Yazhini ManimudiJamine is one of those perfume notes that you’ll find in almost every perfume. When not stealing the show with its sweet, intoxicating fragrance, it diffuses into the background, bringing a timeless elegance to any formula. The flowers are so delicate that you can’t extract an essential oil out of it. The industry relies on extracts like concrete, absolutes, and CO₂ extracts. They come in about 200 varieties, but the most common ones in perfumes are Jasmine Sambac and Jasmine Grandiflorum.
Jasmine perfumes are often categorized under ‘white florals’, known for their seductive and intoxicating character. It’s hard to pick out only a few jasmine perfumes when there are thousands, but I narrowed it down to these:
Mugler Alien
Key accords: white floral, ambery, animalic
Feminine
No list of jasmine perfumes is complete without Mugler’s Alien. It’s jasmine at its best, most intoxicating display, a beauty so otherworldly that it warrants the name Alien. It feels green, like smelling the jasmine flowers with its stem, freshly plucked off the climbers. The soft woody notes give it a slight comforting texture to balance out the indolic jasmine. Perfect for fancy date nights. It’s so good you’ll want a refill.
Tom Ford Jasmin Rouge
Key Notes: white floral, woody, warm, spicy
Feminine
Jasmin Rouge is a heavy floral fragrance with jasmine taking center stage. It’s thick and very perfumey with some spicy and animalic dimensions. The evening wear fragrance is for when you get dressed up in the most luxurious fabrics and jewelry you own. Some might find this one cloying, so I recommend testing it before buying a full bottle.
Diptyque Olene
Key Notes: white floral, fresh, green
Feminine
While most jasmine fragrances tend to be heavy, Olene is fresh. Like the wind carrying the scent of jasmine growing somewhere near your home. It’s not the freshly bloomed jasmine that holds everyone around it in its narcotic thrall. It’s jasmine hours after blooming, perfuming the air mildly. It’s a jasmine fit for wear in the summer on a casual day out.
Dior J’adore
Key Notes: white floral, fruity, sweet, fresh
Feminine
J’adore is a timeless women’s perfume, the jasmine bolstered by other white florals- lily of the valley, freesia, and tuberose. It is balanced by softer florals and some fruity facets that bring a watery fresh quality. It’s wonderfully feminine, not too sophisticated but not too carefree, sitting in the perfect zone in between to become the crowd-pleaser it has been for the past 26 years.
Elie Saab Le Parfum
Key Notes: white floral, sweet, woody, floral
Feminine
Le Parfum is a more mature composition with heady jasmine and orange blossom infused with a honeyed sweetness. It has a bridal quality to it, special and elegant for one of the most important days of your life. The white florals soften as the day progresses, leaving behind something mildly sweet and romantic, like reminiscing about your special day.
Chanel Chance Eau Tendre
Key Notes: floral, fruity, citrus, sweet
Feminine
Eau Tendre is quite the versatile scent, part of Chanel’s more youthful Chance line. It’s fresh with its citrusy beginnings, inviting you into a bubble of soft florals. It’s very light and feminine, something pretty to wear everyday be it to work or brunch with your friends. The jasmine here is airy and delicate, perfect for those who love jasmine but wish for it to be lighter.
Amouage Reflection Man
Key Notes: woody, white floral, aromatic, fresh
Masculine
Amouage does what they do best here– a classy, refined fragrance that’ll turn heads and have them asking you what you’re wearing. We start with the wonderfully spicy smell of rosemary and pink pepper, transitioning later to white florals. The jasmine and neroli manage to stay masculine in this fragrance, avoiding becoming too floral. It’s for the gentleman who embraces his masculinity and isn’t afraid of a little bit of elegance from florals. It lasts long, the woodiness of sandalwood and cedar staying the longest.
Giorgio Armani Acqua di Gio
Key Notes: citrus, aromatic, spicy, marine
Masculine
The opening is citrus heaven, composed of every citrus imaginable and amidst them, a quiet jasmine. The citruses fade away as citruses do and you’re left with a soft jasmine combining with salty marine energy. There’s a mildly spicy touch, drying down to a musky woody fragrance, giving it a classic men’s fragrance character. It’s very outdoorsy and for the adventurous man.
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