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Collection Classique

Tabac Tabou Parfum d'Empire 2015

7.9 / 10 254 Ratings

A popular perfume by Parfum d'Empire for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is floral-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Spicy

Animal

Woody

Green

Fragrance Notes

Honey

Narcissus

Tobacco

Immortelle

Wild herbs

Sensual skin accord

Perfumer

Marc-Antoine Corticchiato

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Ratings

Scent

7.9254 Ratings

Longevity

8.2200 Ratings

Sillage

7.5202 Ratings

Bottle

7.5163 Ratings

Value for money

7.281 Ratings

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Interesting Facts

The fragrance won the FIFI Award for Best Niche Fragrance in 2016. This scent is apparently produced in limited quantities each year because of the availability of its raw materials.

The fragrance is part of the Collection Classique collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

III-II Romanza

Lord Eau de Parfum

Immortelle Corse

The Longing

Fleur de Narcisse

Chergui Eau de Parfum

Reviews

15 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/10/2015

Jubliant
70 Reviews

Jubliant

2

Stinky man

It smells like a man who has been processing tobacco in the hot sun all day and come home to relax and drink whisky without taking a shower.

Th tobacco is extremely dirty on me with the boozy sweetness which must be the honey. This scent is maybe 8 hours and stays close to skin.

For some reason the tobacco processors wife invites some company over unexpectedly, aware of his stink (for he is a gentleman) he quickly sneaks off to the bathroom to powder his pits and returns to the guests as if nothing happened.

He makes sure to keep his distance so the guests do not pick up on his stink or the fact he is wearing his wifes powder.

Perhaps the greenness makes this stink giving it sour, sharp undertones.

Not a favorite, I do not want to meet this tobacco roller, but perhaps peek in his humidor.

On other fragrance websites this has gotten favorable reviews, I picture a abstract piece of art and everyone staring at it trying to sound intelligent and saying it is, "jolly good."

It did get some points for an interesting progression, especially as the sharp notes fade after 45 min.

4/10

11/19/2021

7Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Kurai
388 Reviews

Kurai

3

Gold challenge

Tabac Tabou can be quite the challenge as a wearable perfume. The narcissus is strong, particularly in the opening. There's a dry-spicy complexity from the immortelle and hay. The tobacco leaf is there, but in an a-typical manner and only in the background.

On the other hand, it is quite successful as a 'teleporter': The scent takes you to an imaginary field of yellow flowers and hay on a hot summer day. Dusty, dry bushes, dehydrated by a scorching golden sun.

This makes that I find Tabac Tabou not a functional perfume, but an olfactory experience. Fascinating, but also a bit exhausting to wear on skin all day. In such cases, a longevity of 8+ hours is just too much.

Updated on 11/19/2021

09/21/2024

9.5Scent

DrB1414
281 Reviews

DrB1414

3

Complex Work of Perfumery

Parfum D'Empire Tabac Tabou (review based on the 2016 vintage/batch)

For me, Tabac Tabou holds the number one spot as the most thorough Corthicchiato composition. I might prefer Ruade due to its boldness, but Tabou is overall more complete. It is a perfume that delivers on all aspects and has no weak points. Unique, complex, artistic, well made, easy to wear, yet never boring or mainstream. It is tricky to categorize, and I believe there are slight variations (more or less intentional) from vintage to vintage, but the one I have, I'd label it as an Agrestic perfume overall. And yet, there is so much more going on.

I get four main themes in Tabac Tabou that interwind seamlessly: the Floral, the Leather, The Smoke, and The Animalic.

The floral part is dominated by the narcissus. This note rules the show and governs supreme over the others. However, there is a powerful, perhaps "phantom" accord of linden blossom that is always there for me. I don't know if it is an actual made-up accord or if it comes across that way for me because of the association of the green notes, the narcissus, and the honey. That might be the case. But I always get this Linden blossom facet when I wear it. That so distinguishable scent: fresh, floral, heady, lemony, and honeyed, all at the same time.

The leather accord here is soft. It is leather gloves or a wallet. It plays on the more polished and finely-worked side of the leather spectrum.

The smoke, as I would call it, and not the tobacco leaves or cigar accord. It has a hint of fresh leafiness at times, but the way I perceive it, for the most part, is a penetrating smoke that blends so nicely into the work frame of the perfume.

And lastly, the animalic facet, displayed here through the musks and the narcissus. It gives off this creamy, heated, and slightly sweaty quality to the perfume that is just enough to intrigue but not so much that it would offend people around you.

The evolution is consistent and follows through in the same manner with each wearing. I get a fresh, almost wet, and green opening soon backed up by the floral nuances, the narcissus, and the prolific "linden blossom" facet. Further, it gets enveloped by the smoke accord, gently supported by the leather nuances. The final stages get warmer and sweeter as the immortelle, honey, and musks reveal themselves. It is a long journey and will keep your nose engaged throughout. If you love these accords like I do, each stage will offer a different and delightful experience.

Overall, it is one of those "perfect" olfactory compositions in my books and one that I deeply enjoy. I would love to try all the vintages and perhaps observe the differences between them. However, I enjoy this one immensely. Precisely, the way it highlights the agrestic facets and the floral accords of narcissus and "linden blossom."

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05/22/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

1

Agrestic hay-narcissus scent

Tabac Tabou mines the connective tissue between immortelle and narcissus, a richly stinky inter-webbing of burnished, sunlit molecules redolent of sunburnt hay, damp pouch tobacco, honey, and crushed wildflower stalks and manages to smell gloriously faded just two minutes in on the skin. I don’t know how Marc-Antoine Corticchiato pulled this off, but Tabac Tabou smells both wildly naturalistic – like you’ve just been rolling around in a clean stable full of hay, plant semen, dried wildflowers, daisy chains, and leather or horse hair blankets – and polished (staid almost), fully at home on an older lady playing canasta in a tearoom on a Tuesday afternoon. I think this is because the vivid, animalic undercarriage of the scent, full of pungent, velvety musks and old honey, has some of its horny aliveness choked out of it by its chypric dog collar. I love this scent, but sometimes it is perfect and sometimes it makes my skin crawl.

04/17/2024

6.5Scent 4Longevity 5Sillage

LastWonder
492 Reviews

LastWonder

1

Not What I Was Expecting

Based on the name you would expect this to be a tobacco heavy fragrance, or at least one where you can detect the tobacco. This is not the case, instead what you get is a very heavy Narcissus fragrance that feels like you shoved your face into a bouquet of narcissus. It mellows out around 30 minutes and you start to pick up the honey and maybe the tobacco in the background but that is it. This fragrance lasted on my skin for about 3 hours, the projection was good during that first hour, and a 50ml bottle goes for about $175. The name feels misleading, the floral is super heavy, so if you are looking for your honey tobacco scent, this probably not it.

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