Review of Tobacco Vanille Eau de Parfum by Yaroslavna Lasytsya

"Tobacco Vanille" opens with a fruity tobacco accord, delicately sweet and spicy. I can feel dried apricots, raisins and cranberries, with the slightly sour taste, sugary and just a touch honeyed. With advance of tonka and cacao the scent becomes richer and velvet-like, comforting and weaving an image of an old plush library armchair in one of the aristocratic grand houses of Old Engalnd. It has the whiffs of tobacco smoked the night before still permeating the air, with a billiard table across the rooms and hundreds of leather-bound tomes lining antique mahogany or oak shelves. Vanilla and tobacco blossom are not that noticeable in the composition during the Fall-Winter period, there are hints of them in the roundness of spices and woods, but that is all. When worn in Spring - Summer, - vanilla is more "confident" in her stance, especially during the drydown. But she is never cloying or overbearing, nor gourmand-like. Fragrance' projection is a sensible one, not shouting or punching, but being present and noticeable all the same. It becomes alike of a curled up sleeping cat when transforming into the skin scent, and just like the cat - lingers on for hours and hours. "Tobacco Vanille" is all about aristocratic luxury, the almost inevitable continuation of the bloodlines and the innate understanding and knowledge of elegance, tasteful opulence and centuries-long class of its own existence.