Thai Tabac

Anthony

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#1
Sweet heaven on a biscuit (or in your pipe)! Just received/sampled EO’s Thai Tabac. With no knowledge of the actual ingredients in this beauty, here are the notes I pick up:
Top: frangipani, iris, blue lotus, jasmine, magnolia, toffee, cream, vanilla.
Heart: petrichor, coffee, sweet ouds, rose, dark tobacco, oolong tea, juniper, oak moss, patchouli, vetiver.
Base: soft leather, civet, musk, ambergris, santal.
Sounds like a lot going on here but everything is beautifully integrated and perfectly balanced.
 
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#2
Only thing is, Thai Tabac does not contain musk. It contains civet as fixative.


Sweet heaven on a biscuit (or in your pipe)! Just received/sampled EO’s Thai Tabac. With no knowledge of the actual ingredients in this beauty, here are the notes I pick up:
Top: frangipani, iris, blue lotus, jasmine, magnolia, toffee, cream, vanilla.
Heart: petrichor, coffee, sweet ouds, rose, dark tobacco, oolong tea, juniper, oak moss, patchouli, vetiver.
Base: soft leather, musk, ambergris, santal.
Sounds like a lot going on here but everything is beautifully integrated and perfectly balanced.
 
#4
What an amazing scent. This one took no time to be my favored scent for fall 2020.

We have been primed to the notion that tobacco scent should smell a certain way. All the time its either smoky, half smoked cigar like, aggressive, virile scents or saccharine laden sweet vanilla gourmands which have been presented to us as a Tobacco perfume. I am not saying that those are done wrong or I do not like them. I like them all. I am just trying to say that Thai Tabac is not like any Tobacco fragrance I have smelt, till now. This one is offbeat and contradistinctive.

To me, this one is towering unisex oriental gourmand. It could be a leather jacket motorcycle rider scent or a cozy date night scent.

Opens very tart. Tart and green, not citrus. Sour, like a green mango. Not too racy, still it will make to pucker a little. As the time passes by, the threesome of Sourness, sweetness and green notes come into play. So, intertwined, that you can not easily pick out the notes. I guess, there is neroli in it. Perhaps, juniper berries are responsible for that fruity green vibes. I guess, Ruh Kewda has been used. That gives that gourmand type of feel to this scent. A bit of Civet perhaps. Ensar’s scents are like riddle for a rookie like me.

A couple hours into the wearing, It smells like Kiman(or Kiwan). Kimam is basically a paste of tobacco leaves and betelnut, flavored with saffron and mint and some times Kewda. It is used in Pan shops across india as an Ingredient to Paan. Paan is a rose jam laden digestif wrapped in Betel leaf that people in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan enjoy as an preferred intoxicant. In my opinion, these both share a lot of notes.

Dry down is very admirable tobacco that I cannot smell enough of. I picture dried tobacco leaves in bunches, cured and tied in bunches in a dark room. As a child, I used to accompany my grandfather to bazaar. We, oftentimes, used to stop by a tobacco shop where my grandfather used to buy some tobacco for his hookah and have a little chit chat with his old buddies. The shop smelt like this, just take the florals out.

It leaves me wanting for more. Just like all good things in life.
Last for ages. I could still smell it on my scarf after like 5 days. And on paper strip too.

People who are in the know, Is there Pandanus in it ?
What is the tart note that I am smelling in the opening ?

Thanks
Himanshu