I just discovered your channel, loving it. During the early 90's when I was very young, got hired to work at Bloomingdale's as a counter manager for Guerlain, OMG every month I got tons of gratis from Guerlain, all the perfumes, Classic ones, Samsara, Jicky, Shalimar, I hated those fragrance felt like it was such a very old and mature scents, we considered it a grandma fragrances. I gave all my gratis away. I was really clueless, can you imagine if I still had the originals. Since then in the last 10 years, I have really appreciated the love of quality fragrance, and love of many flower scents. Love listening and learning, recently due to Covid got laid off, have started my little business of making beautiful candles and soaps. Currently working on a gorgeous Jasmine candle and soap, it has been difficult finding the scents. Love listening to what people love about Jasmine, it is such a complicated fragrance.
Jyoti, thanks very much for watching and taking the time to write. Yes - all the youthful actions we’d love to change! Good luck with your soap business. Sounds like a wonderful idea.
Samsara was the signature scent of so many women around me in the early 90's when I was a little girl, I loved it then! I wonder how I'd feel about it now. Thank you for sharing your opinions and passion, I wish one day I get to catch up with your live streams
OMG. I am Iranian American. Greetings from San Francisco AGAIN! Just went to Shiraz (yes embarrassed to admit) for the first time in 2016. What a place; the gardens are as intoxicating as in Hafiz's poems. SO glad to have found you. Dying to see if you'll mention A La Nuit, Lutens. We talked about it only this morning. Of course you did. BTW, the reference to night may simply be that his jasmine smells more like a Night Jasmine plant, an actual variety of jasmine, vs. night as in dark. Night Jasmine is a nucturnal jasmine that only comes to life at night. I used to have two in my backyard, and it is a bit greener scent than the regular jasmine or star jasmine, yet another variety. My night jasmine flowers were a dead ringer for A La Nuit :).
Just received my New Year treats of Joy, Jean Patou extrait and the Collector’s edition. Had to revisit this video, cos I’m in love ❤. Beautiful, exquisitely beautiful experience in a perfume.
Your channel is just pure bliss, especially during grey Berlin days full of studying! What an inspiring and well curated list!! :) I also adore À la Nuit and all N°5’s. I recently discovered White Fire by Tiziana Terenzi, a very exciting cold and floating Jasmine, but comforting and soft at the same time. Hope to make it to a live stream soon!
I like jasmine to be light, bright and airy (as close to a soliflore). Loved the L’Occitane the vert au jasmin which was sadly discontinued. But so pleased to have found Fragonard Jasmin perle de the. It’s sad that no one really talks about Fragonard and other overlooked heritage brands (Ortigia is another which springs to mind). Lots of hidden gems out there and you don’t need to spend big bucks either.
Hi Mr. P - Sujata here. Since I made that very first newbie comment below, I have acquired a bottle of Annick Goutal's Songes - (the EDP) - so I thought I'd listen to the segment on it above - again. You know, it's pretty strange - (btw, heat induced swoon is the perfect metaphor for this fragrance) - but all I get from it - is spices - the cumin, the black pepper, the cinnamon - and hardly a glimmer of the florals! From the first sniff, I'm a little girl again playing in the kitchen with bunches of pots and pans as my mum (now long gone) cooks up something mouth watering...I have been told that Songes the EDT is more floral and very different from the EDP which is heavier and heavier on the spices. But I'm also coming to the conclusion (from the expertise gleaned from these last hand full of months and my later life perfume journey!!!) that our olfactory senses are the senses most deeply connected to memory. We each smell the notes that we smell from a particular scent because each of our brains settles on first, those particular notes that are the most relevant to us given our individual experiences...
I have two of the 15mL Hermessence discovery sets and I love, love, loved Cedre Sambac so much, I ponied up for a full bottle. I find if I spray it on skin the jasmine predominates, if sprayed on a shirt, it's the cedar. But somehow, one is never far away from the other and it manages to be both indolic and tart. It's interesting you have the vision of a mountain of jasmine, I do too. In my mind it takes me to a happy place, one without people. I like wearing it, it feels just a bit special. Unlike most of the other Hermessences, it says hello, but still retains the transparent quality of the line. It is a bit like the breeze on a warm summer's night. Possibly it's my favourite fragrance. Top five at least.
Great list! I don't have too many jasmine perfumes but Cedre Sambac is top on my list! Seamless and full. I have some old Samsara as well which I love but the newer version is harsh on me and smells a bit chemical. Love Sarrasins too as well as Jasmin et Cigarette.
