Jasmine, 16: Grasse jasmine
Patou’s jasmine load beside rose — the two-flower canon. Keep Jasmine with “Grasse jasmine” and 16 from 16. Firmenich’s methyl dihydrojasmonate: air, tea, and modern jasmine without full indole.
Warm evenings. Cold rooms turn it soapy. Yes. Warm, moist skin amplifies sweet and spice; dry or cool skin can turn the same juice woody, soapy or short. Test on your skin, not only a blotter. IFRA sets industry limits on some naturals and synthetics. A reformulation is usually a legal edit, not a betrayal. This atlas is not a safety sheet.
Read the materials chapter for the actual load. Niche and designer often share a family and disagree on dose. No. This atlas is cultural and editorial. Fragrance can irritate; oakmoss, eugenol, citrus oils and musks are common triggers. See a clinician for reactions. Nothing here is a diagnosis, treatment or safety sheet.
Jasmine did not arrive as one bottle. The timeline below keeps Grasse, Guerlain, Chanel, Nahéma and IFRA as proper names, not metaphors. Read the years as a map of trade and reformulation, not as a ranking of beauty. Jasminum sambac moves through South and Southeast Asia as hair and rite flower.
On the blotter, keep 16, “Grasse jasmine,” and 16. Without them Jasmine blurs. Keep Jasmine with “Grasse jasmine” and 16 from 16. 1616
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 16
- Figure kept
- 16
- Scent
- Jasmine
- Trial line
- Grasse jasmine