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FloraMilena
Helpful Review
5
Jasmine Soliflore Par Excellence
The King of Flowers has made his entrance! And on my skin, what a voluptuously magnificent entrance it is! This is heady and potent stuff! Richly luscious white floral heaven for those who seek it! A hint of orange blossom peeking out for just the barest tad of soapy freshness. A middling dose of honeysuckle twining through the blend to add a whiff of spicy complexity.
That being said, I am amused statements I have heard from some others about it smelling like jasmine “oils”. The natural scent is almost never extracted by enfleurage anymore. There is generally speaking, only jasmine absolute of various types. And yes of course this soliflore will smell similar to them, that IS the whole point of a soliflore is it not? That is why Montale names it JASMINE FULL no? And what kind of jasmine absolute are we referring to anyway? Jasmine grandiflorum, Jasmine sambac, Jasmine auriculatum…?
They all smell different and are all made in absolute of varying batch qualities with a nice dose of indoles included. None that I have smelled are anywhere near being an identical substitute for this Montale beauty. I smell that Montale has made this a complex mixture of various jasmine absolute accords with the nasty indoles deleted, and created a jasmine soliflore par excellence. In comparison to other jasmine soliflores, this one rules over them all by far on my skin.
This perfume is a jasmine soliflore done at its best. No added sickening sweetness beyond that which is held within the plants themselves. No gourmand excess. No overweighted woody or resinous base to obscure the pure floral splendor. And yes, it is a synthetic (hedione- methyl dihydrojasmonate) jasmine. No nasty fecal indoles to mar the splendor and the perfect balance of this creation. Sometimes synthetic is far better. Amen. The list of superlatives I could heap upon this work of art is endless, and on my skin and to my nose they would all be the god honest truth.
Opulent, profoundly floral, sumptuously elegant, luxurious, sensuous, splendid…..I could go on and on. This brings to mind a Tang Dynasty Chinese Empress lounging about in her garden dressed in layers of lavishly embroidered silks, enjoying the summer breeze that is wafting the fragrant waves of freshly blossoming jasmine and honeysuckle vines over her as she smiles, closes her eyes, and inhales deeply.
Montale has fashioned a tour de force of a jasmine soliflore perfume here, and I am completely enchanted. For what this white floral masterpiece is, and for what it achieves on my skin, it is well worth the price to me. Bravo and thank you Pierre Montale.
Jazzy76
