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.

Just received a decant of this and a few other jasmine-centric perfumes in my search to find the one for me. This is a top contender. I know that this is not technically a jasmine perfume, as Madagascar jasmine is actually stephanotis, but oh, is it intoxicating. As it develops on my skin, the initial freshness deepens into a deeper, richer soliflore. Yes, it is linear, but it's almost as if the air and the warmth of my skin opens it up, creating a creamy white floral that is far greater than the sum of it's parts. I will continue my exploration of jasmine, but this one is definitely a keeper and FBW!

I am not a white floral fan, but I have to take my hat off for this one. Madagascan Jasmine is one of the most natural smelling jasmine soliflores I have ever laid my nose upon. Its petals are fresh and crunchy with sap, with a touch of bitter green around the edges. And underneath lies all the creamy, indolic goodness a jasmine perfume should offer. MJ has a lot of body, so beware. Two sprays on the back of the hand are enough to turn the air around you into a floral paradise. Though, like a cut flower, it wilts into a whisper after 2 - 3 hours (lasts longer in summer). Stunning!

Madagascan Jasmine feels so alluringly regal to me. Opening with green notes that are reminiscent of weedy dandelions, natural and stemmy, then blooming into a stunning soliflor with rich, sweet petals in an elegant leafy bouquet. Smooth and not screechy despite the green notes which lend a floral muskiness. According to the brand website, this is the scent of stephanotis, also known as Madagascar jasmine which, although similar is not related to jasmine at all. This beauty is one of the more natural, elegant white florals that performs beautifully as a perfume.

Beautiful jasmine bush in the evening, when the flowers are at their peak. There is no sweetness here, other than the one of the jasmine scent itself. No mocking around with peach, orange blossoms, sandalwood and whatever many perfumers do when composing jasmine-based fragrances, reducing them to some franken-jasmine of cloying sweetness. It's quite linear. The opening has some green banana notes that disappear with time to leave a softer cacao note, but overall the scent remains the same. Jasmine in its perfection.

You enter in a flower shop that sells only Jasmine plants. Only. They are in bloom, in the slightly stuffy, lightly woody scented shop. It's afternoon and the flowers are just exuding their exhilarating, heady, green-ish scent. Green floral in the most pleasant way possible. Jasmine with heavenly chocolatey undertones (!) .... I want to eat this! You know when you come across perfection? Well folks, this is it. ABSOLUTELY. SHOCKINGLY. DIVINE. JASMINE. Enough said, run to get a bottle now!

Well Michel has really cracked the wonderful intense fragrance of stephanotis. A beautiful white floral but it never gets cloying because it has stemmy green notes to add that freshness. It makes it so wearable. For me a beautiful scent to wear on a summer evening. It makes me think of the beautiful rich fragrances of night blooming flowers that attract the moths. A good sillage and moderate longevity.

Beautiful photorealistic jasmine scent. It's got a slight green/dewiness to it; to me, it smells like brushing past a jasmine bush in bloom after a spring rain. Linear and uncomplicated. Great for jasmine lovers. Feminine and best suited to daytime. Good performance.

Almost photorealistic jasmine... Surreal although it has a tad of a synthetic aroma chemical feeling in the opening maybe detectable 30 seconds past but then it gets itself back together again... Absolutely gorgeous and one of the best in the category by far...

The undisputed queen of jasmine, Grandiflora’s exquisite creation reigns supreme. A whisper of green, with stems and leaves, adds a hint of intrigue. But make no mistake: this is pure, radiant, majestic floral. And she rules the land. The end.

my mom just plucked a fully bloomed angelwing jasmine from her garden and brought it inside today. it smells exactly like this. beautiful and a a touch green. not overly narcotic or indolic. just a beautiful soapy-sweet angelwing jasmine. :)

If you love jasmine this should be at the top of your list to try. As pointed out it’s a very realistic slightly green jasmine. I don’t think of it as a fruity scent. The mango probably just mingles with the green notes perfectly.

Gorgeous scent. This is STEPHANOTIS. Which is actually not a jasmine. Lovely sweet tropical white floral hypnotic scent. The fragrance of this perfume reminds me of a cross between a sweet Daphne bush and a Viburnum. beautiful.

Stunning Jasmine! Wow, what a beauty, this is the perfect Jasmine soliflore, captures the true flower in bloom, fresh and alive. Highly recommend to Jasmine lovers.

Wonderful Jasmine Parfum! It is recommended by my friend and it really smells so great! I enjoy wearing it all the day!

A big ol stinky whiff of jasmine. 10/10 no notes.