Milestones in order. This is history, not a weekly activity grid.
- Sambac east
- Grasse jasmine
- No. 5 jasmine
- Joy
- Hedione
- Samsara
- A La Nuit
- Jasmin Rouge
- Chanel fields
- Hedione share
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Quick answers
What is Jasmine?
Sambac or grandiflorum — cream by day, animal gold after dusk.
EDP vs EDT — what changes?
Concentration is oil in alcohol, not a quality score. EDT (about 5–15%) shows more top; EDP (about 15–20%) shows more heart and base. Houses vary; this is not a lab assay.
How should I wear Jasmine?
One or two sprays on skin or cloth — sternum or hair, not a cloud in a lift. Let it turn an hour before you add more.
Which season fits?
Warm evenings. Cold rooms turn it soapy.
Does skin chemistry change it?
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.
What about IFRA and oakmoss?
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.
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.
Timeline
- Sambac east
Jasminum sambac moves through South and Southeast Asia as hair and rite flower.
- Grasse jasmine
J. grandiflorum naturalized in Provence as a perfume crop.
- No. 5 jasmine
Ernest Beaux and Chanel lock Grasse jasmine into an aldehydic monument.
- Joy
Patou’s jasmine load beside rose — the two-flower canon.
- Hedione
Firmenich’s methyl dihydrojasmonate: air, tea, and modern jasmine without full indole.
- Samsara
Guerlain’s sandal-jasmine; late grand-floral oriental.
- A La Nuit
Lutens / Sheldrake: sambac as night, banana and indole.
- Jasmin Rouge
Tom Ford’s spicy red jasmine as boutique night floral.
- Chanel fields
Publicized Grasse partnerships restage jasmine as terroir branding.
- Hedione share
Indole and some naturals managed; hedione takes more of the air.
The eras
- Crop and attar — Provence fields and Kannauj stills, not yet a “note pyramid” story.
- Absolute luxury — No. 5 and Joy make jasmine a measurable extravagance.
- Hedione air — The molecule lets jasmine float in eaux and masculines (Eau Sauvage lineage).
- Night niche — Samsara, A La Nuit, Ford — jasmine as dusk and sandal.
- Terroir plus tea — Named Grasse fields and transparent hedione teas share the shelf.
Milestones
- Grasse grandiflorum — The French jasmine that luxury houses still name in copy and contracts.
- Hedione, 1962 — Changed every “fresh jasmine” after Eau Sauvage’s era.
- A La Nuit, 2000 — Sambac as a night portrait, not a French absolute clone.
Jasmine keeps moving; the other six chapters say what one date cannot.
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