Clair-Obscur / Jasmine
Keiko Mecheri (2000)

I found this jasmine fragrance quite sweet, and I normally have quite a bit of tolerance for sweet frags. To me this smells like jasmine with a big layer of caster sugar on top. It would have been lovely if the sweetness was toned down and the jasmine a bit fresher.

Very VERY pretty jasmine soliflore. Ten years ago I was hard-pressed to give KM Jasmine three stars. However it's freshness and simplicity has since grown on me. It doesn't last for more than four hours or so on my skin, which is fine by me because by then I'm ready to move on to something else anyways. But I thoroughly enjoy every time I visit this very realistic clean fresh jasmine.

A very pretty non-indolic jasmine.

I am not sure how the newest formula smells, but I have the bottle with the leather patch and titled "Jasmine".

Just a note: this has been renamed and is now called Clair Obscur.

This is a beautiful floral perfume. Jasmine gets the starring role (and it's a beautiful jasmine, deep and slightly green like really good jasmine tea), but the supporting players are important and just as good, notably orange blossom, tuberose, roses, and heady realistic gardenia. The gardenia adds a rich butter and brie cheese quality to the perfume, a perfect overstuffed pillow for the jasmine and its heady indoles. Meanwhile, the orange blossom and tuberose combine to form a Giorgio Beverly Hills type of sweet feminity, while the rose, which is spicy and resinous and kind of citrusy, melts deliciously into the butter smell.

Clair Obscur is the kind of perfume that seems deceptively simple but smells different every time I sniff my arm. Necessary sniffing for jasmine fanatics and lovers of slightly difficult gardenias.

Sarrasins mashed into Play-Doh. Intriguing but just too weird.

A very clear presentation, somewhat linear of Jasmine. It is beautiful and has a hint of Perhaps...Honeysuckle? BUT it is not really unisex, a classic female fragrance. I gave it to my wife who fell in love with it. She says it has no longevity for her, but I smell it for 3 hours or so.