Charuto Tobacco Vanille

Brand new bottle. Testing on a blotter. Way back when I was a student, I lived above a fairly fancy tobbaconist for a few years. Every few weeks, as a little treat for studying/surviving, I would get myself a half ounce of their house blend clove rolling tobacco. On paper, this perfume smells exactly how I remember a freshly opened pouch of that stuff smelling. The tobacco here is fantastic. It's the most prominent note and smells very freshly cured, like almost too juicy still to be smokable. Spices are mostly cloves but there's a fair bit of cinnamon bark too, think that floral cinnamon not the sweet stuff. Dried fruits wise there's a prune note that's really nicely blended in with the tobacco, and I'm not getting any other fruits. I'm not getting any vanilla, cocoa, tonka or wood either, but that may just be as it's a new bottle sprayed on blotter paper. Man though, I really want one of those fancy clove rollies right now. I've been holding the blotter paper to my nose and smelling it this whole time and the back of my throat even tastes like smoking one of those now. Edit: it's a few minutes after I posted the review, I just picked up this blotter again and there's a fair bit of vanilla and some cocoa in the scent trail, just not right up close like I was holding it earlier. Really looking forward to wearing this when the weather gets cold.

From Tobacco-Vanilla to Vanilla-Tobacco... This is a dupe of Tobacco Vanille Tom Ford and Amber Oud Tobacco Edition Al Haramain with good approximation and well above average performance. Tested this a couple times. First test, the juice hadn't come alive yet but I could recognize the signature DNA of Tobacco Vanille Tom Ford and Amber Oud Tobacco Edition Al Haramain. Second test, the juice had come alive and had me wondering how they could make this for the price. The opening and into the heart has that fantasy sweet tobacco signature, but the longer it dries down, it takes a slightly different path and the tobacco fades to where it becomes more about vanilla. I find this more vanilla forward than the other two, but it could also be that there are fewer diverse notes as it's drying down. In other words, it goes from tobacco-vanilla to vanilla-tobacco. The performance is there, but it isn't as rich as the other two, and might be easier to wear year-round. Having said that, I really love it. 10/10. Enjoy! Upate 09/19/24: Performance has gotten a lot stronger, and the scent profile is much closer to Tobacco Vanille Tom Ford, with other nuances of tobacco coming out now, including dried fruit, wood & spices. Love it still.

I wouldn't say this is a dupe/clone of TF's TV, this is its own fragrance and in turn has it's own character. It may borrow from TV, but in no way is a dupe. *I* personally would buy this any day over TF, I'm not a TF fan in any way shape or form, so read from that as you will. I'd prefer to spend my money on Initio, Creed, Penhaligon, PdM or some of the Middle Eastern frag houses like Rasasi, Swiss Arabian's top end frags, so Paris Corner has a lot of different, gorgeous and highly affordable alternatives to the likes of MFK, TF, or even a couple of Louis Vuitton and Roja frags. The only downside to this frag, and others from Paris Corner are longevity, some of their frags are beast mode but still their longevity doesn't match their Sillage, nonetheless I love their frags, and this one is no exception. For £25-£30 you really are no going to go wrong, and in my books, it doesn't smell synthetic or cheap. I have about 10-12 frags from PC, and love about 90% of them :) Enjoy, and God bless.

Really just sweet tobacco! I don't get the clove as mentioned in other reviews but there is definitely an undercurrent of something like a stewed fruit, so that could be clove. I don't get vanilla either, just sweet. It has (three if I remember rightly) UV blockers/stabilisers in the ingredients which seem to help lengthen this fragrances longevity. It will easily last eight hours on your skin on a cool day. It will also project quite enthusiastically for the first three hours so don't over spray. Three, in my opinion, is the sweet spot. Not a youngsters fragrance. I think if you're under 40 it maybe hard to pull off but if your like me and as old as dirt then this is a lovely calming, warming, winter, scent that dad or grandad could rock. Just make sure you like the tobacco scent because this is unapologetically linear and strong to begin with before settling down. 8/10 for me as I think it's easier to wear than the original and a steal at the price.

It's been a month since I received it, and I kinda like it. I'm really not a fan of the opening, the top notes say "tobacco leaves" and oh boy, they didn't lie. I wouldn't go out wearing this right after spraying it. I get like 90% tobacco and 10% vanilla, and it stays like that for nearly an hour on my skin. I'm a big fan of the dry down though. When the tobacco note finally fades away and the vanilla joins the party, it's a very pleasant, non-offensive scent, very different from the opening. The dry-down is more unisex, leaning masculine, but the opening is for psychopaths only. That's a 4/5 for me, I wish the tobacco note wasn't so "in your face" in the opening. Update: I have to update this to a 5/5 because the opening is A LOT smoother now, and I get the vanilla straight away. In fact, it's more vanilla than tobacco now. The evolution of that fragrance in time was crazy, but it was worth the wait. This is so good now !