Tobacco Absolute
Grapefruit and bergamot open with a brisk, slightly bitter citrus snap that quickly folds into rosewood's pink, pencil-shaving character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Rosewood
- Cedar
- Nutmeg
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and bergamot open with a brisk, slightly bitter citrus snap that quickly folds into rosewood's pink, pencil-shaving character. Cedar arrives dry and linear, sharpening the wood while nutmeg dusts the heart with a soft, warm-spicy buzz that keeps the composition from turning creamy. The base is dominated by a honeyed, cured-tobacco leaf pressed against clean white musk; the leather here is suede-thin, adding grain rather than smoke. As the citrus evaporates, the tobacco intensifies, leaving a skin-close aura of sweet blond leaf and wood shavings. Projection stays polite—an arm's-length radius for four hours—making it office-safe yet unmistakably masculine. Cool autumn days and after-work drinks are its natural habitat.
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.