I ordered Musk Amber and three sets of samples from Sugandhco. Thank you for introducing this brand to us. And as today is the first day of 2021 I wish that this year return what 2020 took of us - hugs, red lipstick, and anxiety before the flights.
@@deborahselincourt8060 Ha! She has actually been immortalised as Madame Persolaise in a book -- Perfume: In Search Of Your Signature Scent by Neil Chapman. Recommended reading. Check out his review of Malle's Portrait Of A Lady.
Teone of TRNP made me up a little bottle of a jasmine absolute and oakmoss beauty a year ago. I think she released it as Garden of Pleasures just recently. This is my yardstick jasmine. Full, not quite indolic, fat and buttery, shimmering and intoxicating. Nothing has come remotely close to it. Your choices are spot on. So glad to see quite a few are my loved ones too.
This really is a nice game, wearing the perfumes, while you are talking about it: Chanel N°5 Extrait. It's my favourite concentration (version from 2012), mine is very aldehydic, which I love, and dryes down to a flowery your-skin-but-better-skin. It would be great, if you could do a video about the different concentrations. The EdP seems to be the most citrusy (is this really a word?) one. Greetings from Germany.
hello from california, persolaise! i discovered you a couple of weeks ago, and am so happy i did! i love your enthusiasm, honesty, and informed perspective. this is kind of tangential to the video's topic, but - have you discussed in any of your videos (or blog, though i'm pretty sure i searched there) on LVMH's wholesale discontinuation of all the jean patou fragrance line (including joy - !)? i've searched and it seems like you haven't made a video specifically about it (or at least, nothing in any title). i'm very curious as to your thoughts. and TBH, the thoughts of my favorite perfume bloggers. i'm shocked at the discontinuation, and would've thought the "frag comm" would be too, but i've only found 1 blog post and 1 fragrantica post, and no official news articles on the topic. which also shocks me! i realize this is an old video but🤞you'll reply! :-)
Thank you so much for this, and for your kind words. Yes, it's a sad issue, and you're right, it hasn't been covered properly online. I'm not sure why this is, but I suspect it's because it wasn't easy to get concrete info about the situation when it occurred. And then, time passed, and I guess people moved on to other issues. But I agree -- I think our collective silence was a failing.
I love Samsara. Glad to still have the "perfume" (extrait) from early 2000 in the beautiful container. Jasmin is my favorite scent, at the moment I enjoy Jasmin Full from Montale. I need to use my Samsara extrait with parsimony.
Beautiful video, you are so elegant and knowledgeable...Jasmine...one of my favorite fragrances & flowers and I usually like it as a soliflore or very dirty. I also love Jasmin T by Bruno Acampora( only the oil is on Lucky scent, you need to buy from Italy for the spray), but both are glorious and delicious! New sub!
Although I cannot bear to insufflate jasmine in any construction other than horticultural (just take a walk down the banks of the Nile in Cairo or Khartoum and tell me you're not smelling an odour of paradise), I do find Le Labo's Jasmin 17's jasmine/orange blossom brew very sufferable. Incomparable video as always, D.
My girlfriends has been wanting a jasmine fragrance for ages. I am still trying to find something long lasting for her. She loves a lot of jasmine fragrances, but they lack in performance. Her favourite smell is Honour from Amouage, but as I have mentioned, it does not last very long. Alien is amazing, but everyone around her has it, so that one is not a good option. I was tempted to buy her a la nuit from SL, but it is almost impossible to find it nowadays. I am curious to try the new Honour 43 from Amouage, but that one is a kidney worth as well. :)) Soon I'll have my 10th anniversary with her, and I would really like to buy her that special Jasmin scent. I just don't know which one should I try to get...
I've got Trayee on my wishlist but I've recently purchased Mohur extrait so it will have to wait :) By the way, it would be lovely to see a review of the new Neela Vermeire fragrances soon.
I'm a newbie subscriber and am truly enjoying these recordings of your live sessions. Your voice and your excellent articulation are both intoxicating - kind of like a superb perfume! After viewing a number of TH-cam vids on it, I'm in a panic to get my hands on an original, 1989 bottle of Samsara EDP - the dark red bottle. I've decided it's something I just have to smell before I die! (I'm 61 but I hope I've got a bit of time yet...) I'm also South Asian American (American for a bajillion and a half years but was born in India) and I so totally love the kurta/shirt you're wearing here. Simply gorgeous! Keep up the good work, Mr. P ... you're a TH-cam perfume reviewer gem!
Thank you so much for the wonderful comment. And yes, I bought the kurta in India. You have plenty of time left… but it’s always worth tracking down some vintage Samsara.
