Sebastian Carine Roitfeld 2019

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7.8 / 10 32 Ratings

A popular perfume by Carine Roitfeld for women and men, released in 2019. The scent is spicy-sweet. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.

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Spicy

Sweet

Floral

Powdery

Creamy

Fragrance Notes

Indian tuberose

Vanilla

Sandalwood

Immortelle absolute

Perfumer

Pascal Gaurin

Ratings

Scent

7.832 Ratings

Longevity

8.031 Ratings

Sillage

7.332 Ratings

Bottle

8.234 Ratings

Value for money

6.715 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 17.09.2023.

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2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/17/2021

7
Pricing 9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Leimbacher
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Top Review 22

And time dances silently

Another "dance partner" Carine Roitfelds - "Sebastian", a delicate light bloomer, who has conjured with her a sweaty sole certainly not only on's parquet...

"Sebastian" is one of the few tuberose fragrances that I do not resent. Quite the opposite, which I actually really like. Clearly, otherwise he would not stand in my collection, otherwise I would not have struck last weekend on the perfume meeting, when he stood there in the special offer around.

Sunscreen meets powder puff, but with a minimal animalic tingling undertone that you only notice over time. It's really not a lush. But approachable and friendly. Mundane. A bit androgynous. Sunny yet evening. Hard to describe the feeling and joie de vivre that "Sebastian" exudes doubly and triply. Soft, dreamy, melancholic. A daydreamer with manners, but who could also be a fistful. South American fire meets Parisian style. Even tipsy aperitif sounds can be detected. A light-footed seduction that whets the appetite for the rest of Madame Roitfeld and her conquests. Even if almost everywhere white flowers seem to be in it.

Flacon: simple, beautiful, magnetic
Sillage: a little like a makeup case
Longevity: 9 hours and often a good bit more. Evening-filling.

Conclusion: lovely but not soft, erotic but not dirty, human but not unwashed, green but not woody, feminine but not only - "Sebastian" is a multi-layered skin shower of love between transfiguration and passion. Powdery immortelle in dark light

07/12/2021

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 10
Longevity 9
Scent

Profumo
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Profumo

Top Review 25

Very Carlos Gardel!

"Sebastian is more of a softie.
At least that's what I thought. He comes along so soft, so smooth, and his big fawn eyes look so dreamy-melancholic. Also the colors he chooses have so nothing hard, angular. No sharp contrasts, everything flows into each other: reds, ochres, browns in all shades, nothing yellow, certainly no blue, at most a hint of green.
And the voice!
A sonorous, velvety baritone, not too loud, not too soft, of pleasant presence.

Buenos Aires?

Good, the complexion is getting there. South American in origin, he might be, purely visually. But where is the sanguine temperament?
Cliché, probably.
A hot blood is "Sebastian" certainly not. But neither is he a phlegmatic. Ms Roitfeld, Sebastian's Parisian alter ego, claims he can tango, and how!
Yes, I can actually imagine. Unlike Salsa, Tango has a certain seriousness, almost a kind of melancholy - that fits quite well. On the other hand, the dance is also characterized by an expressive intensity, a complex rhythm and inner tension, which I do not really perceive in "Sebastian". But who knows. Still waters are known to be deep and under a still surface slumbers, as experience shows, many a volcano.

The first impression actually deceives me.

When the young woman behind the sales counter sprayed me the fragrance on the back of my hand (Coronabedingt one may currently - for heaven's sake! - not take a test bottle in the hand itself), since she mumbled something about rose behind her mask.
Rose? You probably mean tuberose?!
After a hurried look at the note sticker on the back of the bottle: oh yes, of course, tuberose.
At my request, she sprayed on the back of my other hand still "George" and I left the store for the time being, because I have made it a habit to test fragrances rather in the open air than in fragrance molecule-saturated indoor spaces.

I decided on "George" - it wasn't a difficult choice. "Sebastian", on the other hand, disappointed me - I found it somehow monotonous, arguably smoothed out, and strangely unexciting. However - as if I had suspected it - I had a small sample bottled. Some fragrances convince me immediately, "George" was such, but others just need a little longer, and "Sebastian" possibly had the potential to be one of those that only unfold their full effect on the second, or even third smell.

When I read two years ago from Mme. Roitfelds seven fragrant lovers, jumped me "Sebastian" immediately in the eye: Tuberose and Immortelle, united in one fragrance - Wow!
I love both: the diva-like tuberose, with its green and indolic facets, and the almost even more complex immortelle with the crisp, warm strawflower aroma, the curry nuances and the subcutaneous maple syrup sweetness. Since both tend to be relentlessly dominant as a general rule, I imagined a clash roughly like a wrestling match, with one of the opponents inevitably on the ropes at some point.
But no, far from it!
As if the two have always leaned towards each other in intimate friendship, they shape the plot of this fragrance in unexpected harmony. No diva-like rivalry, nowhere.
First, the tuberose steps up to the ramp, confident as ever, yet unexpectedly restrained, as if dimmed. The green, vegetal facets are there, as are the robin red, floral ones (though a white bloomer, tuberose always smells red to me, glowing red at times), but the indolic aspects are missing. This tuberose is not 'carnal', not a man or woman consuming vamp. The cleavage is covered, the pants are closed.
I wonder if it's the immortelle The lurks namely already in the background, waits a few bars, to then tune in with similar deep mezzo organ.
This is really beautiful, and becomes more beautiful with each repetition!

Now "Sebastian" reminds me of another fragrance that combines tuberose with a similarly herbaceous-complex floral: "Fougère Emeraude". Here, lavender defies the white flower, seconded and cushioned by mimosa and coumarin. Sandalwood and unsweetened vanilla, on the other hand, take the edge off "Sebastian's" herbaceous immortelle, but without dominating its base. The non-dying immortelle, in fact, bravely keeps its head above water. Even at the very end of the scent's progression, when "Sebastian" is but a delicate touch on the skin (the day after!), the tangy, spicy curry aroma of immortelle shapes the beautiful remains of this gentle, yet surprisingly upright, even robust scent.

One thing turns out after repeated testing and wearing namely also: "Sebastian" is quite self-confident . One may not believe it at first, but the fragrance has a presence that I would not have trusted the gentle Argentine.
Still waters are just deep.

Carine Roitfeld described "Sebastian" this way in an interview with Papermag: "We wanted a classic perfume because it holds a bit of nostalgia for me. It's very Carlos Gardel" And when asked which of her lovers was her favourite, she replied: "Essentially, Sebastian is one of my best friends. He is not a lover, I just love his name, and him as a person (...). But you're right, maybe this is my favorite one".

Whether he will be my "favorite one" is not yet clear, "George" and "Orson" still have something to say about it, but he rises in the ranking, steadily. With each time I find him more pleasant. While at first I thought it was an easy scent to get through, now I keep discovering new nuances. Sometimes I mean to discover a mushroom-like aroma, or I feel I reminded of the taste of black olives, another time I have to think of caramel cookies and heavy red wine - the fragrance, although manageable in notes, then surprises with enormous facet richness and volume.

"Sebastian" a softie?
Oh no, the impression is deceiving!

Sebastian Carine Roitfeld 2019

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