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Leathery smoky sweet tobacco coffee
About 2 years ago, I ordered a sample pack of Ensar Oud with different oud oils. In addition, I was allowed to choose a perfume from Ensar as a bonus. I chose "Thai Tabac" because I was interested in the tobacco note.
Right off the bat, a warning: "Thai Tabac" is very strong. One or two dabs are enough to smell like it all day. This is because it is pure essential oils, not diluted with alcohol.
The scent starts out very smoky and leathery. Then the eponymous, slightly sweet tobacco note comes out with a hint of coffee - by which I guess the toffee is meant. I also detect at least hints of hay, vetiver, vanilla and incense. To me, it smells like sitting in the hay, drinking a sweet coffee and smoking one with leather gloves.
What I really like is that Ensar, as he writes, deliberately avoided using citrus notes as top notes. This sets "Thai Tabac" apart from the many top notes that are always the same in mass-market perfumes.
Overall, I think "Thai Tabac" is very nice. And on the occasion of this I have to get rid of a small side blow. Who, as I was allowed to experience it here recently in a discussion, claims that pure natural perfumes are "no longer contemporary" and "at best historically interesting", should take a look at "Thai Tabac". And it's not the only one of its kind. Also in the field of natural perfumes and attars there are many artful top fragrances.
Finally, a note on the description of the fragrance: what is written under "Worth knowing" is not correct. Because there it is suggested that it is a pure oud oil. It isn't. Ensar Oud does offer mostly pure oud oils. But "Thai Tabac" is a so-called Attar, i.e. a mixture of different essential oils - without synthetic fragrances, mind you. Oud is therefore at most one component. Ensar meanwhile has several such attars in its program
