Tabac Blond Parfum
A leather perfume in the old sense — not the bright suede of modern releases but the smoky, animalic kind that took its character from birch tar and quinoline.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Leather90
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Lime
- Vetiver
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readA leather perfume in the old sense — not the bright suede of modern releases but the smoky, animalic kind that took its character from birch tar and quinoline. The top is leather first, lime second, the citrus a small bright cut against a thick dark surface.
The heart drifts into iris and ylang-ylang, a powdery-floral counterweight that softens but does not tame the leather. Vetiver runs through the middle, dry and rooted, keeping the floral plush from sliding into something feminine.
The base resolves into vanilla, cedar, patchouli, and musk — a warm haze that absorbs the leather rather than erasing it. Wears for hours. Suited to cold weather, formal evenings, smoke-tinged rooms.
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.
