Jasmin Angélique
Atelier Cologne (2015)

A bright combination of lemon and pepper open up the olfactory stage, but in good balanced with each other; the pepper is not very strong on me. Some angelica is evident but weaker.

On a wave of Iso-E Super one is carried to the heart notes, where a jasmine is dominant. It is a bright jasmine that lacks any woodsiness of powderiness on me. hist of dates, galbanum - very week the latter - and whiffs of dried dates comes and go. a slightly ambery aroma starts to be added in the background, a development that continues into the base.

The prominent component of the base notes is a lashing with bright white musks, mined with a tonka impression that, interestingly, is less sweet on me than the musks. Undertones of a very discreet incense come and go; this incense is really quite weak and perfunctory on me.

I get moderate sillage, very good projection, and six hour of longevity on my skin.

A pleasant bright and light-filled start of this scent for warmer sprog and autumn days does not detract from the rather generic and bland character of the subsequent phases, especially the base. Not bad, but all synthetic support does not neutralises the lack of vividness and intensity for most of this product's olfactory development. A bit middle-of-the-road. 2.75/5

Jasmine Angelique Whilst I approve of the AC line being fully unisex, This one is quite clearly a feminine fragrance IMO - especially in the opening. I didn't think it would be for me based on the name, and I was quite right.

Certainly a floral scent - the problem being it smells like an over-ripe floral: Like a bouquet of flowers that have been left 3 days too long in their vase, and are starting to droop and give-off a strong, dusty pollen. Quite an unpleasant opening stage.

I presume a realistic jasmine scent, but this puts me off looking into jasmine as a note in general. The middle stages are more decent, but the damage is already done. The middle becomes a little more bright, almost going into a jasmine tea type smell - I wish this was the theme of the whole scent, as it would have fitted in well to the AC line. Even a milky jasmine-rice scent would have been an interesting theme.

This one seems most similar to Grand Neroli from the same house - in it's thick pollen, overall yellow vibe. Unfrotunatley I can't get around the rotten vegetation at the beginning. There may be a little powdery patchoulli representing the dusty pollen - but this comes across as a hippy type flower-power-patchoulli. Dry down is to a fairly pleasant lemony-amber.

Overall certainly not for me. May be of some interest for females who want a kind of deconstructed Number 5, without any of the uplifting, glossy adelhydes. 49/100

I like my jasmine to be dirtier. This is a very clean one, very green, with a soapy feel. It's almost like lilly of the valley. There's also some citrus acidity in the opening, and later a bitterness I can't pin exactly. A strong floral, very qualitative, with great projection and longevity.

Too much going on with this one. Just not my style.

Waiting for Godot

An interesting Jasmine like none other - to me Jasmine Angelique is as much Jasmine as it is Galbanum, which is ostere and cold: lovely when I am in the mood for it.

There is some sweetness to it but not of the bubblegum, nauseating sort... It's sweetness is persistent but quiet, as it is when when one eats licorice or bites into a clove.

Overall longevity and sillage are both great - lasting past 8 hours and pushing out at least an arm's length away.

Don't expect this to be well liked by everyone, especially those uninitiated to our world of fragrances - but don't get me wrong, this is wearable and I would say unisex. And definitely niche...