Reviews of Clair-Obscur / Jasmine by Keiko Mecheri
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.
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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".
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.
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.
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.
As the others have said, this is a soft, pure, simple, non-indolic presentation of the jasmine note. It's beautiful and endearing in its green-jasmine simplicity. I don't smell any other floral note, but I do find a petitgrain note in the background. Soft sillage and good longevity: Keiko Mecheri's Jasmine is a lovely, lovely solo floral fragrance a clear and unadulterated presentation of this excellent floral note.
This isn't the HG jasmine scent for me either, but still, it's lovely: astonishing verisimilitude in the opening, then a sweet, gourmand-y drydown -- maybe this is the 'tea' thing others are smelling (if it's jasmine tea, it's tea with a lot of sugar and milk). I hated it at first, but there's a warmth to it that has grown on me. It holds on to enough the floral of the opening, but loses any hint of green. Would probably be too sticky in warm weather.Sillage is decent, longevity same.
This smells like jasmine alright! Also a bit like gardenia. Definitely a feminine floral with a touch of sweetness and fruitiness.
Keiko Mecheri's take on Jasmine is very, very green. The first flower note I actually smell when spritzing this scent is honeysuckle! I do get some tiny bit of jasmine, but the tone is overwhelmingly green. Reminds me of Gucci's Envy Me (the pink one). Petitgrain comes through minimally as a woody base - but still extremely green! I wore this for about two weeks and never received a compliment, nor any inquiries...most importantly, I didn't really enjoy it. Sadly, this jasmine leaves me flat.
This smells exactly like some private estate Jasmine tea ( the top of all grades sold ) I drinkin the morning. Incredible , but not too long on my skin. I'd like it much better if it would stick around longer. 6 for duration, 9.5 out of 10 for overall talent in the effort to capturethe true essence of Jasmine as it really is. A bit more Lunar/female oriented , but a man at ease with himself could prob. wear this as meditation on possible purchase grows for me.