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Roja Parfums Elysium Eau Intense
Roja Parfums

Elysium Eau Intense

aromatic
citrus
fresh spicy
green
woody
fruity
white floral
2023 · unisex

Roja Parfums is known for creating high-quality, sophisticated fragrances with meticulous attention to raw material selection and composition. Founded by Roja Dove, a legendary fragrance expert and consultant, the house emphasizes craftsmanship and distinctive character in each release.

Elysium Eau Intense opens with an herbal and citrus burst, combining artemisia and thyme with bergamot, grapefruit, and lime for a crisp, green sensibility. The heart expands into a lush floral arrangement of rose, tuberose, orange blossom, and lily of the valley, with black currant adding subtle depth. The base anchors the composition with a woody-aromatic foundation, layering cedarwood, vetiver, and dry wood alongside leather, benzoin, and ambergris for warmth and texture. The overall effect is refined and naturally complex, avoiding heavy sweetness in favor of balanced freshness.

This fragrance works well for those who appreciate articulate, multi-layered compositions with a strong herbal backbone. It's versatile enough for daily wear yet sophisticated enough for professional or refined social settings. Best suited to cooler seasons and daytime occasions, when its bright citrus and green notes can shine without feeling thin. The Tactician, The Aristocrat, and The Homesteader capture its character well.

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Main Accordsreported by community
aromatic
100%
citrus
75%
fresh spicy
75%
green
75%
woody
75%
fruity
75%
white floral
50%
amber
50%
herbal
50%
sweet
50%
Fragrance Notescommunity verified
Top · 0–30 min
Artemisia
Artemisia
The wormwood family, artemisia adds a dry, herbal, slightly bitter greenness that evokes wild Mediterranean hillsides and ancient apothecaries. It's the botanical that gives absinthe its distinctive aura. In perfumery it grounds compositions in something honest and slightly difficult, which makes them feel more real.
Bergamot
Bergamot
A sun-ripened Italian citrus with a brightness that goes beyond lemon, simultaneously tart, floral, and slightly spicy. It's the defining note of Earl Grey tea and the backbone of countless fresh colognes. Perfumers love it as an opener because it lifts the entire composition without overpowering what follows.
Grapefruit
Grapefruit
Bittersweet and juicy with a faintly metallic zing that sets it apart from sweeter citrus notes. Grapefruit is uniquely energising, it reads as clean and modern rather than traditionally 'citrusy.' It pairs effortlessly with musks, making it a staple of office-safe, all-day fragrances.
Lavender
Lavender
One of perfumery's most essential and beloved notes, clean, herbal, and slightly sweet with a calming, familiar quality that works in almost any context. Lavender is simultaneously the most versatile and the most human of ingredients: it appears in barbershop colognes, romantic florals, and sophisticated orientals alike. A note that simply works.
Lime
Lime
Crisper and greener than lemon, with a faint bitterness that keeps it from smelling like a cocktail mixer. Lime zest has a raw, almost herbaceous quality that pairs naturally with aquatic and green accords. It signals freshness and informality, the note of beach bars and gym-fresh colognes.
Musk
Musk
The base layer of almost every modern fragrance, a soft, warm, skin-like scent that extends longevity and bridges other notes together. Natural musk was once derived from deer (now banned); today's musks are synthetic and range from clean and soapy to dark and animalic. The right musk makes a fragrance smell like 'you.'
Rhubarb
Rhubarb
Tart, crisp, and slightly green, rhubarb has a fresh, sour fruitiness that is more refreshing than sweet. It adds a clean, astringent quality to fragrances, like citrus, but fruitier and more unusual. Used in contemporary fresh and aromatic compositions to add a distinctive, slightly challenging freshness.
Thyme
Thyme
Herbal, slightly medicinal, and earthy with a warm, honey-like underpinning that sets it apart from greener herbs like basil. Thyme adds a French countryside quality, rugged but refined. It's used to add character and specificity to herbal-woody compositions that might otherwise feel generic.
Heart · 30 min – 3 hrs
Apple
Apple
Fresh, crisp, and slightly cidery, apple reads as clean and natural rather than candy-sweet. Green apple is sharper and more aromatic; red apple is rounder and juicier. Both add an approachable freshness to florals and fresher orientals, and green apple in particular is a signature of certain classic masculines.
Black Currant
Black Currant
Jasmine
Jasmine
Intoxicating, heady, and slightly animalic, jasmine is one of the few flowers that smells as rich in a bottle as it does climbing a garden wall at dusk. It has an almost fleshy, indolic quality that stops it reading as purely 'clean.' Jasmine is a workhorse in both feminine and masculine perfumery, adding depth and soul.
Lily Of The Valley
Lily Of The Valley
Crisp, green, and dewy, this spring flower smells like rain on cool grass with a clean, soap-like clarity. It's one of perfumery's most requested scents despite being nearly impossible to extract naturally, so it's almost always recreated synthetically. The result is fresh, tender, and timelessly elegant.
Orange Blossom
Orange Blossom
Sweeter and more honeyed than neroli (both come from the same tree), orange blossom is a floral note with a warm, almost edible quality. It floats between citrus and floral families, adding richness without weight. A signature note of classic Mediterranean and Middle Eastern perfumery.
Rose De Mai
Rose De Mai
Tuberose
Tuberose
One of the most intensely floral natural ingredients in existence, rich, creamy, and almost narcotic in its sweetness. Tuberose is polarizing by design: it's meant to be enveloping, not background. It has rubbery, vanilla-like facets that make it feel both sensual and slightly retro.
Base · 3–12 hrs
Ambergris
Ambergris
One of perfumery's most storied materials, a waxy substance produced by sperm whales with a uniquely salty, sweet, earthy quality. Real ambergris is nearly unobtainable; most perfumers use synthetic alternatives. It adds a marine warmth and incredible fixative quality, making fragrances smell more 'alive' and skin-like.
Benzoin
Benzoin
Sweet, warm, and balsamic, benzoin resin smells like vanilla mixed with incense, with a powdery, slightly medicinal edge. It adds a comforting warmth and fixative quality to oriental fragrances, and blends beautifully with spices. Often used to smooth and round off sharp edges in complex base notes.
Black Pepper
Black Pepper
Sharp, dry, and immediately present, black pepper in perfumery is spice without sweetness, heat without heaviness. It adds edge to citrus openings and warmth to woody bases, creating contrast that keeps a fragrance interesting. One of the most versatile spice notes, comfortable in everything from fresh colognes to deep orientals.
Cedarwood
Cedarwood
Clean, dry, and pencil-shaving familiar, cedar brings structure without heaviness. Depending on the variety (Atlas, Virginia, Texas), it can range from slightly sweet and waxy to sharply aromatic. It's a workhorse base note that gives woody fragrances their spine, and it's universally flattering on skin.
Cypriol Oil Or Nagarmotha
Cypriol Oil Or Nagarmotha
Dry Wood
Dry Wood
Galbanum
Galbanum
One of perfumery's oldest raw materials, a bitter, intensely green resin with a cut-grass, slightly medicinal quality. It's the note that gives vintage green chypres their sharp, naturalistic edge. Galbanum alone is almost unpleasantly aggressive, but in a composition it adds a vivid green freshness that nothing else can match.
Juniper Berry
Juniper Berry
Labdanum
Labdanum
A resin from the rock rose plant with a dark, animalic, honeyed quality that anchors many classic oriental fragrances. Labdanum is simultaneously leathery and sweet, with a raw complexity that synthetic materials struggle to match. It's a cornerstone of amber accords and chypre compositions.
Leather
Leather
One of perfumery's most complex accords, smoky, animalic, and slightly woody, evoking tanned hide, polished saddles, or fine gloves depending on the recipe. Leather adds sophistication and edge simultaneously, and is deeply associated with masculinity in Western perfumery (though the best leather fragrances transcend gender entirely).
Musk
Musk
The base layer of almost every modern fragrance, a soft, warm, skin-like scent that extends longevity and bridges other notes together. Natural musk was once derived from deer (now banned); today's musks are synthetic and range from clean and soapy to dark and animalic. The right musk makes a fragrance smell like 'you.'
Vanilla
Vanilla
Warm, sweet, and universally appealing, vanilla is to fragrance what salt is to cooking. Real vanilla is complex and slightly smoky, though most perfumery vanilla is synthetic and reads as clean, sweet, and creamy. It slows the evaporation of other notes and is the reason certain fragrances feel like a second skin.
Vetiver
Vetiver
Earthy, smoky, and complex, vetiver root is extracted from a grass native to India and has a scent that is simultaneously rooty, woody, and slightly lemony. It's one of perfumery's great base notes: tenacious, unisex, and endlessly adaptable. A fragrance built around vetiver feels grounded and deeply confident.
Violet Leaf
Violet Leaf
Who Wears ThisScent DNA matches
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The TacticianBest match87% match
Precision over excess. Always.

