Tobacco Rose

Wow! I was definitely not expecting this. On my skin and with my chemistry, I get a jammy rose a la Rose Jam (Lush), on a test strip it smells like a true rose/oud (there is 0 oud here) and on drydown (on me) it smells like a smoky blood red rose. Talk about a chameleon!! On my skin, the opening takes about two hours to settle down. While it’s there, I can smell one of the richest, reddest, most dark roses. It only allows the geranium to lend a slight element of air, with a slightly green/herbal/lemony piquancy. It reminds me of when Rose Jam was packed with the real stuff, and make no mistake, the rose here smells like a million bucks. The formula ain’t cheap, not by a long shot! Slowly, the sweetness becomes honey like. It’s beeswax, but on me it’s more like honey, raw honey with a humongous animalic side. It must be the ambergris combined, because it smells sweet/carnal/dark/smoky. Drydown takes ages to arrive and sillage is heavy all the way through. When it gets there, the rose subdues slightly, and I’m left with a smoky, salty (thank you true ambergris!) rose, that is kicking the last remnants of honey. I was expecting something else, and once again in true Papillon style, I get something completely different, but 100 times better. There’s an unparalleled richness, a herbal quality, it avoids cliches and becomes one of a kind; This is Rose with a capital R in all its dark crimson glory. Natural ambergris and honey/beeswax anchor it to the skin, just like oakmoss used to do it in the past. Do not expect a light or modern perfume. While not vintage smelling, Tobacco Rose is made in the old fashioned way; art, skill and quality. This is for those who love their roses as deep as they get, with lashings of animal essence and a dark green halo that oversees the development. And even if you don’t like roses, or the idea of them, try it. You can confirm, or change your mind, if you try a true rose in all its glory! Stunning! FBW!

A truly splendid and dandy tobacco-rose fragrance. On my skin, the tobacco leaf comes through strongly. When I smell this perfume, vivid scenes appear before my eyes: an opulent living room of the 1980s, a time of unrestrained vitality. Not the modern, Scandinavian-style interiors of today, which often lack artistry and feel monotonous, but a space adorned with carved wooden furniture of character. A mahogany desk stands with a Baccarat ashtray placed upon it, holding not a cigarette but a cigar. A madame enters, handing over a cigar cutter to her guest and, while at it, arranges a fresh bouquet of roses into a vase. It is unmistakably the atmosphere of the wealthy and indulgent gatherings of the 70s and 80s. This fragrance is not only suited to those who care deeply about furniture craftsmanship, but also to people who are devoted to vintage clothing. If someone has such a passion for vintage attire but wears only light, trendy perfumes, I personally find it disappointing. To me, anyone who loves vintage and classic aesthetics should have the presence to wear a fragrance like this. I am a woman, yet I adore the romance of this scent. P.S. — I’m a former smoker and familiar with the scents of cigarettes, cigars, and raw tobacco leaves. What truly puzzles me is that some reviews claim “there’s no tobacco note.” I wonder if those reviewers are aware of the wide olfactory range tobacco can have. Papillon’s Tobacco Rose perfectly captures the smell of raw tobacco leaves, beautifully rendered through other supporting notes. Similarly, Hiram Green’s Slowdive contains a well-crafted tobacco accord, even though some describe it as “only honey.” The tobacco is definitely there — skillfully expressed and harmoniously blended.

