Vanilla & Tobacco
Tobacco opens raw and leaf-dry, carrying a faintly sweet fermentation that feels like uncut cigar filler.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Tobacco
- Tonka Bean
- Vanilla
- Tonka Bean
- Cocoa
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readTobacco opens raw and leaf-dry, carrying a faintly sweet fermentation that feels like uncut cigar filler. Within minutes tonka bean folds in its marzipan warmth, softening the leaf’s edge while adding a soft almond contour that blurs the tobacco’s rougher fibers. Vanilla arrives as a rounded custard layer, not sugary but creamy, merging with the tonka to create a suede-smooth ambered heart that keeps the tobacco hovering just above gourmand territory. Cocoa surfaces late as a bitter dusting, lending a dark chocolaty dryness that stops the accord from turning dessert-like and instead leaves a toasted, almost hay-like trail on skin. Projection stays moderate, radiating an arm’s-length radius for six hours, making it an easy cool-weather casual choice that reads comfortably masculine without shouting.
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.