"If someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.”  (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943).

Male and unique: a rose blossoms in the heart of ManRose, Etro’s latest jus that revisits the tradition of single-essence fragrances, always dear to the Company. In this new formula, it gently envelopes the elegant and cosmopolitan GentleMan as he steps lightly and confidently through conventions.   

Capable of accepting the feminine side, redefining new softness as strength, representing the synthesis of perfection of two sensibilities that share. Acting from the principle of unification, rediscovering and returning to the feminine, the utmost expression of male essentiality.  

Petal after petal, the circle closes. The fragrance recaptures a whiff of the citrus breeze of Calabrian bergamot, invigorated by the pungent scents of cardamom and Sichuan pepper, then sweetened with the strange glow of elemi, the essence taken from a resin used in India and Arabia in ancient times to activate meditation crystals.  At the heart of the perfume, the noble rose, celebrated by Sufi masters and alchemists is enclosed in the languid embrace of incense before dissolving in velvety notes of geranium that, once on the skin, fresh and warm like the soft rays of the spring sun. The Rose, the mystical flower of iridescent symbolism in the imaginary Eden of ManRose, cannot and must not only be classified as the bud of female ascendancy. The ancient Greeks, who made garlands of roses to crown the followers of Dionysus, considered it an agender corolla and saw, in the flower’s circular shape, the symbol of universal perfection and the circular nature of time, eternally flowing and renewing itself. The rose’s significance, linked to both passion and also to innocence, has always been closer to an ideal of noble, reserved elegance enriched by unexpected suggestions in contact with different cultures over the centuries. Only in the finale do the fireworks of musk, amber and patchouli come together the more virile harmony of tones of leather, vetiver and precious woods; so the rose, the timeless rose, distilled in an ornate flacon decorated with Etro’s classic paisley, sinks its roots deep in the land and the soul: the buttonhole of an eternal poet and wanderer who leaves behind him a rainbow of light. 

Head: Calabrian bergamot, Sichuan pepper, cardamom and elemi 

Heart: Turkish rose, geranium and incense

Base: patchouli, vetiver, musk, leather, ember, precious wood