Tobacco Absolute Eau de Parfum
Tobacco dominates from the first breath, but it arrives through a haze of dry orris that powders the leaf and keeps it from smelling syrupy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Cedar
- Tobacco
- Violet
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readTobacco dominates from the first breath, but it arrives through a haze of dry orris that powders the leaf and keeps it from smelling syrupy. Ginger sharpens the opening, its citrus-heat lifting the tobacco while cedar splinters add splintery woodsmoke underneath. Violet folds its cool, slightly metallic petal into the heart, stretching the tobacco into something more translucent than dense patchouli alone would allow. As the spices fade, the base settles into a muted earthy-patchouli chord that clings close to skin, leaving a quiet smolder rather than a room-filling cloud. Projection stays arm-length at most; the scent thrives in cool autumn air and low-lit indoor settings where its restrained diffusion reads as deliberate.
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.
