Jasmin Patchouli

I have a core memory of driving with my husband on a summer day after visiting some botanical gardens near the Atlantic coast. The sun was shining brightly through bright green leaves as we drove down an idyllic road. It felt like a perfect summer day. I pulled this bottle out and sprayed myself twice with it and my husband turned to me and said "I really like that one". The notes really speak for themselves. If you don't love jasmine and you don't love patchouli this is not the scent for you. But it certainly has its time and place.

This is my least favorite kind of patchouli: bare, sour-earthy, dirty, damp and unsettling... I couldn't say the perfume is what its name suggests because the magic of jasmine is missing... Its indolic, intense, enchanting quality is lost. Crushed under the patchouli. Green feel? No... This only served as a tool for me to understand that the patchouli I love is the richer-earthy, leathery and even chocolatey kind. Tag(s): straight-up patchouli, sour, damp