Tobacco

What it is

Cured tobacco leaf absolute, not smoke. The curing is what produces the sweetness, and the material is closer to dried fruit than to a cigarette.

What it smells like

Dried leaves, sweet and warm, with a hay-like softness. People expecting an ashtray are usually surprised, and the accord almost always arrives with vanilla or tonka, which pushes it further from smoke still.

How strongly it is worn

The average strength this accord is listed at, where 100 means it dominates the fragrance.

71 / 100

What builds it

How much more often than the catalogue average. 1.0x would be chance, so these are the things that genuinely travel with it rather than the things that are simply common.

Accords it sits beside

Same measure, with its own family filtered out. Saying woody turns up with oud is a restatement, not a finding.

When it is worn

Against the average fragrance here. The line marks that average, so a bar past it means this is worn in that season or setting more than most.

Houses that use it most

Counted across the fragrances here, which reflects what we cover as much as what a house makes.

Viktor & Rolf (5), Amouage (4), Initio Parfums Prives (4), Xerjoff (4), Dolce & Gabbana (3), Giorgio Armani (3).