Jasmin Kama

Now this is indeed a unique take on the pretty white flower! Jasmin Kama is full of bright personality. Zingy to open with bergamot, then textured with rough patchouli, and sweetened with rose. This accord is a little like sweet rock rose incense with a little sharp animation that's almost animalic, like a drop of galbanum or a scratch of civet. A little like Creed Jasmal but with added divine sweetness. Heliotrope is what sets this fragrance apart making this jasmine rather transcendent, blessing this flower with some opalescent, holy light anointed with candied musk. Van Cleef & Arpels Bois d'Iris has the same effect, only with iris as the featured flower instead of jasmine. Original, yet easy to love, even if you don't like jasmine, as this fragrance in the dry down is as much about the heliotrope and woody animalic musk. Jasmin Kama is a highly addictive floral confection!

If someone at the perfume counter had told me this contains jasmine and musk, I'd probably put it down and walk away without a backward glance. As it turns out, this came together with the rest of Rania's fragrances in the discovery set and to my surprise, this and not Ambre Loup is the one that stood out. This is a no-drama, very grown-up jasmine. The white floral here is not desperate, hysterical and clingy as many night whites are. The musk is there. BUT! It sets off the dusky jasmine so beautifully. I couldn't believe musk can be used so sublimely. Certainly the patchouli helped as well by grounding the jasmine further into earthy territory, though it is not a note one can isolate from the rest in this fragrance. I would say, this offers something even to committed fans of jasmine. Ambre Loup is pretty spectacular but this is an eye-opener.

Jasmin Kama is a full bodied natural jasmin, wonderful and wearable while at the same time having a teasing dirty edge. Rania Jouaneh has made it again! I can't help comparing it to another favorite jasmin, Drama Nuui by Pierre Guillaume. The two creations are similar in many ways. Both are "natural" interpretations of jasmin improving and strengthening the feel of jasmin compared to pure essential oil or CO2 extract. But where jasmin Kama is deeper and warmer, probably stemming from the gentle strokes of rose and patchouli, Drama Nuui is brighter and crisper. With Jasmin Kama I have found a new favorite jasmin. In winter time when i want a warm Jasmin I will certainly reach for Jasmin Kama, while when the urge for Jasmin strikes on a warm summer day I will still turn to Drama Nuui for olfactory stimulation.

The first few seconds are a rich heady jasmine, followed by a long heart that I first described as shower-curtain-floral. Later someone pointed out the fruitiness of it, and shower-curtain floral began to smell of apricot fizz over white flowers. Underneath it all is something dark and rich, quite possibly patchouli but also reminiscent of the bases of all the other Rania J creations I have tried, and that is no bad thing. Overall this is unusual, arguably beautiful, and certainly multilayered. But for me, fruit or plastic are generally deal-breakers, and Jasmin Kama does not quite rate an exception. Edit: Oh, how things change. Now it's a lovely sugared jasmine, reminding me of Sweet Anthem's Caroline, only smoother and better balanced. This would make a great replacement for Caroline.

I think it's the most erotic jasmin in my life- dark, erotic scent -perfect!!! Easy to LOVE!!! Jasmin with patchouli (earthy-dirty) and heliothrope (it’s add a super powdery side to it). This is an extremely unique parfume-warm, dark, natural, sexy and very feminin. And hardly underrated!!! I think better for colder days but in a hot summer night filled with Love-well can be unforgettable too.

It's a very unusual jasmine - mix with patchouli gives it a bit dirty, earthy tone. It's also very powdery from the beginning to the base, but it's not a delicate powder, vise versa, very strong and into your face one. Base in not jasmin-y at all, but warm and woody. Interesting experience, great development, even those who don't like jasmite too much can find it exciting!

Right now the jasmin is blooming outside my house. I've been wearing a sample of Jasmin Kama for a few days and it really seems very natural to me. But just like the flowers, when you're too close, the scent can become overwhelming. It's a very nice perfume, but for me it lacks some freshness...

Indolic and fresh at the same time. Beautiful, just gorgous. If I'd wear soliflores and florals, I'd buy that one INSTANTLY. For a pure natural perfume it is great, buy it. At least try Ranias sample set, her perfumes are outstanding.

