Night Blooming Jasmine

Just received my Vintage bottle, good color, & I think the scent still smells fresh & original. I HAD the original in the 80's & have GREAT scent memory, & it is lovely. A few months ago, I saw a post about Jungle Gardenia. I LOVE Island Gardenia, so even tho JG is disc'd, I wanted to smell it & I ordered a small decant. For the life of me I cannot remember if I ever actually owned JG back in the day. But if you did, it smells like *This*. I agree with *just a tad*. If you get the tiniest whiff, it's awesome. I imagine if you went ham with this, you'd smell VERY cheap, have to jump in the shower & possibly move out of your house for 3 months til that scent died down. ;) Beautiful in the tiny dosage! Oh & Jovan! What's your prob? Why have you discontinued some of the best perfumes ever? You have reformed Island Gardenia to 97% water. Shame, shame.

Yet another preview: I just purchased this today in a batch of vintage Jovan scents. I'll update when it arrives. OK, so the perfume is here, and it's a goody. Jovan isn't one of my favorite brands, but this is a wonderful floral fragrance. There's nothing cheap about this (once) affordable brand. The jasmine is intense and long lasting. I'm not a fan of the actual Jasmin flower scent, that is, the real flower blooming on the plant. This is so much better than the real thing! Too bad this has been discontinued.

So confused I loved this in the day was looking for something similar and in the recs was sand and sable which I hate! Alien by mugler keeps popping up so will have to try that. Just remember this smelling so good on my mother. warm yet clean powdery scent that meshed together so well. If my memory serves me, it was mostly like jasmine oil when sprayed but had a subtly baby powder dry down.

I bought a decant of this, along with Tatiana, to rekindle childhood memories. Today, I put one small drop on my wrist. The entire room filled with the scent of jasmine. It is true to the scent of the jasmine flower, if not the softness of the real bloom. I live where jasmine blooms at night and it perfumes the air with a lovely, heady scent. Although powerful, real flowers have that underlying softness that is hard to describe and impossible to replicate in a perfume. That said, this fragrance is a nice representation of jasmine for sure, but harsher, more intense, more chemical. It starts jasmine and stays jasmine, there are no other subtle flowers involved. It did bring back memories-and a slight headache. It's just too strong for me now, at least for a daytime perfume on a warm day. I think this is an evening perfume. Wear this when you are going out to dinner on a patio or a movie under the stars. You should try to be that night blooming flower. Outside, people will smell it and enjoy it and perhaps think a jasmine plant is close. Inside, some eyes may water. If you like jasmine and want to smell a popular perfume from the early 1970s, then try it. It is a white flower scent of that decade that holds up. But this is not for spraying or putting on every pulse point. One drop will do. Sillage is immense.

This is a pretty heavy floral, it sits close to the skin, but is very persistent. It has a soapy, clean scent to it (probably the aldehydes) in a way that's rather reminiscent of Chanel No. 5, but unlike Chanel, it is entirely floral-based. It delivers a strong punch of Jasmine first thing, thick and heavy, before the other nondescript "floral notes" appear in the dry-down. All-in-all, it reminds me of walking into a florist's and sniffing the jasmine- you mostly smell Jasmine, but there's other flowers lingering in the back. I like it pretty well, it's not complicated but it does its job well. If you're prone to floral-induced headaches, I'd pass on this one. It's strong!