Parfum d'Empire Tabac Tabou Extrait de Parfum

Fragrance Family:
Dry Woods

Notes:
Narcissus Absolute, Fresh Hay, Tobacco Absolute, Flouve, Immortelle, Mate, Liatrix, Melilot, Honey

Concentration:
Extrait de Parfum

Occasion:
Shamanic and penetrating. A tobacco pushed to its limit, and rich with absolutes. The result is narcotic, animalic, and full. It is wild, vegetal, oily, and dark. A masterpiece for those who adore dry woods and tobacco fragrances

Perfumer’s Inspiration:
Few fragrance houses feature tobacco as a starring note: these days, the stuff gives off a whiff of brimstone. But taboo though it is, Marc-Antoine Corticchiato feels it’s a perfect fit for Parfum d’Empire, since tobacco ties in with one of the initial uses of perfume: sacred rituals. And with its very origin: per fumum. Through smoke.

So Gainsbourg was right. God is a Havana smoker. Or rather, the gods, spirits, shamans. Several centuries before the arrival of Columbus, almost all the American Indian peoples used tobacco to purify, heal, or realise visions. Ritually smoked to feed the gods or to carry towards them the prayers of men, this sacred plant plays in the New World the role of incense in the Old World: that of a link, created by fire, between earth and heaven. In Tabac Tabou, its leaf diffuses its scents of fresh hay and tawny savannah in a mellow, penetrating fragrance, almost greasy by dint of being gorged of rich essences. Thus, the narcissus which holds at the same time of the green sap, the white flower, leather and mane. And the sunburned immortelle, whose honeyed and syrupy accents honeyed and syrupy accents blend with those of tobacco.

Tabac Tabou has a vintage. It contains certain wild plants that are only harvested once a year.

Awarded Best Niche Perfume 2016 (The Fragrance Foundation France)

Made in France

The rustic yellowed browns of this scent could almost be a bucolic scene painted by Van Gogh. Sweet, grassy, hay-like tobacco is rolled up with hypnotic narcissus flower and the controlled roasted flames of immortelle, strewn onto parched earth and left exposed to the scorching heat of the sun in the arid air, wrinkling and concentrating with time. This landscape radiates an unreal intensity of turbulent swirls and solar waves. The realism in this scent is incredible, and pushes rich tobacco absolute to its upper limit, with natural richness and a strong sensation that is tinged vegetal, animalic, and oily green. For lovers of rare smells.