Mon Jasmin Noir L'Elixir
Bulgari (2012)

I received this as a gift from someone who'd done a blind buy.
The old-timey little bulb atomizer worked for exactly two puffs, then shut down. Nuthin.'

We wrote to the customer service people in the fragrance department at Bvlgari USA, more out of curiosity than of expectation of an actual response. And we got - Nuthin.'

So my friend, sorely ticked off at this point, took a glass cutter to the bottle, and managed to extract some orange-popsicle-chemical-flowery-dirty-amber something. Nuthin' either one of us would wear.

And that word suffices to sum up the fragrance, the bottle, and the corporation from which it unfortunately sprang.

The aroma of overripe sweet orangey citrus with a rather synthetic bergamot and whiffs of a nonspecific floral component form an opening that is pleasant but not really particularly exciting.

Soon the jasmine that gives this creation its name develops, and whilst a bit anemic in my skin it is not a bad rendition of a jasmine note. That said, is is not a special or remarkable jasmine either.

The base has the usual ambery/musky synthetic mix, with a rather weak attempt to add a honeyed and syrupy impression.

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

Not a bad jasmine-centred spring daytime creation but not really good either. 2.75/5