Tabac Blond
The opening is all smoke and tanned hide—a dry, almost acrid leather that conjures cigarette cases and Art Deco salons.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Leather80
- Tobacco70
- Woody60
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is all smoke and tanned hide—a dry, almost acrid leather that conjures cigarette cases and Art Deco salons. This is not the sweet, vanillic leather of modern perfumery but something starker, more animalic, touched with the bitterness of cured tobacco leaf.
As it settles, ylang-ylang and iris soften the edges without domesticating them. The floral heart is gauzy rather than lush, a pale contrast to the leathery frame. Patchouli and cedar anchor the base with earthy, resinous depth, while musk adds a second skin quality that keeps the composition close and intimate.
Tabac Blond remains defiantly uncompromising—a scent for those who appreciate perfume as provocation rather than decoration. It wears androgynously and demands confidence, evoking the interwar women who scandalized polite society by smoking in public.
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