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Sephora’s Josephine Baker ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 31 March 2010 36 Comments

Sephora's Josephine Baker fragrance

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.

Filed Under: new fragrances
Tagged With: cecile matton, etat libre dorange

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  1. LaMaroc says:
    31 March 2010 at 11:46 am

    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.

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    • platinum14 says:
      31 March 2010 at 12:37 pm

      Yeah??? That should have been a given!

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 2:12 pm

      Kind of doubt they will be sold here, but who knows.

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    • lemonprint says:
      31 March 2010 at 2:43 pm

      I agree! I hate to use the word but that does seem… stupid.

      Josephine Baker = Bananas. No?

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    • Philippe says:
      31 March 2010 at 7:10 pm

      I had not seen you had said the same thing as I. :D

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  2. Thalia says:
    31 March 2010 at 11:50 am

    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 …

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    • CynthiaW says:
      31 March 2010 at 1:55 pm

      That’s what I want to know – curry jungle essence? Maybe Robin is sneaking Le Prix Eau Faux entries in on us…

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 2:13 pm

      Beats me!

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    • boojum says:
      31 March 2010 at 2:38 pm

      Maybe they missed a comma, and it’s “curry, jungle essence”… not that I know what jungle essence would be, either.

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  3. mals86 says:
    31 March 2010 at 12:19 pm

    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.

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 2:13 pm

      Nope, no idea. Some captive molecule, possibly, or possibly just something that isn’t spelled correctly!

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  4. sunshine808 says:
    31 March 2010 at 1:43 pm

    Lorenox? Must be in the same family as styrax, lol!

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    • miss kitty v. says:
      31 March 2010 at 1:52 pm

      Or a relative of The Lorax.

      The Lorax speaks for the trees, The Lorenox speaks for gourmands.

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      • Robin says:
        31 March 2010 at 2:13 pm

        :-)

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      • Julia says:
        31 March 2010 at 10:15 pm

        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

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  5. maggiecat says:
    31 March 2010 at 1:52 pm

    Can a scent w/out vanilla listed in the notes call itself “gourmand”?

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 2:14 pm

      Gosh, why not?

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      • Julia says:
        31 March 2010 at 10:18 pm

        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?

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  6. DannyAngel says:
    31 March 2010 at 2:18 pm

    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?

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 7:26 pm

      I’d love to try this and the Sex Pistols one…wish they’d sell them in the US.

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  7. Joe says:
    31 March 2010 at 3:28 pm

    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”!

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 7:26 pm

      It’s hard to tell…the images for this one & the Sex Pistols don’t seem very crisp.

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      • Joe says:
        31 March 2010 at 9:13 pm

        It’s the whole look, including typography. Reminds me of the cheap Star Trek scents for some reason.

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        • Robin says:
          1 April 2010 at 9:57 am

          Yeah, could be.

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  8. claresparkle says:
    31 March 2010 at 3:45 pm

    I would think a Josephine Baker scent would have smoke, tobacco, and a liquor scent as well. Nightclubby kind of.

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 7:27 pm

      That would work!

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  9. JAntoinette says:
    31 March 2010 at 3:59 pm

    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.

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 7:27 pm

      Oh, do let us know!

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  10. Pimpinett says:
    31 March 2010 at 4:16 pm

    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.

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 7:27 pm

      Yes, it was. And it seems to me there is another JB-inspired fragrance, but at the moment can’t think of it.

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      • Joe says:
        31 March 2010 at 9:12 pm

        Sous le Vent, I think? And Etat Libre is supposed to do one soon too?

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        • Robin says:
          1 April 2010 at 9:57 am

          Yep. Thanks.

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  11. Philippe says:
    31 March 2010 at 7:09 pm

    This fragrance doesn’t list banana. What a shame :P

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 7:27 pm

      Yep.

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  12. redscorpio says:
    31 March 2010 at 7:35 pm

    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!

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    • Robin says:
      1 April 2010 at 9:58 am

      Ha.

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