The Vert au Jasmin

This is a beautiful, pure, clean, and natural fragrance to my nose. I remember the good old days during my summer vacation in our farm. I would spend my morning playing by the fields, in an orange muddy clay where I was surrounded by blooming juicy Jasmine. The smell of the sweet earthy clay, the cool breeze coming from the ripe rice fields after a light morning shower, and the lingering fragrance of the Jasmine is bottled by L'Occitane--it is fresh, misty, green, natural and sweet. The golden days are revived after I hit the automizer.

Speaking as a tea snob who lived in Asia for nearly a decade, you will absolutely smell the jasmine and green tea. It is wonderfully feminine, and as one reviewer mentioned, very pretty. Just a gorgeous summer or spring scent. This was my girlfriend (now wife)'s signature scent, and it held up surprisingly well in the heat and humidity of where we were living, but expect more towards 4-ish hours with little projection/sillage. It's a clean, girly, intimate scent, and I do recommend it, but good luck finding a bottle.

Crisp and clean, and more interesting than la Vert on its own. This lasts on me all day, and I get compliments of smelling like flowers, while my boyfriend always says in an appreciative way that I smell like tea. Wonderful and earthy, and best for Spring in my opinion. I just feel fresh but also a bit luxurious and oriental when wearing this. It smells how an old, great bamboo forest looks.

This was beautiful. Now long discontinued, but a very feminine, pretty take on green tea with jasmine, the green tea made it fresh and clean taming the jasmine a bit, and the jasmine made it feel, to me, so pretty. L'Artisan Parfumeur's Thé pour un Eté (and the "reminds me of" box is just not working) is very similar, though I think the AP version is better and more complex.

I've just had confirmation from L'Occitane (via email) that this gorgeous, fresh, sweet scent has been discontinued. I'm very disappointed. I love L'Occitane, I really do, but I find it incredibly irritating the way my favourites seem to be continually discontinued! I am quite cross :( edit - february 2013 - back on l'occitane's website...