Private Collection Jasmin White Moss

If Private Collection Jasmine White Moss heralds the future of chypres in the post-oakmoss era, you may count on me to sound the trumpet, light the fireworks, lift up the banner and lead the parade. PCJWM is absolutely, positively drop-dead GORGEOUS. Granted, I am predisposed to like any combination of jasmine, bergamot, galbanum and ylang ylang, and I'm at the edge of swooning in pleasure when they're simultaneously warmed by violet and sharpened by vetiver; but add oakmoss and I fall in love and tumble right over into lust. So here I am, all dreamy-eyed, surrounded by a long-lasting sweet mist of violets, incense and moss. There's no leather here whatsoever, but the mood created somehow brings to mind the softness of suede - a pair of gloves in a coat pocket scented by a perfumed lace-trimmed handkerchief. PCJWM vibrates like harp strings and takes me back to the way my garden sang with a complex dewy and woody freshness in the early morning springtime in Seattle some years ago. No one note pushes to the forefront like a diva claiming the stage for her solo; instead the whole choir huddles together with a hushed intake of breath before lifting their voices to sound the glorious harmony found in the notes of a Hallelujah Chorus. I've plumbed my scent memory for a similar fragrance and the closest I can come is Scherrer de Scherrer, a 1979 classic, but SdeS has more bitterness, is duskier and is perhaps full-dark compared to PCJWM's early morning brightness. And SdeS has true oakmoss in her formulation whereas Mme. Lauder's granddaughter has taken her grandmother's 1980's recipe and opened the door to the oakmoss-free future with something called "white moss mist". This mysterious ingredient gives me hope that chypres will not become extinct but will instead evolve into more complex creatures. If you love Diorissimo, especially the vintage, you will love PCJWM. Also lifts my senses in the same bright, sunny, moist, spring-time, green way as original Cristalle edt.

In my experience Estée Lauder's private collection fragrances that I have tried have been HUGE fragrances with so much oomph and lasting power, that I found them completely overwhelming. I had a bottle of Gardenia and Tuberose that I just could not wear because it was so overpowering on me even though I love both tuberose and gardenia. I gave that bottle away. Therefore, it was with much trepidation that, based on the reviews here, I bought Jasmine and White Moss. I shouldn't have worried so! Of all the Estée scents, this one is the most soft and delicate. The first spray is a spray of fresh white flowers laced with rather a sharp green note. On me this fades very quickly, to be replaced by a soft, shimmering white floral with a bit of mossy earth blended in. I find I cannot detect any jasmine, but a completely artistic blend of the softest white flowers. The moss added gives the fragrance almost a warm cozy feeling. The dry down phase doesn't change much from the middle notes, it just keeps mellowing out and spreading the flowers and moss thinner and thinner. On me this is now a perfect skin scent. In fact, of all the Lauder's I have tried, and I have practically tried them all! this one is the only one that I find not to be a fragrance bomb! I adore this fragrance and look forward to wearing it often this spring and summer! Sillage I found to be moderate during the opening, fading to soft during the middle notes and dry down. Longevity is, on me is also moderate, lasting 4-6 hours.

I get a whiff of my early twenties when I wear this. It's like an instant teleportation down the memory lane. And that's because it smells like an exact replica of Cristalle, eau de toilette, circa 1989. I remember letting my precious, almost brand new, 50ml bottle fall on the bathroom floor and shatter into pieces (a very traumatic event for the cash strapped student/budding perfumista I was at the time). The scent that pervaded the whole apartment for a couple of weeks has remained indelibly printed in my limbic brain. Collection Privee Jasmine White Moss smells exactly like this. Interestingly enough, I went and smelled the newer iteration of Cristalle: on my skin, the eau de toilette now has a plastic watermelony scent, and the and eau de parfum is simply sweet, cheap and fake. So I am very happy to have discovered the Private Collection, Jasmine and White Moss. My skin loves chypre and moss... It just becomes soft, close to the skin and enveloping. The jasmine is there too, but it is subdued. I detect some wood, maybe vetiver, and possibly a hint of orange blossom. Longevity is amazing and it is a close to the skin kind of smell -- which I like. That said, it is a very different kind of perfume from the usual offerings, and I definitely understand it may not work with other people's tastes and chemistries.

you have to sniff it a zillion times to detect the notes for they are perfectly well-blended and that's rare in the perfume world nowadays as for the scent, i -for one- adore jasmine and violets, patchouli and Ylang-Ylang are sexy and comforting consecutively and i love how they smell but the latter has a very light scent that it almost needs to be alone to be appreciated -i have a Ylang-Ylang shower gel that smells heavenly great; so to my dismay, i didn't detect it in the frag it has so many woody notes to my delight, and vetiver, can't stress on how much i love vetiver, yepiiiiiiiiiie!! on my skin, no sweetness whatsoever, just green dark (weird combination? but that's how it is) floral fume, at some point, it reminded me so much of Bvlgari Jasmin noir, but the moss in this frag is a wonderful treat ^^ this one is not for the weak-hearted, it's not sweet, floral, yummy, green apple stuff... it's for the chypre, green, dark sexy and pleasantly strong fumes lovers, i simply adore it <3 the longevity is impressive by the way, i expected it to be more impressive though, a couple of hours more won't hurt but i can't complain with a scent like that, this is a unique frag and the sillage is out of this world

I swear this is a copycat of a legendary oakmoss monster: Chanel's Cristalle. I am a Chanel lover, and when comparing the two perfumes side-by-side, Chanel stands out as being more complex, better crafted, and more beautiful all around. Both perfumes smell a lot like a linden-scented French soap. Although I do love Chanel, I would honestly purchase this perfume over Cristalle because the sillage and projection are far superior. Contrary to what other reviewers have said, it surprises me that this perfume was built around jasmine because I really didn't feel the jasmine was prominent. I live in an area where jasmine is bountiful during the summer. I catch strong whiffs of it constantly. If I didn't know anything about this perfume, you would not be able to convince me that there was jasmine in it. The white moss takes center stage.