Ahmaoud
True Ouddict
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scent_talks - Cuir de Tabac - I've been wearing this for about two to three days non-stop, can't seem to get enough of it! I wear it before bed, and the first thing when I wake up in the morning! Yet when I first tried this scent, I wasn't even sure it was for me! I've been looking for a tobacco and leather attar for ages, something brisk, masculine, almost in your face levels of strength, complexity and ruggedness, and I think I've found it here, at least when it comes to this sub genre of tobacco based attars. Cuir de Tabac is shift from several other tobacco based blends doctor saab has released. I wouldn't say any of them are mainstream friendly, but they play on the sweeter facets of the note a lot higher in the scent pyramind. In Cuir de Tabac, you're faced with a spicy tobacco right from the start, it's sinus clearing and almost like submerging one's head into a pot of masala chai! But to say the top of Cuir de Tabac is simply that, would also be unfair. The spices (think oregano and coriander) are allowed to lift themselves, nothing overly cinnamon heavy or nutmeg-y or even sweetened with vanilla! So what's next to the spices? Well there's a beautiful resinous amber accord which is playing off the shadow of the top notes, this is the period I find myself most drawn to the scent, because the contrast of the brash top notes gives way to something which feels cozy and relaxing, yet not boring or overdone! There's so much more I haven't highlighted but I'll emphasize one part, what makes this fragrance a love, is that lack of going down the well trodden path of adding a bunch of candy sweetness to a spicy tobacco top. Everything feels present yet light and airy, it's like there's a mentholic undertone to the whole scent, which if you know me, is something I absolutely adore! It makes it feel like a sophisticated, masculine attar, and something which can be worn in the daylight or the night, and doesn't go down the route of making you smell like a cookie! (I'm looking at you Spicebomb Extreme.....)
Overall it's a spicy, smokey tobacco top, which herbal facets which transitions to a resinous and slightly spicy mid and then into the most beautiful, animalic heavy dry down (but done with caution and precision). It's an invigorating fragrance, continually giving me pleasure upon each sniff, throughout its life! I wear it before important meetings, when I have to study or just when I need focus and boost my confidence!
scent_talks - Cuir de Tabac - I've been wearing this for about two to three days non-stop, can't seem to get enough of it! I wear it before bed, and the first thing when I wake up in the morning! Yet when I first tried this scent, I wasn't even sure it was for me! I've been looking for a tobacco and leather attar for ages, something brisk, masculine, almost in your face levels of strength, complexity and ruggedness, and I think I've found it here, at least when it comes to this sub genre of tobacco based attars. Cuir de Tabac is shift from several other tobacco based blends doctor saab has released. I wouldn't say any of them are mainstream friendly, but they play on the sweeter facets of the note a lot higher in the scent pyramind. In Cuir de Tabac, you're faced with a spicy tobacco right from the start, it's sinus clearing and almost like submerging one's head into a pot of masala chai! But to say the top of Cuir de Tabac is simply that, would also be unfair. The spices (think oregano and coriander) are allowed to lift themselves, nothing overly cinnamon heavy or nutmeg-y or even sweetened with vanilla! So what's next to the spices? Well there's a beautiful resinous amber accord which is playing off the shadow of the top notes, this is the period I find myself most drawn to the scent, because the contrast of the brash top notes gives way to something which feels cozy and relaxing, yet not boring or overdone! There's so much more I haven't highlighted but I'll emphasize one part, what makes this fragrance a love, is that lack of going down the well trodden path of adding a bunch of candy sweetness to a spicy tobacco top. Everything feels present yet light and airy, it's like there's a mentholic undertone to the whole scent, which if you know me, is something I absolutely adore! It makes it feel like a sophisticated, masculine attar, and something which can be worn in the daylight or the night, and doesn't go down the route of making you smell like a cookie! (I'm looking at you Spicebomb Extreme.....)
Overall it's a spicy, smokey tobacco top, which herbal facets which transitions to a resinous and slightly spicy mid and then into the most beautiful, animalic heavy dry down (but done with caution and precision). It's an invigorating fragrance, continually giving me pleasure upon each sniff, throughout its life! I wear it before important meetings, when I have to study or just when I need focus and boost my confidence!
