Jasmin Vert

If you've ever smelled the scent of a star jasmine vine in full bloom, then you'll be able to understand that this perfume totally captures that fragrance. In southern California that plant blooms in the spring everywhere, and its sweet blossoms have a very fresh, green odor to them as well. This is a very linear perfume, but I love that this jasmine isn't heavy and indolic. It's light and airy and refreshing. It has remarkable projection for a natural perfume and applies with a big, strong opening. What a shame it's been discontinued, but you can still buy it on Fragrancenet. Actually smells best in cooler weather, even a rainy day. I found it smells awful in dry heat. There's a sourness to it from the hay that comes out in heat, and I found you can't avoid it in the drydown. That's my least favorite part. The initial pear in the opening notes is quite pretty. This is a perfect perfume for spring, and I'm so glad that I read TillyWave's and SadieBluesLady's reviews. I know they like vintage perfumes and have similar tastes to mine, so I blind purchased this, and I wasn't disappointed. I think it'll become one of my favorites in my jasmine collection.

This is a very simple but beautiful perfume from Miller Harris. I love this house because everything they do is so natural and so provocative. Initially, this perfume goes on very strong, it is almost overwhelming, the jasmine is huge, along with a citrus topnote, and the daffodil note is not far behind the jasmine. As it wears on my skin, the jasmine does not turn indolic, but there is a humid, nighttime quality about it. The jasmine is the most prominent note for the entire wear of the perfume, and there is a touch of blackcurrant and pear, just a fruity hint to sweeten it up a bit. I really don't feel that the base is woody at all. After initial application, the strength of the perfume dies down quite a bit. It lasts for a good 6 hours on my skin. I put this on and my husband said, "I wish every summer day smelled like that." Jasmin Vert is beautiful, natural, and a perfect antidote to cold winter weather.

This is my go to fragrance when I want something uplifting for my day at work. It has terrific initial sillage (aromatherapy before leaving the house and in the car) but once at work it is discreet enough to be a more personal pleasure. I love that Lyn Harris creates with natural essential oils. [I work in a clinic and nobody minds natural products--chemically sensitive folks seem to react to synthetic perfume molecules and phtalates]. Jasmin Vert is beautiful, bright, sunny, not all that "vert" (green) to me--just aromatic enough to not go sweet, which can be a danger with florals. It is well rounded and complex. I prefer the pleasure of reapplying mid-day to scents that stick to clothes forever. Lovely, lovely. I will keep this one in stock.

Let me begin by boldly proclaiming that I love Lyn Harris. I bought a bottle of JASMIN VERT scent unsniffed because I've yet to encounter an unworthy creation by this perfumer. She numbers among a small cluster of perfumers truly beloved to me for the simple reason that they really make perfumes, which one can no longer take for granted these days, with "niche" houses proliferating like rabbits. Everything Lyn Harris makes is so complex and so thoughtfully composed and so full of wonderfully natural notes, that I gambled in a rare feat of abject induction. My faith was not shaken. JASMIN VERT is a very perfumey, feminine jasmine composition, and it contains so much more than jasmine that I feel that it's name does not do it justice. I love jasmine, of course. However, there is something slightly scary about a perfume named JASMIN VERT. Would it be like sharp, mean, green CABOTINE? one might wonder, if altogether ignorant of the nature of the Miller Harris collection. Still, I have to confess that I braced myself a bit the first time I applied this perfume, not sure exactly what I was in for. Well, I was in for beauty, as usual. I wonder, frankly, whether others have been frightened by the name. Why does no one else seem to own this perfume but sherapop????? It's certainly not because this perfume is a flop, because it's not. No, this perfume is a flaming success. I love it. Jasmine mingling with narcissus and rose and "boronia"--whatever that is--all ensconced in a gorgeous base. (Maybe that's the problem: expectations of a jasmine soliflore are swiftly dashed and may lead to disappointment.) The bouquet is slightly green, but only slightly, and I do not personally find the hay note detectable in this composition. I am familiar with hay in perfumes: Jean Patou 1000 and Henri Bendel MIMOSA, but I do not smell it here. My only reservation about this beautiful, feminine jasmine-narcissus-rose bouquet is that after a big bodacious opening, it seems to fade rather fast. I have the eau de parfum, so the concentration is not in question--again, given my experience with this house, which does not, grace à Dieu (or reasonable facsimile), pour eau de cologne into perfume bottles like so many other houses today. So I wonder whether I experience a touch of olfactory fatigue induced by the big sillage, impossible to ignore opening? Well, who cares. No one will be offended by this luxuriant bouquet, no matter how much I spray!

One of the most beautiful Jasmine's I have ever experienced. Once more I am late to the MH party, and have missed the opportunity to buy a Fb, getting my addiction from a teeny tiny sample. Oh cruel world. Whyyyyyyyy????? (snorts loudy into handkerchief). I want a full/partial bottle or sizeable decant at the earliest opportunity! What elevates this way above the run of the mill Jasmines (not that there is anything wrong with them, you understand) is the addition of Boronia flower and narcissus. Narcissus gives this a narcotic depth while Boronia offers an almost citrus floral kick in the pants verging on the erotic. I want to move to Australia and stick my face into every scented Boronia I can find. If some kind fragrantican would like to recommend other Boronia heavy fragrances, or part with some Jasmin Vert, I would be delighted. *sobbing into my cup of tea with the beauty of it all*.

I just sprayed this on for the very first time, and I am in love!!!! This is a beautiful flower scent that feels at once familiar but I could not tell you the name of the main flower(s) that I am smelling. There is a greenness to it, as though you had to step on a few bits of leaves and stems on your way to pick this bloom, just a hint of the sharpness of wild greens at the very edge of my perception. The word for this perfume is lovely. It isn't at all wimpy, nor overly sweet, and it isn't a dainty little thing by any means. It is a lovely, beautiful thing in a natural setting. Luca Turin mentions narcissus but I cannot single that one out from the rest. I recommend this - it is unlike any other white floral that I have ever tried. It doesn't overwhelm, rather it charms one with subtlety.