See Prices

More

We may earn a commission when you buy from links on our site, including the eBay Partner Network and Amazon.

Night Veils

Tobacco Mandarin Byredo 2020

7.1 / 10 241 Ratings

A perfume by Byredo for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is spicy-woody. The longevity is above-average. It was last marketed by Puig.
Pronunciation Compare

More

We may earn a commission when you buy from links on our site, including the eBay Partner Network and Amazon.

Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Smoky

Leathery

Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cumin

Mandarin orange

Coriander seed

Heart Notes

Tobacco

Labdanum

Leather

Base Notes

Frankincense Oud

Oud

Sandalwood

Perfumers

Jérôme Epinette, Robertet

Ratings

Scent

7.1241 Ratings

Longevity

8.0203 Ratings

Sillage

7.6204 Ratings

Bottle

7.8194 Ratings

Value for money

5.6146 Ratings

Submitted by Kerry05, last update on 10/25/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance was part of the collection Night Veils.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

TOB/02 Tobacco Tango

Tabacum de Mandarino

Spicy Tobacco

Tabacco d'feu

Continuum

Tobacco Nuit

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/01/2024

4.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Smirky
483 Reviews

Smirky

3

Tobacco that is too sweet with a touch of floral

Tobacco Mandarin opens with a very sweet tobacco scent. Too sweet for me. Missing is any hint of mandarin or any citrus. As it dries down, got a distinct appearance of some sort of flowery note. Outside of being too sweet, Tobacco Mandarin is ruined with that floral note. Leans feminine to me. Did not get any strong cumin or body odor note. Longevity is very good. Was at about 9 hours and still going strong when I showered to get ready for the evening. Projection and sillage is more average. Overall, not my style. The price this is going for is ridiculous for what it is.

07/19/2024

Raluko111
412 Reviews

Raluko111

1

Middle Eastern summer pantry vibes.

A pantry full of spices and dried tobacco that hasn`t been aired in quite a while. It`s hot, you can feel the steam rising and you open the door. The aroma hits you violently, the tobacco mixed with cumin is hard to breathe in, it`s bitter and masculine. The mandarin orange is definitely not fresh; maybe just dried up peels forgotten somewhere on a shelf.

It`s hard to like for the first hour, hour and a half. But when it settles and the tobacco feels milder, it`s wonderful. I don't think it`s something that I would necessarily invest in. I much rather prefer Mancera Red Tobacco for my tobacco cravings. I should also mention that it`s definitely not a summer perfume. I'll test it again when the weather is cooler, see how I feel about it then and it it can steal Mancera`s place in my heart.

O cămară cu mirodenii și tutun care nu a fost aerisită de ceva vreme. E caniculă, simți cum ies aburi din aer și deschizi usa. Aroma te izbește violent, tutunul cu chimion e greu de tras în piept, e destul de masculin și amar. Mandarinele clar nu sunt proaspete, poate doar coji uscate de mandarină rătăcite undeva pe un raft. Mi-e greu să îl plac la început și pentru prima oră, oră și ceva. Dar când se așează și tutunul se îmblânzește e minunat. Nu știu dacă este ceva în care aș investi neapărat și cu siguranță nu este un parfum pentru vară. O să îi mai dau o șansă iarna să văd ce simt atunci.

01/16/2023

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Ovaron
6 Reviews

Translated · Show original

Ovaron

4

A fragrance that won't please everyone - but who wants that anyway?

This is my first review. And it lands on Tobacco Mandarin. Did I choose this fragrance? Of all brands, Byredo for a first review?
Did this fragrance choose me? Well, something drew me to this little differently colored bottle. Among all the Byredo bottles, it was more present to me than the others.

Its dark color made it seem to me like a waiting, dark event inviting me to have a new experience. My black swan. An olfactory journey into worlds of the ingredient universe that couldn't be more different for me. The other Byredo bottles just stood there. Tobacco Mandarin, however, spoke to me. Even now. With my mind.

