Honeyed Tobacco
Note Profile
About
Cured tobacco leaf with honey over it. Sweeter and denser than tobacco absolute alone, with a dried-fruit edge and often vanilla, patchouli or soft leather beside it.
Scent Profile
Honeyed tobacco smells of cured tobacco leaf with honey poured over it, the two at about equal strength. A warm sweetness sits under them, often vanilla and resin. The leaf adds a dried-fruit edge and an old-wood dryness. Some versions carry soft leather or a light smoky note. It is sweeter and denser than tobacco absolute alone.
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ScentArt
Materials That Can Make This Note
Perfumers can build Honeyed Tobacco from materials such as:
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Megastigmatrienone a tobacco · hay · dry
Smell words come from published sources.
Allergens perfumes with this note can list: Damascenone
A given perfume with this note may use some of these, or something else, and may or may not contain the allergens above.
Origin
A prepared accord, not a single material. Tobacco absolute already smells partly of honey. The Good Scents Company lists honey, dried fruit and old wood among its odour descriptors. Première Peau traces the honeyed part to megastigmatrienone isomers formed as the leaf cures. The accord adds a separate honey note to push that side further. Mugler's A*Men Pure Havane (2011, Jacques Huclier, Givaudan) is built around a 'honeyed tobacco accord'.
Usage in Perfumery
Used in oriental and gourmand compositions. It often runs through the whole perfume. Parfumo lists 20 perfumes with it on 2026-10-10, from 2010 to 2026. Two known examples are Mugler A*Men Pure Havane (2011) and Armani Privé Bleu Lazuli (2018). In 6 pyramids checked, patchouli and vanilla each sit beside it in 4, and leather or suede in 3. Oud appears in only 1.
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Perfumes featuring Honeyed Tobacco
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