Tobacolor Dior 2021

I first tried Tobacolor a year ago when I was even more obsessed with originality than I am now, and dismissed it as just another sweet tobacco scent in the vein of Jazz Club, Arabesque, and of course Tobacco Vanille Eau de Parfum.

I'm slowly coming to terms, however, with the idea of "endgame" scents. A perfecting of a DNA that might not be the most original, but would be the quintessential version of that DNA to have in a collection. While Tobacolor might not be the ultimate endgame sweet/fruity/tobacco for me, it gets damn close.

It doesn't fall into the trap that Tobacco Honey and Tabac Impérial do of having the honey overwhelm the tobacco note. Nor does it have the cherry note that I perceive as similar to cough syrup like in Tobacco Vanille Eau de Parfum, Red Tobacco, or Triumph of Bacchus Eau de Parfum. And I think it is significantly higher quality than the other two I compared it to earlier in Arabesque and Jazz Club.

It's a pretty linear scent, with the honey-sweetened tobacco coming though a haze of smooth fruity notes. The tobacco note actually gets quite smoky and realistic, especially close to skin, but in the air it is a more pleasant sweetened shisha-like scent.

The only reason I'm not saying this is endgame even though it's probably the best of this DNA I have tried so far, is that I see the potential for better. A sharper, more realistic fruity note. A deeper, fuller honey note. I think the tobacco is done quite well here though. Still holding out for that perfect fruity tobacco. Tabac Doré Extrait de Parfum is also very close, if it was better performing.

Tobacolor opens with an awful ooey-gooey sweetness applied over rotten fruit. When I applied it, I thought this was going to be a disaster. But I persevered. After about 15 minutes, it gradually started to evolve. After 45 minutes to an hour, Tobacolor has dried down to this awesome sweet tobacco scent with a subtle fruity accord in the background. I have to stress again, it's really good. It's more smooth and warm unlike, for example, Spicebomb Extreme which is more cutting and emphasizes vanille which Tobacolor does not.

Performance was phenomenal. The next day, it was still a strong skin scent. Projection was at the bottom end of strong for quite a few hours.

I really liked Tobacolor and am considering purchasing a bottle. It was recommended to me to first try Enflammé and Cuban Tobacco which are in the same category but slightly different. After I test these, I'll update this review.

This is basicaly a very smart move from the great master parfumeur Francois Demachy.

Which through the skeleton of this Ebano, launched 4 years later, the much praised Dior Tobacolor.
In essence, the perfumes are the same, with a few minor differences:

Tobacolor is centered more on an amber vanilla and a plum-tobacco accord.
While Ebano, on the ebony wood. Both have in common the amber skeleton, labdanum and especially honey, which is the fundamental central element in both perfumes.

Both perfumes take on sticky-resinous undertones, due to the presence of resins and bee honey. However, tobacolor is slightly smokier.
Overall, Demachy has released some masterpieces that deserve their value.
Price-quality ratio - excellent
Generous longevity and beautiful sillage.
I recommend both, especially for a pertinent test!

Wow what a fragrance - opens with sweet, plum, rum and dries slowly down to more smoky tobacco.
Never becomes harsh smoky always maintains a slight sweetness and booziness. So seductive.
Projects like crazy and lasts forever. Will leave a scent trail everywhere you go.
One of my favourite fragrances.

This has been one of the fragrances I've loved lately, the most beautiful tobacco ever.
A surprising trail around the paradox of a cold hookah. I wrapped the smokiness of tobacco with sweet, fruity and warm, joyful notes. A contrasting fragrance, a hot and cold blend that combines the embers of a hookah with fresh and fruity plum and peach. Very sweet and syrupy, like macerated fruit drizzled with honey and surrounded by hot holiday spices and every aspect of pipe tobacco, hay, ash, shisha, herbs and smoke.