Cigar
Pineapple, pear, and plum open in a fruity rush that smells unabashedly of the mid-1990s — sweet, tropical-inflected, the kind of top note that briefly puzzles you before the fragrance reveals its actual intentions.
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.
- Tobacco65
- Sandalwood50
- Amber45
- Patchouli45
- Bergamot40
By the editors · 2 min readPineapple, pear, and plum open in a fruity rush that smells unabashedly of the mid-1990s — sweet, tropical-inflected, the kind of top note that briefly puzzles you before the fragrance reveals its actual intentions. Bergamot provides a citrus undercurrent that ties the fruit together and hints at what's coming.
Lavender and jasmine in the heart are the pivot point: floral enough to feminize the fruit, herbal enough to prevent it from reading as a juice drink. The transition is fast. By the time the base arrives — sandalwood, tobacco, amber, patchouli, cedar — the fruitiness has almost entirely dissolved into something woody and warm, with the tobacco adding a dry, slightly sweet char.
A time capsule executed well. The name is earned: the tobacco base gives this genuine cigar-room credentials.
