Bergamot, Jasmine & Labdanum

Oh, I have to tell you all a little personal story pertaining to this scent. I recently received a sample of this Jeffery Dame Perfumery and brought it along with me when I went to see my maw maw in Louisiana. She had just gone into home hospice so of course I had to go visit my lovely sweet maw maw as soon as I could. On the last day I was there, I spritzed some of this scent on myself and sat with her during the afternoon. We chatted and mostly just sat together, enjoying each other's company. I did most of the talking, about how much I love her and how I'll always have my favorite memories of her dancing in the back room to old country music before we had dinner each night. Anyway, during my time with her, she says to me "you smell good!" and that made me so happy to tell her about the perfume sample I received from Scottsdale Arizona. She thought that was really neat and of course thought the perfume smelled beautiful. My sweet maw maw passed away yesterday and her funeral is on Thursday. I plan on wearing this scent and am planning on purchasing a bottle in the near future to keep and wear anytime I want to give love and praise to my maw maw :)

Oh my gosh, girls, this is a winner, hands down! All the notes blend so beautifully here - with the jasmine (thankfully, NOT indolic) in the forefront. The perfect floral for daytime, especially for work if you are in healthcare. Longevity is 8+ hours, but the sillage is minimal. Sometimes I like a beast like Lou Lou, that enters the room before I do, and stays long after, but Bergamot, Jasmine and Labdanum stays close to the skin. It's a springtime garden on a sunny day, but nothing overpowering about it. It's clean, sexy, and appropriate for any time of day or night. Bravo, Jeffrey! Bravissimo! EDIT: This just gets better and better. There's a faint trace of salt in the drydown...not the marine type salt, but the salt your clean skin gets after you've been sitting in the sun for a while. A very light, musky salt. Mixed with the flowers, this is my new favorite, my new signature. (Sorry, Lou Lou.) There is nothing like a Dame!

This is summer perfection for me! I've worn this every single day over the summer and I just love it. It's scintillating with jasmine, but not over the top, and is just refreshing to have on. Feminine, crisp with a lovely dry down. Dry down is not heavy or syrupy(?), but leaves you wanting more. I always receive compliments and I even compliment myself since I smell so GOOD! I normally like heavy oriental perfume, but this beautiful scent has become a staple in my fragrance wardrobe. I highly recommend!

I have several jasmine-based frags, but none as unique as this one. I am not good at describing scents, but I agree with Scentedrat in that this has a non-floral dry down. On me it smells as if I layered jasmine on top of Dark Horse, another brilliant camposition by Jeffrey. All in all, I find this a unique jaz that, because it's not overly floral, it's ideal to ease the transition from Summer into Fall ... something this Summer fan is dreading. Beautifully done, Jeff.

A light, air, inoffnesive spring scent with just a hint of musk to differentiate it from utterly top-note heavy floral obscenitites so differnetiate it from the smells found in those paper samples in popular women's magazines. But not by much. Which isn't to say--I know htis sounds contradictory--that it isn't far more sophisticated, far mroe superoor from a fragrance connnoseur's perspepevtive. Smells like a lean, fresh soap from provence, or perhapws even granada in Spain (the latter perhaps because of the jasmine; the former, the lavender?) Having seen its constitutuent notes, I am respectful of the nose behind it--combining suhc a symphony with such cohesive results must be no easy feat. But without knowing what went into it, smelling just the result: meh. Not a signature fragrance; not memorable. ButL I like deep, musky, animalic smells. This it is not. It smells a little bit like vintage lipstick used to smell like back in the day. Quite a lot like it, actually. It is compelling and I like tif ro sure, but I wouldn't spend money o n it, remember it on somebody else, nor really think of it as somebody else's signature when they entered a room. IT has a disappointing sillage yet a remarkable longevity, given said limited sillage. Don't be put off by how many notes are in the pyramid: it's one, unified scent, not confusing or too multifaceted. Yet its not at all one-note. It's like a niche, exciting version of one of those peel-back scents in said magazines Reminds me of chloe perfumes but without the heavy rose element. Smells green to met, with powdery drydown. I can't think of a good use for it. Maybe.... it wold be a nice smell for a 'springtime' laundry detergent for somebody who likes such smells. For your linen drawers, as aliner scent: not as a sexy scent for your lingeries Although... it's haard to iamagine that it would annoy anybody, at work or in a more intimate situation . The labdanum, lily of valley, and lavender are coming out forth to me more and more the longer it stays on (hour oso far). The reference to vintage lipstick smell--yet. without the spoiled scent that old lipsticks inev itably get--keeps coming back to me. Very fresh. Keen, acute. Sharp but not acrid. I don't smell any bergamet, nor any sandalwood, nor any pepper. Nobody would think of sex if they smelled it. If you love this cent and wanted to make i twork for night, perhaps you could pick one of the fragrance notes in it that you like that find an oild of that scent--say, sandalwood, or even musk, or else sometthing powdery if you don't want to smell "sexy" in the culture-bound construction of sexy that our western american culture curretly endorses--to layer thi sover, and if the oil worked as base oils are said to, it might even make this Dame scent last longer and bring those notes out. It's very clean. I can't imagine ever remembering or wanting to smell it again. Nothing obsessive or addictive to it. I could see an ad for it with lilacs or springtime light green leaveds in the background and a gazelle like urban model springing across the screen/page with a surprised childlike expression on her face. Life is light, airy, inoffensive If this scent appeals to you, its sillagge vis a vis longevity would make it ideal for work. For me personally: meh. It didn't punch me or give me a black eye. I didn't hate it and come back again to find that I loved to hate it, or anything like that. If what I jus tsaid makes zero scent to you and you liked Lauder's pleasures, why not try this?