Tobacco was created in 2014 by Melanie Leroux for French fashion designer Franck Boclet. Tobacco notes in perfume have long been associated with masculinity, sophistication, luxury, and depth. And this interpretation from Franck Boclet gets it right.

On me, it opens with a bright, spicy ginger note surrounding a rich, warm tobacco note. I smell plum here too – fruity, sweet and lush – and a door to my childhood blows open. A family day trip to Niagara in late August to get fresh fruit for canning. We visit a few fruit stands and load up on perfect tomatoes, corn, plums, and peaches. Then we stop and have a family picnic before the drive back to the city. Mom and Dad set up the blanket and got out the sandwiches, salads and lemonade as my uncle tells a story about picking raspberries in a neighbour’s field with my father when they were little boys and getting caught. He had us kids rolling around with laughter. 
My reverie is broken as Tobacco blooms on my wrist, and a note of clove comes forward, extending the spicy warmth of the opening deeper into the fragrance. Tonka bean adds coumarin, the smell of hay, to the heart, making it beautifully aromatic. Cedar gives it a woody backbone that is extended to the base with vetiver. Benzoin, with its amber aspects, and vanilla are at the base too, sweetening up the woods just so.
The dry down is rich, warm, sensual and intimate. The thing I love most about it is that the tobacco is prominent and threads right through to the drydown, the sweetness held back, so that it smells more like true pipe tobacco.

Notes: Ginger, tobacco, plum, clove, tonka bean, cedar, vetiver, benzoin, vanilla and musk.