Probably my favourite rose fragrance...and the one I feel very comfortable wearing as a man because this one is a bit dark, earthy, and mysterious. This is not your jammy, sweet-tooth, or Middle Eastern rose. This rose has a velvety texture to it...and it has a richness or depth to it. It definitely feels more natural than anything and presents itself as of the earth. But what sets this apart is the very natural sweetness from the beeswax that is ever so slightly lurking in the background...it adds some freshness and a hint of animalism. I definitely get the oakmoss and I believe it's responsible for giving this rose a slightly earthy/soil feel to it. But then there's something else that I can't quite put my finger on - it's like an X-factor...not sure if it's the ambergris but whatever it is, is responsible for whatever freshness or lightness that exists here...it adds a sort of soapy feel to the scent...but it's very softly done. Wish I was better able to give this fragrance its due with a better review...but I think this is a masterpiece. I will be getting a bottle. This straddles the line perfectly between a wearable niche fragrance that gives hints of artistry/eccentricity. Lastly - the elephant in the room: no, I personally don't pick up a recognizable tobacco note but from what I read, the perfumer's intention was to re-create the smell of a particular rose garden she happened upon that gave off a dark, smoky or earthy aroma - and she decided that the kind of rose flower that gave off this smell would almost be in its own separate subcategory - the Tobacco Rose. Enjoy.

A lush, velvety, extremely sensual, crimson rose. I smell moist hay, sticky balsams, a civet-like animalic note, and honey-dipped rose petals. Tobacco Rose is a celebration of the night. It is a perfume I would wear if I were going to see a show at the Moulin Rouge. It makes me picture velvet curtains, elegant black dresses, and skin illuminated by candle light. Tobacco Rose stayed on my skin for 14 hours before I went to sleep for the night. A few hours in, the hay note faded, and the perfume headed down the rose confiture road. I happen to like jammy roses. What sets this one apart from the rest is the ever-present animalic note that gives it a certain edge. I adore the entire Papillon collection and wear every single one of them. I crave them. While Anubis, Salome, and Angelique are equally beautiful and sensual in their own ways, when I wear Tobacco Rose, I start having thoughts like, "I am a beautiful woman!" There is just something about this juice that makes me want to get my hair, makeup, and nails done and just bask in the glory of being a woman. It's so unlike me to talk like that! This velvety red scent will be perfect for the turning of the leaves and the crisp breezes. Dark rose perfection. Update: Six months later and was STILL craving this beauty. Had to make it mine.

Surprisingly, I am utterly smitten with this one. I say "surprisingly" because (a) I've had the sample for six months and I had dismissed it as meh; and (b) I am not a rose person (or at least I thought I wasn't). While this is unmistakably a rose, it is thankfully not a bright, cheerful rose. Nor is it a "dirty" rose, like Eau Suave (which I like) or a very dramatic one, like Portrait of a Lady (which I love, but don't know where I would wear). It is certainly not a tobacco rose, as others have said - no hint of tobacco. So what is it? It is a rose tempered by what I think is hay and beeswax and what apparently is moss, which gives it some earthiness and tones it down (a good thing, in my book). The moss plays in Tobacco Rose the role that patchouli plays in Lumiere Noire. It is warm, discreet and versatile and perfect for autumn. I have worn my sample at work, in the evening and on the weekend. On my perfume-eating, sillage-killing skin, longevity is amazing (more than eight hours), while sillage is discreet (although a colleague did compliment me, but we were working side by side). I have now placed it on my Want list. The only thing is, I would like to do a side-by-side testing with Lumiere Noire, as I need only of the two. Decisions, decisions.

Finally a rose didn't overpowered by sweet notes or spices. I was dreaming about using this perfume last night.. I recently purchased this one and couple of others. I realized i wanted to use this even though there are some fragrances waiting me to try them for the first time.This means i had a crush on this fragrance, which doesn't happen to me often especially with rose fragrances. It's a rose that doesn't smell jammy, sticky or overly spicy. In this perfume, Liz Moores's usage of rose reminded me of Serge Lutens Fille de Berlin. It's darker, less pungent but sophisticated. It's a must for me, because i love gothic rose fragrances and this is one of them. Though it keeps a freshness due to ambergris and peru balsam after few hours you can totally smell beeswax and quite strong oakmoss. It's almost feels like a sunny day but with cold wind. One moment you fell warmness and then two seconds later you feel chillness. Thank you Liz Moores, this is spectacular.

