Cuban Tobacco
Vanilla lands first, sweet and slightly creamy, but within minutes it is swallowed by dry tobacco leaf that crackles like brown paper.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Salty50
- White Floral50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Vanilla
- Jasmine
- Smoke
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readVanilla lands first, sweet and slightly creamy, but within minutes it is swallowed by dry tobacco leaf that crackles like brown paper. The heart adds jasmine, yet the white floral is less bloom than hazy backlight for the smoke that coils through every breath, turning the vanilla into burnt-caramel edges. Mid-stage keeps the tobacco centre-stage, growing darker and leafier while the jasmine recedes, leaving only a ghost of floral sweetness to soften the ash. Dry-down stays linear: tobacco and smoke over a vanillic amber wash, no woods, no musk, just persistent cured-leaf bitterness sweetened at the seams. Projection sits at arm’s length for six hours, then settles closer, perfect for cool autumn nights and low-lit bars where clothes absorb the air.
Scent twins
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.
