Mon Jasmin Noir L'Eau Exquise
Bulgari (2012)

This is quite an interesting smell. Clearly, thought was put into giving this recognizable Bulgari DNA, as it has that addictive green vegetal peppery soapy quality of their Thé Blanc. The jasmine isn't very flowery, but instead a huge shot of indoles, glued onto the Thé Blanc skeleton with moist tobacco.

All in all, it's a complicated smell, hinting at flowers and tea but more evocatively dirty than anything beautiful. It somehow finds lust in smells of sweet decay, but without falling off into gothic ridiculousness. Instead, it's surprisingly wearable, formal and sexy in a Meryl Streep kind of way.

Another masterpiece from Bulgari (I have yet to encounter another house which makes so many perfumes I love). This scent accomplishes what I had not thought possible: making sweet smell supremely sophisticated. It's true there's not much jasmine here; rather, the tea is delicately jasmine-infused. This is fancy dinner on a summer night; dancing outside on the grass; precious stones and bare feet; so many beautiful things.

Got to agree with Elsie. Love this scent and I also absolutely loved Fendi Palazzo - much missed!

Doesn't smell very Jasminy to me (but that really doesn't bother me)3. It's a very powdery, dry, floral scent, that is very sophisticated and chic.

I love it. It's very reminiscent of another scent that I loved, but is no longer available, Fendi Palazzo.