The notes listed here are the notes listed on the back of the box. It's not random, even if it's not a complete disclosure. jtd, quite a scroll down below and quite a few years ago now, left an incredibly insightful review that should give context to Tobacco Rose that so many clearly are looking for: this is a tobacco accord of fresh, green, growing tobacco, not the dried tobacco we are all so accustomed to in perfumery. Does my nose recognize this version of tobacco? No. But no matter....I adore Tobacco Rose. Metallic, wet, but not too green the way some wet roses can go. I get no smoke, I get no ashtray. A dark red rose, drenched. A speck of blood on your finger after pricking it with the rose's thorn in a rainstorm. And "rainstorm" is key. To me, Tobacco Rose ultimately smells of the most refreshing, thirst-quenching rain after a long, long drought. Strong, confident, self-assured, but not at all haughty or aloof. Contemplative. Perfect.

I’m a huge fan of dark and deep smoky-honey-floral fragrances. This one has replaced Mendittorosa Sirio (which is boozy rather than smoky, and also includes vanilla, my most-hated note in fragrance) as my new favourite in this category. Now I have no idea what tobacco smells like, and any scent associations I make to might just be because of the name of the fragrance, but it opened as a dark red rose enveloped in smoke. The beeswax entered later and introduced a gorgeous golden quality to the fragrance - vibrant rose petals turned into rich rose jam. Around two hours later the animalic ambergris presented itself. I also think it’s more green at this stage from the oakmoss, which I didn’t notice in the beginning. This makes the fragrance very marine-ish which I don’t particularly like, but it’s better than a vanilla base note. I feel so elegant and powerful wearing this. Completely unisex in my opinion, I think it would work for anyone!

I am very picky when it comes to rose perfumes, far too often I find they’re either too cloying and jammy, or too pale and pathetic like cheap rose-water. Tobacco Rose is unlike either, a monumentally impressive rose which has no need to shout for attention like some, instead it seduces quietly, powerfully. I’m not sure where the tobacco aspect is hiding, but the scent is surprisingly light and airy. The roses are sweet and oily, like a pink bushel thriving in the spring, as the shimmering morning sun glistens against the lapping waves of the sea in the distance. There’s a subtle green stemmy facet to the rose, thorns and all, tempered by the alluring saltiness of ambergris. Such an unassuming perfume, which caught me off guard and captured my heart from the very first spray. This is one which absolutely must be tried on skin, I had tested multiple times on card before but had never fallen for it as hard as I have tonight.

A Rose at the Eden's garden... If you like rose in perfumes and you haven't tried this, you are doing something wrong. If you do not like rose in perfumes and you have not tried this, you are doing something wrong too... This could be my favorite Rose Perfume ever. It is clear, natural smelling, delicate but strong, and the support given by the Oak moss and Ambergris is brilliant. So classy and refined. This could be the "day-version" of Portrait of a Lady, taken out the patchouli and the touch of incense. To my nose this one is much more natural smelling, but still strong and powerful. Men and women can pull this off. Easy rose perfume for a man to rock it... Tobacco is nowhere here. The closest to tobacco is the anxiety provided by this juice when you have tried it and you do not have the bottle in your self... Uniqueness: medium Scent: 9.5/10 Performance: high Would I buy it: Yes (a must for rose lovers)

Oh, let me compare thee to a summers day - because you're NOTHING like one! It's was a sultry hot night when I left the house, but I'm glad I took a coat. I'm now wearing it, after pub and club hopping on this summer's night in the early 90's. Smoking was still allowed indoors, and lingered on your clothes long after you left the venue. But the tobacco is sweet, and has mixed with the heavy perfume that filled the room; a seductive rose, and the smell of the beeswax that sheened the bar, sensual, what will become a reminder of the night that was filled with booze and laughter and smouldering looks. It lays thick around me, as I wrap myself into my coat and head out into the early morning. As I walk home by the river, I can still smell the oh so sexy rose, but she's balancing beautifully on the honey beeswax. Goddamn, that was a great night.