@@Persolaise Oh, Mr. P! I just had to tell you (update you)! I've been researching for a long while and finally took the plunge today. I found/bought myself a relatively reasonably priced (given the market), lightly used, 75ml splash bottle - of the original Samsara - from a lovely lady who's husband bought it for her in Paris - at Guerlain's 1989 debut of Samsara! I am simply beside myself - actually dancing with joy - that in just a few days when it arrives in the mail - I will finally be able to get my ancient nose on this masterpiece - at last, at last!!! ☺
Mr. P! Another long comment to end this thread finally and lots of exclamations ahead! My purchase arrived today and has turned out to be, I think, an absolutely authentic, 1989 debut bottle of Samsara EdP! The batch code matches perfectly etc and I'm pinching myself on my good luck (2.4 oz left of the 2.5oz bottle - of the original Samsara EDP - to enjoy the rest of my days!). Beyond the pinching, an hour after dabbing some on, I'm also sniffing my wrists like a madwoman! At first scent, it smelled strongly animalic, but I wasn't concerned - (even today's formulations of Shalimar smell the same to me and the musks/civets of the 1980s must have been different than today?). Anyway - Holy Moly, Mr. P - the dry down!!! I honestly can't find the words myself but I read in an article somewhere that "Indian palaces always have a distinct smell - of wet wood - old books - and dried roses" - (so true) - and this is what Guerlain was aiming for - and, to me, at this moment, that's exactly what my wrists smell like! I feel like with each breath of this treasure of a fragrance that I take from hereon in, I need to bow deeply, to genuflect, to my Indian heritage! Ok - wow - sorry - I'm on a serious mad roll here but I really am done now. I've gone on so long in each message in this thread, however, I feel like it would only be polite to end by actually introducing myself - my name is Sujata - and to thank you so much for your patience, Mr. P! Take good care!
Perfect pronunciation of La Haie fleurie, Persolaise ! No "h" and you open the "ai" sound like in "lait" and not like in "été" (fewer French do it nowadays... It's just too complicated I guess! ). I like Lysandra from Le Couvent, jasmine and mandarine, very happy, cheeky scent!
Ah, I’ve often heard French people making the distinction between the ai/é sounds in things like ‘cafe au lait.’ I love that kind of detail. Thanks for your kind words.
I had Samsara EDT many years ago and loved it so much! I plan to repurchase it but I'm having difficulty in choosing between the EDP and EDT versions in the current reformulations... I understand they are different and I cannot find them for testing in the shops in my country! Can you give me an advice please? I am asking you because I trust you're taste in fragrance and love your poetic reviews!
Oooh, I love jasmine. I wonder what Persolaise has to say about Superstitious "Superstitious, for me, was never going to make it onto this list" oh (thanks for the list, lots I haven't tried and need to check out, take care)
Oh no! Sorry about that. I find Superstitious very, very interesting (I seem to remember writing a long review for the blog when it first came out) but I have trouble loving it. There’s something about its metallic edge that doesn’t rest easily with me.
I love love love Samsara! I had all versions and the original one is still the best and it much creamier and seamless as you say. I like when you get poetical about perfumes 😊 The last version of EdP now comes in a bottle similar to old L'Heure Bleue. It's still very good but somehow they made it harsher in the sandalwood, less complex and it seems they added a bit of sugar as "correction".
I just found out that they discontinued Joy 😮 This makes me really sad - it was one of my late mother's favourites. Losing a beloved perfume is like losing an old friend...
I couldn't help notice your a la nuit has a darker tone than the ones I'm seeing on the internet. What would be the difference between the two? I'm talking about the 2000 versions, there's seems to be 2 kinds, different color.
Oh goodness - that’s a tough one. Joy is pretty irreplaceable, but maybe something like Lauder Beautiful or Jour D’Hermes might take you into similar territory.
I didn't realise I had a penchant for jasmine until I watched your review. I have half of your list and didn't necessarily make the jasmine connection 👃🏻🙄
I am new at this. but I’m looking a lotion for men and I love jasmin fragrance but I’m not sure which one I have to buy for me !!! please which one do you recommend me 🙏
I adore A La Nuit. It reminds me of home and the Jasmin tree we had in our garden in Brasil. Unfortunately it gave me a raging headache every time I wear it (and I’m not otherwise prone). The first time it happened I couldn’t believe it was the perfume. So I tried, and tried and eventually accepted it’s not for me 😕 I passed it on to my sister for whom it was too grand. She passed it on to my grandmother who happily sprayed through it and then asked for another bottle 😂 So happy end. But I’ve been weary of Jasmine ever since, which is a shame because I love love the scent of the flower ever so much.
