Tom Ford · 2007 · Olivier Gillotin

Tobacco Vanille

VersionEau de Parfum

Tom Ford says

You’ll smell Tobacco Leaf, ginger, Spice Notes, Tonka Bean, cocoa and Fruit Accord.

The house’s page

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Tobacco Vanille’s scent picture, a draft: tobacco, ginger, tonka, cacao, clove, sweet orange drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Tobacco Vanille, top notes: ginger, Sweet orange

Heartthe first hours

Tobacco Vanille, heart: clove, cinnamon

Dry-downhours later

Tobacco Vanille, dry-down: tobacco, Tonka, Cacao, Iso E Super, Vanillin

On the label

What’s inside it

19 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

3 citrus3 herbs & lavender4 florals1 woods2 sweet6 spices

Citrus3

LimoneneBitter orange oilCitral

Herbs & lavender3

CamphorLinaloolTerpineol

Florals4

GeraniolCitronellolRose ketonesGeranyl acetate

Woods1

Iso E Super (pencil shavings)

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (tonka)

Spices6

EugenolClove bud oilCinnamon bark oilIsoeugenolCinnamalAnethole

Not in Ingredients yet4

Pinene, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetEugenyl acetate, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateBenzyl alcohol

Named by Tom Ford, never on a label

Tobacco LeafGingerTonka BeanCocoa

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

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Counted from the printed lists: 19 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.