Jasmine Freak is a floral-fruity eau de parfum from Room 1015, composed by Jérôme di Marino, and it is considerably more tropical than the name suggests.
What it smells like
Mango leads the opening, with sweet orange, black currant and black pepper alongside it. The fruit is ripe and juicy, and the pepper is the only thing stopping it reading as a smoothie — which it needs.
The heart is where the flowers arrive, and they arrive in force: Indian tuberose, Egyptian jasmine and ylang-ylang together, about as rich a white-floral accord as perfumery offers. Tuberose brings its characteristic creamy, faintly rubbery density; jasmine adds indolic warmth; and ylang-ylang contributes a banana-like sweetness that loops neatly back to the mango in the opening.
The base is musk and cashmere wood, and it is deliberately unassuming — its job is to hold the florals in place and let them fade slowly rather than to add a third act. Community accords rank white floral first, then fruity, sweet, tuberose and tropical.
Who it's for
For white-floral wearers who want something warmer and less formal than the classical tuberose soliflores. The mango and ylang-ylang push this towards a holiday rather than an evening gown.
If tuberose overwhelms you, be careful — it is prominent and makes no apology. If you love it, this is one of the more interesting modern treatments precisely because the fruit gives the flower somewhere to go.
Honestly on projection: this is one of the stronger fragrances in the line in its first hours, and a light hand is sensible. Longevity is good without being extreme.
Spring and summer are its seasons — heat opens the tuberose and the mango together, and the fragrance is built for exactly that. In winter it reads heavy and slightly out of place. Evenings, dates and warm nights out.
How it sits in the line
Room 1015 is a Paris house founded in 2015 by Michael Partouche, a pharmacist turned musician turned perfume brand owner, named after room 1015 of the Continental Hyatt House on Sunset Strip. Its fragrances are built from cultural references rather than from materials, and the line is deliberately varied — there is no house accord running through everything.
Jasmine Freak is the most conventionally beautiful thing the house makes, and the one that sits furthest from its rock-and-roll framing. Its brief is transgressive self-expression, which in practice means a white floral turned up louder than good taste strictly allows. If you like the idea of this house but not the leather-and-patchouli end of it, this and Wavechild are where to start.
Fragrantica does not publish sillage or longevity breakdowns for Room 1015, so the performance notes above come from the accord profile and from wearing rather than from community vote data.
The full note breakdown is on the Room 1015 Jasmine Freak Eau de Parfum product page, the rest of the house is in the Room 1015 collection, and you can find comparable scents under Floral Fruity. It is also on the scent bar at our Somerville boutique — worth trying on skin before you commit, because this is a house whose fragrances change a good deal between the first spray and the drydown.