Tobacco & Hay

What it smells like

Coumarin is the hinge: new-mown hay, cut grass drying in the sun, and the sweetness of cured tobacco. Warm, dry, gently sweet, and as much a foundation of the fougere as lavender is.

Notes that load on it

Notes from our catalogue whose position on this facet is 0.40 or higher, strongest first. A note is not filed under one facet: it carries a value on all 34 at once, and these are the ones where this axis is doing real work.

• Tobacco Honey Leather Fruity Base · ~30h Botanical 1,873
• Hay Vanilla Powdery Fruity Base · ~36h Botanical 262
• Flouve Vanilla Honey Aromatic Base · ~34h Botanical 4
• Liatrix Vanilla Amber Aromatic Base · ~30h Botanical 2
• Straw Vanilla Base · ~24h Abstract 5
• Sweet Clover Vanilla Base · ~30h Botanical 2
• Cuban Cigar Dry Wood Leather Base · ~28h Prepared
• Pipe Tobacco Honey Vanilla Base · ~26h Botanical
• Woodruff or Galium Odoratum Vanilla Green Heart · ~8h Botanical 2
• Burley Tobacco Vanilla Base · ~36h Prepared
• Cigar Dry Wood Smoky Base · ~26h Botanical
• Sweet Grass Vanilla Fruity Base · ~30h Botanical 11
• Honeyed Tobacco Honey Vanilla Base · ~24h Prepared
• Virginia Tobacco Fruity Vanilla Base · ~22h Botanical
• Blond Tobacco Honey Base · ~24h Botanical 9
• Cherry Tobacco Fruity Vanilla Base · ~14h Prepared
• Coumarin Vanilla Base · ~36h Molecule 357
• Immortelle Vanilla Warm Spice Honey Base · ~24h Botanical 346
• Malt Vanilla Nutty Heart · ~4h Prepared 39
• Cereals Nutty Vanilla Heart · ~6h Prepared 25

Materials that carry it

Real substances, each keyed by its CAS registry number, that an external perfumery vocabulary publishes with a term meaning this facet outright. This is the layer that makes a facet checkable against something outside our own database.

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Anchor terms

A facet on its own is just a word we chose. An anchor is what makes it checkable: a term in an external, independently maintained vocabulary of odour descriptions, built for perfumery materials rather than for us. The material list above is drawn from the direct terms only, because a partial term corroborates too weakly to stand as evidence on its own.

The rest of Amber · Musk · Leather

The other facets in this family. A note can load on any of them at the same time as this one, so they are neighbours rather than alternatives.

Keep going

• Amber · Musk · Leather The family this facet belongs to, and the others in it
• The 34 facets What each one covers, where it stops, and the substances that carry it
• What we have measured The numbers behind the model, and what they do not prove