Tabac Rose

Dear BDK, Please, please, PLEASE, for the love of everything good and beautiful in this corrupt world, MAKE A PARFUM VERSION OF THIS THAT GETS TO THE DRYDOWN FASTER!!! I promise you, you will have a fragrance that men will flock to the world over. Think Aventus levels of popularity and reverence. Sometimes the best inventions and innovations are purely accidental: penicillin, Pyrex, Lycra, etc.. BDK, you have unwittingly stumbled upon something that is UNIVERSAL in male perfumery while being equally near NONEXISTENT in male perfumery: a scent profile that is BOTH indolic and earthy! The mid to late drydown of Tabac Rose is masculinely sweet. This is somewhat hard to explain which why it is nearly never fully realized in a fragrance..because in order to create something, someone must first put words to what they are attempting to create, esp if the creation takes more than one person to produce as perfume often does. Let me try to explain this so most can understand what I'm talking about (Here, I'm talking to you BDK!!!). When most people, esp women, think of a man in a full sweat, they imagine odor, specifically, body odor as contemporaneous with that full sweat but this is not true in most non indoor settings. A clean man, fresh from a morning shower and a healthy breakfast out in the woods or a meadow, chopping wood, mending a broken fence post or even clearing brush will NOT have b.o necessarily. He will most likely take on the natural aromas of the flora he is working in and amongst. BDK Tabac Rose's late drydown is the scent of a clean man clearing wild brush just beyond wild tobacco fields where on the rise just overlooking the clearing there are blossoms of wild roses blooming in the late spring. I GUARANTEE you BDK, 95% of men WANT TO SMELL LIKE THIS AND 99.99999% OF WOMEN WANT MEN WHOM SMELL LIKE THIS. The late drydown of this fragrance gives exactly this scent BUT one has to wait nearly 4 hours for it and slog through some kind of macabre sugar confectionary inside those 4 hours to get there. PLEASE DO BETTER. You can send me my royalty checks when the bonanza begins to roll in. bon chance

A gentle swirl of jam and cinnamon folded into chocolate whipped cream, that's piped into a chocolate eclair made by a smoking baker who's burning oud chips in the background. This gorgeous spicy. voluminous, whipped rose & tobacco scent has a Middle Eastern leaning rose that has a jammy facet catalyzed by a touch of lemon and engorged by plum. As it transitions to the heart I get a chocolate-patchouli added to the mix, accented by cinnamon and soft tobacco. Tobacco here is mostly a soft tobacco smoke filtered through baked goods, that reminds me of a time when I was a kid and my parents would bring home Robin's Donuts from a shop that allowed smoking. This could be a chocolate eclair from that shop, with jam and a sprinkling of cinnamon, plus oud & saffron. In the long dry down, this gets sweeter, softer and more mellow from Spanish Labdanum which ties everything together in the base. The balsamic sweetness here is tilted to chocolate-y praline by the Indonesian patchouli leaf which also brings a faint & passing soapy note on the skin. I also get faint oud and saffron in the mix as mentioned (not listed). Although it gets quite sweet, it's not a cloying sweetness, and reads unisex to my nose. When I first spray this, I do get a similarity to Shaghaf Oud Swiss Arabian and Oud Bouquet Lancôme, although Tabac Rose is more fruity, rose-jammy and spicy with cinnamon & tobacco. Performance is excellent for year round wear, but this will wear best in cooler months. It's a love for me. Enjoy! Update 10/27/24: Sprayed this on today as the weather is cooler. Still amazing. Hasn't changed from what I remember. Fantastic quality. Still a love. Update 03/05/25: Sprayed this on today as I've been in the mood for a rose-oud. I'm still surprised oud & saffron aren't listed here, or akigala-wood even (I'm not saying it's a real oud). Love the scent, but I would love this more if there was more honesty in the notes.

