Jasmine Rice

I initially tried a small sample of this about a year ago and I just fell in love with it. It smells like really fragrant rice water (the residual water from washing a container of jasmine rice) initially, which then transforms into a really fragrant white jasmine tea later. The base notes after a few hours is essentially jasmine sambac and vanilla on me. Sadly, I don't really find that the overall scent smells like rice BUT I still like this. A soft, comforting, powdery vanilla. After a few months of finishing up my sample, I managed to save up enough money to cop the crazy intl shipping fees and order a larger size bottle. However, the formula I got was extremely strong on the alcohol like what some of the reviews below have stated :'( dunno what happened. Thankfully, the perfume settles on my skin just like the older sample I got. I've also left the perfume bottle sitting still in a cabinet for a couple of weeks and have found that the alcohol smell has decreased since. Maybe the fragrance oils just needed time to macerate, idk. I still rate it though.

I've never smelled another 'rice' scent before, so I'm not sure how this compares but I went on quite a journey with this. At first I really didn't like it, the initial notes are extremely rice forward, but not like cooked rice, more like rice powder? It smells extremely dusty to me at first, something about the savory quality of the rice mixed with the jasmine reminds me of dust, it kind of made me want to sneeze. I'm so glad I tried this on despite not loving it on paper, the initial dusty notes are still there but it mellows out rather quickly and becomes softer. It still has a slight dusty, powdery smell but it becomes a little more floral and muskier which really grew on me. The dry down is what really sold me! It dries down and has way more tea notes while still having a rice/starchiness feel. The jasmine is still pretty forward but I love the cozy/warmness the rice brings. It also becomes sweeter and has a vanilla note to it! I still don't love the opening, but I'm going to keep wearing it for the dry down for sure!

I am absolutely obsessed with this scent. The first spray is pure rice powder and amber, with massive projection that honestly took me by surprise. The starchy-ness is delectible alongside the hint of black tea. I want to wake up, roll over, and smell this scent. I want to walk into my house at night and smell this scent. Somehow, the drydown gets even more powdery, but not to the point where it's chemical or smells like a cleaning product. The jasmine begins to creep in, making the sweetness really settle into the skin. However, I would never call this a sweet scent. It just hints at it. It’s very fresh, slightly floral, and lets every note shine in its own right. full review: https://open.substack.com/pub/loganjoanne/p/jasmine-rice-fragrance-review?r=5aqsbh&utm_medium=ios

Like a gentle breeze that carries the scent of blooming jasmine over a field of golden rice, the fragrance is soft and serene. The heady sweetness of jasmine unfurls like petals in the morning sun, while the rice adds a quiet, grounding warmth, like the comfort of home after a long day. The two notes blend effortlessly—floral and earthy, delicate yet enduring—creating a symphony of elegance and tranquility that lingers in the air. There’s a nostalgic pull, as though the fragrance is a bridge to forgotten memories of simpler times, distant places, quiet moments, wrapped in the soft embrace of familiarity.

This is a very nice scent – not too sweet, not too floral, not to powdery. It transformed a lot on my skin throughout the day, and almost every note got its moment. At the opening, the jasmine was the most prominent scent. I didn’t find it as aggressive as others have, but it does dominate over other notes until the rice balances it out. A few hours in, the scent shifted and became sweet and almost metallic leaning. Tea notes tend to present almost metallic on my skin, so I’m assuming that’s what I was smelling the most. This is also where I was able to detect the honey scent that others have mentioned. It’s not a true honey note, but some combination of the rice and jasmine presents similarly. Later in the day, the scent turned softer, muskier, and gave off the sensation of being vanilla-y or lactonic. This is where the rice notes truly shined and got to dominate the scent. Even after hours of wear, this perfume was still performing just as strong as it did when I sprayed it on in the morning. It took close to 10 hours for the scent to become more intimate, and even then it wasn’t undetectable, just softer and closer to the skin. I really loved the end performance of this perfume, where the starchy rice notes were most prominent, but in general this scent was never offensive to me!