TABAC TABOU

Few fragrance houses feature tobacco as a starring note: these days, the stuff gives off a whiff of brimstone. But taboo though it is, Marc-Antoine Corticchiato feels it’s a perfect fit for Parfum d’Empire, since tobacco ties in with one of the initial uses of perfume: sacred rituals. And with its very origin: per fumum. Through smoke.

So Gainsbourg was right. God is a Havana smoker. Or rather, the gods, spirits, shamans... Several centuries before the arrival of Columbus, almost all the American Indian peoples used tobacco to purify, heal, or realize visions.

TOP NOTES: Bergamot

HEART NOTES: Rose, Violet leaf, Narcissus

BASE NOTES: Violette,  Tabac, Immortelle, Miel, Labdanum

Alcohol Denat., Parfum (fragrance), Aqua (water), Benzyl salicylate, Limonene, Butylphenyl methylpropional, Coumarin, Alpha isomethyl ionone, Linalool, Benzyl benzoate, Eugenol, Cinnamal, Benzyl alcohol, Citral, Farnesol, Geraniol, Citronellol, Isoeugenol