Tobacco & Mandarin 2017
A bright citrus opening — mandarin and cedrat — that seems an unlikely partner for tobacco.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Tobacco70
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Cedrat
- Mandarin
- Tobacco
- Hay
- Grass
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readA bright citrus opening — mandarin and cedrat — that seems an unlikely partner for tobacco. The fruit is juicy and sun-warmed rather than sour, setting a Mediterranean mood before the smoke arrives.
The heart is the surprise. Tobacco leaf reads green and freshly-cured rather than ashtray-smoky, sitting alongside hay, fresh-cut grass, and clary sage. The effect is a barn-loft impression: dry plant matter in summer air, the citrus still glowing somewhere overhead.
The dry-down turns honeyed and warm. Beeswax and tonka cushion the tobacco into something pastry-soft; balsam Peru deepens the resinous sweetness. A daytime tobacco that never goes nocturnal — pastoral rather than smoky, easier to wear than the category usually allows.
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.
