creates

The Phoenix Archetype: Portrait of Burning Roses Alkemia Perfumes

Essence

Burning Roses captures the Phoenix archetype, a spirit forged in flames. The fragrance's bold contrast of smoky labdanum and velvety rose mirrors their nature-both destruction and rebirth in one breath. They are no stranger to ashes, but they know roses bloom brightest where the earth has burned.

Style & Aesthetic

They favor dramatic silhouettes-a tailored coat with scorched edges, a blood-red scarf tossed over one shoulder. Their space mixes gothic elegance with raw minimalism: a single rose in a black vase, charcoal sketches on white walls.

Philosophy & Values

They believe in necessary endings. What others call loss, they call pruning-painful but vital for growth. Their values center on resilience and reinvention. Every fall is preparation for a fiercer spring.

Relationships

They attract those in transition-the heartbroken, the newly awakened. Lovers must understand their need to periodically retreat and reemerge. Their friendships are deep but cyclical, like seasons.

Lifestyle

Dawn finds them practicing yoga on a dew-damp lawn, exhaling smoke. They journal by candlelight, burning old pages as new insights come. Autumn is their season of release, when they shed what no longer serves them.

Shadow

Their strength in burning away the past can become a reflex, leaving little room for tenderness. The rose in their scent reminds them that some things deserve preservation-not everything must be fuel.

Conclusion

Burning Roses is the Phoenix's anthem-a fragrance that dares you to rise, again and again, from whatever tries to consume you. It smells like surrender and survival, like knowing the difference between an end and a beginning.