This is probably one of my favorite scents I've ever smelled. Just such a beautiful earthy jasmine. The wear on it is fantastic! Full bottle worthy! This would also be a fantastic floral fragrance for a man.

Starts out on me as a soapy, soft jasmine, then in 15 minutes it's a powdery, lemony candy. Yes, it's hard to find a jasmine that works on my skin, still looking...

This is exactly the smell you get when you walk past a flower bed in spring that grew next to the small train station in the village.

A new take on jasmine. I get tired of all the brazen, green jasmine scents available. This is almost boozy, never sharp, and slightly conjures the dank, earthy aspect of jasmine. Definitely something animalic happening here! The patchouli and cedar here are indifferentiable from the white flower, all three in a perfect lazy harmony. I am dizzy from smelling my wrist! Also, something powdery-sweet in the drydown I find quite delicious. This is quite beautiful, and absolutely a *must try* for all jasmine lovers. Considering the notes, and that this is a natural perfume, the longevity is quite good--about 5 hours on my skin. Don't be scared to order from her website--my sampler came with a handwritten note. :) An outstanding perfume in its class from an outstanding niche perfumeur!

I agree with Vie Café on the note pyramid, the one listed here is not conclusive. The bergamot hits at the opening and remains quite persistent on me. The musk, sandalwood and jasmine play supporting roles in this on my skin. The heliotrope gives this scent a powdery vibe, somewhat akin to the powder in YSL's Paris. It also has a similar bright sparkling nature, like in old bottles of Yvresse/Champagne. The sillage and longevity are good, about a foot from the body and longevity over four hours so far and maintaining the sillage. I find the quality good with no synthetic notes apparent. However this is more of a green/citrus scent and not so much a jasmine oriented scent. It would be on the other end of the spectrum from creamy jasmines like Serge Lutens' A la nuit.

Really gorgeous, evocative, never cloying jasmine with enough earth amid the flowers to keep it interesting. I am no great white-flowers fan (and in excess the accord gives me a headache) but no such problems with this one. Smells classy and natural, as well as fragrant as night jasmine wafting on a warm breeze. Lush and feminine and curvy. Not fantastically long-lived, and it's pretty linear - it doesn't unfold into some other wonder altogether as some Rania J things do, but continues along the same mild but seductive path. Jasmine lovers should certainly try it, and anyone openminded should give this a go even if you think it's not going to be your bag - because it just might be.

Jasmine Kama is a grand, old-fashioned floral, starting with hissy civet and rich, dense, yet spacious floralcy. It feels baroque, in shades of ivory, gold, dove-gray, and rose. It’s also distinctly soapy in an old-fashioned floral way. Soft, clean, and white, with rich damask texture. it settles into a golden amber-vanilla, fairly sweet but still hissy-sharp. This isn’t a photorealistic jasmine like the actual flower; it’s a symphonic floral in a retro style, more like Joy or Arpege, with plenty of soft musks and (restrained, elegant) animalic notes. I’m a fan, but it definitely reminds me of my grandmother.

A different take on the ubiquitous jasmine note. Jasmin Kama is not fresh and it’s not for warm weather; with the addition of patchouli and musk, this jasmine goes in a warm, dirty direction. Top is indolic, drydown is less so. I don’t have anything in my collection like it. Kind of hate to use the word interesting, but it fits this scent.

I really like this one. I never knew if I was a fan of jasmine, but this puts jasmine in the ballpark of one of my favorite notes. I find it rich and thick, yet able to be worn in the summer. I don't get much patchouli, but rich candied jasmine. It lasts for about 6-7 hours on me with medium sillage.

It really reminds me Opus IX. Not a copy but close enough. Perfectly unisex

I don't know if my experience with this is being primarily influenced by the fact that I am sampling it from a dabber decant. I wish I was getting what the other reviewers are getting from this fragrance. On my skin, the opening is faint, watery. Like a glass of bottom-shelf whisky in which a bunch of ice cubes are mostly melted. Or maybe, more like the way the glass would smell after the watery whiskey was poured out of it. As it dries down there is a powdery marshmallowy sweetness, and I do start to get hints of florals and vanilla, but these are overlaying a base of play-doh. Certainly nothing dirty, earthy, or indolic. It is also is super weak on my skin despite multiple applications, I have to really put my nose up to my arm to detect it. Bear with me here, but in hunting around for a way to bring Jasmin Kama to life on my skin, I layered with Exclamation by Coty and found that the Exclamation provided a bit of welcome heft to JK, while the JK rounded off the sharper edges of Exclamation. Feels kind of sacrilegious to try to improve this with a budget fragrance but it does, for me!