Crisp, dry, clean, worn close. Citrus, aromatic herbs, light woods, soft musks.

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The Aristocrat87% match
Timeless doesn't try. It simply is.

Cool, clean, commanding. Heritage aromatics, classic citrus, dry fougères, refined woods.

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The Homesteader83% match
Rooted, warm, and entirely self-sufficient.

Warm skin musks, sandalwood, soft cedar, clean vetiver. Grounding, intimate, unhurried.

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Crisp, dry, clean, worn close. Citrus, aromatic herbs, light woods, soft musks.
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Scent Profile
aromatic100%
citrus75%
fresh spicy75%
green75%
woody75%
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Roja Parfums is known for creating high-quality, sophisticated fragrances with meticulous attention to raw material selection and composition. Founded by Roja Dove, a legendary fragrance expert and consultant, the house emphasizes craftsmanship and distinctive character in each release. Elysium Eau Intense opens with an herbal and citrus burst, combining artemisia and thyme with bergamot, grapefruit, and lime for a crisp, green sensibility. The heart expands into a lush floral arrangement of rose, tuberose, orange blossom, and lily of the valley, with black currant adding subtle depth. The base anchors the composition with a woody-aromatic foundation, layering cedarwood, vetiver, and dry wood alongside leather, benzoin, and ambergris for warmth and texture. The overall effect is refined and naturally complex, avoiding heavy sweetness in favor of balanced freshness. This fragrance works well for those who appreciate articulate, multi-layered compositions with a strong herbal backbone. It's versatile enough for daily wear yet sophisticated enough for professional or refined social settings. Best suited to cooler seasons and daytime occasions, when its bright citrus and green notes can shine without feeling thin. The Tactician, The Aristocrat, and The Homesteader capture its character well.
What are the notes in Roja Parfums Elysium Eau Intense? +
Top: Artemisia, Bergamot, Grapefruit, Lavender, Lime, Musk, Rhubarb, Thyme. Heart: Apple, Black Currant, Jasmine, Lily Of The Valley, Orange Blossom, Rose De Mai, Tuberose. Base: Ambergris, Benzoin, Black Pepper, Cedarwood, Cypriol Oil Or Nagarmotha, Dry Wood, Galbanum, Juniper Berry, Labdanum, Leather, Musk, Vanilla, Vetiver, Violet Leaf.
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