Chandler Burr's Take on Jasmine
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Originally Posted by
JBHoren
Jasmine EO... and it's gotta be pungent -- no namby-pamby Aubery Beardsley-ish scent. I've got half-a-tub of The Real Stuff that Charles once made for an equally perverse B&B member, and he (Charles) knows how to do The Right Thing. Don't settle for "almost" -- this tune might not come around again on the jukebox... ya know what I mean?
I was just reading some of the material from Chandler Burr's latest book, The Perfect Scent (the book is about to be published, but I was able to get my hands on an "advance readers' copy"; in a word, buy-it) -- this material is stuff which didn't make it into the book, and is available in excerpts on Basenotes.
OK, enough foreplay. This is what Chandler Burr writes about Jasmine:
Jasmine. Le Labo [a raw-materials-for-perfume store in NYC] has one jasmine that is lighter, less animalic than
most I've ever smelled, hardly any indoles, but that's unusual, and not representative. Jasmine is a sado-masochistic,
slothful, dirty little flower. You can (and everyone does) dress it up and make it presentable before sending it out in
public, but basically the stuff in its natural state is an unwashed beast wearing dirty underwear and stinking from its
armpits. Jasmine is a flower that has an asshole, and you can smell it. It's the indoles.
That's the kind of Jasmine EO shaving soap which Charles made, once upon a time, and the one I'm hoping SRP members will want and that Charles will, once again, make.