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Mandarin and bergamot burst forth with remarkable brightness, their citric sherbet quality immediately complicated by black pepper's dry prickle—a spiced, almost savoury opener that suggests this won't be another creamy jasmine lullaby. The orange blossom's green-white floral character emerges beneath, already hinting at the jasmine abundance to follow.
As the citric effervescence settles, the jasmine absolutes bloom into their full honeyed, creamy expression, supported by rose's cool eucalyptic facets and magnolia's subtle soapiness. The composition achieves remarkable balance here—sweet without being cloying, floral without theatrical excess, revealing the patchouli's earthy undertones and benzoin's soft vanillic warmth beneath.
What remains is primarily a powdery, softly amber-tinged skin scent where sandalwood and benzoin form a creamy base, the jasmine reduced to an abstract memory of sweetness. The patchouli becomes slightly more prominent in these final hours, grounding the composition with subtle earthiness as the florals gradually dissolve into gentle, skin-warm powder.
Flora Gorgeous Jasmine announces itself as a fragrance caught between restraint and indulgence. Alberto Morillas has crafted something that reads as fundamentally floral without the suffocating density such a brief might suggest. The mandarin orange blossom opening operates as a clever foil—its luminous, slightly bitter green character prevents the Jasminum and Sambac from cloying into syrup. Instead, these twin jasmine absolutes create a creamy, almost opulent core that hovers between the honeyed warmth of true absolute and something altogether more refined, a quality enhanced by the cool, almost mentholated edge of Damask rose cutting through.
The magnolia adds a subtle soapy-green dimension that prevents the composition from surrendering entirely to sweetness, though the benzoin in the base certainly pulls things toward powder and amber. Australian sandalwood contributes a soft, almost creamy smoothness rather than the structural backbone one might expect—this is jasmine perfumery, after all, not sandalwood perfumery. The Indonesian patchouli remains deliberately muted, offering earthiness as a whisper rather than a statement.
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