I think A La Nuit is to Jasmine what Carnal Flower is to tuberose. Both photorealistic and natural but I actually think A La Nuit is maybe even better.
Jasmine is my favorite floral note, but only when it is only floral. On my skin, when Jasmine is indolic, it always smells like mothballs. I never want to smell like mothballs.
It is quite wonderful I think. Composed by Maurice Roucel around jasmine absolute in very high concentration along with saffron and Oud. It manages to be heady and indolic with a slight cool breeze in the background. Compelling.
Have you ever tried Warszawa by Puredistance? www.perfumeriaquality.pl/produkt/?product=puredistance-warszawa-perfumy-60ml It’s so beautiful that it makes the angels cry in my opinion
I just discovered your channel, loving it. During the early 90's when I was very young, got hired to work at Bloomingdale's as a counter manager for Guerlain, OMG every month I got tons of gratis from Guerlain, all the perfumes, Classic ones, Samsara, Jicky, Shalimar, I hated those fragrance felt like it was such a very old and mature scents, we considered it a grandma fragrances. I gave all my gratis away. I was really clueless, can you imagine if I still had the originals. Since then in the last 10 years, I have really appreciated the love of quality fragrance, and love of many flower scents. Love listening and learning, recently due to Covid got laid off, have started my little business of making beautiful candles and soaps. Currently working on a gorgeous Jasmine candle and soap, it has been difficult finding the scents. Love listening to what people love about Jasmine, it is such a complicated fragrance.
Jyoti, thanks very much for watching and taking the time to write.
Yes - all the youthful actions we’d love to change!
Good luck with your soap business. Sounds like a wonderful idea.
@@Persolaise thank you
Samsara was the signature scent of so many women around me in the early 90's when I was a little girl, I loved it then! I wonder how I'd feel about it now. Thank you for sharing your opinions and passion, I wish one day I get to catch up with your live streams
Yes, I remember smelling a lot of Samsara as well. I’m sure one day you’ll be able to catch a live.
Thanks for watching.
OMG. I am Iranian American. Greetings from San Francisco AGAIN! Just went to Shiraz (yes embarrassed to admit) for the first time in 2016. What a place; the gardens are as intoxicating as in Hafiz's poems. SO glad to have found you. Dying to see if you'll mention A La Nuit, Lutens. We talked about it only this morning. Of course you did. BTW, the reference to night may simply be that his jasmine smells more like a Night Jasmine plant, an actual variety of jasmine, vs. night as in dark. Night Jasmine is a nucturnal jasmine that only comes to life at night. I used to have two in my backyard, and it is a bit greener scent than the regular jasmine or star jasmine, yet another variety. My night jasmine flowers were a dead ringer for A La Nuit :).
Well, hello to you too 😃
Thank you so much for this - and yes, it’s wonderful to connect here.
I agree with you. It’s all about the night blooming jasmine.
Just received my New Year treats of Joy, Jean Patou extrait and the Collector’s edition. Had to revisit this video, cos I’m
in love ❤.
Beautiful, exquisitely beautiful experience in a perfume.
It really is very special.
Thanks for watching.
Your channel is just pure bliss, especially during grey Berlin days full of studying! What an inspiring and well curated list!! :) I also adore À la Nuit and all N°5’s. I recently discovered White Fire by Tiziana Terenzi, a very exciting cold and floating Jasmine, but comforting and soft at the same time.
Hope to make it to a live stream soon!
Wow - what a wonderful comment to read. Thank you so much.
I like jasmine to be light, bright and airy (as close to a soliflore). Loved the L’Occitane the vert au jasmin which was sadly discontinued. But so pleased to have found Fragonard Jasmin perle de the. It’s sad that no one really talks about Fragonard and other overlooked heritage brands (Ortigia is another which springs to mind). Lots of hidden gems out there and you don’t need to spend big bucks either.
You're right about there being lots of unknown gems.
Thanks for watching.
So happy you included Cèdre Sambac and Trayee. I am totally addicted to these two 🥰
Yes, they’re wonderful 😊
Thanks for watching.
Very interesting ! I love À la nuit, Joy and Songes ... Thank you for your videos.
Thank YOU for watching and taking the time to write.
