Tobacco, Oud And Vanilla

I have the post-rebranding version (Tabac). Many of the scents have been reformulated/refined.I cannot speak to what the original was if he changed it. This is probably one of the longest lasting scents in his line next to Onyx. I sprayed twice on my wrist and I could still smell the scent at arms length 16 hours later. It survived one washing/scrubbing. A very good fall/winter scent. In the summer, you could probably do away with less. Certainly a great night scent but could be worn during the day. This leans more professional/formal but certainly an easy casual wear. More masculine, but would certainly draw attention when worn on a woman. The smell of this scent is pretty much what is on the bottle. Tobacco, vanilla, and oud. You can occasionally get a wafts of other ingredients, namely rose. But nothing to get too worked up about. You get a very strong honeyed tobacco that smells deep, earthy, and rich. This will be present in the scent throughout the entire life. Then you get a very beautiful vanilla scent. If you have any experience with ATH frags, he has one of the most natural, creamy, and luxurious vanillas out there. The longer you wear the scent, the more prominent the vanilla becomes, much like Onyx. Oud- A more pleasant, less animalic Gives it a slightly smokey, incensey quality. It'll last about 6-8 hours but it can extend a bit more when the skin is moist. However, it plays second fiddle to tobacco and vanilla once the scent settles down. I started picking up a peppery note about 5-6 hours into the scent which I believe is the oud as that's common with many oud oils. Anyone who loves tobacco scents will certainly love this. A non-challenging, easy to wear beast.

This is my favorite of his entire line. Instantly fell in love with it when I tried it and there was nothing else I wanted to wear for a good couple weeks after. Total perfection. Bought a bottle soon enough and have been wearing it often the last few months. So, the scent. It's rich, warm, organic, comfortable. Smells like a strong, reliable character. Beautiful. It opens up full blast. Imagine the sweet spot of fragrances to be at 100%, dying down to a zero. Some start at 100 or less, this one opens up at 110%. Slightly overbearing in the first minutes, but it feels like it only makes it sit around that sweet spot for longer. It has a strong oud in that tangy woody sense and I'm also getting some civet in that opening. I picture a big log of living, breathing wood under my nose when I smell this. Slightly floral and a touch minty. The tobacco leaf adds a lot of richness and some bitterness. This ties into the oud perfectly and the vanilla is the stuff from dreams. It's thick and creamy and stands proudly among quite heavy and assertive notes and gives it a beautiful lift, making this very wearable. The magic of this is that I can objectively wrap my head around why I love this so much; These are all notes I adore, but it also has an instinctive pull to where it taps into some unconscious thing and I have quite the visceral longing for it whenever I smell it. The performance is like nothing else, you'll smell this throughout your night, even when applied early in the morning.

I had a 10 ml of Tabac. Now I have looked through the comments and honestly it's amazing the amount of different perceptions we can have on a scent! Here's mine: As anyone who is in the "frag game" knows unsolicited compliments are unicorns, generally people compliment you because they know you are into fragrances and/or you ask them what they think. This scent garnered me unsolicited comments! For the scent itself I think the people in the comments saying it's more oud and vanilla than tobacco are not wrong, however it is still built like a tobacco fragrance. And it is a fragrance that takes itself seriously, but not to a absurd degree. I found it classy, easy to wear, easy to pull off, and very very safe. There is nothing skanky, dirty or harsh here. Honestly I wouldn't even say it's on the mature side, not anymore than PdM Herod. I would say that it is monolithic though, what you smell at the start is what you get throughout. Performance is great, big projection and longevity. The downside will obviously be the price. It is immensely expensive for what it is, if it were priced as PdM or similar mass appealing niche brands I would not have thought twice about ordering. As it is, it's hard to justify, but even so I will probably get it as I enjoyed it that much! Classy, well rounded, modernly masculine. A big like! If not for the price, it would be a love.

Reviewing 2022 version called “tabac”. Ok so this is for REAL tobacco lovers. Not people who like tobacco fragrances, this is for people who love tobacco. The opening reminds me of very rich aged tobacco with the sickly sweet side of some nice honey. The dry down is like a flue cured tobacco, I don’t see any smoke notes listed but I am getting kind of a Smokey vibe, like birch tar or maybe even amyris. The vanilla is present throughout the whole fragrance but never overshadows the tobacco. The Oud and rose are beautiful but not too “oudy” for Oud haters, also the Oud aaron uses in his fragrances is a really nice clean oud. Something about oud, tobacco and rose that just goes together seamlessly, and this fragrance is no exception. Almost a photorealistic treatment of tobacco. If you think herod is a tobacco fragrance, you probably wouldn’t like this one. This one is real tobacco. Some people might not get the opening, but the drydown is a crowd pleaser. Id call this a winter fall fragrance although by circumstance, i used this one on a hot sweaty day and at no point was it cloying or too sweet, although I’d imagine the opening might be challenging. Spray before you go out at night and you’ll still smell yourself in the morning. Very manly, room commanding presence.

This is renamed Tabac. If I only had to own one ATH scent then it is this one. Beast made Tobacco, Vanilla and Oud. The Oud here is quite pleasant. Not like Bortnikoff Lao Oud at all. I tried that and it was too barnyard for me. ATH Tabac is more well rounded with the Oud. The Vanilla and Tobacco make it not as barnyard. Although you can sort of smell it through it all. Not by much. I don't pick up any Rose. If it's in there then it's more of a stability agent. Absolutely excellent. Very hard to find in the US. ATH might not ship to the US due to shipping costs. I found one bottle in the US already. Quite pricy. In no way is this like Frederic Malle Musc Ravageur. Which I do like Musc Ravageur too. There are two formulations of this. One with a silver plaque on it. No diamonds on the cap. This one has a more airy vanilla tincture scent. The current Tabac has a Vanilla Absolute note. This means it is closer to the skin. This formulation has diamonds on the top cap I like both versions but the first version i prefer if I had choose. I did order a Tabac Extreme sample too and that one is a Cherry Tobacco Vanille type. Quite different from Tabac. Not a as scent at all. More Cherry Gourmand mixed with TF Tobacco Vanille in a way. I do prefer Tabac over Tabac Extreme.