Jasmine Smoke

(2026 limited edition release) sexy, dark, witchy, and seductive. while there are whispers of orange blossom and jasmine in the opening, the true depth and beauty of jasmine smoke is in the evolution of its base. thick, heady tobacco melts into spicy patchouli and a hint of vanilla from the tonka bean. this is a gourmand layered with a palpable smokiness, with the tobacco adding a physical kick, like inhaling deeply at the edge of a campfire. this has the almost medicinal, herbal quality of a ricola cough drop and the sticky sweetness of a rootbeer barrel hard candy, if both were left in the purse of a very chic woman with a smoking problem. sounds weird, but is somehow perfect, like pressing a spiced black tea bag to your nose and breathing in as deeply as you can. skin chemistry does seem to be important with jasmine smoke--this leans more tonka-based and creamy on my skin, an indolic and dirty sweetness, like vanilla ice cream dripping into a tumbler of bourbon. on my partner, the drydown is more burnt tobacco. regardless of which facet jumps out on the skin, a really beautifully blended and deeply intoxicating experience. well worth the $65 for the 15 mL travel size (if only this came in a full bottle!). i will definitely be stocking up before late autumn/early winter when this fragrance will absolutely shine.

Night blooming jasmine on a humid summer night. Supremely heady and creamy, deeply indolic, with an almost waxy spice. There is a sooty-ashy smoke accord in the background, kind of like a burned-out campfire. It is not active or airy. It never takes the lead or fades completely. Tonka is increasingly present more as a warm-skin effect than sweetness. While out walking in the sun, I noticed a musky-indolic powdery-animalic presence which reminded me of something in the early dry down of Muscs Koublai Khan. It was fleeting, but this is when I was hooked. I am shocked that an animalic accord is not listed on this site. It’s hard to discuss Jasmine Smoke without mentioning Jasmin et Cigarette. They are like two halves of a whole. It is as if someone bisected the olfactory reality of “jasmine + ashy-smoke” with the dusky-indolic, creamy, sensual, rumbly, and somewhat sooty low end becoming Jasmine Smoke, and the higher-pitch, clean, solar, sinus-clearing, wispy elements becoming Jasmin et Cigarette. They are very, very different in my opinion. Jasmine Smoke is one of the most entrancing, voluptuous fragrances I have ever smelled. Haunting to the point of distraction. I very much wish this was available in 100ml.

For @GenevaX - On my skin, Jasmine Smoke is a drier, smokier scent. I find the Jasmine note more indolic than ELDO's Jasmin et Cigarette, but it's also got a very sensual, smoky drydown that is lacking in Jasmin et Cigarette. The ELDO is much sweeter, imo. I prefer Jasmine Smoke - I think it is a more photorealistic cigarette scent. Jasmin et Cigarette has the edge when it comes to wearability, however, and it is still in production. The compositions are similar enough that you can replace Jasmine Smoke in your collection with Jasmin et Cigarette, and still have the same vibe when you wear it.

I was not expecting to love this as much as I do. It has a limpid quality that keeps it from veering too indolic or too feral; maybe it's the balance with tobacco that is crisp and cleanses the jasmine's ferocity. Better than Jasmin et Cigarette by Etat Libre d'Orange, which doesn't have the floral balance that is present in Jasmine Smoke.

Dirty and sexy. A little raunchy and very intoxicating. You say you don’t smoke but you sneak a cigarette after a couple of drinks and the lingering smoke perfumes your skin.