Hi Mr. P - Sujata here. Since I made that very first newbie comment below, I have acquired a bottle of Annick Goutal's Songes - (the EDP) - so I thought I'd listen to the segment on it above - again. You know, it's pretty strange - (btw, heat induced swoon is the perfect metaphor for this fragrance) - but all I get from it - is spices - the cumin, the black pepper, the cinnamon - and hardly a glimmer of the florals! From the first sniff, I'm a little girl again playing in the kitchen with bunches of pots and pans as my mum (now long gone) cooks up something mouth watering...I have been told that Songes the EDT is more floral and very different from the EDP which is heavier and heavier on the spices. But I'm also coming to the conclusion (from the expertise gleaned from these last hand full of months and my later life perfume journey!!!) that our olfactory senses are the senses most deeply connected to memory. We each smell the notes that we smell from a particular scent because each of our brains settles on first, those particular notes that are the most relevant to us given our individual experiences...
This is fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing, Sujata.
I have two of the 15mL Hermessence discovery sets and I love, love, loved Cedre Sambac so much, I ponied up for a full bottle. I find if I spray it on skin the jasmine predominates, if sprayed on a shirt, it's the cedar. But somehow, one is never far away from the other and it manages to be both indolic and tart. It's interesting you have the vision of a mountain of jasmine, I do too. In my mind it takes me to a happy place, one without people. I like wearing it, it feels just a bit special. Unlike most of the other Hermessences, it says hello, but still retains the transparent quality of the line. It is a bit like the breeze on a warm summer's night. Possibly it's my favourite fragrance. Top five at least.
Thanks for watching 😊
The differences between fabric and skin are always fascinating.
Perfect commentary on Samsara.
Thank you very much 🙏
Agreed with it being creamy and smooth. I find it sweet and fruity with balsamic touches :)
Great list! I don't have too many jasmine perfumes but Cedre Sambac is top on my list! Seamless and full. I have some old Samsara as well which I love but the newer version is harsh on me and smells a bit chemical. Love Sarrasins too as well as Jasmin et Cigarette.
Wow, so we have many shared loves here.
Thanks for watching 😊
I ordered Musk Amber and three sets of samples from Sugandhco. Thank you for introducing this brand to us. And as today is the first day of 2021 I wish that this year return what 2020 took of us - hugs, red lipstick, and anxiety before the flights.
Ah, I hope you like their work.
All the best to you too.
Wonderful list! I just recently purchased Jasmin Antique from Rogue Perfumery, which I am loving. One of my favorite notes. Cheers!
Oooh, another vote for this one.
Many thanks :-)
Mr P, you are a pleasure to watch, thank you for your work!
Ah, that's so kind. Thank YOU for your support.
@@Persolaise I also LOVE how you refer to your wife as Madame Persolaise. Very endearing
@@deborahselincourt8060 Ha! She has actually been immortalised as Madame Persolaise in a book -- Perfume: In Search Of Your Signature Scent by Neil Chapman. Recommended reading. Check out his review of Malle's Portrait Of A Lady.
@@Persolaise Ok, shall do. Thanks!
Teone of TRNP made me up a little bottle of a jasmine absolute and oakmoss beauty a year ago. I think she released it as Garden of Pleasures just recently. This is my yardstick jasmine. Full, not quite indolic, fat and buttery, shimmering and intoxicating. Nothing has come remotely close to it.
Your choices are spot on. So glad to see quite a few are my loved ones too.
That does sound very good indeed.
Many thanks for watching.
This really is a nice game, wearing the perfumes, while you are talking about it: Chanel N°5 Extrait. It's my favourite concentration (version from 2012), mine is very aldehydic, which I love, and dryes down to a flowery your-skin-but-better-skin. It would be great, if you could do a video about the different concentrations. The EdP seems to be the most citrusy (is this really a word?) one. Greetings from Germany.
Thank you so much for watching. Yes, I think it’s probably time for a No. 5 video... 😉
i can never watch you live but i always watch recording.this is my first time commenting . awww....three more weeks to.wait
Well, thanks very much for taking the time to write :-)
hello from california, persolaise! i discovered you a couple of weeks ago, and am so happy i did! i love your enthusiasm, honesty, and informed perspective.
this is kind of tangential to the video's topic, but - have you discussed in any of your videos (or blog, though i'm pretty sure i searched there) on LVMH's wholesale discontinuation of all the jean patou fragrance line (including joy - !)? i've searched and it seems like you haven't made a video specifically about it (or at least, nothing in any title). i'm very curious as to your thoughts. and TBH, the thoughts of my favorite perfume bloggers. i'm shocked at the discontinuation, and would've thought the "frag comm" would be too, but i've only found 1 blog post and 1 fragrantica post, and no official news articles on the topic. which also shocks me!
i realize this is an old video but🤞you'll reply! :-)
Thank you so much for this, and for your kind words.
