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Jasmina April Aromatics

6.6 / 10 54 Ratings

A perfume by April Aromatics for women and men. The release year is unknown. The scent is floral-animal. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Animal

Sweet

Powdery

Fruity

Fragrance Notes

French jasminum grandiflorum

American pink grapefruit

Indian jasminum grandiflorum

Thai ylang-ylang

Perfumer

Tanja Bochnig

Ratings

Scent

6.654 Ratings

Longevity

7.241 Ratings

Sillage

7.343 Ratings

Bottle

7.241 Ratings

Value for money

6.716 Ratings

Submitted by Feylamia, last update on 09/13/2025.

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/20/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

Jasmina in oil format compared to the Jasmina eau de parfum

Jasmina in oil format presents in much the same way as Jasmina in eau de parfum. This is probably due to the fact that the original composition itself is rather straight-forward, relying on its top-notch naturals to do all the talking. The notes list reads as jasmine, ylang, and grapefruit, and indeed, that is really what you get. But thanks to the complexity and ‘ripeness’ of the raw materials used, the perfume never comes off as shallow. The jasmine oil, in particular, is stunning. Its rubbery, inky purpleness is almost something you can taste at the back of your tongue. The jasmine is natural and untrimmed – the full bush, so to speak – so in addition to the velvety lushness of the flower, we also get hints of gasoline, rubber tubing, dirt, mint, leather, and melting plastic. Lovers of natural jasmine will immediately (and correctly) rank this up there with the other great natural jasmines of the world, including Tawaf from La Via del Profumo and Jasmin T from Bruno Acampora.

The differences between the oil and eau de parfum are slight but emerge more distinctly when worn side by side. The eau de parfum accentuates the grapefruit note, its urinous character adding even more raunch to the dirty, indolic jasmine. The oil, on the other hand, is grapefruit-neutral. The effect of the grapefruit-jasmine pairing in the eau de parfum runs close to the powdered, heady jasmine-civet combination in Joy (Patou). Because the citrus note is sharply emphasized in the eau de parfum, its texture is more effervescent. The oil is more subdued in comparison.

On balance, the eau de parfum version is dirtier and lustier. The eau de parfum starts off brighter and more urinous than the oil, but its jasmine component is fleshier and therefore sexier. The eau de parfum is a jasmine-forward floral with a rich, perfumey backdrop, while the oil is a jasmine soliflore that, after a petrol-and-rubber opening (borrowed from the ylang), settles into something very pristine and freshly-scrubbed. Choose, therefore, according to how you take your jasmine.

04/15/2018

8.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Serenissima
1222 Reviews

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Serenissima

Top Review 9

a great but forbidden love

Large-blooming white jasmine exudes a scent that can be perceived as a loving embrace but also as a disgusting stinker.
Thus, opinions and feelings about it generally differ between women and men, just like with lily of the valley and lilac.

For me, the typically sweet, slightly strict scent that jasmine releases in the evening hours brings back memories of great and small love stories.
Stories about love in private, but also stories about love that made it into history.

The sprawling jasmine-covered pergola in the park of Mirabell Palace in Salzburg has surely witnessed many such stories.
That's why it immediately comes to mind during my first encounter with "Jasmina" by April Aromatics.
At the end of the baroque park, where no fence or gate separates it from the city, but a wide footpath leads directly past the Mozarteum, we find this pergola.
Even on sunny, bright, and warm days, it is a shady and sought-after spot, becoming a popular meeting place for lovers in the evening hours.

The question of whether this jasmine was a witness to the great love between Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau and the lady Salome Alt does not arise. But the thought that this scent might have accompanied their paths pleases me very much.

This love was just as great and child-rich - 15 children resulted from this relationship! - as it was forbidden.
For Wolf Dietrich, as the "landlord" of the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg, was a son of the Church and, like all others, subject to celibacy.
That he convinced Salome that the Pope had granted a dispensation for their union can be forgiven him.
It was one of those very "light gray lies" born out of love.

Having reached such a high office at only 28 years old, the distantly related member of the Medici family felt accustomed to the generous and sunny city of Rome, privileged on one hand and, in this old, still very dark and winding city, very lonely on the other.
Thus, it was fateful for both that he met his great and only love Salome at an official dinner of Salzburg's merchants.
Salome, daughter of the merchant and councilor Wilhelm Alt, came from a good, bourgeois family. Her grandfather had already been the mayor of this city.
Her life changed abruptly when she placed herself and her fate in the hands of the beloved man.
Her parents disowned her; the relatives turned away: she became a "persona non grata".
Even the companions of her youth avoided her; they felt uncomfortable in the highborn rooms that Salome initially occupied in the Prince-Archbishop's residence.
Thus, she lived only for this not-so-long-secret love; lived for 22 years solely for this man and their children.

