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10/28/2012
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A Misnamed but Beautiful Bouquet
Let me begin by boldly proclaiming that I love Lyn Harris. I bought a bottle of JASMIN VERT scent unsniffed because I've yet to encounter an unworthy creation by this perfumer. She numbers among a small cluster of perfumers truly beloved to me for the simple reason that they really make perfumes, which one can no longer take for granted these days, with "niche" houses proliferating like rabbits. Everything Lyn Harris makes is so complex and so thoughtfully composed and so full of wonderfully natural notes, that I gambled in a rare feat of abject induction. My faith was not shaken.
JASMIN VERT is a very perfumey, feminine jasmine composition, and it contains so much more than jasmine that I feel that it's name does not do it justice. I love jasmine, of course. However, there is something slightly scary about a perfume named JASMIN VERT. Would it be like sharp, mean, green CABOTINE? one might wonder, if altogether ignorant of the nature of the Miller Harris collection. Still, I have to confess that I braced myself a bit the first time I applied this perfume, not sure exactly what I was in for.
Well, I was in for beauty, as usual. I wonder, frankly, whether others have been frightened by the name. Why does no one else seem to own this perfume but sherapop????? It's certainly not because this perfume is a flop, because it's not. No, this perfume is a flaming success. I love it. Jasmine mingling with narcissus and rose and "boronia"--whatever that is--all ensconced in a gorgeous base. Maybe that's the problem: expectations of a jasmine soliflore are swiftly dashed and may lead to disappointment. The bouquet is slightly green, but only slightly, and I do not personally find the hay note detectable in this composition. I am familiar with hay in perfumes: Jean Patou 1000 and Henri Bendel MIMOSA, but I do not smell it here.
My only reservation about this beautiful, feminine jasmine-narcissus-rose bouquet is that after a big bodacious opening, it seems to fade rather fast. I have the eau de parfum, so the concentration is not in question--again, given my experience with this house, which does not, grace à Dieu (or reasonable facsimile), pour eau de cologne into perfume bottles like so many other houses today. So I wonder whether I experience a touch of olfactory fatigue induced by the big sillage, impossible to ignore opening?
Well, who cares. No one will be offended by this luxuriant bouquet, no matter how much I spray!
JASMIN VERT is a very perfumey, feminine jasmine composition, and it contains so much more than jasmine that I feel that it's name does not do it justice. I love jasmine, of course. However, there is something slightly scary about a perfume named JASMIN VERT. Would it be like sharp, mean, green CABOTINE? one might wonder, if altogether ignorant of the nature of the Miller Harris collection. Still, I have to confess that I braced myself a bit the first time I applied this perfume, not sure exactly what I was in for.
Well, I was in for beauty, as usual. I wonder, frankly, whether others have been frightened by the name. Why does no one else seem to own this perfume but sherapop????? It's certainly not because this perfume is a flop, because it's not. No, this perfume is a flaming success. I love it. Jasmine mingling with narcissus and rose and "boronia"--whatever that is--all ensconced in a gorgeous base. Maybe that's the problem: expectations of a jasmine soliflore are swiftly dashed and may lead to disappointment. The bouquet is slightly green, but only slightly, and I do not personally find the hay note detectable in this composition. I am familiar with hay in perfumes: Jean Patou 1000 and Henri Bendel MIMOSA, but I do not smell it here.
My only reservation about this beautiful, feminine jasmine-narcissus-rose bouquet is that after a big bodacious opening, it seems to fade rather fast. I have the eau de parfum, so the concentration is not in question--again, given my experience with this house, which does not, grace à Dieu (or reasonable facsimile), pour eau de cologne into perfume bottles like so many other houses today. So I wonder whether I experience a touch of olfactory fatigue induced by the big sillage, impossible to ignore opening?
Well, who cares. No one will be offended by this luxuriant bouquet, no matter how much I spray!
