Jasmagonda 23.1
Parfumerie Generale (2018)

A salty/sweet powdery diaphane Parfumerie Generale-concoction created by the ingenious Pierre Guillaume (in its typical dusty-liquid conceptual assertive-meditative style) based on a game of contrasts (salty marine notes and dusty-sweet woody powder, floral leafiness and woody earthiness, citric initial fizziness and tonkinian final softness). Lymphatic Magnolia is laced with ozonic patterns, watery cedarwood, "liquid vetiver" and citrus nailing down a sort of standoffish fluidy moody (urban but vaguely "asian") acid effect while vanillin and "sugary" tonka provide a somewhat ambery soapy-dusty (sweeter) final "pillow". This creation seems lacking full structure and substance, as I detect sometimes while testing on skin several entirerly natural watery-woody pretentious niche creations. In a nutshell I frankly find Jasmagonda overly fragile and distant, though this juice seems finally rooting its (secret) quality in a sort of "classic" spicy-fresher ostensibly-fougerè ghostly undertone a la vintage Ysl Opium PH Edt or Boucheron Jaipur Edt (unless this is on the contrary just the olfactive illusion provided to my nose by the contrast with the smell of the juice I'm wearing "on the neck" while reviewing). This mysterious quality partially redeems the basic olfactory vacuity of the whole olfactory fatigue. To bè thoroughly tested "case by case, skin by skin".