Room 1015 Jasmine Freak Eau de Parfum

What it smells like

Jasmine Freak is a tropical white floral, and it is far more fruit-forward than the name implies. Mango leads the opening alongside sweet orange, black currant and black pepper — ripe and juicy, with the pepper providing just enough bite to stop it reading as a smoothie.

The heart is where the flowers arrive: Indian tuberose, Egyptian jasmine and ylang-ylang together, which is about as rich a white-floral accord as perfumery offers. Tuberose brings its characteristic creamy, slightly rubbery density, jasmine the indolic warmth, and ylang-ylang a banana-like sweetness that ties back to the mango.

The base is musk and cashmere wood, and its job is mostly to hold the florals in place and let them fade slowly rather than to add anything of its own. Community accords rank white floral at the top, then fruity, sweet, tuberose and tropical.

Nearly nine hundred votes and a rating above four make this one of the house's most appreciated fragrances.

Who made it

Composed by Jérôme di Marino, a French perfumer at Mane who trained through Givaudan and Takasago, the latter under Francis Kurkdjian, and who has since composed Kenzo World Power, Burberry Her Elixir de Parfum and Mr. Burberry Element. He is the nose behind most of the current Room 1015 line, and his particular skill is putting a difficult material at the centre of a composition and making it wearable rather than making it a joke.

You can see the other fragrances he composed for the house, and for others, on the Jérôme di Marino collection page.

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 it towards holiday rather than evening gown.

If you find tuberose overwhelming, be careful — it is prominent and unapologetic here. If you love it, this is one of the more interesting modern treatments, because the fruit gives it somewhere to go. Within the line it is the most straightforwardly beautiful thing the house makes.

Unisex on paper and in the brand's framing, though the white-floral density will read as feminine to many wearers.

When to wear it

Spring and summer. Heat opens the tuberose and the mango together, and the fragrance is built for it. In winter it reads heavy and slightly out of place.

Evening more than day, and particularly good for dates, dinners and warm nights out. Projection is strong in the first hours, so a light hand is sensible.

About the house

Room 1015 is a Parisian niche house founded in 2015 by Michael Partouche — Dr. Mike — a trained pharmacist who spent five years in London touring with his band before deciding that fragrance was the one discipline that could hold both halves of his life. The name is a hotel room number: 1015 of the Continental Hyatt House on Sunset Strip, the "Riot House", where touring bands took their after-parties in the 1970s.

The house calls what it does olfactory counterculture, and every fragrance starts from a specific cultural reference rather than from a material. The bottle is the same throughout — heavy coloured glass sized for the palm, under a faceted cap cut like a dark gem, black for the eaux de parfum and silver for the extraits. Jasmine Freak is the house's take on transgressive self-expression. See the rest of the line in the Room 1015 collection at Redolia.