I admit that upon reading the name I rolled my eyes into the back of my skull and thought to myself "Here we go... another rose and tobacco scent to add to the thousands already out there'. I expected mediocrity, an underwhelming rose patch with some tobacco notes thrown in, or some sickly powdery rose. In the end, what I got was a massive dose of humble pie. A pie that was a sweet desert one in the form of this gourmand rose minx. On first spray I immediately get a sharp hit of freshly ground pink pepper and an almost fizzy rose reminiscent of rose lemonade. The top notes are bright and uplifting in a way that made me smile and pay attention. I noticed now there is lemon listed as a note too, which makes sense for the rose lemonade sensation I experienced. After the fizzing and dazzling opening I get the jamminess of over ripe plums leaking syrup into the wanton, open mouth of a bold rose. A rose who's petals are sugared and dusted ever so slightly in cinnamon. It is sweet, but not sickenly so. This makes my mouth water and my heart pound. It's pretty and sexy and I find it rather androgynous. In one way it is girly and feminine, on the other it is a bit dirty and earthy too. This could easily be worn by a man, especially on the dry down. Before it all gets too cloying sweet the bitter and dry cacao appears. The chocolate note is almost waxy and it works very well in tandem with some dirty patchouli, which balances out the more super sticky and sweet side of things. There's a lovely hint of tobacco and a rich, dark and resinous labdanum here too, all of which adds further depth and complexity in a way that is not as familiar as you'd think for a perfume with these notes. This base here itself is like the substrate from which the intoxicating gourmand rose blooms forth. I will be getting a full bottle of this for sure. A very well done scent and I believe a unique rose.

Oooo, I need this in my life! Dark and mysterious roses with tobacco and chocolate. Oh my gosh, I would bath in this scent! Just, I don't have to. Two sprays on me last till the next day. Definitely full bottle worthy for me. Mind you, I usually gravitate towards clean and fresh musky florals, I hate vanilla so for sweeter scents I choose more fruity fragrances (BDK Wood Jasmin is one fantastic plum jam for an autumn scent) but THIS! This is heavy fragrance done to the perfection. Rose is sweet enough, no sugar was necessary. Tobacco and chocolate brings a spicy, dark and mysterious base for the heavy roses and it's balanced with plum very well. Simple, elegant and dark! But that's not even the best part! I always had migraines from heavier perfumes. I can smell Thierry Mugler Angel from another room and I'll spend the rest of the day with killer headache. But this is doing no harm, not cloying, just sits warm on me, blooming in a lovely cloud. I've tested it over and over again, during red days, during grey days, on a date, to work, just to enjoy Sunday afternoon... And it never failed to make me happy and more at ease. Is it blind buy safe? Probably not. Is it office friendly? If you don't overspray it, it might be. But I would wear it to a woody cabin in the middle of wild forest, snowed in with only fireplace and a hot chocolate to fight the rough winter with. Or to an opera in Vienna, if I want to make an impression. Or when it's raining and day is all grey and gloomy, to lift my spirits. Or to a winter ball, with a simple black velvet gown and long gloves and very loud jewelry. Definitely an extravagant and expensive smelling perfume! Now please excuse me, I'm going to order full bottle and a travel spray so I can keep it with me always.

I was introduced to this beauty a few years back thanks to the sample sent by my friend. I wasn't sure how I felt about it when first trying it. The tobacco note is very strong in the opening, definitely not the fresh leaf type, but more like cigarette smoke. It's not ashy, but harsh and smoky. Rose is in the background, Chocolate is less detectable unless I sniff closer. I felt something missing in the blend. I get why it can immediately turn people off. Slowly, the tobacco transitions to the supporting note and becomes less sharp. Rose turns to the star of the show. In the end, the scent gets sweeter, rose forward, brighter, cleaner and more welcomed. I wouldn't say this fragrance is juicy, but plum gives a fruity twist, spiced up by cinnamon, brining an exotic experience, which makes this fragrance so unique and seductive. Tabac Rose is neither a gourmand rose, nor another oud rose. It doesn’t resemble any rose fragrance I've tried. The more I wear, the more it captivates me. It's a mature scent, leaning towards the darker side, but has translucent quality to it. This is definitely one of the best BDK offerings I've experienced, along with Gris Charnel. I personally enjoy Julien Rasquinet's creations, and a lot of them are solid keepers!