Jasmine

JASMINE I love perfume and my collection of perfumes has floral scents with a common medium note, known as the heart of fragrance, of jasmine, with other medium notes of rose, gardenia, lily. A perfume has top notes or different scents that evaporate as soon as put on the skin. The medium or heart notes of the perfume do not evaporate and linger on the skin longer. So my favorite floral scent of jasmine stays on me and others are drawn to the rich, sweet, spring breeze smell of this flower. I like to hear them say “You smell so good”. I love jasmine’s exotic, sensual scent. I find its fragrance intense and intoxicating especially when others ask “what am I wearing?” And I always remember the arabian jasmine. The arabian jasmine I smelled every night when I was a little girl in the Philippines for the flowers close in the morning and open at night with intense fragrance. The national flower of the Philippines is the sampaguita or arabian jasmine. I am drawn to the sweet floral scent of jasmine for I have a connection with it since childhood and my familiarity with its rich, intense, exotic smell. I love jasmine, simply for its sweet floral, yet sensual, seductive smell. 3/22/21 Favorite Scent(S) Poetry Chantelle Anne Cooke