Tabac scent

[LuckyR]

I was never able to come up with a descent description of the very distinctive scent of Tabac. Seemed like a combo of various scents that I couldn't discern.

Went to C&E to see what all the fuss was about for the Nomad scent. (Hated it actually), but while I was there sampled the Sienna and Sandalwood. Boom. Tabac is sandalwood? Not identical, but clearly have a similar base.

 

[Sir Walter of Mount Royal]

2 minutes search on Google :

http://www.basenotes.net/ID26121551.html

Top Notes : Pepper, Petitgrain, Citrus, Neroli

Middle Notes : Lavender, Camomie, Geranium, Oak Moss

Base Notes : Carnation, Sandalwood, Vetiver, Moschus, Ambergris

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[Blix]

I don't know if the aftershave is different, but I tried the EDT today and found it horrible. Now about 10 hours later what's left smell quite good actually, but when fresh, ewwwww.

 

[LuckyR]

2 minutes search on Google :

http://www.basenotes.net/ID26121551.html

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Petitgrain? Seriously? Does anyone even know what that is? (I don't mean "able to use Google", but actually KNOW what that is?)

Last time I smelled a Carnation it doesn't have a scent... perhaps they mean the instant milk...

 

[MarkStar]

I don't know if the aftershave is different, but I tried the EDT today and found it horrible. Now about 10 hours later what's left smell quite good actually, but when fresh, ewwwww.

I have never tried the EdT, but everything I've read says that it is noticeably different from the EdC.

 

[Blix]

I have never tried the EdT, but everything I've read says that it is noticeably different from the EdC.

Cool, actually I quite like the scent that's left now, so I'm not writing off Tabac yet, I have a tub of the shaving soap coming, and I'll check out the deodorant my local store got in stock.

 

[bc9]

Petitgrain? Seriously? Does anyone even know what that is? (I don't mean "able to use Google", but actually KNOW what that is?)

Last time I smelled a Carnation it doesn't have a scent... perhaps they mean the instant milk...

I couldn't tell you what 7 of the 13 things listed smell like..

 

[retiredguns]

Tabac is hard to describe. Maybe cigar & leather with a lilac mask.

 

[inspiringK]

Can't say I ever picked up on the Sandalwood notes in Tabac. I think that I notice notes from the........... actually I don't know. This thread isn't helping. It smells like shave

 

[Jim Raynor]

Got a tub of the soap in front of me and what I (<- read this) smell is a little vanilla, flowers, wood, and something fresh which I can't place. The hair oil is a little fresher though, will smell the EdT later!

 

[oc_in_fw]

I once saw Tabac described as smelling like a Crimean whorehouse- the gentleman in me did not inquire how that person knew what a Crimean whorehouse smelled like.

 

[Ignatius]

Unless you're serious scent geek its very difficult to get an idea of it in text. Tabac is a wetshaving must0try anyway, so might as well get a puck and find out.


~Adam

 

[Drubbing]

Petitgrain? Seriously? Does anyone even know what that is? (I don't mean "able to use Google", but actually KNOW what that is?)

I gave up on basenotes long ago. It's written in English, but all the words are completely unfamiliar to me. And the ones I do understand don't match my experience.

 

[Schwert]

I think it is a complex mixture of:

50% old folks home, the Grandmother section
40% 1942 Bremerhaven Bordello the morning after an Unterseaboot shore leave
10% cheap floral drugstore perfume

 

[Sir Walter of Mount Royal]

They are all very common aromatic ingredients found typically in French fragrances for men. It's easier to understand in French.

Poivre = pepper
Petit grain = woodsy orange, often described as "bergamot"
Citron = Lemon, clean soap
Neroli = Orange flower water (like in baklava)
Lavande = French Lavender (not the English one)
Camomille and geranium = very common flower scents
Vétivier = the most typical scent found in French fragrances for men
Ambre gris = the second most common fragrances found in men's perfumes
Sandalwood = very common in English products for men
Moschus = fancy word for "musk"

I think Tonka Bean is missing.

Tonka = almost like vanilla

 

[Crixus]

I once saw Tabac described as smelling like a Crimean whorehouse- the gentleman in me did not inquire how that person knew what a Crimean whorehouse smelled like.

I had just come off my shift of volunteering at a homeless shelter and was helping a blind nun rescue a frightened kitten from the top of a tall tree when the limb broke and I fell through a skylight and landed in a heap on a soiled velvet rug, narrowly missing an inebriated Black Sea fishing boat captain wearing a cape.

I would say the place reeked of Tabac, but in all honesty it's the other way around.

 

[noahpictures]

They are all very common aromatic ingredients found typically in French fragrances for men. It's easier to understand in French.

Poivre = pepper
Petit grain = woodsy orange, often described as "bergamot"
Citron = Lemon, clean soap
Neroli = Orange flower water (like in baklava)
Lavande = French Lavender (not the English one)
Camomille and geranium = very common flower scents
Vétivier = the most typical scent found in French fragrances for men
Ambre gris = the second most common fragrances found in men's perfumes
Sandalwood = very common in English products for men
Moschus = fancy word for "musk"

I think Tonka Bean is missing.

Tonka = almost like vanilla

Thanks for that. I know why I like the scent so much. Woodsy orange, French Lavender, musk, spice...

 

[bobfarvour]

It smells like Tabac !!

 

[Statement]

Just a quick comment about the EdT, it's pretty much reguarded as terrible and all together a much different scent to the other parts of the tabac line.

The soap, aftershave, and EdC are all pretty much the same scentwise, and I love and use them all.

 

[global_dev]

I was never able to come up with a descent description of the very distinctive scent of Tabac. Seemed like a combo of various scents that I couldn't discern.

Went to C&E to see what all the fuss was about for the Nomad scent. (Hated it actually), but while I was there sampled the Sienna and Sandalwood. Boom. Tabac is sandalwood? Not identical, but clearly have a similar base.

i found nomad to also be unpleasant when i smelled it at the store, picked it up anyway and found that the scent really was nice when lathered... glad i grabbed it before the Tysons store went under..