A short film from International Flavors & Fragrances' in house naturals facility, Laboratoire Monique Rémy, on the Egyptian Jasmine harvest. Almost 5 minutes; perfumer Carlos Benaïm appears at about the 3:50 mark.
Two for Tuesday: Durga by DS & Durga, Don’t Tell Jasmine by Vilhelm Parfumerie
Reviews of two recent florals: Durga by DS & Durga and Don’t Tell Jasmine by Vilhelm Parfumerie.
Durga by DS & Durga
If you asked me what notes I’d like you to add to “palatial doses of the finest floral absolutes”, melon and chrysanthemum would not be high on my list of suggestions…
Le Jasmin en Inde
In episode three of the Quest for Essences series, Dior's François Demachy goes to the south of India to look at the production of jasmine. For some reason, there are no subtitles on this episode.
(If you missed them, here are the Rose de Mai and Bergamot of Calabria episodes).
Perfume for Children & Fragonard Jasmin
Friends often ask me what perfumes are appropriate for…CHILDREN! Call me old fashioned, but I don’t want to smell a child wearing Kouros (the shock…like seeing a six-year-old boy sporting a handle-bar moustache) or Chanel No. 5 (as surreal an experience as any episode of Toddlers & Tiaras). Colognes for children should be light, simple, unobtrusive, but still have some lasting power (otherwise the child is likely to reapply constantly). Oh, and children’s colognes should be inexpensive (I bet they’ll leave their perfume in the car on a hot day or lose it).
I started keeping a perfume notebook a few years ago, and I just added Fragonard Jasmin1 to my list of fragrances appropriate for young, female perfume lovers…
Diptyque Essences Insensees 2015 ~ fragrance review
I like jasmine. Soft, subtle jasmines are fine — I have quite a few — but big, bold jasmines are even finer. I don’t think anybody has made the jasmine too big and bold for me to wear just yet, although Norma Kamali made a valiant effort.
I figured Diptyque’s new Essences Insensées 2015, from their La Collection 34 series of limited edition harvest-based fragrances, would be on the soft, subtle side, because that seems to be the style at Diptyque in recent years (and possibly also because I pretty much ignored Essences Insensées 2014, which was based on mimosa). But no, this year’s Essences Insensées is J-A-S-M-I-N-E, especially in the top notes, where the jasmine is loud and full and rich, and satisfyingly indolic (just enough and not too much)…