Tar and Roses

2026 Vintage “ One whiff and I was in the barrel room of a winery in Barolo, Italy, with an intoxicating mix of rose petal, cherry and raspberry and baking spice, blended with the oak barrel notes of cinnamon and roasted coffee bean. Tar & Roses starts off bold but mellows over time as wine does in the glass.”- Taste TV Judge and Wine Journalist The base of this perfume has been aging since 2021 and has a smoothness and maturity that is stunning. I blended it with raspberries and wild blackberries along with bing cherries from this season grown by Murray Family Farms and amped up the violet component to this perfume by co-fermenting them with the cherries. This is unquestionably my favorite Tar and Roses to date. This perfume has been my deep dive, my love letter to Barolo. An exploration of what happens when you put the ingredients from the famous aromatic notes together. A celebration of this wine that is so magical that the battle over traditional and modern styles inspired a war. This wine of Kings. So exciting now to smell the spring and summer fruits that fermented to become the base of this perfume. The cherries that stained my hands when I crushed them, the wild and amarena Italian cherries that were fermented Appassimento Style, the blackberries I picked in the redwoods, having all gone through the alchemy of fermentation and come out the other side to help tell this story. It goes beyond the nebbia, the fog that rolls in over the Piedmonte hills every fall. It goes Sold on Pomares Stolen Perfume (https://pomaresstolenperfume.com/products/tar-and-roses-2024). The price shown is the retail price on that storefront on 2026-10-22, not a GreenB2B quote or a wholesale price.