Cigar

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Cigar is the rolled, cured and aged tobacco leaf smelled as a whole object: leaf, wrapper and box together. It is drier and more serious than a sweetened tobacco note and keeps a real smoke facet, which the cured-leaf tobacco notes do not. Hermitage's Tuscan cigar absolute is the clearest single material behind it, and a verified buyer calls it 'the most realistic cigar-like absolute I've smelt, like dried out latakia leaves'.

Scent Profile

Tobacco_hay leads and it is the identity. Hermitage's own product note reads 'a little woody, a little smoky, tobacco, with aspects of oak, dried hay', and the buyer review opens 'Dry tobacco, spicy with hay'. It sits below the plain tobacco note at 0.95 and level with cuban-cigar at 0.88, because the smoke and the wood take room the pure leaf note does not give away. Dry_woody is the box and the leaf together: Hermitage names oak, and Silloria's cigar-box cedar entry describes 'warm, dry woody aroma with pencil-shaving and sawdust facets'. Smoky is the facet that separates this from the published cuban-cigar note, which holds smoke at 0.14 because its sources describe the unlit cigar. Here the supplier names smoke in its first sentence and the buyer compares the material to latakia, a fire-cured leaf. Warm_spice is the review's 'focus on dry spice', repeated as 'spicy with hay', and corroborated in a weaker register by the cigar retailer's flavour list of nutmeg, cardamom, clove and pepper. Nutty is the gourmand facet the reviewer identifies by name: 'The gourmand facet I would describe as nutty'. Leather is Silloria's 'subtle tobacco and leather undertones' and is held well under cuban-cigar's 0.50, because no source here names birch tar or a tanned-hide character. Below the level worth naming: amber_resinous for the 'slightly resinous' aged wood, fruity for the dried fruit the reviewer says is present but less prominent than in the Virginian and Burley absolutes, aromatic_herbal, earthy, coffee_cacao, fresh_spice, honeyed, sweet_vanillic, mossy_chypre, green, animalic, powdery and mineral.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeBase · ~26h lasting

Family Amber · Musk · Leather, Woody & Earthy

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

Hermitage Oils sells a Tuscan cigar absolute made from Kentucky-variety tobacco grown in Tuscany, the leaf behind the Sigaro Toscano. No manufacturer sells a material called simply 'cigar', so in most compositions the note is built as an accord: tobacco absolute for the leaf, cedarwood for the box, and a birch-tar or smoke material for the wrapper. That accord route matters, because it means two houses using 'cigar' may not be reaching for the same thing.

Usage in Perfumery

Used in the base of woody, leather and tobacco compositions, where it supplies a dry masculine anchor without the honeyed sweetness of a pipe-tobacco accord. It pairs with cedar, vetiver, leather, rum and dried fruit. Measured on 2026-08-23: 5 Parfumo perfumes across 4 brands, and no Fragrantica placements. Fragrantica carries no prose for it.