Jasmin Noir Bvlgari 2008 Eau de Parfum
Jasmin Noir begins against type: the opening gardenia and green notes read clean and almost watery, a deliberate misdirection before jasmine takes command.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Jasmine85
- Musk50
- Patchouli45
- Tonka40
- Amber40
By the editors · 2 min readJasmin Noir begins against type: the opening gardenia and green notes read clean and almost watery, a deliberate misdirection before jasmine takes command. The jasmine sambac at the heart is the composition's strongest asset — rich, slightly indolic, white-petaled but with the particular shadow that sambac carries differently from grandiflorum. Almond wraps it in a creamy, marzipan warmth without going confectionary.
The base reveals the Noir ambition: patchouli darkens the wood accord, licorice introduces an anise-edged medicinal streak unexpected in a floral, and tonka brings sweetness back from the edge. Bvlgari played the contradiction well — a summer jasmine in a Gothic dry-down. Discontinued, which makes collector bottles worth the search.
