Tabac Exquis (2021)
Tabac Exquis is built around the relationship between tobacco and chocolate — two materials that share a deep, fermented richness when they meet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Tobacco75
- Smoky65
- Balsamic55
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Myrrh
- Jasmine
- Labdanum
- Tobacco
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readTabac Exquis is built around the relationship between tobacco and chocolate — two materials that share a deep, fermented richness when they meet. Cinnamon in the opening adds heat without aggression, and iris grounds the heart in something powdery and abstract that keeps the composition from becoming purely gourmand. The base is dense with resins: myrrh, benzoin, and olibanum generating a smoky, church-like heft that Ambroxan's skin-like warmth prevents from becoming static.
This is an evening choice — warm, deliberate, and quite close to skin. Caron's contemporary take on their own tobacco lineage (Tabac Blond, 1919) translated into the resinous oriental idiom of the early 2020s.
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.
