Roja

Roja Dove was born in London and studied at the London College of Fashion before beginning his career as a trainee at Guerlain, where he subsequently rose to become the most senior perfume consultant outside of France — a position he held for twenty years before founding his own brand in 2011. Along with Frédéric Malle, Roja Dove is considered one of the foremost promoters of perfumery as a serious art form in the English-speaking world. His brand — Roja Parfums — creates fragrances at the absolute pinnacle of luxury niche, using raw materials of extraordinary quality including natural musks, genuine ambergris, Bulgarian rose absolute, and Grasse jasmine absolute at concentrations that his compositions alone can sustain. His fragrances are priced from £300 to over £2,000 for a single bottle, reflecting both the ingredient cost and his conviction that perfumery is haute parfumerie.

Roja Parfums compositions are created entirely by Roja Dove himself — a single-author house at the ultra-luxury level comparable only to Maison Francis Kurkdjian and Frédéric Malle in the combination of creator's personal reputation and house quality. His training with Guerlain's legendary perfumers gave him direct knowledge of the classical French parfumerie tradition; his compositions reflect this heritage through richly complex orientals, deep florals, and compositions that require the most expensive raw materials to achieve their character.

Enigma (2012) is arguably Roja's most celebrated composition — a deeply animalic and complex oriental of civet, jasmine, rose, musk, and amber that demonstrates his ability to create fragrances of genuine psychological power. Elixir Pour Femme — a rose absolute-jasmine absolute-musk composition — is the house's most quintessentially feminine offering. Apex uses genuine ambergris, labdanum, musk, and woods to create one of the most expensive and most critically respected compositions in contemporary ultra-luxury perfumery.

Roja Parfums sits at ultra-premium luxury — EDPs from £250-£2,000 — with ingredient quality and compositional depth that genuinely justifies the pricing. For the fragrance connoisseur who has reached the limits of accessible niche and wants to experience perfumery at its most uncompromised, Roja Parfums is the destination.

Every Roja Parfums fragrance at The Scent Stories® is 100% authentic, factory-sealed and brand-packaged — sourced from authorised channels and shipped worldwide.