Cigar Rémy Latour
Cigar opens with a surprisingly bright tropical burst—pineapple and pear slice through what could have been a heavy composition, giving the fragrance an unexpected lightness before the tobacco emerges.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Tobacco80
- Sandalwood75
- Cedar70
- Musk65
- Patchouli60
By the editors · 2 min readCigar opens with a surprisingly bright tropical burst—pineapple and pear slice through what could have been a heavy composition, giving the fragrance an unexpected lightness before the tobacco emerges. The fruit softens quickly, making way for a jasmine heart that feels oddly intimate here, almost honeyed against the darker backdrop building beneath it.
The base settles into a well-worn leather armchair scent: dry Virginia cedar and sandalwood frame the tobacco, which reads more as aromatic leaf than smoke. Patchouli adds earthy weight without overwhelming, while musk keeps everything close to the skin. Despite the name, this isn't cigar smoke in a room—it's the memory of it, blended with sweeter, softer elements.
A masculine from the mid-nineties that straddles two eras: too fruit-forward for traditional tobacco lovers, too woody and dry for the aquatic crowd that dominated the time. It finds its audience among those who want tobacco's richness without its typical gravity.
