Jasmin et Cigarette
The opening is a stark collision: bright jasmine absolute meets the acrid, papery scent of tobacco ash.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Floral85
- Tobacco75
- Herbal50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a stark collision: bright jasmine absolute meets the acrid, papery scent of tobacco ash. There's no gentle transition—the two elements circle each other like strangers at a bar, one lush and indolic, the other dry and faintly bitter. The effect is both confrontational and oddly intimate, as if capturing the moment a gardenia-wearing sophisticate leans close to light a cigarette.
As it settles, the jasmine softens without sweetening, and the tobacco note reveals cumin-like warmth beneath its grey exterior. A subtle musk threads through, giving the whole composition skin-like proximity. The drydown hovers in an ambiguous space between clean and dirty, floral and ashen.
This is jasmine for people who find jasmine tiresome—made strange, made angular, given an edge. It wears close and provocative, more second skin than statement. Best suited to those who prefer their florals unsentimental and their perfumes conversational.
Scent twins
In this family
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
