Tobacco Touch By Maison Alhambrais opulent, warm and ironic. reminiscent of an English gentleman’s club and blended with rich spices, vanilla and Tobacco flower, it leaves a powerful impression. There is a slightly different way to go about it: first they do the initial extraction, then they add a special high boiling solvent and conduct a codistillation resulting in a weakly colored viscous liquid. People make home-made absolute from these flowers, which has a deep floral aroma with notes of violet, cloves, spices and dried fruit, however the material is not produced on an industrial scale.

The biggest contributors to the shaping of its charateristic tobacco fragrance are carotenoids: ionones and their many derivatives, damascenone, edulane and its derivatives, theaspiranes (important components of the scent of tea and osmanthus), safranal, megastigmatrienone – which is also present in osmanthus, but plays one of major roles here; Symrise and certain other companies produce it under the brand Tabanon. There is also a great number of fantasy fragrances where the tobacco note is sometimes used in a rather unusual context: e.g. Parfum d'Empire Tabac Tabouwith its daffodil-honey accord, plus a tart and burnt note of immortelle; the aniseed-aquatic Tabac Licorii by Maison Incens. China is the leader on the market (with over 2.5 million tons of tobacco grown yearly), followed by India and Brazil, while USA produces about 450 thousand tons of tobacco per year.

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Tobacco Touch Perfume / Eau De Parfum by Maison Alhambra / Lattafa (Inspired by Tobacco Vanilla – ***)

Many amber-woody materials possess a tobacco aspect in them: kefalis, trimofix, tobacarol (a synthetic derivative of caryophylene oxide). People often mention Caron's Tabac Blondas one of the most famous tobacco fragrances, but it is rather more leather Isobutyl Quinoline, i.e. leather in vanilla sauce with hints of cloves and iris. Inspired by the Arabic words, ‘Latif’ for kindness and ‘Lateefa’ for pleasant, Lattafa resonates with the luxury and elegance of the Arabian culture and it vividly captures the essence of its glorious heritage in its captivating fragrance.

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Much like tobacco absolute, liatris absolute can be successfully combined with oakmoss, labdanum, lavender, incense, salycilates, cloves, patchouli and many other materials. Key Notes: Tobacco Leaf, Spices, Tonka bean, Tobacco Flower, Vanilla, Dry Fruit Accord, Woody NotesTobacco (Lat. Nicotiana) is a genus of plants of the solanaceous family (Lat. Solanaceae). This family is represented by such apparent tobacco relatives as tomato, eggplant, bell pepper (capsicum), potato, boxthorn (better known as goji berries) as well as some very poisonous plants such as belladonna, datura and henbane. Jean Nicot, a French diplomat who had been the Embassador of France in Portugal at the time, gave tobacco to Catherine Medici, the Queen of France, as a remedy against migraine. In honor of Nicot, tobacco received the name herbe nicotiniane, and later, the alkaloid, derived from the plant, was named nicotine. Dry tobacco leaves contain about 1–5% nicotine.

An absolute that is somewhat similar to tobacco in terms of aroma is another natural material – the absolute of Blazing star (Lat. Liatris odoratissima), a plant of the aster family (Lat. Asteraceae): sweet, herbal- coumarin, with undertones of vanilla. Combined with musks, heliotropine, ionones and cinnamon, Liatris absolute creates a very interesting and dry powdery accord.

Historians think that, in the first century BC, Mayans already smoked tobacco during their not so frequent religious ceremonies, but the earliest material evidence of that are images on clay dishes from Guatemala (VII-XI centuries).