What are the best jasmine-scented products?

October 6, 2023 8:41 AM

I'm obsessed with the smell of jasmine...please give me your TESTED favorite jasmine-scented products. Only if you personally love the thing!
posted by tiny frying pan to Shopping (17 answers total)

Best answer: I liked Le Labo’s Jasmin 17 scent.
posted by shock muppet at 9:22 AM on October 6, 2023 [2 favorites]

Best answer: Loose leaf jasmine green tea. Steep at 88C or less. There is always a pot of this active in our house, in addition to the other pot which rotates among black and herbal teas.
posted by seanmpuckett at 9:43 AM on October 6, 2023 [3 favorites]

Best answer: I'm among the mourners of Lush's discontinued Flying Fox line. Occasionally you'll be able to find similar scents (their solid perfume Lust or shampoo bar Godiva), but I miss the body wash. Dupes of this could be a direction to go in?
posted by fast ein Maedchen at 9:55 AM on October 6, 2023 [2 favorites]

Best answer: Pandan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandanus_amaryllifolius) is a flavor commonly used in SE Asia which contains the same scent compound as jasmine. You can buy frozen pandan leaves or pandan extract to cook or bake with.

I usually put a few drops of extract in the rice cooker because it makes the house smell fantastic.
posted by eraserbones at 10:03 AM on October 6, 2023 [4 favorites]

Best answer: Another tea: Adagio Jasmine Silver Needle. It's a white tea, so the jasmine flavor feels more prominent than with jasmine green tea. I always have some on hand.
posted by expialidocious at 10:19 AM on October 6, 2023

Following this thread with interest and want to add: actual fresh jasmine has a delightful and delicate scent that is nothing like any "jasmine scented" thingamajig I have ever smelled (unlike, say, lavender or rose scented things which usually do smell like the real deal). Jasmine scented things are to real jasmine scent as banana flavored lafft taffy is to real bananas, IME. It is the original scent plus a fuckton of ... sugar.

I'm very interested to know if others feel the same way and if so, are there any products which DO smell like real jasmine.
posted by MiraK at 10:32 AM on October 6, 2023 [3 favorites]

Best answer: For perfume (and I do love jasmine, but I should note that I absolutely do not like smelling strong perfume on others and find it pretty inconsiderate so I am extremely sparing with these, they're just for myself, and never when I know I'm going to be in closed spaces with other people):

-Nest Wisteria Bloom eau de parfum, can get in a smaller less expensive rollerball from Sephora (I only ever get rollerballs, why commit) 😊
- Nest Perfume Oil in Indian Jasmine, very expensive but Sephora has a set of testers that can be layered (and this one really should be), some combinations are quite lovely and I like to add it to a bit of hair styling finishing oil
- Gucci Bloom, also in rollerball form, but I find this one a bit overpowering but it's nice in the tiniest lightest application
posted by mireille at 10:38 AM on October 6, 2023 [1 favorite]

Best answer: It's a niche category to be sure, but these are the best jasmine-scented pencils I have ever encountered.

(The same company makes these for Imogen Owen.)
posted by box at 11:00 AM on October 6, 2023 [1 favorite]

Best answer: I love these jasmine shampoo bars from Kealia Organics.
posted by tomboko at 12:55 PM on October 6, 2023

Best answer: I came in here to recommend Lush's Henna & Jasmine hair treatment. It's a conditioner you leave in for awhile, and then rinse out, but it's heavily perfumed. I tried it once and while I love what it did for my hair, it actually made me realize that I hate the scent of jasmine, as the scent stayed in my hair for two weeks (and I shampoo daily)!
posted by carlypennylane at 4:39 PM on October 6, 2023

Best answer: This Jasmine Dragon Phoenix Pearl tea has been my favorite jasmine tea since i worked in a fancy cafe in the 90s. It is pricy, but they list the price per cup so you can see exactly how much you're spending for amazing jasmine green tea and/or you can buy a sample packet.

I am fond of Jasmine sambac (which is what most tea is usually scented with) and Eden Botanicals has a really nice essential oil absolute that must be diluted in other oils or perfumer's alcohol for the scent to really bloom.
posted by oneirodynia at 7:14 PM on October 6, 2023

Best answer: The Rance Creme Grasse soap is my favorite!
posted by Jane Austen at 7:29 PM on October 6, 2023 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Another Flying Fox fanatic here. LUSH has a scent family called Lust that is definitely different than the fabulous honey foxiness of the beloved long lost stuff but is even more full of jasmine. As a jasmine fan I love it. They sell these things they call washcards if you want to try out the scent before you spend any real money.
posted by RobinofFrocksley at 8:39 PM on October 6, 2023 [3 favorites]

Best answer: I personally love:

1. Thé Pour Un Été by L'Artisan -- it has mint and tea along with the jasmine scent. It is my summer go-to perfume.

2. My own little jasmine plant, the cultivar "Maid of Orleans". I've had it for almost a decade, it's survived a lot of my other houseplants. By placing it in a sunny south window and giving it a squirt of houseplant food every few weeks, I have flushes of lovely fragrant blossoms several times a year. I've been considering some other cultivars too!
posted by Hypatia at 6:33 AM on October 7, 2023

Response by poster: (I have a plant but it's only flowered twice so far! I guess I better give it some food!)
posted by tiny frying pan at 6:43 AM on October 7, 2023

Best answer: Diptyque says its fragrant Do Son is mostly tuberose, but it's pretty much all jasmine on my skin. Worth a try!
posted by yasaman at 9:32 AM on October 7, 2023

Best answer: The site is a bit sketchy and they ship by boat so it takes 2-3 weeks, but I have never had a better jasmine pearl tea than Te Ji Pearl from Teaspring (not the t-shirt company). They are Hog Kong-based, if that matters to you.
posted by wnissen at 10:28 AM on October 9, 2023