Tabac Original Mäurer & Wirtz 1959 Eau de Cologne
Tabac Original opens with a sharp, citrus-forward blast—bright lemon and bergamot with petitgrain's woody-green terpene bite and neroli's solar white-flower edge.
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.
- Bergamot70
- Lemon60
- Lavender60
- Vetiver50
- Sandalwood40
By the editors · 2 min readTabac Original opens with a sharp, citrus-forward blast—bright lemon and bergamot with petitgrain's woody-green terpene bite and neroli's solar white-flower edge. These are the ingredients of a classic barbershop counter: that particular freshness that clings to the air after a morning shave. Lavender bridges the gap, blunt and medicinal rather than elegant, settling the composition into something familiar and no-frills.
The base is sandalwood and vetiver, woody and slightly earthy, rounded by musk and a breath of ambergris. It dries down dry, powdery, and unmistakably masculine in the 1950s sense of the word—functional, unadorned, and deeply nostalgic. A fragrance with no aspirations beyond doing exactly what it has always done.
