Tabac Blond (for women)

megannsmom

I love this juice!
It is warm, rich and very confident. Smokey leather, spice and golden sweetness. I didn't care for it the first time I tried it, but gave it another shot and am so happy that I did. The dry down is seductive....wow!

scarlett5stam

It's a really great fragrance, for mature and sexy womens. I like it, very leather initially and thereafter it is good vetiver and patchouli. Good smell. I very recommend it !

hopflower

No. I did not ever get carnation from this scent. It is burnt rubber and tobacco. Not for me; I love carnation fragrances!

I don't like it at all.

tessture

Strange to hear how it strikes others. This is a strong, deeply spiced golden scent,with marked notes of leather and a twinge of aldehydes. There's also a faint burnt rubber note that is more pronounced on me than on my sister, whose signature scent this is. It is almost masculine in it's lack of flowery prettiness. Yes, men can easily wear this too. Tobacco and vanillic notes smooth out the edges, but it still can be difficult to wear. Very elegant, confident and mature, I can see this fragrance on the right woman regardless of her age, lifestyle or background.

glitteralex

This review is for the pure parfum, in very good condition, from the 1950s.

As I had never experienced this scent, I was very excited to try it. I enjoy other "leather" scents, such a "La Nuit" and "Tenere" by Rabanne, "Or Black" by Morabito, and "Bandit" by Piguet. I was enchanted by the listed notes of leather, carnation, lime blossom, iris, vetiver, ylang-ylang, cedar, patchouli, vanilla, ambergris, & musk combining to create an image of tobacco leaves, vanilla, & leather.

So, imagine my surprise when I opened the bottle expecting the grand seduction of my life....and got carnation. Lots of it, carried by powder. SO much that it approached clove in character. This dominated all else, I could barely detect the Caron base in there. The spice keeps up for the first hour or so, then it mellows as the superb fixatives of musk and especially ambergris take over. I find the base more tolerable, but, still, nothing compelling. It is a supple fragrance that clings to the skin. Other than the spice, it does not shout, as I expected that it would. I agree that it could be worn by a man; it reminds me of some of the sweeter scents my grandfather used to wear. Maybe I set my hopes too high for this perfume, and cannot approach it objectively?

This is the third or fourth time I have tried this bottle, under different conditions, with the same effect. To note, it appears to have been well-kept, and hardly used at all. Evaporation is minimal, and the other Caron perfumes from this coffret are correct in character. I assume that this is not an "off" bottle, but instead, that I am the only person on this planet not to favor this legendary scent.

mademoiselle_nicole

chapeau for the grand old master of salon-fragrances. oily,edgy and a little unpresentable.
warm,spicy and oh so flapper...
for its time a very androgynious scent that was often inspiration for later scents but got never even approximately reached. the grandeur of real chic.
there nothing else to it

jeca

It is not a sharp leathery composition as I expected. It's calm, I smell tobacco and vanilla, sweet a bit, a leather note is refined and "old", men can wear it too.