Island Tobacco
Island Tobacco opens with ginger, coconut, lime, and bergamot — a tropical-spiced citrus top where coconut softens the ginger's heat and lime provides brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Fresh50
- Tobacco50
- Woody50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Coconut
- Lime
- Bergamot
- Pink Pepper
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readIsland Tobacco opens with ginger, coconut, lime, and bergamot — a tropical-spiced citrus top where coconut softens the ginger's heat and lime provides brightness. The combination is immediately tropical and warm.
Pink pepper in the heart keeps the spice alive while transitioning toward the base. Sandalwood, ambergris, and tobacco in the base are the composition's final destination: sandalwood provides creamy wood warmth, ambergris adds a soft marine-animalic quality, and tobacco brings the dominant note's dry, cured warmth. The coconut thread persists into the drydown, giving the tobacco a slightly sweet, tropical edge that distinguishes this from purely classical tobacco fragrances. Best in warm weather despite the tobacco.
Scent twins
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