For this love, Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau had the little castle Altenau, now Mirabell Palace, built outside the city. He wished for a suitable dwelling for his beloved wife and children.
The political circumstances brought him down. The Prince-Archbishop had come out on the losing end in one of the recurring disputes with Bavaria over the valuable salt: as a result, he was banished for life to the fortress Hohensalzburg.
His nephew and successor Markus Sittikus prevented his uncle's release with subsequent banishment through his objection. He seemed to him, even from afar, too strong a rival.
That this "so morally strict" nephew later had the pleasure palace Hellbrunn built with its diverse and entertaining water games for his beloved Ursula, wife of the captain of his guard, is a rather spicy twist of fate.

"Dame Salome" was only arrested after the imprisonment of her beloved lord; however, she was released after a short time and moved with her children to Wels.
There, she found refuge with her cousin Felicitas, whose marriage to the Protestant merchant Christoph Weiß she had supported at the beginning of her relationship with Wolf Dietrich.
She even attended the simple wedding celebration of the two, although she was already Wolf Dietrich's mistress at that time.
However, it was thanks to this couple that they could leave Salzburg with all of Christoph Weiß's possessions. During the times of the Huguenot persecution, that was not common!
In Wels, she lived for another 16 years after the death of her beloved in 1617. In her heart, she was his widow and wore only black clothing from then on.
(By the way, the "Salome Alt House" still stands there.)

"Jasmina" by April Aromatics tells me this story very vividly with its scent.
I can almost see the loving couple strolling in the evening park of their little castle towards this strongly fragrant pergola. What might they be talking about?
This strong aroma, so typical of white flowers, gains a special harmony through the lovable radiance of ylang-ylang: it makes this scent very loving and tender.
The bitter note of pink grapefruit adds a lively spritziness to this simple yet sophisticated composition.

The longevity of this "naturally natural" scent is at a good average for me; however, it also takes a bit longer for this aromatic fragrance to reach its full development on my fish-flower being.

For me, this jasmine scent holds a lot of tenderness and love.
That's why I kept it for myself, even though I passed on the rest of the rich sample collection.
At this point, I would like to thank Can777 once again, who brought me great joy with this collection.
But even this simple glass bottle, in which so much love and tenderness has been captured in scent, makes "Jasmina" very valuable to me.

02/27/2018

7Scent 7Longevity 5Sillage

Meggi
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Meggi

Top Review 22

The Hedgehog Outside the Window

First impressions: Stinky-green jasmine, a hint of mild fruit, and then a kind of sweet glue smell. Patience, this will surely change… In fact, it only takes a few minutes before the jasmine finds a balance - listed in descending order - between white-green-strict aspects, an almost cinnamon-like sweetness, dead animal, and a dollop of indole-feces. There’s no denying it: there’s something carrion-like in there, and I’m glad I only applied one spray. Standing out scent-wise in the office is fine, but there are limits to what I want to be associated with.

Years ago, my parents were haunted by a foul decomposition smell in the basement, the source of which could not be determined despite searching every corner. Given a certainly not feigned relaxed bourgeois demeanor, the suspicion that dark secrets were being olfactorily revealed was out of the question. Eventually, it turned out that outside, in the leaves in front of the basement window, a hedgehog had apparently died in its winter sleep, and its carcass was now aromatizing the room through the occasionally opened window.

But back to the scent. Surprisingly, it unfolds an involuntary fascination because it is not only, not even predominantly, nasty-stinky (I’m sure the hedgehog smelled much worse). In any case, it becomes very intimate within the first hour, and this cannot solely be attributed to the sparse application, as the reduced level persists for a long time thereafter.

What I thought I knew about ylang-ylang cannot be applied here; I smell practically only jasmine on top and directly on the skin a hint of citrus peel fruit candy, which could very well come from a pink grapefruit. This unequal duet (perhaps organ vs. recorder) leads me steadily into the afternoon, a delightful persistence of the citrus note.

And finally, it becomes a bit milder. The stink has gradually become a case for more malicious noses, the former strictness can now be called rather fresh. A creamy note has made its entrance. Spontaneously, I feel a bit reminded of peach, but as soon as I try to linger on that, I fall back to citrusy notes.

I have plenty of time to ponder this, as with what has just been sketched, the final chord is reached, on which the scent slowly fades away.

Conclusion: It manages to turn around. However, I am not disgusted by the demanding part either.

I thank Serenissima for the sample.