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HEART NOTES: Jasmine Absolute, Turmeric Extract / BASE NOTES: Maté Absolute, Venezuelan Tonka Bean / HEAD NOTES: Galbanum Essence, Clary Sage Essence / GENDER: Women / It's the era of Harcourt Studios. Greta Garbo and Marlène Dietrich magnetize men against a black-and-white backdrop, cigarette in hand and Hollywood scrollwork in the back of their eyes. Jasmin et Cigarette is also the scent of a woman's skin, lightly jasmineed, exposing its freshness to the opaque seduction of the night. Smoky atmospheres. It's the memory of a desire, of an indelible trace left by her at dawn on a garment and in the memory of the man who loved her. It's elegance à la Gainsbourg, the gypsy-smoking woman of the '80s who asserts her eroticism the way others slip on jeans, with confounding naturalness. Transparency in sophistication, a suggestion of jasmine mingled with the scent of cigarettes, hitherto neglected in perfumery. We're into the chiaroscuro, the forbidden, the addiction. From the nicotine woman to the heroin woman, look for the icon. She inhabits the memory of a lack.