Jasmin et Cigarette EDP - Etat Libre d'Orange

Jasmin et Cigarette - The Seducer Susur of Jasmine in the Genumbra

Olfactory Family: Oriental Floral

Output notes: Gálbano, Salvia Orpur®

Heart notes: Absolute Jasmine, Turmeric

Background notes: Haba Tonka, Mate

Perfumerist: Antoine Maisondieu

Launch year: 2006

In a black and white world where shadows dance to the rhythm of a distant jazz music, Jasmin et Cigarette is born from État Free d'Orange, a fragrance that seems extracted directly from a classic film scene. This perfume is not simply an olfactory composition: it is a fixed image, a sensory postcard of a golden age where sensuality was as subtle as a ragged look or the smoke that is screwed between the fingers of a melancholy muse.

Since the first instant, Jasmin et Cigarette seduces with an unexpected contrast: the green and bitter note of the Gálbano is merged with the elegant herbal of Salvia Orpur®, giving the feeling of a cutting freshness, like the first Air breath entering a window open after a night of secrets. It is not a luminous, but provocative, modern, slightly transgressive.

In his heart beats the absolute jasmine, but it is not the sweet and romantic jasmine of perfumed gardens. This jasmine has edges. It is dotted by the warm and spicy intensity of turmeric, which gives it body and a certain carnal quality, as a skin that still retains the heat of a meeting. Here, jasmine is not idealized: it is real, human, almost addictive.

The background notes envelop you as a story you do not want to forget. Haba Tonka brings a creamy sensuality, almost tobacular, which is intertwined with the mate, providing a smoked, bitter, intensely nostalgic touch. It's like that trail of forgotten cigar in a leather coat, that smell that tells stories of prohibited kisses and adiosses never pronounced.

This perfume does not seek to please everyone. It is a declaration of intentions. It is for those who love the singular, the imperfect, the authentic. For those who believe that elegance does not need to shout, but suggest. Jasmin Et Cigarette is the woman who smokes alone in a bar while waiting for anyone, who laughs without fear and that turns every space on his personal stage.

There is something in this fragrance that disarms. Perhaps it is that constant tension between the floral and the ashen, between innocence and the forbidden, between the dim light of dawn and the electric darkness of the night. It is a perfume that invites you to remember, but also to invent new memories, to inhabit fiction with the same intensity with which we live reality.

Inspired by the figure of the free woman of the 80s, dressed in worn jeans, red lips and cigarette between the fingers, Jasmin et Cigarette is a tribute to challenging femininity, beauty that refuses to be domesticated. As if Serge Gainsbourg had left his heading between molecules, this fragrance vibrates with a Underground rhythm, with a wild and elegant seduction.

Each vaporization is a scene: low lights, a velvet sofa, an unforeseen laugh. It is not an easy perfume. It is an experience. A state of mind. A tribute to what it was, to what it could have been and what, with a little bit of daring, can still happen. Are you willing to enter that movie?

Jasmin Et Cigarette does not caress you: you rub with painted nails, look at you and then disappear. But leave a mark. And from the deep.