Luscious Roses JoAnne Bassett 2012

When JoAnne was a little girl, she drew one dud after another at the raffle booth at the fair. She spent all her pocket money until the chubby ticket seller took pity on her. He looked at the prizes that no one ever wanted and decided to gift the girl the oldest unsold item: a 10-liter canister of floral perfume oil. JoAnne then cursed the man.

Disappointed and angry about her lack of money, she dragged her unwanted gift home, where she put it in the basement.

50 years passed. 50 years during which JoAnne repeatedly had bad luck in games and in love. Just as her bank account was about to be seized, JoAnne stumbled over the perfume oil canister, which had by now become a true antique. A brilliant idea struck her: she distributed the contents of the canister into many small cauldrons, spoke different spells over each brew, bottled them, and sold them online for $750 an ounce.

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This one received the spell for roses, cough medicine, bergamot, vanilla, and self-love. JoAnne forgot the spell for a long life or great volume.

I must reluctantly admit that the scents have their own, old beauty, even though they are very similar to each other and mostly share a base of sandalwood and vanilla. This makes the collection overall seem a bit uninspired, but it is still beautiful.

The "vintage jasmine oil" that most Bassett scents have in common, I suspect represents the unifying note. It doesn’t really smell like jasmine, or not anymore; it smells more like an aged, yet not spoiled perfume oil of some flower that cannot be precisely identified. At the same time, that is also what makes the Bassett scents special. And of course, the price.