“How does that fit together? Tobacco-Mandarin?” I spray once on my pulse point on my wrist. I breathe in.
“I hate you,” said the mandarin.
“I can't live without you. I can't let you go,” replied the tobacco.
It determines the everlasting olfactory dialogue between the two. Thanks to its friends? Leather, sandalwood…
At first, the citrus freshness breaks into the heaviness of the main accords, like a sunbeam that has dared to break all the laws of nature to shine into the dark night. Strangely, this contrast (for me) remains a molecular unity. Always. Even after hours. Is the quarrel settled?
Things seem to fall into place. I smell harmony where there shouldn't be any. I think of Franz Kafka. After more hours, still this darkness of the woods, of the tobacco. Like a recurring dark mantra. A warning: “Stay alert, I am still here. And waiting. Just as I once waited for you.”
The fragrance now appears to me, after hours, like an olfactory, mystical rune from ancient times. Unfathomable. A hermeneutic labyrinth, woven into a strangely harmonious whole. This strangeness. It has its place in this fragrance. It belongs there. This indefinable element, which I think of, that rises from this woody depth, and that might be as certain as element 115 in the UFOs of Area 51, is it responsible for this almost atomic performance? (In my case).
A fragrance, like light and darkness. I smell again on my wrist and look into the night sky, I sense that darkness is winning here. Yet hope is budding within me.
I know you are somewhere down there in the darkness, beneath the woods, the tobacco.
“Don't give up,” I hear myself say.
For I think of the mandarin.
I know it will come. As surely as the first sunbeam ends the night I am currently looking at.
I smile.
For I know I am now ready for a wonderful journey.

06/19/2022

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Chnokfir
214 Reviews

Translated · Show original

Chnokfir

Top Review 15

Where is the Mandarin?

Summer, sun, vacation time ... the Parfumo wanders through the Free and Hanseatic City, and so that the author's wife does not have to wait in the blazing sun at Jungfernstieg like a package unclaimed, she follows him with almost Hanseatic restrained enthusiasm into the Altsterhaus to the air-conditioned perfume department. She displays a cultivated indifference until she catches sight of the Byredo counter and the illuminated bottle captures her attention.

Instead of the usual subtly yellow liquid, the intense red of Night Veils - Tobacco Mandarin immediately stands out. Yes, it looks beautiful, I really like it. Otherwise, Byredo does not indulge in any particular experiments with this fragrance. The typical simple but very high-quality white box has merely been adorned with a playful Night Veils inscription. The wonderful cylindrical bottle with the magnetic cap, where the overall impression and proportions are reduced to the essentials and create a harmonious consistency, is made to shine from within by the red liquid. This is how a bottle should be! Period.

The fragrance grabs all attention with the first sniff, as it gets straight to the point. An accord of leather, wood, and smoky tobacco is immediately present and shows little intention of disappearing quickly. If you let Tobacco Mandarin settle a bit, a few citrus and homeopathically more spicy notes come into play, but always very subtly, keeping a few steps back and only vaguely identifiable. Over time, the bright leather recedes and makes way for what will dominate the fragrance and make it whole: resinous smoke and an oud that is neither too dark, too musty, nor fecal. A somewhat soft, composed oriental base tone that is not too foggy or gloomy.

And where is the mandarin now? It does not appear in this fragrance in my nose. Quite the opposite of other mandarin fragrances that bear the word mandarin in their names. Perhaps the mandarin in Tobacco Mandarin refers to the Chinese standard language and is meant to hint at Chinese tobacco. However, since I am not a smoker, I cannot draw any enlightening comparisons.

I do not want to hide a certain disappointment due to the absence of the mandarin. Nevertheless, Night Veils - Tobacco Mandarin is a beautiful fragrance, not particularly exciting, but extremely pleasant. It is immediately present. Not too loud, but still noticeable, without being annoying or overwhelming. If Night Veils - Tobacco Mandarin had a perceivable mandarin fruit note for me, the fragrance would also have a feminine side. As it stands, it remains rather masculine in its projection for me. A nice going-out fragrance, I would say, rather not for the office. Even though it lasts long, carries you through the day, and accompanies you into the evening. After a quick shower in the evening, there is still a pleasant remnant to fall asleep with, and the next morning, a respectable hint remains to remind you of the previous day.

Night Veils - Tobacco Mandarin did not excite her. However, the illuminated counter did. It is questionable whether she would like the fragrance - in connection with such an illuminated perfume shelf - on me as well. Perhaps, if there were some mandarin to be recognized in it.