Tell me about the Pipe Tobacco scents

[sas71]

is something like a Tabac scent with added vanilla and cherry?

 

[Gruder]

I've tried MB's pipe tobacco, as well as the version from TGQ. I'm not sure that I'd relate either of them to tabac. MB's was, to me, almost sickeningly sweet -- definitely heavy on the cherry and vanilla, with an earthy not in there somewhere to avoid the whole thing smelling like something from a bakery. TQ, on the other hand, comes closer in my estimation to the smell of a good pipe tobacco Cavendish Black is the name of that one).

 

[GoldenMonkey]

Tabac is not tobacco-y smelling as you are used to it in it's toasted leaf form...it is tobacco flower, among a lot of other things (woods and other florals, predominantly).

Gruder, thanks for the comparos...my favorite pipe tobacco scents are a nice Cavendish with a little cherry and vanilla (or just straight Cav), so I'd probably be somewhere in between the MB and TGQ, scentwise, lol...

 

[sas71]

I've tried MB's pipe tobacco, as well as the version from TGQ. I'm not sure that I'd relate either of them to tabac. MB's was, to me, almost sickeningly sweet -- definitely heavy on the cherry and vanilla, with an earthy not in there somewhere to avoid the whole thing smelling like something from a bakery. TQ, on the other hand, comes closer in my estimation to the smell of a good pipe tobacco Cavendish Black is the name of that one).

i saw MB's pipe tobacco and Honey Bee's cherry pipe tobacco. i see that Gingers Garden does custom scents. i didnt see a specific pipe tobacco scent but did see tobacco flower i thought maybe adding vanilla and almond (since most almond smells like cherries anyway) would get me in the ball park.

 

[Gruder]

i saw MB's pipe tobacco and Honey Bee's cherry pipe tobacco. i see that Gingers Garden does custom scents. i didnt see a specific pipe tobacco scent but did see tobacco flower i thought maybe adding vanilla and almond (since most almond smells like cherries anyway) would get me in the ball park.

I've got MB's Tobacco Flower, and prefer it to the pipe tobacco. That said, it'd strike me as rather difficult (and likely foul-smelling) to add cherry or vanilla to it. (All of MB's soaps have an underlying sweet scent to me, so you may well like the Tobacco Flower on its own.) You want pipe tobacco, I imagine that TGQ really is as close as you're going to get, based simply on track record of blending scents on her own as opposed to purchasing a "pipe tobacco" synthetic/FO and dumping it in a batch (not that there's anything wrong with that -- some great products come from that practice, too!).

 

[barneyb]

+1 on TGQ's Cavendish Black. Better than I thought it would be, although not a dead ringer for pipe tobacco. Very warm scent and I do like the smell even more when it is lathered. I have not tried MB's to be honest.