Madagascan Jasmine

:) I tested this today at Scent Bar and took home a sample to take try out later on... it's so so beautiful! Green and crisp, similar to Carnal Flower, but CF has more of a complex body to it. This is more of a bubblegum-ish tuberose in the most pleasant way. If you're a tuberose lover, I feel like you'd really enjoy this. I DID!!! :D The weather's pretty rainy at the moment, so I'll come back with an edit when I test this out in the heat/warmer weather. Also, here's the notes for Madagascan Jasmine on Grandiflora's official website! :) I had a feeling there was so much more to it than just jasmine and green notes... Top: Mango, green tropical fruits Heart: Jasmine (Madagascan), white flowers, green foliage Base: Musk, smoky accord, roasted Cacao Edit: I've officially run out of my sample for this. It's so lush, crisp, and almost dewy. I'm mainly picking up on the white flowers and the greenness with hints of what almost smells tobacco-y? Will I ever purchase a fully bottle of this? Maybe. It's not the perfect Jasmine but it's up there for sure!

A beautiful heady white floral that has a hothouse feel to it. Humid, green, earthy, lightly indolic, lightly sweet, yet not heavy like Gardenia or Tuberose, but just as intoxicating. On first spray it felt as if I just stepped inside a hothouse filled with flowering plants, or off a plane and onto a tropical paradise. It gave me that same warm, lush feeling of being flooded with the scent of nature and flowers in the air. In a strange way, this almost feels as if I am not wearing a perfume at all but rather am covered in actual blooms. That's how realistic the flowers are here. It's very apparent some masterful blending occurred to make this floral smell so dynamically real, and also clear no expense spared by the quality. This is niche in every sense of the word, but especially as a work of art. And I consider this a work of art at the highest level. Absolutely unique and devastatingly beautiful. This is a 10 all around in my book.

This is such a beautiful soliflore jasmine. It reminds me a lot of the beautiful simplicity found in A La Nuit. Although, I might dare to say this one is even more purely like smelling nothing but the actual flower. Some purely jasmine scents have quite a screechy hairspray quality that this definitely, gratefully lacks. It’s got a pinch of chocolate in the far dry down and it’s personality is dewy, innocent, realistic, and pure. It’s an absolute stunner. Update: The longer I wore this the more indolic and animalic it became on me. But I live in a very hot, humid climate so that could have something to do with that or maybe it’s just my skin. I still really love it.

One of my absolute favorites... repurchased multiple times. To me, it’s the perfect day scent: green and dewy jasmine that glistens in heat. It opens tropical and has a smoky base, but it’s never musty... always green and clean. Perfectly unisex in my opinion (for jasmine lovers). It smells like nature... like walking past a jasmine bush in full bloom during the day. I oscillate between this and a la nuit for best jasmine ... ALN is colder , like walking by that same bush but at night. ALN is a little more romantic, MJ is a bit sweeter... but neither are by any means nice. I Iove them both, this one lasts longer. Saskia from the same line is also floral perfection.

Exquisite. It’s a fully rounded jasmine with a sparkling quality. The tropical and green notes are subtle to me but give it that effect of walking through a lush garden on a summer night. I’ve had the Grandiflora sample pack for a while - the whole collection is enjoyable and at the moment I’m obsessed with this one. It’s early autumn here now and wearing it on a milder day I’m finding it more potent than in recent hot weather when I had to reapply it after a couple of hours. But the opening is so good I’ll happily do that anyway. Agree with others here this is definitely worth sampling if you’re a floral lover.