Sarrasins Serge Lutens for women

Sarrasins is all about jasmine. Much indolic than other jasmine scents and much more masculine than any flowery fragrances. Perfection in the botle and history of using jasmine as most masculine flowers by Persian fighters. It helps you understand why males from Islamic culture often decorate their hair with jasmine. This is nothing about female. It can be at least strange for western people but we have to "recalibrate" our thinking. Sarrasin is like vacation in the Middle Eastern countries - warm and sensual nights, best food, amazing people. The fragrance is very deep, a litle sweet and woody. Jasmine in Sarrasin is very natural, flowery not artificial at all. You can almost feel juice freshly extracted from flowers. It lasts forever. It can be a little challenge for western man to weare it but believe me it is amazing experience. Go and taste it.

Jasmine, jasmine, jasmine and then some more jasmine. Sweet and heady and indolent. I guess jasmine lovers will appreciate this, but I surely don't.

I was wondering what a bright purple perfume would smell like. Would it be thematically appropriate? The answer is that it might represent purple lilacs, but doesn’t quite do it. Right out of the sample vial I smell a strong lilac note, possibly an illusion produced by the expectation of something purple. In any case, it quickly morphs into an indolic white floral, namely a huge jasmine fully worthy of the 1980s. As another reviewer pointed out, it is what Alien could and should have been, although it doesn’t have the longevity of Alien.

The jasmine sillage lasts for 5 hours or so, then dries down to a slightly sour-smelling jasmine skin scent. I suppose that if you’re going to make yet another jasmine perfume you need a gimmick, and the bright purple color certainly provides one. Jasmine soliflores are some of my least favorite perfumes, so Sarrasins was overall a disappointment. However, if you’re a jasmine lover, you will probably love Sarrasins.

I remember attending a lecture at university about ancient Indian jewellery, in which the distinction was made between the way we polish up precious stones today in comparison with their 2,000 year old counterparts.

Walk past a jewellery display and the stones are polished to a shiny gleam that stretches out of them as many beams of coloured light as possible.
But Indian jewels were buffed to a dull matte finish, so that any light passing through would glow gently with a sultry warmth.

If Patou's 'Joy' or Luten's own 'A la Nuit' are bright, classical treatments of jasmine that are polished to a contemporary gleam, Sarrasins is a tribute to la fleur in the Indian mode, leaning towards an heavily indolic suede that brings out a melancholy I have come to expect (and love) from Uncle Serge.

This is all in stark contrast to the sharp blast that kicks the perfume off, when I detect menthol, pear, eucalyptus and jasmine all together in a loud minor chord that takes a good few minutes to settle down into its leathery central theme.

Jasmine is a note that I love on the blotter but never consider wearing. If I were to change my mind, this would be the first on my list.

Jasmine is so prominent, even all the other notes are here for my nose too. I don't know if I like it, but it is very memorable, hard to forget scent with a strong character. Purple color and the bottle are gorgeous. I am not a lover of floral scents or the note of jasmine, but this scent is impressive.
Edited: at the dry down the scent becomes sweet (like aldehydes sometimes smell) and musky on my skin.

I wish I could wear this, but I am clearly not ready for it. The opening smells like cat-poo and bad breath on me - with a little bit of flowers too. I tried to be patient, but I had to scrub it off after about 20 minutes as I couldn't bring myself to wear it to work.

first wearing today. haven't experienced dry down yet, so i won't comment on that or longevity.
top notes for me: 'floral notes' comes off as ylang ylang with a sharp, sweet-plasticky tang. then, if I hold my nose to it to let it develop, I get something a tiny bit animalistic, like brushing my face against a clean sheep skin with traces of lanolin. this fades fast and becomes more recognizable as jasmine - freshness with an underlying hint of fleshy decay. fascinating.
after a few hrs, i'm still getting jasmine, but it's sweet, persistent, and gentle. very comforting. maybe a hint of spicy carnation, but nothing distinct.
i love the purple color.

This smells like falling head-first into a bush of indolic jasmine in full bloom! As you're trying to make your way out of said bush, wriggling your feet perhaps, something dark and commanding ensues. This is the truest jasmine I have ever smelt, and if jasmine was my favourite flower, this would be a must.Unfortunately, it's not, but you have to appreciate the cunningly seductive allure of this scent. This Sarrasin is an assassin.

For me it is a sort of ALIEN brought to perfection! THe deepness, the darkness, the staying power of that wonderfully gorgeous jasmine is to me MY Jasmine signature scent...and I used to Love Alien so much.. this is my new love and for now I say goodbye to you Alien..maybe we meet again someday..It is worth the price and I got myself the brilliant bell jar bottle at least..

Jasmine, is without a doubt one of my favourite scents. Especially when it has been freshly cut from the tree and placed in a vase. Many jasmine-based fragrances tend to add too many other components that ultimately destroy this fresh and delightful scent. Sarrasins, is in my opinion, the closest I have found to that true jasmine smell.

Opening as a rich, monster of a jasmine with a touch of sweetness, Sarrasins is by far one of the loudest florals I've ever encountered. While bright and fresh, Sarrasins tends to have a somewhat dark feel to it, almost in a gothic sense.

To my nose, Sarrasins isn't particularly modern, it has an old-fashioned and nostalgic presence. I see a mysterious woman, dressed in dark colours, with long, flowing hair, sending wafts of Sarrasins around her in a haze.

Despite Sarrasins darkness, it does have some brighter moments, especially with the introduction of the musk which softens the overall scent.

For some, the jasmine in Sarrasins may be too sweet and realistic. I personally love this fragrance, however it is a far cry from the creamy white florals that I'm used to.

The lasting strength is superb, as can be said for the sillage as well. For those that like me sought to find the perfect jasmine fragrance, Sarrasins is one that mustn't be ignored because of its price and availability.

This opens with a burst of jasmine--clean and bright. Then I swear there are indoles--that thing that kind of makes this smell like rotted flowers or really bad breath. Apparently, natural jasmine contains 2.5% indoles, so I'm not going crazy. But its presence is pretty light, and kind of makes this a dirty jasmine scent. I prefer the bubblier (and cheaper!) Annick Goutal Les Jasmin, though.

These "pictures "comes to mind when I smell Sarrasins:
You are on your way home after a perfect evening out. It´s summer but it´s a bit chilly cause you are just wearing a flowing white summerdress. You can hear crickets as you pass a night-scented jasmin wich scent fills the surrounding air.
Sarrasins is all about Jasmin and it oozes out of every poar. It evolves to a fenomenal amalgamation of jasmin and musk without ever being cloying and the purple colour just adds to the allure. Simplicity rules

Oh caressing Sarrrasins, you ve been one my favorites for a long time now!Definitelly the one Luten's jasmine themed perfume you should own.The start is a proper indolic jasmine accompanied by (i think) other stuff to be as rounded and seductive and as it dries the carnation as rheea oana already mentions give a very needed sort of balance between dark and bright elements, that last for a good amount of time (it lasts about 10 hrs on me , the last 3 as a subtle skin scent)! I always find strange the reason why is not one of the most beloved of all of Serge creations?

Gorgeous jasmine, like it much more than A la Nuit. It's sweeter and a bit darker to my nose. And gotta love the purple juice!