Throughout perfume sampling, I have made the discovery that tobacco in a scent can make or break it for me. With a unisex scent, if it has tobacco in it, most scents suck up the tobacco on my husband's skin and leave the floral/other notes, and on my skin it's the complete opposite. Same goes for leather notes, those stay on my skin while my body sucks up only the good stuff. This one, Tobacco Rose, is the first perfume that kept its rose note on my skin for the whole duration and the tobacco is but a side note that gives it the animalistic edge. I consider putting it on my wishlist as it has the sultry velvety feeling that none of my perfumes hold.

This is like tauer's incense rose but tamed down citrus and incense replaced w a more subtle tobacco. Very interesting composition and it is growing on me very fast Edit update** so I'm going to stick with this smelling similar to incense rose, because it's the same rose note. There's more depth with this composition. They are both fighting for first place right now Bc they are both very well rounded compositions with very high quality. There's a overall pleasing quality of rose, tobacco and incense here with a little citrus to brighten things up. I think the ambergris realllly sets this one off guys. I have decided I am going to pick up a bottle :)

One of my favourite rose scents. My crisp crimson rose, velvet to the touch, dripping with bitter honey. Drops of water on the leaves, earthy note underneath and a slightly charred toned down edge of lovely dry tobacco. This is luxurious, deep, grown up and sophisticated, in all good ways. It makes me feel uber feminine with a note of power, and very sexy. Cocktail dress, heels, whiskey sour on top of a tower across from the Bund in Shanghai, his jacket on my shoulders as the wind brings chill from the river. One last smoke and we're off. Yes, Tobacco Rose is a success story. Try it.

LOVE! A very green and stringent rose. Classy and easy to wear. Rich and a bit earthy background to the flowers, not too sweet despite the beewax and balsam. Great performance. I get a lot of geranium and hay not listed here, not sure about the ambergris though. Edit. Used this alot ladt week. And I only fall more and more in love with it. To me this is a true summer fragrance, the rose, geranium and hay are so green, fresh and natural. Will probably work all year, but surprised (scandinavian) summer is not voted higher. This is green, not a cozy wintery tobacco scent.

Tobacco Rose is to me a gorgeous nuclear rose bomb. I've got to apply it with caution, one spray max, and it radiates a beautiful, intense red rose with an earthy vibe, something like warm pavement smells when the rain first touches it. I get no tobacco at all. It really is strong on my skin; one day I made the mistake of applying two sprays, and was mercilessly strangled all day. And it lasts and lasts, and doesn't let up.... One bottle may be enough for two lifetimes. If you love roses, you might love this perfume.

Ughh I can’t trust fragranticas note breakdown at all. Where’s the tobacco and the notes are all wrong. I think they just make notes up in here. I’ve seen this happen way too much. As for the fragrance, no I don’t much like it, this one’s for the guys. I don’t like most tobacco perfumes. A few that I do love, use sweet smelling tobacco and it’s beautifully blended, so it doesn’t stand out on its own but rather a team player and not making the perfume smell like an ash tray. This one would be very nice on a man.

My first public wearing of Tobacco Rose by Papillon Perfumes this evening. A sultry and brooding rose, she is moody, slightly aloof and very sophisticated. She unveils herself in layers, through which her constituent parts are shown as distinct yet perfectly blended. This rose is mournful yet ecstatic. The rose/moss combo creates a gentrified version of classic 80s rose/patch/moss scent, "Zino" by Davidoff. I really recommend this for well-dressed, suave guys!

I get green, dewy rose and no tobacco, which is exactly the kind of profile I like. Quite straightforward and unlike other creations from this house. A little bit soapy which adds the right amount of vintage vibes. It transports me to what I imagine to be early spring in the English countryside, walking around a rose garden in light rain on the grounds of a big old mansion. Longevity is quite good. Full bottle worthy for any rose lovers.

Lovely! An ambergris heavy opening that quickly turns into a sweet yet sophisticated rose. Very grown-up. Oakmoss and beeswax support the rose nicely in equal measure. After the ambergris gives way for the rose it remains in the background and never disappears. All in all an elegant fragrance, a safe choice for any occasion without being boring. I get half a day from x3 sprays. If longevity was better I would probably invest in a fb.