The plate: tobacco
Planche XLI · TabacTobacco

Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · dry-down

Tobacco absolute

Rich, sweet cured leaf; honeyed hay, dried fruit, leather and faint smoke.

What it is
Natural absolute from solvent-extracted cured tobacco leaves (Virginia, Burley, Oriental types).
When you smell it
Dry-down: what stays.
What perfumers do with it
The natural core of tobacco accords; adds warm, honeyed depth to leathers, ambers and fougères.
Worth knowing
Perfumery tobacco absolute is usually extracted from leaves unfit for smoking, then stripped of most nicotine.
Also called
Nicotiana tabacum leaf absolute

Named by the house, not on the label, in 50