Yes, it's a sad issue, and you're right, it hasn't been covered properly online. I'm not sure why this is, but I suspect it's because it wasn't easy to get concrete info about the situation when it occurred. And then, time passed, and I guess people moved on to other issues. But I agree -- I think our collective silence was a failing.
I love Samsara. Glad to still have the "perfume" (extrait) from early 2000 in the beautiful container. Jasmin is my favorite scent, at the moment I enjoy Jasmin Full from Montale. I need to use my Samsara extrait with parsimony.
Well… don’t forget to enjoy it now and then 😉
Thanks for watching.
I've just discovered your work today. It's just great.
This comment may not have much content, but who doesn't like some extra praise? :D
This is very kind, thank you 😊 And thanks for watching.
Beautiful video, you are so elegant and knowledgeable...Jasmine...one of my favorite fragrances & flowers and I usually like it as a soliflore or very dirty. I also love Jasmin T by Bruno Acampora( only the oil is on Lucky scent, you need to buy from Italy for the spray), but both are glorious and delicious! New sub!
You’re very kind - many, many thanks for subscribing. I think I have a sample of that oil hidden away somewhere...
Although I cannot bear to insufflate jasmine in any construction other than horticultural (just take a walk down the banks of the Nile in Cairo or Khartoum and tell me you're not smelling an odour of paradise), I do find Le Labo's Jasmin 17's jasmine/orange blossom brew very sufferable. Incomparable video as always, D.
That’s very kind, thank you 🙏
I must revisit the Le Labo.
I have a small bottle of Samsara extrait from early 90’s and it is gorgeous. Does seem more of a sandalwood fragrance than a Jasmine one to me.
Yes, you could easily take it as a sandalwood scent.
Many thanks for watching.
My girlfriends has been wanting a jasmine fragrance for ages. I am still trying to find something long lasting for her. She loves a lot of jasmine fragrances, but they lack in performance. Her favourite smell is Honour from Amouage, but as I have mentioned, it does not last very long. Alien is amazing, but everyone around her has it, so that one is not a good option. I was tempted to buy her a la nuit from SL, but it is almost impossible to find it nowadays. I am curious to try the new Honour 43 from Amouage, but that one is a kidney worth as well. :))
Soon I'll have my 10th anniversary with her, and I would really like to buy her that special Jasmin scent. I just don't know which one should I try to get...
Thank you for watching. Hopefully, this list will offer some ideas to try out. Perris Jasmin De Pays is worth finding too.
@@Persolaise Thank you for your recommendations kind sir.
I've got Trayee on my wishlist but I've recently purchased Mohur extrait so it will have to wait :) By the way, it would be lovely to see a review of the new Neela Vermeire fragrances soon.
Thanks very much for watching.
Hello. I love ❤️ a jasmine note in fragrances.
Thanks for watching.
Dior Jasmine Des Anges is fab, layers well with any vanilla or cherry fragrance too
Good to know - thanks for watching.
And of course Chanel 5 which I absolutely adore in extrait
Me too!
Persolaise Perfumes I wonder if you had the chance of smelling Jardin Nocturne by Shalini and what you think of it.
Thank you for a wonderful presentation! Educational and maybe bad for my wallet!
Oh dear 😂
One sample at a time...?
Thanks for watching.
I'm a newbie subscriber and am truly enjoying these recordings of your live sessions. Your voice and your excellent articulation are both intoxicating - kind of like a superb perfume! After viewing a number of TH-cam vids on it, I'm in a panic to get my hands on an original, 1989 bottle of Samsara EDP - the dark red bottle. I've decided it's something I just have to smell before I die! (I'm 61 but I hope I've got a bit of time yet...) I'm also South Asian American (American for a bajillion and a half years but was born in India) and I so totally love the kurta/shirt you're wearing here. Simply gorgeous! Keep up the good work, Mr. P ... you're a TH-cam perfume reviewer gem!
Thank you so much for the wonderful comment. And yes, I bought the kurta in India.
You have plenty of time left… but it’s always worth tracking down some vintage Samsara.
@@Persolaise Oh, Mr. P! I just had to tell you (update you)! I've been researching for a long while and finally took the plunge today. I found/bought myself a relatively reasonably priced (given the market), lightly used, 75ml splash bottle - of the original Samsara - from a lovely lady who's husband bought it for her in Paris - at Guerlain's 1989 debut of Samsara! I am simply beside myself - actually dancing with joy - that in just a few days when it arrives in the mail - I will finally be able to get my ancient nose on this masterpiece - at last, at last!!! ☺
@@scp5577 Oh gosh, I really, really hope you like it.
