This obsession recently led me to the most fabulous adventure in the South of France, courtesy of Matiere Premiere. There, I ...

rosa centifolia, handpicked in Morocco at the crack of dawn and rushed right into production. With more aliases than Champagne Papi, Moroccan rose centifolia is variously known as rose maroc ...

An ancient cultivated rose (Rosa centifolia) from the Caucasus, its cuttings were brought to the new country and passed from neighbor to neighbor and mother to daughter at a time when there were ...

This decade’s newest interpretation comes in the form of Miss Dior Rose n’Roses, which depicts dew-drenched centifolia roses, freshly picked from the heartland of fragrance in the south of France.

As for the gardens, horticulturalists cultivate the organically farmed fields of jasmine, tuberose, iris and several thousand Centifolia rose bushes. The estate’s famous pink house is rose ...

Subscribe today. The centifolia can only be harvested by hand, at dawn, within a four-hour window. In Rose de Mai, from director Bradley Tangonan, the harvesters examine their relationship to this ...