Jasmin Et Cigarette Etat Libre D'orange

For Women
Eau de Parfum
Year: 2006
Moderate
Sillage
Moderate
Longevity
Spring
Best Season
Casual
Best For

Fragrance Story

Jasmin et Cigarette by Etat Libre d'Orange is a Woody Floral Musk fragrance for women. Jasmin et Cigarette was launched in 2006. The nose behind this fragrance is Antoine Maisondieu.

Composition Profile

white floral 100%
tobacco 85%
sweet 70%
green 60%
fresh spicy 50%
fruity 40%
powdery 35%
musky 30%
herbal 25%
floral 20%

About the Perfumer

Antoine Maisondieu

Antoine Maisondieu

Antoine Maisondieu is a French perfumer and a senior vice president at Givaudan, where he has worked for decades. He is known for creating refined, modern compositions that balance natural elegance with subtle complexity. His work includes the woody, leathery Bottega Veneta Pour Homme and the fresh, floral Acqua di Parma Magnolia Nobile.

Fragrance Notes

All Notes

Complete scent profile

Jasmine Jasmine
Tobacco Tobacco
Hay Hay
Apricot Apricot
Musk Musk
Cedar Cedar
Cumin Cumin
Tonka Bean Tonka Bean
Amber Amber

Character Profile

The Lover Archetype: Portrait of Jasmin Et Cigarette Etat Libre D'orange

Essence

The one who chooses Jasmin Et Cigarette is ruled by the Trickster-Lover, a hybrid archetype that thrives on contradiction. They are both the provocateur and the romantic, the hedonist who mocks convention yet clings to beauty. The scent itself-sweet jasmine clashing with the ashy bitterness of smoke-mirrors their nature: a soul caught between decadence and destruction.

They reject the sanitized, the predictable, the respectable. Yet, beneath their defiance, there is a deep longing-not for chaos, but for a world where pleasure and rebellion are one. They are not merely destructive; they are alchemists, turning the vulgar into the sublime.

Relationships

They love fiercely, but their love is like their scent-intoxicating, ephemeral, laced with something dangerous. They attract those who crave feeling over stability, who would rather be burned by passion than warmed by routine. Their romances are storms: exhilarating, all-consuming, and often short-lived.

Yet, they are not cruel. They simply do not know how to be ordinary. They will leave a lover breathless, but they will not lie to them. Their honesty is their virtue; their inability to settle is their curse.

Shadow

Their greatest flaw is their refusal to endure. They mistake transience for liberation, forgetting that some things-love, wisdom, even rebellion-require patience. They flirt with ruin not because they must, but because they fear becoming boring.

They may drown their sorrows in smoke and laughter, but beneath the bravado, there is a quiet terror: the fear of being known too deeply, of being pinned down. They escape before they can be escaped from.

Conclusion

Their tastes are an ode to the unexpected juxtaposition-vintage lace paired with scuffed leather, a well-worn book of poetry next to an overflowing ashtray. They prefer dimly lit bars where the air is thick with conversation, where laughter is sharp and secrets are traded like currency. Their home, if they have one, is a carefully curated mess: half-empty wine glasses, records stacked haphazardly, a single fresh flower wilting in a whiskey bottle.

Philosophically, they reject dogma but embrace intensity. They do not believe in "good" or "evil" as absolutes, only in vitality-what makes the blood hum, the mind race, the heart ache. They are drawn to thinkers who blur lines: Bataille, Baudelaire, Nietzsche himself. They see morality as a cage, but not because they wish to harm-they simply refuse to be tamed.