Top Notes 
Jasmine
Heart Notes 
Clove
Cyclamen
Mimosa
Base Notes 
Ylang-ylang05/20/2025
ClaireV
774 Reviews
ClaireV
1
Ripped from nature jasmine
Jasmin T opens with a punch of raw, indolic jasmine that threatens to set your nose hairs alight. It is powerful and bold, with an undertone of something feral, like flower petals putrefying in vase water. This element of rot adds to the authenticity of the jasmine. The smells of nature, when presented in their uncut form, are rarely pretty in a conventional sense. Soon after the violent unfurling of the jasmine, a potent ylang slides into its DMs to accentuate its benzyl acetate qualities. Benzyl acetate is the naturally-occurring aromachemical in both ylang and jasmine responsible for that grapey-fuel-banana topnote. It smells like the gasses pouring off a rapidly decomposing banana in a brown paper bag, combined with the green, animalic scent of banana stem. It also has hallucinogenic properties, similar to the effect of breathing in paint solvent. Initially, the combination of the jasmine and ylang is so vaporous that you feel it might ignite if you struck a match.
Gradually, however, green notes move in to aerate the pungent ripeness. These notes are stemmy and aqueous, possessed of a vegetal bitterness that cuts through the compressed floral accords, lifting and separately them. This intervention calms the jasmine and renders it quietly sleek and lush, a tamed version of the panther that came before. The drydown smells musky in an indeterminate manner, perhaps a natural extension of natural jasmine oil, but also possibly a reformulation. (My current bottle of Jasmin T is heavier on the soapy white musk basenotes than previous iterations). Overall, Jasmin T presents a raw, true picture of jasmine. It is a powerful smell rather than a pretty one. The perfume equivalent of eating clean food, it is hard to imagine going back to commercial representations of jasmine after smelling this tour de force.
Gradually, however, green notes move in to aerate the pungent ripeness. These notes are stemmy and aqueous, possessed of a vegetal bitterness that cuts through the compressed floral accords, lifting and separately them. This intervention calms the jasmine and renders it quietly sleek and lush, a tamed version of the panther that came before. The drydown smells musky in an indeterminate manner, perhaps a natural extension of natural jasmine oil, but also possibly a reformulation. (My current bottle of Jasmin T is heavier on the soapy white musk basenotes than previous iterations). Overall, Jasmin T presents a raw, true picture of jasmine. It is a powerful smell rather than a pretty one. The perfume equivalent of eating clean food, it is hard to imagine going back to commercial representations of jasmine after smelling this tour de force.
