Private Collection Jasmin White Moss Estée Lauder
A white floral perfume with an unexpectedly mossy backbone, Jasmin White Moss opens brisk and green—galbanum cutting through bergamot like a blade through citrus peel.
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.
- Jasmine60
- Oakmoss40
- Vetiver35
- Patchouli35
- Iris30
By the editors · 2 min readA white floral perfume with an unexpectedly mossy backbone, Jasmin White Moss opens brisk and green—galbanum cutting through bergamot like a blade through citrus peel. The brightness doesn't linger. Within minutes, jasmine emerges flanked by orris and violet, lending the composition a soft, powdery coolness that tempers the flower's usual indolic warmth. Ylang-ylang adds a faint creamy sweetness, but never dominates.
The base is where this diverges from typical white florals. Oakmoss, vetiver, and patchouli create a shadowy, earthy foundation that pulls the jasmine downward, grounding it in something closer to a classic chypre structure than a modern floral. The moss feels restrained by contemporary standards—present but muted—yet it's enough to give the perfume an old-fashioned dignity.
This suits someone who finds most white florals too shrill or sweet, preferring their jasmine tempered by something darker and less overtly romantic. It wears formal, reserved, slightly austere.