Best tobacco scent?

Very different from the above mentioned and for sure not an easy one for everyday... but what about the onirical interpretation of tobacco in Fumerie Turque?

Creed's Vintage Taberome is great as is Caron's Tabac Blond and don't let the fact that Tabac Blond is listed as feminine here. It's about as feminine as the lion that's stalked to within 10 feet of you and is about to pounce. Not just another kitty.

It's a great shame that Guerlain's Vetiver is not here: it would have gotten my vote.

Would have voted for either Creed Vintage Taberome or Caron Tabac Blond or SL Fumerie Turque had they been included.

I voted for Creed Tabarome Millesime. It took me a while to "get it", but it's great stuff.

I also have an itch to get a flask of Vintage Tabarome, which I recently started liking-- still, a tiny sample would last me forever, so It would be stupid to get a big jug of it-- plus, the thing that bugs me about the Private Selection Creeds is the lack of atomizers. I don't care for the leather ones. I just wish Creed would produce a run of fragrances like Vintage Tab, Selection Verte, etc in regular glass bottles.

Tabac Blond is wonderful - I find the tobacco note is more prominent in the EDP (which I own) rather than the extrait, which is rounder and more leathery.

Miller Harris Feuilles de Tabac is also good. It's essentially a masculine scent but a woman could wear it too.

Angelman-
You read my mind...

Havana - words don't describe.

I voted for Havana but my favorite tobacco right now is the previously mentioned Feuilles De Tabac by Miller Harris

I second the Guerlain Vetiver as the ultimate!!

Me too.

My fav is Jasmin & Cigarette.

Guerlain Vetiver is the tobacco scent standard IMHO.

Santa Maria Novella's Acqua di Cuba is a beauty if one likes deep, dark tobacco mixed with leather. Vintage Tabarome is also wonderful - very full bodied and tenacious.
Somewhat more whimsical is Demeter's This is Not a Pipe, another fine - but more delicate - play on the tobacco note.

Burberry for Men.

The vintage Tabarome is quite nice, and Dunhill '34 comes across more tobaccoish in my "old age".

Czech & Speake CUBA one of the best scents I have tried in a long time. Tobacco is front and center. Great stuff.

On the poll I was happy to vote for Tabarome Millésime.

I have tried most of the famous tobacco fragrances and quite enjoy Tabarome Millesime, SMN Cuba, Czech & Speake Cuba and MH Feuilles de Tabac. I am not a big fan of Havana though.

With that said, my favorite tobacco fragrance is Vintage Tabarome...its incredible mix of the highest quality tobacco note, green tea and leather is irresistible...I own a perfectly aged flacon of this super juice in which the full bodied potency of the tobacco and leather come through with force. I view the excellent Tabarome Millesime as a Vintage Tabarome Sport, with a different more raw tobacco note and an overall lighter composition which has its own interesting thing going on.

Miller Harris' Feuilles de Tabac or Tiffany for Men would definitely get my vote.

Best tobacco scent?

Lusitania by Partagas!


Dan

smn acqua di cuba
creed vintage tabarome
czech & speake cuba
aramis havana
creed tabarome millesime

I wish I'd said that!

btw, strangely enough the review page here at BN does not list tobacco as an ingredient in C&Z's Cuba. Don't ask me why.


There are many great frags that use tobacco notes but Vintage Tabarome has it at the core of its theme. The Millesime ain't bad, but who wants to smoke sushi--or ginger?

Cheers,

Mario

1) Havana, best supporting cast.
2) Aqua di Cuba, Big, and bold, from top, to bottom.
3) Cuba, C&S, Perfectly balanced accord's,

I had to go with Tabarome....This is my fave from this bunch. The Tom Ford entry is the only one that I have never experienced.....So from the 4 besides this scent....I have to go with Tabarome.
Gary

Creed's vintage Tabarome although the Domenico Caraceni is slowly sneaking up my ladder of respect blended to perfection imo.

I can't sleep... Since were's talking about tobacco, how about a funny story about cigars?

At the hotel in which I tend bar, we've been smoke-free for a year. Before that, we had a lot of cigar smokers and even had a nice giant wooden humidor. There was this one guy that we couldn't stand-- he kind of looked like Leon Pannetta and always came in with buy-one-get-one free drink coupons. And he always bought cigars and never tipped on anything. We always referred to him as "Cigar and Cabernet guy." It was funny because we disliked the guy, but he always thought he was our best friend.

We were preparing to go smoke-free, so we were getting rid of our cigars pretty cheaply. Also, the GM came in with a dolly and removed the humidor-- I think he gave it to one of his corporate buddies. About ten minutes after the humidor was wheeled away, Cigar and Cabernet guy came in looking for wine and a cigar. I decided to f*ck with him.

"Aw dude-- you JUST missed it. We got rid of all of our cigars. We were just handing them out for FREE by the handful-- the $24 Montecristos... everything. We just had to get rid of them all."

The guy was getting really agitated by this "news". He was so mad at his bad luck. The other bartender was trying really hard not to laugh, because he had dared me to give this guy the BS story. The guy tried a few times to form a sentence, before finally stammering "...What about me?...I...I'm y-your best customer! Why didn't you t-tell me you were giving everything away?!?'

