Sephora in France will follow their Sex Pistols fragrance with a new one for Josephine Baker — it’s apparently a series celebrating icons in music.
The Josephine Baker fragrance was developed by perfumer Cecile Matton, and the notes for the gourmand fragrance include grapefruit, champagne accord, cardamon, jasmine, curry jungle essence, black pepper, labdanum, sandalwood and lorenox.
Josephine Baker will be available in 50 ml, concentration unknown, for 40€. (via vogue.fr)
Update: the Josephine Baker fragrance was made by Etat Libre d’Orange.
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What no banana? lol This sounds very interesting and worth trying. I wonder if this or the Sex Pistols one will even make it to the states.
Yeah??? That should have been a given!
Kind of doubt they will be sold here, but who knows.
I agree! I hate to use the word but that does seem… stupid.
Josephine Baker = Bananas. No?
I had not seen you had said the same thing as I.
What on earth is “curry jungle essence”? IME curry smells strongly of cumin, which I like in my food but not so much on my person …
That’s what I want to know – curry jungle essence? Maybe Robin is sneaking Le Prix Eau Faux entries in on us…
Beats me!
Maybe they missed a comma, and it’s “curry, jungle essence”… not that I know what jungle essence would be, either.
Tried googling lorenox and got nothin’. Anybody know what it is?
I’m a little surprised to see “gourmand” attached to those notes, which seem more “spicy” than the usual sweet&foody vanilla-y gourmands I’m accustomed to.
Nope, no idea. Some captive molecule, possibly, or possibly just something that isn’t spelled correctly!
Lorenox? Must be in the same family as styrax, lol!
Or a relative of The Lorax.
The Lorax speaks for the trees, The Lorenox speaks for gourmands.
I totally went to the Lorax after trying unsuccessfully to wrap my head around curry jungle essence. I think I will stick with the perfume Jacques Guerlain created for the lady herself, Sous le Vent. Everybody (Guerlain included) seems to forget that she was Freda Josephione McDonalld from St. Louis, not a Carribbean jungle queen
Can a scent w/out vanilla listed in the notes call itself “gourmand”?
Gosh, why not?
It sounds like a curry gourmand. PdN Maharanih is a curry scent on me (heavy on the cumin) and because that is a food that makes it gourmand, no? A savoury gourmand rather than a sweet one?
now this is a celebrity scent i’d buy, it sounds so interesting! and josephine baker is amazing, apparently during world war 2 she relayed messages to the allies in her sheet music! how cool is that?
I’d love to try this and the Sex Pistols one…wish they’d sell them in the US.
I wouldn’t mind smelling it, but I can’t help the fact I think that the packaging looks awful and cheap. Even 40€ isn’t quite “cheap”!
It’s hard to tell…the images for this one & the Sex Pistols don’t seem very crisp.
It’s the whole look, including typography. Reminds me of the cheap Star Trek scents for some reason.
Yeah, could be.
I would think a Josephine Baker scent would have smoke, tobacco, and a liquor scent as well. Nightclubby kind of.
That would work!
This will be fairly painless for me to sample, I live two cobble-stoned streets from a Sephora français. I will report back after I can beg a sample, if anyone is dying to know what it smells like.
Oh, do let us know!
Pretty sure I heard that Byredo Bal d’Afrique was inspired by Josephine Baker too, wasn’t it? I rather liked that one. This sounds interesting as well, I really like cumin in fragrance.
Yes, it was. And it seems to me there is another JB-inspired fragrance, but at the moment can’t think of it.
Sous le Vent, I think? And Etat Libre is supposed to do one soon too?
Yep. Thanks.
This fragrance doesn’t list banana. What a shame
Yep.
I think it funny the Sex Pistols are considered a music icon! They are using the term “music” loosely there I think. At least Josephine Baker was talented!
Ha.