Tabac Original Maurer & Wirtz
Tabac Original opens with a tart, almost medicinal citrus edge—petitgrain and neroli cutting through bergamot and lemon—that quickly gives way to a soapy, powdered lavender core.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Lavender55
- Bergamot40
- Sandalwood35
- Lemon35
- Musk25
By the editors · 2 min readTabac Original opens with a tart, almost medicinal citrus edge—petitgrain and neroli cutting through bergamot and lemon—that quickly gives way to a soapy, powdered lavender core. This is not the aromatic lavender of fougères but something closer to shaving cream or talcum, unmistakably old-fashioned in its clarity and lack of pretense.
The drydown settles into a clean, skin-close blend of sandalwood and musk with a whisper of amber warmth. Vetiver adds a faint earthy backbone, but the overall effect remains polite and restrained. It smells scrubbed, barbershop-clean, nostalgic without being heavy.
This is for someone who appreciates straightforward grooming rituals and doesn't mind smelling like their grandfather might have—in the best sense. It belongs in white-tiled bathrooms with chrome fixtures, not nightclubs. Unpretentious, dependable, and entirely unapologetic about what it is.