Then I topped it off with this "Yeah, that's too bad. And also, apparently, they needed to get rid of the humidor in a hurry and there were no takers so some old lady at the bar said she would take it-- and the hotel is actually paying to ship it to her home in Minnesota-- just to get it out of here. It's a pity because she said she doesn't even smoke cigars, but she liked the color of the wood."

The look on the guy's face was priceless and indescribable. What I did was mean but funny. At least after that, every time he came in, he started tipping us and he's actually an OK guy now. Sometimes you've gotta break some eggs etc. LOL.

LOL!

What a sensitive little orchid you are!

The more I read this thread , the more I am compelled to seek out Vintage Tabarome. I have never tried it and sadly so. Do they only sell this in flacons?

Tobacco is probably one of my favorite notes next to leather and clove. My first experience with tobacco as probably many others was D&G PH. It certainly is too popular but this is a rare instance where the popularity is justified.

Now my first experience with the Dreamer was much different. It was just too weird in the opening and washed it off immediately. Fast forward 2 years and I tried it a second time giving it time to develop. The tobacco morphs into a moist, leafy accord that is really unique and slightly intoxicating. Not as classic or refined as D&G PH but a more surreal, edgier second cousin.

On to Tabarome Millesime which I bought blind. I have to say I was really disappointed in this one. Opening ginger blast is too sharp for my tastes. Then the tobacco in the drydown is just too weak. It needs an "oomph" desperately.

Lastly, I come to Miller Harris FdT. Reminds me a lot of Tabarome which is not a good thing. Again, the tobacco comes across as very weak, like a pipe stuffed with too much cloves and cinnamon to really develop itself.

Yet to try Havana which is on my to-smell list.

As for judging the best tobacco note, I would have voted Tea for Two but...

..also I would add Parfume d'Empire Fougere' Bengale to that tobacco scent list also. I get MUCH more tobacco than the hint PdE lists in the notes.

So, I voted Aramis Havana and in posting that vote exposing my ash for all to see.

I've known women like that!

Havana.

Wanna try Vintage Tab so badly!!!

But from the list Havana trumps them all (I havent tried Tab Millesime)

I like Xerius for having tobaco aspect mixed with many other notes.

And of course, Guerlain Vetiver is superb for any age.

I would question anyone who says it isn't wearable for a 20-something guy. I assure you that the girls wouldn't think that!

When my scentomania began around ten years ago, Guerilain Vetiver was the first sent I distinguished in a store and wanted badly. That was when I had only one other scent and did not know much about fragrances. And that was when I was 20 y.o. Never heard of Guerlain house and was not aware of the hype around Vetiver.

So my answer is yes. At the same time, I can understand people liking something else. But I could never understand when someone thinks that certain scents are deigned for people of certainage only.

I voted for the Dreamer but I'm really liking the TFord fragrance.

msi_21 put it very well, but I will state it more simply; I don't want to smell like my father, or like my grandfather did. Certain classic fragrances immediately evoke these memories.

Well, like I said, I did not know what the scent was, it did not remind me of my father or anything, I just liked it.
Plus, sometimes father do smell good. In any case, I would not avoid Chanels, Guerlains, and Diors so that I don't smell like someone's dad.

Ditto the above sentiment.

Just thought I would mention that The Perfumed Court is having a sale on Vintage Tabarome decants. At least the price is now in the reasonable range. I think it would come to $24.00 for an 8ml decant, including shipping.

-Slim

My favorite tobacco scent to sniff is Vintage Tabarome, but it's just too hard for me to wear on a regular basis; I find it too powerful and sophisticated. Havana is my favorite tobacco scent to wear because it's natural and doesn't make you smell like a cigar IMO.

Thanks to this thread, I spent some time today trying to hunt down Caron Tabac Blond; I was completely unsuccessful. Is this supposed to be hard to find?

Several of the high-end department stores had Caron, but not one had TB.

Also, is Vintage Tabarome actually labeled as such? Neiman Marcus had Tabarome Millesime and one just labeled Tabarome; is the latter the Vintage? It was in a glass bottle much the same shape as the other Creeds.

Thanks for all the expertise!

Dolce & Gabbana is the best tobacco scent IMO, especially when we are young. I also love Guerlain's Vetiver, too.

The Milliseme is an "updated" version, meant to be more modern, as I understand it; I think zztopp and Mario describe it fairly well:



I agree that the ginger is prominent in the Millesime edition, and the tobacco more reserved.

It is no surprise that Havana is leading the survey. I suspect that if more here had tried it, considering its rarity, that it would be the runaway winner. It is clearly in a class by itself, not just as a tobacco scent, but as a men's frag in general. The problem with most polls is that not all the frags have been tried, particularly the hard-to-find ones.

Hi!

This is probably not too well known in the US, but did you guy try out "Alt Innsbruck"? Contents: only alcohol, water, tobacco oil and menthol. (made this pic).

It's not too smokey though, it's rather fresh. I totally like that, especially using it as aftershave.

Regards,

Larde.

No doubt, it's a rip-off to have to get an atomizer as well, but I picked up the 250ml
jug of vintage tabarome along with the atomizer from Bond No. 9 when they were
liquidating their stock at 1/2 price. This fragrance is strong, old school, strong, rich,
and did I mention strong? Very nice, but not for every occasion. I like it though!
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Tab. Millesime is good. Vintage Tab. is even better.