Opens very indolic and lush, a bit of alcohol, sweet, a bit soapy, lots of a very earthy jasmine. Then citrus, bergamot maybe, more jasmine-- and something tingly and fizzy made me sneeze, too! The base notes are warm and woody and support a sweet & sour jasmine. Very heavy and intoxicating, like true jasmine smells when the flowers open on hot summer evenings. This would be a great summer night perfume. This is a very strong fragrance, one spritz is enough for me. Sillage and longevity are moderate.

Well, there isn't much of jasmine in "Jasmin Kama". If you don't count the opening, but wait for the scent you will be stuck for most of the time the fragrance will stick your skin, then there's almost no jasmine at all. Well of course at the opening I get jasmine - heady, indolic and extremely animalic, BUT as soon as the scent settles, it's almost gone, no - overpowered by a mess of cedar, patchouli and musk. Very cloying, animalic and I don't like at all. I expected something better.

Yes, it's *dirty* jasmine — but in the way a cleaning lady's bucket full of suds and various cleaning agents is dirty. To me, this frag's predominant evocation is that of a freshly mopped hotel room floor. I imagine the woman who recently checked out of said room enjoyed a romp there, leaving behind a faint trail of her white floral perfume.

Just got this as a sample. Guess it must have gone wrong because this smells nothing like any of the notes listed. On my skin it's so stale my partner asked me why I smell like wet soil. 0/10

This is one of the samples I have tried from Rania's ridiculously inexpensive sample set (12.50 EUR for 7 x 1ml sprayers, including free shipping even to the US!). I find all of her fragrances interesting, well balanced, quality-smelling, and definitely niche-y -- it's hard to imagine a designer fragrance smelling like any of these. All are natural-smelling, last a long time, and are fairly quiet with subtle to moderate projection. This is probably the only one out of the 7 fragrances that I don't particularly enjoy. On my skin it opens with almost pure indoles -- actually, almost indistinguishable from halitosis. The indolic opening calms down slightly after a few minutes, joined by patchouli, and for most of the next few hours this is mainly about indoles riding on patchouli, with the indoles even more prominent closer to the skin. Still, to my nose, not what I would call pleasant. However, as Jack_Hunter said, this is a kaleidoscopic fragrance, so the sweeter and more floral aspects of jasmine (and a bit of the rose) do occasionally rise and fall. Very gradually (too gradually for me), the indoles fade. Perhaps because the florals here are not particularly sweet, I don't actually find this to be especially feminine. It seems quite unisex, at least on my (male) skin. Having now tested all 7 of Rania J's samples, I can say emphatically that she has a recognizable style. Most of the fragrances are built on a distinctive "Raniade," which I believe is composed of (a somewhat barnyard-y) oud in combination with resins, particularly labdanum. In Jasmin Kama, the "Raniade" is either not present or is tamped way, way down. Yet even without these characteristic notes, the fragrance still somehow bears Rania's distinctive style. And that, to me, is kind of remarkable, and a testament to her maturity and skill as a perfumer. Even though I don't find this particular fragrance very pleasant, it is an interesting one. If you like indolic perfumes, don't mind patchouli, and want something distinctive and natural-smelling, this could work for you. But it is definitely not a safe one to buy blind, nor to wear in circumstances when you don't want to risk polarized reactions. Test first, and use with caution.