@@Persolaise Will let you know!
Mr. P! Another long comment to end this thread finally and lots of exclamations ahead! My purchase arrived today and has turned out to be, I think, an absolutely authentic, 1989 debut bottle of Samsara EdP! The batch code matches perfectly etc and I'm pinching myself on my good luck (2.4 oz left of the 2.5oz bottle - of the original Samsara EDP - to enjoy the rest of my days!). Beyond the pinching, an hour after dabbing some on, I'm also sniffing my wrists like a madwoman! At first scent, it smelled strongly animalic, but I wasn't concerned - (even today's formulations of Shalimar smell the same to me and the musks/civets of the 1980s must have been different than today?). Anyway - Holy Moly, Mr. P - the dry down!!! I honestly can't find the words myself but I read in an article somewhere that "Indian palaces always have a distinct smell - of wet wood - old books - and dried roses" - (so true) - and this is what Guerlain was aiming for - and, to me, at this moment, that's exactly what my wrists smell like! I feel like with each breath of this treasure of a fragrance that I take from hereon in, I need to bow deeply, to genuflect, to my Indian heritage! Ok - wow - sorry - I'm on a serious mad roll here but I really am done now. I've gone on so long in each message in this thread, however, I feel like it would only be polite to end by actually introducing myself - my name is Sujata - and to thank you so much for your patience, Mr. P! Take good care!
Thank you very much,it is beautiful Granada from Memo and Patio from Botanicae,very natural ,both of them
You're more than welcome. Thanks for watching.
Also Jean Patou’s Joy, Mugler’s Alien, Diorella and Beyond Paradise.
Great choices. Thanks for watching 😊
Perfect pronunciation of La Haie fleurie, Persolaise ! No "h" and you open the "ai" sound like in "lait" and not like in "été" (fewer French do it nowadays... It's just too complicated I guess! ). I like Lysandra from Le Couvent, jasmine and mandarine, very happy, cheeky scent!
Ah, I’ve often heard French people making the distinction between the ai/é sounds in things like ‘cafe au lait.’ I love that kind of detail.
Thanks for your kind words.
I had Samsara EDT many years ago and loved it so much! I plan to repurchase it but I'm having difficulty in choosing between the EDP and EDT versions in the current reformulations... I understand they are different and I cannot find them for testing in the shops in my country! Can you give me an advice please? I am asking you because I trust you're taste in fragrance and love your poetic reviews!
Thanks very much. It’s difficult to advise, but my personal choice would be edp.
@@Persolaise Thank you so much! I'll follow you advice and can't wait to wear it again!
Oooh, I love jasmine. I wonder what Persolaise has to say about Superstitious
"Superstitious, for me, was never going to make it onto this list"
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(thanks for the list, lots I haven't tried and need to check out, take care)
Oh no! Sorry about that.
I find Superstitious very, very interesting (I seem to remember writing a long review for the blog when it first came out) but I have trouble loving it. There’s something about its metallic edge that doesn’t rest easily with me.
You took the words out of my brain I consider alien more of a cashmeran scent than anything
Yes, it seems to be a lot about woods and musks for me.
Many thanks for watching.
Madame Persolaise is such a top 💅🏼
She’s the best.
Thank you for Sharing!! 👌
Thanks for watching.
I love love love Samsara! I had all versions and the original one is still the best and it much creamier and seamless as you say. I like when you get poetical about perfumes 😊
The last version of EdP now comes in a bottle similar to old L'Heure Bleue. It's still very good but somehow they made it harsher in the sandalwood, less complex and it seems they added a bit of sugar as "correction".
I’d imagine that’s because of the presence of synthetic sandalwoods.
Thank you for watching.
I do agree.
I just found out that they discontinued Joy 😮
This makes me really sad - it was one of my late mother's favourites.
Losing a beloved perfume is like losing an old friend...
Yes, the discontinuation of Joy is a scandal.
I loved Samsara. Very feminine.
Agreed.
New and gorgeous jasmine, an immediate buy for me, is Jasmin Antique by Rogue.
There seems to be quite a lot of love for this one. I shall have to check it out.
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I couldn't help notice your a la nuit has a darker tone than the ones I'm seeing on the internet. What would be the difference between the two? I'm talking about the 2000 versions, there's seems to be 2 kinds, different color.
I'm afraid I don't know. Perhaps it's simply a case of one not containing colouring.
is there a perfume that is similar to joy de jean patou?
