Jasmin et Cigarette EDP - Etat Libre d'Orange

Jasmin et Cigarette – The seductive whisper of jasmine in the shadows

Olfactory Family: Oriental Floral

Top Notes: Galbanum, Sage Orpur®

Middle Notes: Jasmine Absolute, Turmeric

Base Notes: Tonka Bean, Mate

Perfumer: Antoine Maisondieu

Launch Year: 2006

In a black and white world where shadows dance to the rhythm of distant jazz music, Jasmin et Cigarette by État Libre d’Orange is born, a fragrance that seems taken straight from a classic film scene. This perfume is not simply an olfactory composition: it is a still image, a sensorial postcard from a golden age where sensuality was as subtle as a breathy glance or the smoke curling between the fingers of a melancholic muse.

From the first moment, Jasmin et Cigarette seduces with an unexpected contrast: the bitter green note of galbanum merges with the elegant herbality of Salvia Orpur®, giving a sensation of sharp freshness, like the first breath of air entering through an open window after a night of secrets. It's not a luminous departure, but rather provocative, modern, and slightly transgressive.

Jasmine absolute beats at its heart, but it's not the sweet, romantic jasmine of fragrant gardens. This jasmine has edges. It's punctuated by the warm, spicy intensity of turmeric, which gives it body and a certain carnal quality, like skin that still retains the warmth of an encounter. Here, jasmine isn't idealized: it's real, human, almost addictive.

The base notes envelop you like a story you don't want to forget. Tonka bean brings a creamy, almost tobacco-like sensuality that intertwines with mate, providing a smoky, bitter, intensely nostalgic note. It's like the trace of a forgotten cigar in a leather coat, that scent that tells stories of forbidden kisses and goodbyes never spoken.

This perfume isn't meant to please everyone. It's a statement of intent. It's for those who love the unique, the imperfect, the authentic. For those who believe that elegance doesn't need to shout, but rather suggest. Jasmin et Cigarette is the woman who smokes alone in a bar while waiting for no one, who laughs fearlessly and turns every space into her personal stage.

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

Inspired by the figure of the free woman of the '80s, dressed in faded jeans, with red lips and a cigarette between her fingers, Jasmin et Cigarette is a tribute to defiant femininity, to the beauty that refuses to be tamed. As if Serge Gainsbourg had left his signature among the molecules, this fragrance vibrates with an underground rhythm, with a wild and elegant seduction.

Each spray is a scene: low lights, a velvet sofa, an unexpected laugh. This is not an easy perfume. It's an experience. A state of mind. A tribute to what was, what could have been, and what, with a little daring, can still happen. Are you ready to enter that movie?

Jasmin et Cigarette doesn't caress you: it brushes you with polished nails, looks at you out of the corner of its eye, and then disappears. But it leaves a mark. And a deep one at that.