David Moltz | The Scented Hound

WHAT I SMELL: Jazmin Yucatan opens with an aquatic tinged passion flower that’s a bit chewy and which quickly explodes into a rounded aquatic infused jasmine. The perfume is big without being overwhelming and it’s clean and fresh with just a hint of jungle earthiness. You can almost feel the sun-kissed jasmine being tossed by the warm winds pushing northward across the Yucatan Peninsula. As the perfume slowly develops, an earthy vetiver creates a rattan like base for the jasmine to sit upon. In the end, Jazmin Yucatan settles into a cottony fresh linen. Jazmin Yucatan is quite linear, but that’s just fine, because it’s meant to be worn in the heat of the warm Mexican sun where it can lightly radiate its floral beauty.

From the D.S. & Durga website:

Jungle, humidity, snake plants, jazmín yucateco, crocodile by the cenote, shaded temple, limestone ruins.

Top notes: water, passion flower, bergamot

Heart notes: jazmin yucateco, sambac, clove

Base notes: snake plant, vetiver, copal

WHAT IT SMELLS LIKE TO ME: Jasmine wafting amongst the Mayan temples dotting the landscape of the Yucatan Peninsula.

THREE WORDS THAT DESCRIBE JAZMIN YUCATAN: moistened, cottony, rounded

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT JAZMIN YUCATAN: Colognoisseur, Notetaking

BOTTOM LINE: Jazmin Yucatan does capture the earthy floral environment of the Yucatan peninsula and takes the heady jasmine and tames it nicely. Groundbreaking, no. Lovely, yes.

Bone Rating: 3 out of possible 5 bones
Scent: Floral
Nose: David Moltz
Classification: Unisex
Expense: Starting at $175 for 50 ml eau de parfum

WHAT I SMELL: Oh how I love an opening that’s creamy, heady, full of smooth as silk orris butter and orange blossom and that’s big, big, big and incredibly intoxicating. Phew…it’s like diving into a tub filled with the most narcotic of jasmine, ylang, ylang and tuberose blossoms. With all of this going on, there’s a green melon note that lurks below the florals and a dried and distinctive chrysanthemum note that smells like pencil shavings. The perfume is pure heaven in that it’s exotic, beautiful, dreamy and incredibly rapturous. It’s also full of life…big life. The perfume continues to green as it wears, but the hypnotic florals seems to glide on, albeit a bit quieter. In the end, the beautiful florals thankfully don’t make way for a nondescript wood or musk. Instead, the perfume retains this lush green fruity floral persona that at times feels like bouquet of the flowers and at other times it has a strangely curious fruity gourmand feel that makes you want to lick the goodness off of your skin. Durga has clearly cast its spell on me.

From the D.S. & Durga website:

Palatial doses of the finest floral absolutes –
tuberose, orris butter, orange blossom, sambac jasmine,
chrysanthemum, and ylang. Unimaginably narcotic.

WHAT IT SMELLS LIKE TO ME: A jubilant floral explosion.

THREE WORDS THAT DESCRIBE DURGA: bountiful, voluminous, concentrated

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT DURGA: None to be found.

BOTTOM LINE: I believe by now it’s clearly obvious that I love this perfume. And why not, it holds everything that I love, heady white florals, orris butter, and the most intoxicating tuberose. Some may question the price, but to me, this limited edition of floral heaven is worth every penny!

Bone Rating: 4.5 out of possible 5 bones
Scent: Floral Green
Nose: David Moltz
Classification: Feminine
Expense: $350 for 50 ml eau de parfum – limited edition

* Sample courtesy of Twisted Lily Fragrance Boutique and Apothecary. Opinion my own.