Oh goodness - that’s a tough one.
Joy is pretty irreplaceable, but maybe something like Lauder Beautiful or Jour D’Hermes might take you into similar territory.
Haha, my mouth fell open when you said you needed to take a call. Naughty Tom 😂
I don’t remember that part.
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Oops! I was commenting on another video while yours started playing- it must have transferred here. My apologies!
Really nice picks.....
Thanks for watching 😊
I didn't realise I had a penchant for jasmine until I watched your review. I have half of your list and didn't necessarily make the jasmine connection 👃🏻🙄
Ah, interesting. I know of quite a few people who don't realise they like jasmine until someone points it out to them.
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Persolaise Perfumes, my pleasure, thank you for taking the time to reply 🙌🏻
I am new at this. but I’m looking a lotion for men and I love jasmin fragrance but I’m not sure which one I have to buy for me !!! please which one do you recommend me 🙏
Hopefully you'll find lots of ideas here and on Persolaise.com :-)
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I adore A La Nuit. It reminds me of home and the Jasmin tree we had in our garden in Brasil. Unfortunately it gave me a raging headache every time I wear it (and I’m not otherwise prone). The first time it happened I couldn’t believe it was the perfume. So I tried, and tried and eventually accepted it’s not for me 😕 I passed it on to my sister for whom it was too grand. She passed it on to my grandmother who happily sprayed through it and then asked for another bottle 😂 So happy end. But I’ve been weary of Jasmine ever since, which is a shame because I love love the scent of the flower ever so much.
Hmm, interesting. I wonder what the reason for your ‘aversion’ might be.
Many thanks for watching.
Love this list, i habe half of the list. And I would add Yves Rocher Tendre Jasmin on my list... 😂😂😂
Wonderful 😊
Thanks very much for watching.
I think A La Nuit is to Jasmine what Carnal Flower is to tuberose. Both photorealistic and natural but I actually think A La Nuit is maybe even better.
I like that comparison - thank you 😊
Jasmine is my favorite floral note, but only when it is only floral. On my skin, when Jasmine is indolic, it always smells like mothballs. I never want to smell like mothballs.
Well... each to their own... :-D
Did you get the chance to smell Jardin Nocturne by Shalini? Would love to have your thoughts on that one 😊
No, not yet. I love the name, though.
It is quite wonderful I think. Composed by Maurice Roucel around jasmine absolute in very high concentration along with saffron and Oud. It manages to be heady and indolic with a slight cool breeze in the background. Compelling.
Sounds like it’s quite something.
Please sir i need pure Jasmine perfume... Just Jasmine
Should i take '' la nuit ''...... I just have love story with Jasmine flower's smell 😍
From the selection in the video, I’d recommend A La Nuit, yes.
Thanks for watching.
@@Persolaise pure Jasmine no other Components... Yes?
A jasmine perfume will always have some other elements to it. I’d recommend getting a sample first before making any purchase 😊
@@Persolaise ok iwill try a sample to confirm..... Tnk you sir your are amazing ❤️👏🏻
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Annick Goutal had a number of soli flore including jasmine, if you can get hold of it. The sample I had was not heavy but all jasmine?
Best Gardenia scents please.....🙏🏿
I’ll see what I can do.
Ombre Leather has Jasmin notes in there
Thanks for that 😊
trayee is truely beautiful.
Absolutely!
Have you ever tried Warszawa by Puredistance?
www.perfumeriaquality.pl/produkt/?product=puredistance-warszawa-perfumy-60ml
It’s so beautiful that it makes the angels cry in my opinion
Yes -- I'm pretty sure I reviewed it in a video.
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Have you tried Jasmine antique by Rogue your thoughts on that
No, I haven't. I'll try to hunt it down.
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@@Persolaise I like to watch your reviews you really know your stuff & I love the way you conduct your reviews insightful & intelligent
That’s so kind, thank you.
Can I ask if you start the list with the top 10, or top 1 first? Haha
No particular order 😉
What is your opinion of Songes EDP?
I’m a big fan of Songes.
@@Persolaise Any thoughts on EDP versus EDT?
@@gunnar368 No specific thoughts: I'd have to compare them side by side.
Oh my you look so very handsome in white
Thank you 😊
Best tea fragrances please!
Great idea. Thanks for watching 😊
Subbed 👍🏼
Thank you so much 😊
Le labo jasmine 17 is God level
Praise indeed.
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What is that jasmine book 👀
It’s a book from Nez; part of a series of books on natural materials.
Hiram green moon bloom
Yes! That's a good one too.
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hello
Hi :-)