Very unusual jasmine, just beautiful and quite a departure from most jasmines out there. The patchouli, bergamot and musk make all the difference here, imparting an aromatic and herbal freshness that I've not experienced in any other jasmine fragrance. The closest comparison I can make is to LUSH Lust, but this does not dry down so sweet as that. It is very calming and cooling to me and I wish I had discovered it earlier in the summer because I would probably be wearing it 75% of the time. It is that good, and may very well have just dethroned my beloved Lust. There is no bitter green element to ruin the flower aroma. I just breathe deep and enjoy its simple complexity. I know that is a contradiction in terms, but it is true! It is so smoothly blended that no one note dominates the others. The only thing I cannot detect is vanilla (thankfully! Vanilla has its place in perfumery; I do not need to have it in everything). Rania J is one of the most impressive perfumers in the modern world. I own and love her Lavande 44 for its unique take on lavender. Longevity is incredible, as in all day, and fragrance remains true; never degenerates into a generic perfume drydown. For a unique take on jasmine, you should not miss this.

On application you get a quick burst of fresh sweet like bergamot followed by a animalic dirtiness from the in-doles which quickly unfurls the blooming jasmine in all its glory. The jasmine smells very natural and is soon joined by patchouli which seems to tone down the jasmine making the scent more earthy in its scent. Eventually more notes come into play which tends to change the nature of the jasmine. I can smell musk, woods and a little sweetness. Sometimes the jasmine smells earthy and other times sweet and candy like. A very good kaleidoscopic jasmine fragrance where other notes are cleverly used to change the nature of the jasmine. Its a pleasure to see how the jasmine changes when other notes subtlety come into play. Thumbs up from me for a clever play on the jasmine note!

On me, this is a big powder bomb with little to no skank, and I love skank. The bergamot top note is gone in seconds. The heliotrope, sandalwood and vanilla dominate, and the jasmine smells a little dusty. I'm a patchouli lover and yet I can barely smell the patchouli in it. It almost smells as if I layered Ombre Rose (original) by Jean Charles Brosseau with Lust by Lush. I'd be better of layering Ombre Rose with a jasmine attar and saving myself the best part of $300. Lasting power is excellent. Sillage is moderate. I wore this to work twice to get people's opinions. No one was impressed or repulsed. Younger colleagues said it smell old fashioned. My partner doesn't find it sexy. My cat doesn't like it at all. Get a sample before springing for a full bottle.

This one is very unisex, but seems to go straight to the base notes on my skin. The sandalwood mixed with patchouli is pretty dominant and kinda reminds me of the peru balsam in the base notes of Ellis Vanilla Sin. I don't really get any bergamot in this, and very little rose or jasmine. When I get the whiffs of florals and vanilla peeking through, this is something I really like but they're fleeting. I really should've known better as woody notes always end up being prominent on my skin. I'm on the fence overall; I do feel kinda edgy/rock & roll hippie with the woody warm patchouli, but I really wished the namesake jasmine and the other florals were more pronounced and it was just a tad softer & sweeter.

I absolutely adore this perfume! On paper it's not my idea of heaven in a bottle but I loved it from the first moment......why? First I get a hit of very smooth jasmine with no rough edges then it's followed by, dare I say this a type of musk popular in the 1970's. It last a reasonable amount of time and lingers beautifully on clothing. It shouldn't appeal but it does and it works, on my skin. It reminds me of the perfumery in a very expensive department store circa 1972ish. It's gorgeous and I want it and I will get a full bottle.

I'd like to thank Rania for the generous sample pack of the Rania J line. I have thoroughly enjoyed each offering from the house as they all have a distinct feel and character. Jasmin Kama is a luscious white floral that basks in the glory of the jasmine flower. The patchouli anchors the jasmin somewhat but does not temper the indoles and animalic lure of this beauty. This is very feminine and best worn by a strong, sultry woman. Wear this on a hot summer night. You will be noticed!

It took me a while to realise that this is indeed jasmine, but such a sombre and non-flowery approach to that scent that it comes as a complete surprise to me. And this fresh and yet dark version of jasmine to me is very unisex, unique and feels very high quality. I have only a sample but will try to find a full bottle, I can't get enough of this mesmerizing scent.

This is one of the most beautiful fragrances. It is completely unisex. If you can recall the days when men would go to the barber and then we put the combs in a blue liquid. This is the smell of that blue liquid. It is Barbasol . Is a traditional Chypre. It’s stunning!!

Sexiest jasmine I ever smelled. Also my husband's favorite perfume on me. That's saying a lot, considering I own more than 700 plus bottles of perfume..stopped counting years ago.

This went on a citrus blast then quickly became a powdery jasmine then quickly became a synthetic, dirty patchouli.