Tom Ford Jasmin Rouge EDP 100ml For Women

I’m quickly coming to the conclusion that it’s hard to judge a perfume until I’ve actually tried to wear it. There’s something about a perfume’s texture, especially, that doesn’t reveal itself until you put it on skin. Jasmine Rouge is a great example of this, because on the smelling strip I didn’t get much from it–decent jasmine, I thought, and started to put it away. Then I casually applied some on one wrist just in case. What I smelled made me reopen my browser and start looking.

This stuff looks kind of crazy on paper, with a long list of exotic spices that would lead the reviewer to expect some sort of Orientalist fantasy carpet. But Jasmin Rouge has a touch of the gourmand supporting its jasmine, with those spices acting as mouthwatering garnishes to its underpinnings of (yes, that is really Mexican) vanilla.

When worn, the quality of ingredients in this perfume show in the way it envelops you in a cool, soft cloud of these usually loud materials–a comforting texture like freshly fluffed feather pillows. The real beauty of this fragrance lies there, in the sensation of wearing something both texturally alien and familiar.