Chinese Tobacco

WOW! If you like tobacco scents you have to try this!!!! As far as I know there is no scent like it - great to have a nice change. It starts with what feels like a bright wine or desert wine for the first minute (which is the ginger just like it’s been sliced in front of you) mixed with a just sliced chilli which blends away and softens into what smells like a slightly boozy, slightly sweet lemon (the sweetness from a subtle amount of vanilla) - with say - imagine a lemon half covered in sugar then rubbed with coriander (not too strong),Tobacco (just enough to make it out) some spices (the coal tar in Effect) and a touch of incense to give roundness and body in the spice. All this on a very subtle woody base (more nose to skin for this). Absolute stinker in performance (in the best possible respect). A bright, mesmerising concoction that undulates and changes every breath you take in yet delivering in fact exactly what the name is! Alternatively I would say imagine being at a Chinese restaurant - and Someone has snapped a spring roll in half and you can smell the 5 spice sauce, and some one has snapped a fortune Cookie in half with a lemon tea held in your face and someone is opening a fresh bag of tobacco nearby. The longer dry down seems to show the spices as a clove even. I took it to work and my colleagues that don’t dig tobacco scents were drooling all over it! The review below works for me too but it seems to beer away from the fact that this has a prominent tobacco. One of the awesome bright tobaccos like Atelier Cologne Tobacco Nuit or Ordmonde Jayne Montabacco. It now in my top rotation of Tobacco scents that I own - for your reference: Xerjoff Commandante Xerjoff Naxos Miller Harris Feuilles De Tabac Atelier Cologne Tobacco Nuit Comptor Sud Pacific Rhum Et Tabac Nicolai Parfumer Cuir Cuba Intense Ormonde Jayne Montabacco Intense Ormonde jayne Montabacco Stephane Humbert Lucas 777 Qom Chilom (though no tobacco is listed) Farmacia SS Anunziata Autore D'Tabacco Kerosine Broken Theories Parfum De Marly Herod 19-69 Chinese Tobacco. It name says it all and it does it well. Happy Smelling

Chinese Tobacco is one of the first perfumes I ever sampled when I started becoming more than a casual perfume enjoyer a few years ago. I chose it based on name alone, as I was looking for the nostalgic scent of spending time at my grandparents' house. I was looking for something that mimicked a mix of my grandfather's cigars and my grandmother's kimonos folded and sitting on her closet shelf. I have yet to find that nostalgic scent, but Chinese Tobacco remains one of my favorite perfumes - one of my signature scents, in fact. I've never smelled anything even close to it after smelling hundreds of perfumes. The closest thing I can compare it to is an old wooden crate from China buried in an antique store, with the scent of its contents - old cigars, spilled and sticky Coca-Cola, tar, incense, and sugared ginger - still lingering. It's intoxicating - deep and resinous. It lasts for hours on clothing and skin. It's not a safe blind buy. And, I'm sure it is a rather off-putting scent for many people, even bizarre Orientalist inspiration aside. But, I just love it. Even if it's not a scent that you like enough to add to your personal collection, I do think it's worth sampling just to appreciate its uniqueness.

Controversial fragrance that received a lot of heat and almost got cancelled on social media. The inspiration is vintage, classic movies taking place in southeast Asia and more specifically, the Opium smoking scene in the movie Apocalypse Now. Opening is a bit challenging up close. I've never smelled opium, but this opens extremely animalic on my skin. Lots of animalic oud to the point that I thought I was smelling hyrax. Oud, spicy peppers, incense, tobacco, and ginger. The ginger hangs a bit and is joined by vetiver into the drydown which predominantly for me, is more woody. I don't get any Tar which I was looking forward to. No vanilla either for that matter. The caveat is that the notes combine to form a Coca-Cola accord. So the sum of the parts is Coca-Cola, resins, tobacco and woods. It reminds me of less aromatic version of Cuba, by the British house of Czech & Speake. They have similar note pyramid as well. That one also starts out with a skanky, raw, barnyard tobacco.. But the skank is turned down here. Masculine leaning and performance is so so. Not great but not terrible. If you like Cola, vetiver, tobacco and wood, check this out. Scent 9/10 Performance 6/10

I bought the collection kit from 19-69 and the chinese tobacco is the one I like the most. It got everything that I like from ALL other fragrances that I love! It got the freshness from the citrus, the depth and cozyness from the vanilla and incense and the edge from the tobacco. It is an amazing fragrance that is sexy, soft, fresh and can be worn at every occasion, a casual or formal one, either with a dressed look or a dressed down look. The fragrance evolves really good and I could smell it on myself for a long time. It doesn’t have the longevity as Tonacco Vanille though. When Tobacco Vanille dries down it smells kind of like chai tea and looses its’ edge, but is still good. Chinese tobacco on the drydown is fantastic and smells more masculine than TV and is more sweet, smoky, and seductive. I would say it fits a man more, but a really confident woman that isn’t afraid to wear a suit or a leather jacket could wear this. I really recommend this one.

This is one of my favorite scents, I totally agree that it smells like cherry cola on cedar. It has a spicy, citrusy open that mellows out to a resinous tobacco-vanilla-incense scent and eventually finishes with the woody cherry cola smell. It definitely leans masculine on the initial spray but it becomes unisex on the dry down. It's just so comforting and warm, though! Unfortunately it does not last on my skin or clothes at all. I ended up going thru a large portion of it very quickly because I enjoy wearing it around the house. It'd be a 10/10 buy again signature scent for me if it wasn't so weak and so expensive. I'm definitely glad to have it in my collection but I have to make sure I don't douse myself in it because you have to if you want others to smell it.