Private Blend: Tobacco Vanille by Tom Ford

c3c

Tobacco Vanille is exactly like walking into a small cozy cigar shop. A bin of vanilla tobacco sits by the door hitting you as you walk in, the aroma blended with the cup of Chai tea the cashier has. I love this smell. It's warm, sweet, and comforting. Truly I could swear there's essence of Chai tea blended in. As mentioned by others the lasting power is incredible. If you have fond memories of friends or fathers smoking pipes, or visits to the cigar shop, this will take you on a blissful trip down memory lane. And you'll love every moment of it.

mal23

It is not that I dislike this scent, but I just cannot see myself spending the $$$.$$ for it. The Tobacco and the vanilla really compliment each other and mesh very well. However, The scent leaves me wanting more which to me usually means its an average scent. Overall 6/10 for a man.

Doc Elly

This is one perfume that delivers exactly what its name promises - tobacco and vanilla/tonka. At first the tobacco seems dry and crumbly, like old dried leaves that are disintegrating. Then the vanilla comes through and mellows the tobacco, although it never becomes as moist and aromatic a scent as I recall my father's pipe tobacco being. TV is a fairly linear scent, with the tobacco staying in the forefront the entire time. This is a scent that I'd have to really be in the mood for, not one that I'd want to wear every day. I'd be curious to smell it on a hot day, though.

hapa

This is perfection. I was finding Lolita Lempicka EDP and Hermes Ambre Narguile too heavy for the spring/summer months or what purports to be the spring/summer months in Ireland and have now found the perfect fragrance for this time. It is also perfect the rest of the year.

Tobacco Vanille is not what I would call gourmand. The vanilla seems to round out the tobacco in the most pleasant way. The way the tobacco and vanilla play off each other is complicated but comforting. Imagine finding your non-smoking mother baking but with a cigarette in one hand and a tray of cookies straight from the oven in the other. (Inspired maybe by that photo of Sopia Loren taking the pizza out of the oven.)

The vanilla is clean and almost sharp without the warmth many vanilla fragrances have. The tobacco is pleasurable and not dirty. The two together so blatantly and contradictory yet working together so well just makes you take notice but then step back and enjoy it without overanalysing it.

I have a 4ml bottle of this and am going to buy the full size, which will mean my life will be cheese sandwiches for a month but so worth it!

If you get a chance, please do try this. You might find you are most pleasantly surprised.

feeble_25

It's the most perfectly balanced vanilla scent you will ever smell. The tobacco is just lovely, it's like sniffing a very high quality cuban vanilla scented cigar. It is sweet, spicy and comfortable and yet still manages to be formal and luxurious. It's smooth, silky, soft, but memorable ! It's one of those kind of scents I would wear on a cold night out, at a soiree, or with a suit. I would associate this fragrance with a well dressed and confident gentleman. It's pure luxury ! Both the sillage and longevity are absolutely amazing on me, just 2 sprays and it's last 20 h +. The wearer of this fragrance definitely emits an aura around him, which remains there throughout the entire day. Don't over apply this one, 2 to 3 spritzes will be enough. It's quite mild at the beginning, but wait 2 to 3 minutes, let it develop on the skin, and you will see it's true beauty. Although some of the people who tested this may have found it to be very linear, I find it very rich and luxurious. I agree that it's a bit expensive, but I promise you it's worth every penny ! You will definitely turn heads with this one !

tessture

Definitely delicious. It almost reminds me of a clove cigarette with the smokey spice notes, but overall it's a delicious vanilla tobacco scent without reminding me of 'grandpa's pipe' sort of scents. Lovely and very wearable for either sex.

curtis.w

True to its name, this scent is all about tobacco and vanilla, or, maybe more accurately, vanilla tobacco. Rather than coming across as two separate notes, the two are blended perfectly into a sweet and spicy, uplifting fragrance. The tobacco isn't that of a lit nor unlit cigarette or even a quality cigar; it's the most comforting of tobacco smells, at least to me: pipe tobacco. It's not harsh or invasive but warm and inviting. People often cough when they walk by cigarette smokers, but, more often than not, people smile and remark on how good it smells when someone nearby is smoking a pipe. It is, however, a dangerous scent. Though the sillage and longevity are great, at $180 for 50ml, this juice is prohibitively expensive. Even for what is obviously high quality stuff, I have a hard time thinking about dropping nearly $200 on 1.7 ounces of anything. Fortunately, the first time I smelled it, the SA was nice enough to make me a 4ml sample (really well done too; a little glass jar with the gold Tom Ford label with the name of the scent), which works out to be about $15 worth. For me, this is the ultimate fall fragrance (maybe it's the similarity between the sweet smell of TV's tobacco and the sweet smell of hay in the sunshine); I just hope I can save up enough to get a bottle by then.

Suzy

I found this description: tobacco with notes of tobacco leaf, spice notes, tonka bean, tobacco flower, vanila, cocoa, dry fruit, sweetwood sap –smells like pipe tobacco. This is delicious! Sweet, but not too sweet, mostly vanilla but the other notes come through, too. It really lasts; I could still smell it on my wrist the next morning. My husband liked it very much and said that he'd wear it, too.