TOM FORD Jasmin Rouge Eau de Parfum

Ahh, Jasmin Rouge..

On first spritz, it'll not only knock your socks off, it pretty near blows everything away. It's "throw your clothes off and dance around the house naked" level of Deliriously Happy. This is the *best* Tuberose-Jasmine blend of all time.

Due to the price point, I spent close to a year testing every conceivable jasmine and tuberose, hoping to find a near dupe. On the economical end, Michael Kors' "Michael", or Michael Kors' "Michael Kors", layered with Guerlain's Terracotta, comes close. On the upper range, Xinú's OroNardo is a dead ringer. OroNardo is equivalently priced to TFJR, and fails as a substitute. (Bonus points for gorgeous bottle design though).

Aside from the tuberose omission, the user pyramid vote order appears right. TFJR leads with Jasmine & ylang, with a good dose of friendly spices beneath. Labdanum, leather, amber, and vanilla are well blended enough, that none steal the spotlight.

During said year of saving, across 2 birthdays and a Christmas, I've finally accumulated enough L u c k y s c e n t gift certs to make a purchase! It's time to take the Unicorn out for a spin.

Very occasionally the Tom Ford hype train is to be believed. When it comes to Jasmin Rouge, this is one of those times.

If you don't like naturalistic, heady jasmine, this isn't for you. Run screaming. If you are obsessed with narcotic, naturalistic, intoxicating jasmine, you are in for a most delightful treat. Alien who??

I'm a bit confounded by the expansive note pyramid, because aside from a few murmuring whispers of the cinnamon and clary sage (honestly a stroke of genius here and not something I expected to bolster the starring flower), I detect only the purest sunny jasmine. And what a trail, what an aura she leaves. I've been looking for the kind of jasmine that wafts over the hot concrete sidewalks in summertime heat miles before you even catch a glimpse of the flowers. I've been looking for the jasmine I smelled poolside in an illicit night rendezvous - shapes in the shadows, suggestion, flirtation, surrender - and then I saw it, sprawling organically, hugely over the back wall, a massive jasmine overgrowth - inviting and lush and heated and utterly forbidden to me, much like everything else that ruled that encounter.

It's beginning to edge out Salome in terms of my signature. Alternating between both seems to be key. If it's not utterly, riotously sensuous, I want no part of it.

Sillage is epic and gorgeous and sinuous. Use sparingly, or your whole life will be redolent with Jasmin Rouge (which is perfectly fine by me, but for others? Courtesy should be exercised.)

A soliflore of my dreams. Blindingly beautiful. Intoxicating as hell. What on earth are you waiting for? Whether worn by day or night, for all my life, I'll be desperately, hopelessly in love.

There are two types of reaction to jasmine soliflores: first, there are people who say ‘oh yesss, bring it on!’ while the other group runs screaming to open the windows... Then again, not all jasmine fragrances provoke such extreme reactions, because even among them one can discern several types: (1) strong, dirty, indolic jasmine, e.g. Lush Lust, Carthusia Gelsomini di Capri or Nasomatto Nuda, (2) soft, sweetish and pleasant jasmine, e.g. the sadly discontinued Guerlain Jasminora, The Body Shop Indian Night Jasmine or Yves Rocher Tender Jasmin, (3) the unclassifiable cold, aloof, alien jasmine, as in Bvlgari Jasmin Noir or - Mugler Alien. Now, Tom Ford Jasmin Rouge belongs to the second, inoffensive category; it is very pretty and feminine. Aside from jasmine, the only notes that I can detect are lemon/bergamot in the beginning and a tiny bit of leather and vanilla in the drydown. It doesn’t have monster sillage, but it’s very long lasting (8+ hours easily). The only thing to dislike about this fragrance is its obnoxious price: 240€ for a 50ml bottle. Honestly I have no idea why someone would wanna pay that much money for a jasmin fragrance, when there are some excellent and much cheaper alternatives out there, such as the aforementioned Jasminora (if you can get hold of it), or Tender Jasmin (which is widely available and very reasonably priced). If I ever get rich and famous (or just rich lol), I might treat myself and buy this frag; but it is much more likely that it’ll be discontinued long before I make my first million.

... killing me softly with Jasmin Rouge ...

This fragrance is like a pulsing animality that could tear your emotions apart.
It´s like a crimson heart beating wildly under the pale skin.
It´s a drama - but nothing in the Beau Monde style.
It´s more like a provocative look and the sentence:"Can we burn something, babe?"
Let´s be clear - this is a monodrama.
The only one performer is jasmine - buttery jasmine, opulent jasmine, arrogant jasmine, intoxicating jasmine, impudent jasmine, honey-sweet jasmine & then again jasmine with all its facets /and a dirty trace of cardamom and cinnamon in addition, so submissive, so insignificant/.
And that´s all, folks.
I feel like I am drowning in this scent - and I can´t get enough.

I have had the 3.4oz bottle of this juice for a while. I barely made a dent on it although I reach for it at least once a month. I was traveling last week. I used it with the body lotion. This older gentleman walked up to me and said :It is a crime to smell this awesome, I should report you to TSA". I am not a morning person, I laughed so hard to a point people were looking and wondering why is this crazy chick laughing. I told him what I was wearing, he asked me if I could order it for his wife. I walked to the terminal, pulled my laptop and ordered the fragrance for his wife. A week later his wife called me to tell he that she had never smell anything as delicious as this fragrance is. The husband said he had a good night with her (no need to elaborate, we know what he meant) The moral of the story is, our perfumes can make people approach us and we can make friends when we least expect it.