Tabaróme Millésime (2000)
by Creed

Tobacco and ginger dominated. I find this a classy fragrance with an old but noble feel to it. But there is the salty/sweaty part to it which I just can't stand.

This is not bad at all. As mentioned by nearly everyone, the ginger really stands out making this a good summer scent, with a little tobacco, tea and woods in the background. The thing is, Carre d'as by Patricia Nicolai is better and for a lot less money. Try them both before buying.

Noting the ingrediants (Lemon, Tobacco, Sandlewoood and Vetiver) I thought I was in fragrance heaven and bought it blind on ebay.
It seemed 'watery' in it's consistency, which made me wonder was it a fake. I then went and sampled it in several places, and realised that it wasn't.
I generally enjoy a fragrance with a tobacco note (I had quit smoking when I purchased it, so maybe there was some kind of osmotic wish-fulfilment at play here) and it's certainly enjoyable in this fragrance.
I'm not sure if I'm the only reviewer who senses something 'harsh' about this fragrance....the notes aren't seemlessly blended together, but each (at least to my nose) seems to 'jar' with the next. What I mean is that the notes don't appear to work as a 'team,' but as individuals. It starts with lemon, then the lemon disappears, a ginger note arrives, then disappears etc etc
Once again (my eternal problem) my skin seems to be a fragrance graveyard! Almost everybody I've spoken to about this fragrance seems to vouch for it's Opium EDP-like longevity. Not on me! It seems to exist on my skin for about an hour before disappearing into the vaguest of skin scents.
I ca understand reviewers describing women appreciating it's undeniable masculinity and I wanted to like this because of the ingredients present, but there's a harshness to it and a discordant mingling of notes (in the way of certain Serge Lutens scents, where the notes work against each other, though more effectively than here in many of the Lutens line...)

It reminds me of atonal, discordant music, where the keys played jar.
To summarise, not a bad scent, and more than wearable, but very underwhelming compared to my preconceived idea of it.

I've read many reviewers saying that this has a tobacco/leather smell, for which I had the highest hopes. Instead, to me it first smelled like fruity sweet bubblegum at the outset. After a couple of months, it now smells a little better— maybe the fruity bubblegum has turned into a fruity melon, but it's still sweet & NO tobacco/leather smell, & distinctly femme. Highly disappointing & Totally Overpriced, although it does last a decent six hours or so. My worst fragrance buy in quite a while. I'll go back to the tobacco juice I got from Michael Kors (great) & Vermeil (very good).

A totally misguided attempt to produce a heavily masculine fragrance. The imbalance was immediately evident from the first moments of its existance, bullying my senses for the best part of two hours. The presence of ginger and tobacco in these quantities created the illusion of being doused in leather tanning fluid which continued well into the drydown. If you were to gargle with the contents of a spittoon, you would get close to the pleasure of using this fragrance.

first off i am no creed hater whatsoever... i happen to love santal and wear it quite often... after reading the scent pyramid and imagining this scent for the last couple months i finally got a sample of it from my buddy mudassir and this is what i think... this stuff sucks... no i mean it isn't really that it's that horrible a fragrance but after all of this anticipation and predispositions of sampling a marvelous fragrance, i was left with a general disappointment and feelings of the color blue somewhere around my nether regions... i really need to get my hands on the original because this can't really be what all the fuss is about... i used a shoehorn and calipers to open my nose up enough to try and detect the tobacco and tea, but all i get is ginger that has been marinated in onions and salt and buried for ten years in dry dirt... oh well i'm as happy as a fat kid with a plate full of cake that i didn't spend my cable bill buying this blind... "try before you buy" is quickly becoming an increasingly important staple of my lexicon as i continue my journey for my perfect scent