Jazmin Yucatan

This is such an amazing fragrance, I really love it. The star is an extremely realistic jasmine, its nestled in a sort of watery steam. There is a sort of earthiness to it as well, which makes it smell like a real place and makes me understand the "tortilla" comments a bit though I think that is overstated in these reviews. I work near a pond with a nestle of jasmine that blooms in the spring and early summer, walking by it hits you with a sort of waft of jasmine nestled next to some water. This fragrance evokes a sort of humid jungle feel but I think it encapsulates almost anywhere it gets humid and warm. It's just very unique and evocative, which surprised me because I didn't think I liked DS Durga in general prior. I will say that the downsides are that for me, it is very weak. It has a miniscule amount of sillage and the longevity is maybe 3 hours. I am not someone who really puts a ton of stock in performance but for retail price I think that would be a dealbreaker. It will stick around a bit and then fade into itself. Considering most seem to have good performance, it may just be me and maybe the bottle needs to sit more. My skin seems to highlight the jasmine, which is a note with not a ton of staying power. Needless to say its also somewhat of a seasonal scent, its a sort of height of summer fragrance and it blooms in humidity and heat. One more thing I will say that the cap on this bottle is extremely tight and hard to get off, doesn't factor into my judgement on it but just something to note, I suppose. This is probably a brand thing in general.

As a Jasmine hater: This is actually really good! Jasmine here is soooo photorealistic, smooth and clean. Doesn't have those cig smoke and powdery notes in Jasmine fragrances that usually make me gag (no offense). Then I got fruit candy. Passion Flower naturally smells like candy and Cloves are often used in fruit-flavored candy, so that's my guess. I wish the Passion Flower was stronger so it would be distinguishable. Usually Vetiver smells sour and dry to me, but here it smells really calming and woody. I grew up with Snake Plants (Espada-de-São-Jorge) everywhere I went growing up in Brazil, I was so excited to see it being used in perfumery for the first time! It ads a nice green note to the perfume that makes it smell more like a garden of Jasmines than just Jasmines alone. Water notes are definitely here but not as dominant as users seem to think. If you like Buly 1803 fragrances and oils, you'll like this. Jazmin Yucatan smells like a sister to Berkane Fleur d'Oranger and Tubéreuse du Mexique. Really clean, soft, and innocent with that classic 'wet' Buly 1803 note. After some hours on skin, I only smell Jasmine with some Snake Plant and a bit of woodiness on the background. In short: This is so good it's the only Jasmine perfume I would ever wear. Photorealistic Jasmine flower. Clean scent that doesn't smell like soap, shampoo or laundry. Smells like I just bathed in Jasmine flowers. With 4 sprays sillage is strong and longevity is ok, 3-5hrs.

David Moltz seems to really like these swampy florals, and so do I. As soon as I sprayed it on it made me think of another creation of his, White Peacock Lily. This has a gorgeous jasmine as the star of the show and that focuses on Lily, but the very humid, earthy composition really brought it to mind. His other floral fragrance, Crystal Pistol, also has that wet profile too, but it is much sheerer than either of these. This is not a typical sweet floral. It smells like jasmine bushes growing around a swamp in the middle of a rain forest. That might sound weird, but it's actually very pretty. Yet there are enough masculine undertones here, from the vetiver and light aromatics, that keep it from being overtly feminine making it truly unisex. I'm sure this would smell just as good on a guy as it does on me now. While it doesn't last quite as long as White Peacock Lily it is within acceptable limits for me, at around the 4–5-hour range. It might behave differently and last longer in a different season. I suspect this would be fantastic in hot weather as that wet profile seems really suited for summer. While this won't replace my love for White Peacock Lily, (though it's really, really close), I like it a lot. I sure hope David keeps making florals because what he creates are so darn interesting and different yet not so strange as to be unwearable. Wow, the more I smell this the more I like it. Damn! Looks like another one headed to the fb buy list.

I love this jasmine. For me, the top notes are of quite a gorgeous yellow, a lively yellow, sun-nature, with something very round, like a passionflower fruit, indeed. It is a yellow winter jasmine, to which one would have added long pistils, really the one in which one plunges the whole nose, that one brings back home to make bouquets still with the branches - even if there are surely purists of more classic interpretations. You can also feel the little white veil, aldehyde, and some other flowers somewhere in the back at the beginning. In parallel, there is also a hint of plastic smell that I personally like a lot: it smells like the plastic skin of the Corolle babies of my childhood, like their blond hair maybe, in short, a very Proustian smell. But this aspect evaporates quite quickly and leaves room for something honeyed, more sticky, again like a stained pistil - maybe a bit of an agave aspect, after reading the other comment. What remains on the skin is a really jasmine, jasminesk, jasminy, and it stays on my skin very very well. In short, this is a perfume that I personally like a lot, and that I would recommend to any fan of this type of composition without hesitation.

I find this fascinating as an indication of how David Moltz has developed as a parfumer. Though being self-taught, this is every bit as classically gorgeous as any tropical white floral fragrance could be. I feel like I'm going him a disservice to say 'though he's self-taught' - - being self-taught or classically trained is no reflection of one's possible talents, but I feel like nobody could say this parfumer is not every bit as good as the great noses we've come to love. Of course, not everyone will love it, as not everyone can love any fragrance. But I'm so interested to see where he goes next with his creations. Though it's also clear from his other floral inventions he isn't just a one-trick 'weird-cement-wood-fire-ambrox' pony, it feels like he's levelled up somehow with Crystal Pistil and Jazmin Yucatan, at least regarding accessibility and elegance. This is a sweet, beachy floral, with a banana-esque jasmine radiant over gentle spice. It's not the most long-lasting fragrance, but I don't mind that. I guess it has a light fecund element making it feel natural. It is a little bit wheaty. The bottle is gorgeous too.