...the beauty of natural perfumery

Behold the rose, how can one even begin to captivate that beauty? How can one imitate the velvety petals, the curls and folds that embrace one another, and a scent so pure and heavenly? Rose absolute and rose otto, whether from the rose de mai, the damask rose or rosa centifolia, is the natural extract of rose and a raw material to the perfumer. However; as Luca Turin puts it so perfectly in his book "The Secret of Scent" (P.24) "In a way , the very existence of perfumery is due to the raw materials being such poor replicas of the real thing. If rose oil really smelled of roses, the perfumer would merely hang her head in shame and give up. Instead her task is to mix these gnarled, cooked, mangled bits of dried-up live things and much like an embalmer, give them the bloom of life once again." Perfume like beauty is in the eye or nose of the beholder and also like beauty there is a classic medium or a center of balance by which everything else is measured. Go too far and you get ugly, go too far and you get a stink.

In your eyes who is THE classic beauty?
To your nose what is THE classic perfume?